Train Collision Highlights Thomasville Rail News
A train hit a stalled passenger car near Unity St outside Thomasville causing total loss of the car but no injuries. City officials and railroad authorities plan a later conference after weather delays. Local politics and traffic safety debates continue as council carpets weigh gate options and a stop sign crackdown attracts attention. County building plans and potential bond issues loom with school and jail improvements on the horizon. Thomasville Boy Scouts led a City Hall visit, presenting reports to council and earning applause from officials.
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Thomasville
Unity St. Ext
W. F. Babcock
Guilford St
Lexington
Davidson County
Jerry Fouts
Jim Raper
Joe C. Regan Jr
Fouts
Brown Fouts
Carl Wilson
Monday Holiday Plan Gains Momentum Across States
Bills to establish three or four designated Mondays as holidays gain traction in state legislatures. President's Day Memorial Day Independence Day and Thanksgiving Day would create long weekends plus Labor Day. New England and New York discussions aim to unite governors and push the plan regionally.
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Washington
National Association of Travel Organizations
Trade Association of the American Travel Industry
Massachusetts
New England
United States
New York State
New York
Brewers and Grout Enroll at Asbury Theological Seminary
David H. Brewer and J Adrian Grout Jr longtime local parishioners have enrolled at Asbury Theological Seminary Wilmore Kentucky Both are sons of local families Brewer leads Boyer's Chapel White Oak Kentucky as pastor and Grout serves as assistant pastor at the Nicholasville Christian Church He plans to enter Pilgrim Holiness Ministry after graduation
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David H. Brewer
J. Adrian Grout Jr
Asbury Theological Seminary
Wilmore
Brewer
O. W. Brewer
Young Brewer
Boyer’s Chapel
White Oak
Grout
J. A. Grout
Young Grout
Nicholasville
Forgotten Man Dies After 42 Years In Prison Parole
Ernest Ole Lindquist 65 once called the forgotten man of Iowa State Penitentiary died at home in Indianola Iowa after less than three years of freedom. He served 42 years of a life sentence for killing a policeman at 19 and was paroled through the efforts of Addie Jackson the widow who visited him in prison. They married after parole and ran a shoe repair shop.
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Indianola
Iowa
Ernest
Ole) Lindquist
Iowa State Penitentiary
Ole
Addie Jackson
Addie
Orient letter puzzle yields a code message
A fragmented puzzle instructions readers to compute a key letter from the word ORIENT using their first name letter count and then trace key letters left to right to reveal a hidden message. The page text guides checking each key letter from the upper left corner to derive the code.
Oddities In The News Motorist Retires While Ahead
A string of quirky cases from across the United States and Canada features long-time drivers quitting after misadventures. An 80-year-old Brazilian Ind. driver finally earned a ticket after 40 years. In Middletown Ohio a 46-year motorist crashed and declared retirement to cycling. Charles B. King of Larchmont N Y, famed for Detroit’s first car, was barred after two accidents. A Cincinnati man removed furniture then returned for the sink. In Los Angeles a storage attic mishap left a 61-year-old male named Safety First bruised and dazed. A Fitchburg Mass. paint-store proprietor discovered his job left him unable to paint. A Toronto man’s jail-confessing spree failed to fit the facts, masking a desire to escape his wife.
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New York
Brazil
Ind
Middletown
Ohio
Aicycle
Larchmont
N. Y
Charles B. King
King
Detroit
Cincinnati
Los Angeles
Safety First
Jane
Fitchburg
Mass
Toronto
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Election Board
High Point
High Point’ Safety Council
Tety c
Griffith
Charlotte
Mecklenburg County
City Hall
Honda
NATO
Brewer and Grout
Asbury Theology School
Max Bones
Optometrist
High Point, N
North State
Randleman
Clay Products CO
Pleasant Garden, N. C
Denier
Sheers
Penney
Penney’s
Office Equipment Co
N. Main St
Ake
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