Baptist Orphanage Celebrates Its 40th Birthday
Thomasville July 1 orphanage marked its fortieth anniversary with an estimated five to six thousand attendees. Dr M L Kesler noted 20 years of service as general manager and announced plans for a Kennedy home infirmary funded by Mrs Parrott. 42 graduates will receive diplomas. Uncle Tom Clouse received a $50 gift for thirty years of farm work.
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Thomasville
Kesler
Kinston
Haywood County
Gaddy
Tom Clouse
Tom
Roanoke Officer Killed Two Wounded in Night Raid
In Roanoke Virginia police allege gunfire at the home of Charles H Hittern left Officer A H Morgan dead and Officers A M Smith and W M Terry wounded. The force cordoned exits and searched trains while tracking the attackers.
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Roanoke
A. H. Morgan
A. M. Smith
W. M. Terry
Morgan
Smith
Terry
Charles H. Hittern
F. Howell
Eighty Arrested at Railroad Crossing Warning
A Goldsboro dispatch reports 80 arrests on the Mount Olive highway for failure to stop at a railroad crossing. An auto wreck occurred there recently and the crossing had claimed three deaths about three years ago when a Clinton car was thrown twenty five feet from the tracks. Authorities hope the warning will deter repeated offenses and other riders heed the crossing.
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Goldsboro
Mount Olive
Clinton
Collapse of Pickwick club in Boston kills 33
Rescue teams recovered 33 bodies from the Pickwick club collapse in Boston as investigators blamed overcrowding and a prior fire. Sixty firemen and labor crews worked through the night with 16 people hospitalized and police detaining four suspects found rifling the cloak room.
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Boston
Pickwick Club
At & O'Clock
Chinatown
Cantaloupes Ripening in Scotland County Fields
Laurinburg July 5 Cantaloupe growers report fields yellowing with blossoms and green fruit. Experts predict cantaloupes turning yellow within a few days and ready for picking by July 10 with a peak harvest through July 15 as demand remains high locally and beyond.
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Laurinburg
Scotland County
Leavenworth Overflows Sends 600 Men to Texas
Warden William S. Biddle announced that due to crowding the federal prison will ship 600 new convicts to Huntsville Texas and 14 state prison farms there. One hundred go to Huntsville with the rest to the farms while no current inmates are moved. Leavenworth now houses 3 320 men though capacity is 1 400.
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Leavenworth
Kan
William S. Biddle
Federal Penitentiary
Department of Justice
Washington
State Penal Institution
Huntsville
Texas
Biddle
Tobacco Patch Thoughts by J. M. Hiatt
A 1925 Mount Airy letter argues for cooperative marketing for farmers facing low tobacco and cotton prices. It promotes unity among farmers to set fair selling prices, compares farmer pricing to merchants and professionals, notes a stabilized market, graded quality standards, and warehousing under government oversight, and warns against desertion to the enemy.
Flogging Case Penalties Fixed in Fayetteville
In Fayetteville Judge Henry Grady sentenced Walter Jackson to indeterminate confinement with hard labor for 5 to 25 years and Thomas Skipper to 18 months on the county roads for flogging Rudolph Willard. Jackson bonds for $7,900. Skipper jailed without bond. Prosecution, led by W C Downing and T A McNeill, presented about a hundred witnesses over five days.
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Fayetteville
Superior Court
Walter Jackson
Thomas Skipper
Rudolph Willard
Henry Grady
Jackson
Skipper
Grady
Willard
W. C. Downing
T. A. McNeill
Downing
Isolation challenges Arctic expedition morale on MacMillan voyage
Commander Donald B. MacMillan explains isolation as the main trial of Arctic travel. He limits daytime talk to keep morale steady while radio aids coping with loneliness. Eugene F. McDonald Jr. pushes radio use to ease homesickness and provide news from home.
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Chicago
Donald B. MacMillan
MacMillian
MacMillan
Arctic
Eugene F. McDonald, Jr
Bowdoin
Nations and Kings Great President on 53rd Birthday
The article reports on a July 4 session of the Northern Baptist convention in Seattle where Fundamentalists and Modernists debated whether the Baptist denomination should become the religious arm of Standard Oil. A new missionary society based on fundamental principles was planned, with an October Chicago meeting to organize it. A Park Avenue Church controversy in New York influenced talks but was not central to action. Judge F W Freeman proposed by law changes defining Baptist orthodoxy and immersion baptism.
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Seattle
Wash
Northern Baptist Convention
Presbyterian Church
Standard Oil Company
Harry E. Fosdick
New York Baptist
Rockefeller
National Organization of the Baptist Union
Chicago
United States
Canada
Washington
Convention City
Baptist Church
Park Avenue Baptist Church
New York City
Indianapolis
F. W. Freeman
Denver
Park Avenue
Secret Service
Red Gables
Mr. Stearns
Lynn
Swampscott
Elbert H. Gary
Darwinism Not Evolution At All Says Wake Forest President
Dr. W L Poteat, president of Wake Forest College, told Asheville Summer School students that evolution is firmly established in science and literature. He argued Darwinism is not evolution, and that evolution is the broader doctrine of the present being the child of the past, while noting proofs are indirect and debated. The talk was cut short by a dinner gong.
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Asheville
W. L. Poteat
Wake Forest College
Dr. Poteat
Boom Al Smith for Pres Presidency in New York rally
July 4 in New York at Tammany Hall marked a strong public push for Al Smith as the next president. Governor Smith presided as speakers including Governor Ritchie and Congressman Douglas urged support, praising Smith while defending state rights and opposing federal meddling in education. Attacks on the Ku Klux Klan and religious intolerance featured in the remarks.
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New York
Tammany Hall
al Smith
Ritchie
Maryland
United States
Smith
Tammany
John L. Douglas
Boston
Massachusetts
White House
Ku Klux Klan
Early copy of The News at Creed's Pook Store
An early edition of The News is available weekly at Creed's Pook Store. The item goes on sale immediately after printing and is distributed from the press to subscribers.
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Creed’s
Pook
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