Pardon Plea Spurs Families After Buncombe Jail Riot
About 25 relatives and friends of 15 men convicted for the Buncombe county jail riot appealed to state pardon commissioner H Hoyle Sink for paroles. A mob attack occurred while Alvin Mansel, now under death sentence, was held in jail. Pets and pledges were presented to Governor McLean for clemency consideration.
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Asheville
Buncombe County
H. Hoyle Sink
Alvin Mansel
A. W. McLean
Link
Len Ferguson
Commissioner Link
Tar Heel Boxer Is Center of Near Riot
In St. Petersburg Florida Ralph Hood of Charlotte fought Ted Goodrich of New Orleans to a near riot as Hood and Goodrich each won three rounds and the towel from Hood’s seconds in the tenth prevented a disturbed crowd from breaking into violence. The main call was a draw with Hood’s left keeping the distance and Hood answering in rounds four five and seven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St, Petersburg
Fla
Ralph Hood
Ted Goodrich
New Orleans
Hood
Charlotte
N. C
Ringsiders
The
Picayune
Wendell Youth Freed By Governor McLean Paroled
Otis Dhue of Wendell, serving 14 months on roads from Wake County Superior Court in January 1924, is paroled by Governor McLean. Parole recommended by R. L. Watkins W. A. Brame Sheriff W. B. Harrison and W. F. Evans and about 200 Wake County citizens due to his good prison record and prior sentence details.
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Raleigh
McLean
Otis Dhue
Wendell
Wake County Superior Court
R. L. Watkins
W. A. Brame
W. B. Harrison
W. F. Evans
Dhue
Wake County
Medals Awarded for Gallantry to President Roosevelt Crew
London reports King George awarded gold medals for gallantry at sea to all officers and crew of the American liner President Roosevelt for rescuing the British steamer Antinoe. The act included recognition of the two men who were drowned.
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London
Roosevelt
Stray Dogs Cause Farm Losses in Fulton County
Stray dogs in Fulton county caused damages to livestock and fowls totaling 5835.19 dollars in 1925. Claims amounting to 700 dollars remain on file in the auditor's office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
Ind
Fulton County
Special Red Bug Infest Washington From Sultan's Gifts
Washington lawmakers confront a carpet beetle infestation in the Senate District of Columbia committee room. An agriculture expert ties the pest to rugs sent to the White House by the Sultan of Turkey, noting the tiny crawlers have spread here over the years. The committee will endure temporary depopulation and work without its lounge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sultan’s
Senate District of Columbia
Department of Agriculture
White House
Turkey
Europe to pay for a dance that outsells the fox trot
At a Brussels dance congress Europe’s masters seek a new top dance. A 10 000 franc prize awaits the best dance based on the waltz to supplant the fox trot. New dances appear yearly with the waltz hailed as the universal rhythm by Oriental and Occidental dancers alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Europe
Brussels
Great Smoky Mountains Park Drive Forward In North Carolina
High Point chamber endorses a national park in the Great Smoky Mountains with a goal of 1.2 million dollars for land purchase in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. Senator Mark Squires outlines the case while Harland P. Kelser shows slides to urge local support.
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Tennessee
Great Smokey Mountains
North Carolina
High Point
Lenoir
Mark Squires
Squires
Tenth
Ninth
Piedmont
Kelsey
Great Smoky Mountains
Rockies
Young man claims he is son of Abe Hummel
In New York a Portland bakery driver, Henry D. Hummel, claims he is the late Abe Hummel’s son after the lawyer died in exile with a $1.25 million fortune. He and attorney Frederick W. Hinckley plan to attend the funeral in New York as will details lure readers and readers await the will’s reading.
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Abe Hummel
New York
London
Olympic
Henry D. Hummel
Portland
Frederick W. Hinckley
Daily Express of
Hummel
Abe Kaffenburg
Paris
Kaffentire
Young Hummel
Leila Farrell
North Carolinians Injured as West Palm Beach Hurricane Strikes
A hurricane like wind storm hit West Palm Beach early today causing at least one death and 300 homeless. Property damage is estimated at 750000 dollars with reports of two injured residents R T Winters and Mrs R K Fort from Baden North Carolina. The storm hit Georgian Avenue then Green Acres two miles west of Lake Worth where the bulk of damage occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Palm Beach
Fla
R. T. Winters
R. K. Fort
Baden
N. C
Georgian Avenue
Green Acres
Lake Worth
Condition Improves for Clarence Hayworth at Home
The many friends of Clarence Hayworth, confined to his Howell street home with pneumonia, will be glad to learn his condition is slightly improved.
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Clarence Hayworth
Howell Street
Methodist Says Rabid Fundamentalist Has No Place In College Church
Dr. O. D. Goddard of Hendrix College told the Methodist educational gathering in Memphis that a rabid fundamentalist pastor has no place in a college town church. He urged a model church using up to date methods and warned pastors against censoring faith and clinging to antiquated Bible study approaches.
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Methodist
Church of College
Memphis, Tenn
College Town
O. D. Goddard
Conway
Ark
Hendrix College
Educational Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Goddard
Officials Meet Over Southern Railway Crossings Plan
City leaders from High Point and Greensboro join Southern Railway officials and Chamber of Commerce members in a 3 PM conference in the council chamber to discuss improvements to railroad crossings on principal business streets. Mayor Moffitt backs a submitted plan while officials seek a practical solution amid months of debate.
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Southern Railway
Chamber of Commerce
Moffitt
Roilroad Company
J. T. Burrus
Fred W. Tate
Charles L. Amos
H. W. Miller
Southern
L. F. DeRamus
Greensboro
Miller
High Point
Suit for $35,000 filed over Miss Helms death
A $35,000 damages suit was filed in Charlotte against Dr. C. Britt and Buford Robertson as co defendants over the death of Miss Ruby Helms and injuries to A. L. Jackson from last November. The earlier superior court verdict of not guilty cleared the two. Jackson and Miss Helms' father initiate the lawsuit.
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Charlotte
Dr. C
Britt
Buford Robertson
Ruby Helms
A. L. Jackson
Jackson
Miss Helms
Reichstag committee backs Germany entry to League of Nations
Berlin February 3 AP The foreign relations committee of the Reichstag approved Germanys unconditional entry into the League of Nations by an 18 to 8 vote.
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Germany
Berlin
Foreign Relations Committee
Reichstag
League of Nations
Wannamaker urges 25 percent crop increase in the South
J B Wannamaker president of the American Cotton Association spoke at the Southwide Cotton Acreage Meeting in Memphis urging a 25 percent rise in food feed and forage crops and a 25 percent cut in cotton. He outlined a state led campaign overseen by agriculture officials bankers and association representatives to reduce cotton acreage while increasing other crops. He urged unified Southern policy with joint state commissions to retire excess cotton and support warehousing debentures and farmer diversification.
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Memphis
Tenn
Wannamaker
American Cotton Association
State Commissioners of Agriculture
Extension Service
Bankers
South
Aso
Cotton Belt
Two Killed by Gas at Moonshine Still in Austell
In Austell Georgia February 3 two men were killed and a woman overcome after inhaling gas from a moonshine liquor still hidden in a cave beneath a chicken house at the Freeman residence. James W Freeman and neighbor Joe Morgan died. Mrs Freeman fainted trying to rescue them.
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Austell
James W. Freeman
Freeman
Joe Morgan
Miss Patterson Triumphs In The Miracle Chicago Debut
Eleanor Patterson daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson publisher and co editor of the Tribune made her second debut after a family bargain. She starred as the Nun in the Chicago premiere of The Miracle praised as eloquent moving intelligent beautiful and magnetic.
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Chicago
Eleanor Patterson
Joseph Medill Patterson
The
Tribune
Morris Gest
Miss Patterson
Actres
Death Row Convict Ross Testifies in Bank Robbery Trial
Ambrose Ross, once facing execution, was taken from Sing Sing to Mineola to testify in Stanley Kirvana’s trial for the Bellmore National Bank heist of April 1924. He rode in armed escorts, awaiting possible reprieve as testimony could avert his own death sentence. District Attorney Edward said Ross would name conspirators in the Whitman bond salesman case.
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Ossining
N. Y
Ambrose Ross
Sing Sing
Mineola
Stanley Kivana
Bellmoore National
Ross
Kirvana
Edward
Kivana
Ernest L. Whitman
Death by own action WAS SON OF AN IMMIGRANT COOK: MADE RICHES
William M Wood head of American Woolen company, once the son of a Portuguese immigrant cook, killed himself at Daytona Beach Florida. He built Shawsheen Village in Andover Mass and moved company offices there, causing a rift with associates. His health declined after his son Billy Wood Jr died in 1922, ending a life of philanthropy and heavy involvement in mills, boxing, and soccer.
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New Bedford
Andover
Wood
Shawsheen Village
Shawsheen
Mr. Wood
Billy Wood, Jr
Billy
Andrew G. Piecre
William
Lawrence
Revolution Attempt in Portugal Suppressed by Government
In Lisbon on February 3 AP reports an attempted revolution was quickly subdued by the government after rebels, including officers led by Col. Exsieden Estedes, attacked barracks and spread a manifesto. A second force opposite the city at Almada surrendered after threats of bombardment. martial law not declared.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Republican Guard
Exsieden Estedes
Almada
Tagus River
Engineer John J Gallagher Killed In Wreck In Iowa
In Galesburg Illinois the Chicago Burlington and Quincy mail train No seven derailed while en route from Chicago to Denver. Engineer John J Gallagher of Burlington Iowa was killed instantly, Fireman C A Hunger of Galesburg seriously injured. The engine turned on its side trapping Gallagher beneath it while Hunger was thrown clear. No passengers were aboard the solid mail train.
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Galesburg
His
A. P
John J. Galligher
Burlington
Iowa
C. A. Hunger
Galesbureg
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Chicago
Denver
Gallagher
Italian artist Bianchi jailed for two-year ban in Asheville
Italian-born artist J. B. Bianchi was sentenced by Police Judge Cameron MacRae to 60 days in jail and barred from entering any place of amusement in Asheville for two years after being charged with annoying young girls in motion picture theaters.
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Asheville
J. B. Bianchi
Cameron MacRae
Body of Wood Goes Back Andover Home
William Madison Wood 68 former president of American Woolen, died by self inflicted gunshot at Daytona Beach. His body to be sent to Shawsheen MA to join his son in the family mausoleum as illness and melancholia are blamed for the deed. He had been with his valet Augustine Frederick and chauf r Beaulieu along Flagler Beach.
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Daytona Beach
Fla
William Madison Wood
American Woolen Company
Andover
Mass
Shawsheen
William
Wood
Augustine Frederick
Joseph Beaulieu
Flagler Beach
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King
L'il Snifter
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Emilio Torrer
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Wade V. Bowman
North Carolina National Guard
Hickory
W. P. Bowman
C. M. Ward
D. L. Workland
E. C
W. C. Feimster
Frank Linney
J. Hayden Burke
Taylorsville
A. P. Barringer
W. E. Turner
Cline’s Township
Elvana
Death House
American Woolen Co
Shot Self
Florida
Wm. M. Wood
Great Corporation
William M. Wood
Daytona
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