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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1926
Page
11
Maggie Harris, famed as a Charleston dancer, faces sixty days in the county workhouse after a municipal court conviction for larceny. She claimed to be 15, but Judge MacRae ordered age verification and found her guilty based on the evidence presented.
The Dallas primary closes with Governor Miriam A Ferguson and Attorney General Dan Moody rallying voters over Fergusonism and the Ku Klux Klan issues. Moody holds a 120000 vote lead from July and campaigns coast to coast while Ferguson and husband James E. Ferguson press their contrasting platforms.
The article traces Gene Tunney's rise and the planned bout with Tommie Gibbons, detailing strategic moves by Billy Gibson and Tunney's decisive victory over Gibbons. It notes Gibbons as a key rival and the treacherous path to a Tunney vs. Greb confrontation, with Tunney prevailing in the end.
United States Marshal R W Ward returned to Raleigh after taking into custody the rum ship Elma and its cargo of 4092 cases of whisky. The transfer of ship and cargo was ordered by Judge J M Meekins and served yesterday after noon.
A collage of boxing presidencies notes and athletes with names like Dempsey Hornsby Carey and Mallory alongside media figures and sports gossip. Mentions include a $16500 Pirates salary contract and Notre Dame captains signaling team toughness while broader takes touch on society figures and press feuds.
North Carolina fire loss in July totaled 170150, the lowest monthly loss since detailed records started. Commissioner Stacey Wade released figures showing 139 fires in July, compared with 218 in July 1925, and only 10 fires above 5000. The worst blaze was the motor company fire.
The July fire record shows multiple blazes with total costs around 99 630 dollars and individual incidents in Charlotte Asheville Gastonia Wallace and other towns. Commissioner Wade notes no outstanding fires and praises the county's improved loss figures since the July last year increase.
In Sherrills Ford North Carolina a Sherrill family reunion gathered several hundred kin from multiple states and North Carolina counties including Mecklenburg Gaston Lincoln and Iredell. Colonel Clarence Sherrill city manager of Cincinnati and former Harding aide was to give the principal address.
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