North Carolina Gas Chamber Claims Its First Victim
Raleigh Jan 22 The new North Carolina gas chamber will execute Allen Foster a Negro Friday for the assault of a white woman in Hoke county Parole Commissioner Edwin M Gill announced no clemency would be granted The 1935 legislature replaced the electric chair with the gas chamber but the law took effect last July
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Allen Foster
Hoke County
Edwin M. Gill
Yacht Party Raises Ambition Of A Night Club Singer
Julia Craig, secretary to George Woodford of Woodford and Brooks, seeks a break as a night club singer. On a yacht trip with Woodford and a mixed group, Julia meets Royal Nesbitt, Cintra Lee, and Mrs Joseph while fellow guest Smith Garland is absent. Tension hints at extended plans beyond the voyage as Julia contemplates her future in show business.
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Julia Craig
George Woodford
Woodford and Brooks
Julia
Amy Sanders
Peter Kemp
Henri Lamb
Lamb
Peter
Royal Nesbitt
Amy
Woodford
Obo
Craig
Hugo Nash
Joseph
Cintra Lee
Hollywood
Smith Garland
Garland
Nesbitt
Contra Lee
Mrs. Joseph
Nash
Plano
Sam
Lee
Terraplane
Fate of Neutrality Law Hinged by Wilson Criticism
Washington January 22 The fate of strong neutrality legislation may rest on criticism of Woodrow Wilson and the war course as the Senate committee splits over the issue Nye Clark and Morgan ties are explored as the inquiry into world arm traffic and financing proceeds. The report notes Nye's push for neutrality doctrine and public sentiment as pivotal to any action by administration or Congress.
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Wilson
Rodney Dutcher
Enterprise
Washington Correspondent
Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Senate Unitions Committee
Gerald P. Nye
Nye
Morgan
Bennett Champlark
Missouri
Son
Company Reaches Settlement to Avoid Union Strife
A New York based duplex plant and other sites faced boycotts over product purchases and installation. After obtaining a Supreme Court injunction condemning union activities as interfering with interstate trade and harming business, the company chose to end litigation costs and restore amicable relations with employees.
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Duplex Printing Press Co
Battle Creek
Mich
National Labor Relations Board
Congress
Machinists
Duplex
New York
Supreme Court
Sentence Revoked 300 Years After Williams Expulsion
In Boston the Massachusetts legislature heard arguments to revoke Roger Williams sentence of expulsion dating from the 1600s. Petitioner K H Washburn of Middleboro argues the tercentenary year of Rhode Island justifies a reconsideration of Williams fate.
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Boston
Roger Williams
Massachusetts
K. H. Washburn
Middleboro
Rhode Island
Williams
Massachusetts Bay
Major Neyland Granted Retirement From Army Service
Major Robert R. Neyland Jr. of the army engineers, famed as Tennessee football coach, has applied for and been granted retirement. War department orders release him from the Panama Canal Zone assignment and direct him to proceed home to await retirement around January 25.
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Washington
Robert R. Neyland Jr
Army Engineers
University of Tennessee
Army
War Department
Neyland
Panama Canal Zone
Francois Marie Arouet, Better Known as Voltaire
The writer Voltaire was born Francois Marie Arouet, a French author whose pen name became synonymous with Enlightenment thought.
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Voltaire
Francois Marie Arouet
Stanback Provides Quick Headache Relief
An old advertisement touts Stanback as a fast acting remedy for headache neuralgia and periodic pains. It emphasizes a balanced prescription with no after effects and mentions a sealed fresh cellophane jacket for the product.
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Stanback
Final guest editor Morton Q. Klein featured
The edition highlights Morton Q. Klein, local businessman and Manuscript Club secretary, as today's guest editor in an editor’s note.
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Morton Q. Klein
Thought Makers and Life as a Blind Man's Game
A reflective piece on perception and priorities. It ponders how each person tunes their own life like a radio, examining interests from sports to cuisine, fashion to philosophy. The tone is aphoristic, challenging readers about values, success, and what truly pleases serious minds.
What is love and friendship in a changing world
A reflective discourse on love love’s naturalness and transformation and on friendship its growth under social limits. Questions about morality strength courage beauty and marriage framed as a meditation on human relationships and their fragility. The piece weighs nature versus form and suggests love may be an evolving, hopeful concept rather than fixed.
Imagination and morality clash in friendship and sacrifice
The speaker muses that income equality should foster friendship yet women of different classes cannot be friends. They question true sacrifices for children, arguing a child mirrors self and offers potential immortality. Life is framed as a song for the child while God judges the aged.
Music divides the world into two kinds of people
The excerpt ponders why music inspires passion and display from pianists to opera goers. It questions social rituals around concerts, tickets, attire, and the romantic aura of musicians, asking why music should feel heavenly yet be tied to earthly show.
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Heaven
Carter
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NEA
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Lansing
England
Germany
George Whitney
Senator Clark
Machinists’ Union
America
Detroit
Cra RC Ake
Crea Ay
P. J. Hudson Motors
Willowbrook ST
High Point, N. C
Hudson
John Mebane
Paillee
Cordiala
Willowbrook Street
Pheme
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