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Verta Barnes. Mrs. Helen Gahagen Douglas was the speaker.
Twenty years ago, as the newly-elected Mayor of Washington, Va., Mrs. Davis was guest speaker at the club. Her subject had been “Off-Shore Oil.”D
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