title: Painting Through Struggles: A Parkinson's Journey
author: Ron, Jr. Moore
description: Ron Moore was born in northeast Ohio and has won awards for his art. After he contracted Parkinson's disease he used the experience to strengthen his resolve. He is presently the president of the Ohio Parkinson's Association.
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  # The Ingenious Mr. Spinola
  
  
  ### Ernest Bramah
  
  
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  Text scanned and proofed by Arthur Wendover
  
  
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  June 22, 2002
  
  
  "You seem troubled, Parkinson. Have you been reading the Money
  
  
  Article again?"
  
  
  Parkinson, who had been lingering a little aimlessly about the
  
  
  room, exhibited symptoms of embarrassed guilt. Since an unfortunate
  
  
  day, when it had been convincingly shown to the excellent fellow that
  
  
  to leave his accumulated savings on deposit at the bank was merely an
  
  
  uninviting mode of throwing money away, it is not too much to say
  
  
  that his few hundreds had led Parkinson a sorry life. Inspired by a
  
  
  natural patriotism and an appreciation of the advantage of 4 1/2 over
  
  
  1 1/4 per cent., he had at once invested in consols. A very short time
  
  
  later a terrible line in a financial daily—"Consols weak"—caught
  
  
  his agitated eye. Consols were p