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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1930
Page
15
A. D. Payne Amarillo attorney admitted placing a dynamite bomb in his car that killed his wife after multiple prior attempts to kill her. He also confessed to past attempts including morphine in a tonic, drowning her in a lake and leaving a gas jet open in their home.
Two boys in Sandy Ridge Stokes County began a tree sit in a tobacco patch when their father halted the stunt to require them to hoe the patch. The scene shifted from a record attempt to a practical task as he ordered them down.
Officers quote Payne asking permission to trial and speedily go to the electric chair to expiate his crime after a dynamite bomb was found in the family car.
In New York at Highbridge station a robber suspect, named Robin Lon Fernandez, 26, grabbed Detective Harry Bloomfield's pistol during a fingerprinting record, fatally wounding Patrolman Richard Elfers and wounding Bloomfield before Bloomfield shot the suspect in the head and killed him. The trio had been captured after a confectionery store holdup.
The International Telegraph Union Radio Telegraph Service releases a new international list of radio stations for public distribution from its Berne Switzerland office.
Oklahoma candidate Alfalfa Bill Murray opposes the mansion life and plans to rent the Governor's Mansion and live in the garage. He contends the stately home is unnecessary for a farmer governor hopeful as he runs against oilman Frank Buttram in the August 12 run-off regarded as the final election.
The piece reviews Lone Cowboy My Life Story by Will James detailing his rough frontier life as a cowboy, rustler, and artist and notes his rise to fame. It also discusses The Santa Fe Trail by R L Duffus, tracing a century of trade from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe, with explorations, dangers, and diary anecdotes shaping western lore.
The fragment highlights figures such as Captain Becknell Kit Carson and Kearny with Missourians Cooke and his Mormons, noting their roles as eagle-eyed scouts and leaders who forged a wagon route.
Zweig portrays Joseph Fouche as Napoleon’s ideal traitor and a ruthless opportunist who shifted loyalties with the tides of revolution. His only decent feeling, according to the author, was for his unattractive wife, and his treachery led to exile.
Manuel Herrick sought a dry agent commission but was told he would be prosecuted as any liquor violator. He remains jailed in Baltimore on possession charges after a raid at a Maryland still. Prohibition officials noted no commission was granted, though an informant arrangement was offered without pay.
The article notes a shift in Mexican Spanish mirroring changes seen in American English. It discusses phonetic and lexical variations and considers social factors driving the evolution among speakers across regions.
Laureano Villa nueva, linked to a Paris branch theft, was said found in Spain where he joined the Spanish Foreign Legion and allegedly shot himself after claiming to have killed his sweetheart. He was found on a side road near the Washington highway five miles from Fredericksburg and brought to Mary Washington Hospital.
Frederickburg dispatch says Earl Turner aged 42, a married man, shot and killed Miss Margaret Limerick, 20, early today before turning the gun on himself in an apparent domestic killing in Frederickburg Virginia.
Texas farmers report armadillos increasingly raid chicken coops and egg nests, citing damage to poultry and poultry housing as a growing nuisance across rural counties. Local predators and weather conditions compound losses for smallholders.
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