Bailey Runaway Threatens Train Crew and Engine
Statesville officers recaptured Clarence Bailey after he fled to Salisbury and entered a Spencer railroad yard engine cab. Trainmen stopped the locomotive before a crash, and Bailey, deemed not fully responsible, was sent to Statesville jail with plans to commit him to Goldsboro State Hospital.
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Statesville
Clarence Baily
Spencer
Southern Railway
Baily
Salisbury
Gilbert
McKensie
Bailey
State Hospital
Goldsboro
Mass Meeting in Asheville Praises Law Enforcement
Over a thousand residents gathered at the city auditorium to support strict enforcement of the law in Asheville. Resolutions praised Judge Adams, the police, the mayor, Colonel Lusk, and State Senator Julius C. Martin for decisive action. Colonel Lusk received a silver pitcher. he pledged to continue the crackdown on illegal activity and urged citizen cooperation.
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Asheville
W. M. Vines
First Baptist Church
Locke Craige
George T. Winston
Craig
Winston
Judge Adams
Lusk
Julius C. Martin
Dunston
Law Enforcement League
Trusk
Panama Canal Ditch Progress Marks Major Construction
Washington Dispatch notes $1,000,000 daily road spend and inching canal work. By March the Central Division causes two million tons of material to be removed, with Culebra Cut and Gatun lake sections nearing completion. Dredges, pumps, and dynamite drive the sea level project as crews labor on Miraflores and Gatun portions.
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Panama
Culebra
Gatun
Chagres
Ito
Atlantic
Pacific
Gatun Locks
Gatun Lake
Miraflores
Gaton
Balboa
Washington Dispatch
Hayti
Martinije
Big Simpa
Swenty- Dee
Lightning ignition torched farmer's barn in Fishing Creek
A Granville county farmer told Durham Sun how lightning struck the Floyd barn at Fishing Creek township last Thursday night, starting a blaze that neighbors and friends quickly fought, aided by milk reportedly used to douse flames.
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Granville County
Sun
Ananias Club
C. L. Floyd
Fishing Creek Township
Floyd
Prisoners Set Fire to Jail in Spencer
Tom Dean and A W White, an employee of the Southern Railway at Spencer, set fire to the town jail this afternoon. Locked up for disorderly conduct by Chief of Police Cruise, they faced possible death as smoke filled the jail. They extinguished the fire themselves before relief arrived.
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Spencer
Tom Dean
A. W. White
Southern Railway Company
Cruise
Southern Railway Let Your Ideas and Wishes Be Known
R. H. DeButts and J. O. Jones of the Transportation Planning Association in Raleigh and Charlotte invite public input on railway ideas and wishes for Southern Railway. The notice requests suggestions and comments from residents and interested parties.
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I. W. West Drug CO
Main Street
Mount Airy, N. C
Winston Sentinel
Piedmont
High Point
Mt. Airy
Mater
the Sentinel
Colonel Lusk
Durham Sun
Carolina
Land of
The
Sky
Waynesville
Raleigh
Greensbor
J. H. Wood
D.P.A
Asheville, N.C
R. H. DeButts
T.P.A
Charlotte, N. C
J. O. Jones
Raleigh, N
North Carolina
Winston-Salem
N. C
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Mulberry St. R. H. Church
Church
Pierce
Fetter
Buffalo
Mount Airy
the Mount Airy News
Mount Airy, N.C
Mle Wit
Aes Stata
Standard Oil Company
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