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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1927
Page
11
A reflective piece urges dropping grudges to avoid a life weighed down by vengeance. It cautions that harboring resentments harms the bearer, champions pity for evil men, and promotes focusing on happiness and hopeful memories. Also includes a courtroom anecdote and dialect quote from a monthly column.
Notices served on Willow Street property owners. Board of Commissioners resolves to lay concrete sidewalks from Franklin Street to Rawley Avenue or assess owners if not completed within ten days. Sidewalks to follow formula under town charter with engineer supervision. Attested June 7, 1927.
Mrs. G Hegmann of 228 Schaeffer St Brooklyn says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and related medicines eased her run down condition and sleepless nights. She recommends the remedies to others and offers to share names of similar respondents. Pinkham Medicine Co invites requests for testimonials.
A 20 pound cat named Pat thwarted two robbers at the home of Mrs Helen McClelland in Oconto by waking her as the intruders entered and then hearing their escape.
Reports claim a modern revival of the Flagellantes in Taos Colfax Rio Arriba Mora San Miguel Sandoval and Valencia counties in northern New Mexico. The three penitente orders practice self flagellation with cross bars and yucca rope braids while women are admitted as members.
Berlin reports a dispute among sport travelers in the Bavarian Alps over damaged electric railroad coaches. To deter breakage crew charges, the management lists fees for various damages with a total coach furnishing value around 15000. Fees include 20 wents per five square inches for broken windows and replacement costs for gas globes bulbs and other fittings.
Emil Peternell a Hungarian engineer living in Bucharest bought a Romanian firemen lottery ticket to aid indigent firemen families. His house burned soon after, destroying his fortune, but his ticket later won the top prize of 1,000,000 Romanian lei about $5,000.
Gold hoard found in walls of Dr. P H Talbot home in Rosendale Missouri after workers demolish the old farm residence. Reports say 20 gold pieces were recovered with more suspected hidden as the doctor was fatally shot by his two sons on September 18, 1880. The sons were hanged July 22, 1882 after three trials.
Alfred Houxel dean of French seamen died at eighty three. He was the longest serving sailor in French maritime history with seventy one years at sea, a record noted by contemporaries.
In Lansing Kansas a 270 man mutiny below ground at the state penitentiary mine ended with surrender after a 40 hour struggle. Guards were overpowered and confined in the electric shop as the convicts fought with acid and improvised weapons.
I W Barber of Rey Mt Airy North Carolina discusses real estate developments street paving sewers bridges and dams. The notice mentions Barber as a Kiwanian.
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