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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Douglas Martin / The Bulletin
September 29, 2008
It was a Dickensian beginning, William Woodruff’s, to say the least. He was born on a heap of cotton in the mill where his parents worked and his grandfather died. Then, with a market crash in 1920, England’s mills themselves died.
His proud family sank into a poverty so....
