Police Commission Bill Provisions and Enforcement Powers
The act grants police powers to enter enclosures without a warrant for felonies or imminent crimes and arrest offenders. It requires the Durham sheriff to detain nighttime detainees until morning for recorder review and allows jailer fees. It also exempts police from military or jury duty and repeals inconsistent laws, taking effect after ratification.
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Police Commission
County of
Durham
Police Department
The L. M. Paint Decorates Two Million Homes
The Woman's Home and The L. M. Paint showcase a lasting finish using Metal Zinc Oxide and White Lead. Four gallons mixed with Linseed Oil at 65 cents per gallon yields seven gallons of ready paint, costing about $1.20 per gallon. Sold by Mackey Bros in Durham, North Carolina.
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Mackey Bros
Durham
N.C
Something Doing in Durham A City Reform Push
Reports from Durham describe a surge of progress with plans for a new city hall and court house and a connected market and armory. Fire safety improves with talks of a paid company and a recorder's court, auditor office, and salary-based officers. A police commission bill appears as officials seek broader reform amid dissatisfaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durham
Court House
Office of
State News Briefs From Across North Carolina
Reports from Washington to Asheville cover a hangings sentence for Will Ward in Sampson County, a freezing death of Edward N. Wright on Pamlico River, a Salisbury dynamite robbery at D. M. Miller’s store, John Adkins’ fatal mule accident in Stokes County, power plants out of use due to cold near Asheville, Wake County rural library acquisitions, and a Buncombe land dispute resulting in Llewellyn being shot and Hurst escaping injury.
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Will Ward
Mollie McLeod
Sampson County
Washington, N. C
Edward N. Wright
M. F. Wright
Pamlico River
Lena
Salisbury
N. C
D. M. Miller
Winston-Salem
John Adkins
Stokes County
Asheville
Weaver Power Company
French Broad River
Big Ivy
Judd
Wake
State Department of Education
Buncombe
Llewellyn
Hurst
Local brief notes on residents and events
Dr. Joe Graham is confined to his home by typhoid fever. Two police raids on gamblers indicate business improving. Dr and Mrs M T Adkins arrived from Baltimore to begin Trinity baseball training next week. T D Scruggs has a road grading contract in Orange county and will aid neighbor county highway work. The infant of Mr and Mrs Manley Holloman died on Alston avenue and was interred in Harnett county. W F Smith rents the Trakas stand to operate a fruit store opening Saturday with fruits and confections. J C Angier and son Sam left for Florida for lumber interests and work connected with their lumber business. Invitations issued in Durham for the marriage of Miss Sophie Earle to Mr F W Stokes, a former Durham resident. Allen Matthews charged with burglary and larceny in mayor’s court skipped bond of 150 dollars then returned and posted bond before fleeing again.
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Joe Graham
M. T. Adkins
Baltimore
Trinity
T. D. Scruggs
Orange County
Manley Holloman
Alston Avenue
Harnett County
W. F. Smith
Doctors Mistakes Buried Like This in Patient Tales
A historical note warns that many women suffer feigned ailments to please busy doctors. It promotes Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic and uterine health aid, claiming to restore strength, calm nervous symptoms, and treat a wide range of female complaints with confidence.
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Pierce
Jerce
Pleren
Notice of Publication in Divorce Case Hopkins v Seebens Couey
Order of publication in Durham County Superior Court. Defendant Mag Hopkins not found in Durham, believed to be in the state. Action seeks absolute divorce on fornication and adultery. Notice to be published weekly for six weeks in Durham Recorder, requiring defense by the next term on the second Monday after the first Monday in March 1909. Ch. Green, Clerk.
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Seebens Couey
Superior Court
Joe Hopkins
Ag Hopkins
Spoveriarom
Mag Hopkins
Dorham County
Durham Recorder
Durham County
Ch. Green Clerk Superior Court
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Pollard Bros
B. W. Hobgood
North State Mutual Life In
Surance Company
North Carolina
J. W. Grainger
N. J. Rouse
J. A. Herndon
W. B. Dunn
Masters Planter Co
Water ST
Chicago, Ill
Wood
T. W. Wood & Sons
Richmond
Watertern
Terren
Recorder’s Court
City
Sophie Earle
Charles McAlister
Greenville
S. C
F. W. Stokes
Allen Matthews
Matthews
W. A. Slater Company
West Main Street, Durham, N. C
Old Carolina
C. H. Branch & Company, Successors
Durham Traction Co
West Main Street
Yearby’s the Peoples Drug Store
J. McLennan
H. Steinmetz
Florist
Raleigh, North Carolina
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