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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1925
Page
1
A Raleigh committee hearing drew the largest crowd of the session as supporters and opponents debated the Braswell bill to let cooperative members withdraw by notice. The 23 to 11 vote against the bill followed hour long arguments with emotional appeals from Mrs. M. O. Winstead and others.
President Coolidge signed the postal pay and rate increase bill tonight at the White House. The measure provides an average roughly $300 yearly salary rise for postal workers starting January 1 and raises postal rates April 15 to fund most of the pay hike. It includes a Senate campaign fund rider limiting congressional campaign expenditures.
Raleigh Feb 26 The Veterans loan fund act of 1923 intended to aid ex service men to buy homes and fund a two million dollar bond issue was ruled invalid because bond authorization lacked a majority vote from qualified state voters The ruling notes bonds would not be valid state obligations Clarkson dissented saying a majority of those voting favored the act The referendum wording caused uncertainty over ratification and the measure drew little more than one third of total votes cast in the election
A mild but widespread earthquake was felt for about two minutes at 9 23 pm across the northeast United States and Canada from New England to Ontario and as far south as Florence South Carolina and Richmond Virginia. Detroit hotels emptied onto streets and New York cardiac canyons reported strong tremors lasting over two minutes with seismographs at Fordham University showing seven inch amplitudes.
John Moser, 42, unmarried owner of a large Alamance County farm, was found dead in his one room house with a 32 calibre pistol beside him. He had been missing days and was believed to have blown out his brains. A roll of hundred dollar bills and several mortgages were found on him. The coroner noted a prior bridge injury that may have affected his mind.
Friedrich Ebert Germany’s first president died at 10 16 am from peritonitis after an appendectomy five days earlier. Berlin mourns as war flags fly at half mast and all theatres and operas close. Chancellor Bauer to read the funeral oration at the Wilhelmstrasse residence.
A safety note urges motorists to brake and allow children to cross streets. It describes a child hesitating at the curb and prompts drivers to wave the child across, promising a human, satisfying moment in return. The piece closes with praise for a child’s smile.
New York March 1 Mayor John Hylan returns from Palm Beach and declares he will seek a third term if the people want him. He endorses a five-cent fare and says subways could operate on it while accusing traction interests of gambling away profits up to twenty five thousand dollars nightly in Florida.
New Bern notes the Old Cypress near the Neuse River as a historic symbol. Experts from York Pennsylvania to Cleveland confirm the tree is at least 700 years old with a 17 foot base and 100 foot spread. Cavities and antique bullets found inside spur renewed care to preserve this revered link to colonial and Revolutionary eras.
A son named George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil was born early today at Biltmore House to Mrs John F A Cecil formerly Cornelia Vanderbilt. The infant weighed eight and a half pounds and mother and child are said to be well. The child honors Henry Vanderbilt Cecil and Henry Anderson of New York as namesake inspirations.
In Rock Hill South Carolina Feb 28 Policeman R M McFadden tried to halt speeding by firing into a car carrying four Chester youths including Dewey Simpson killed by a bullet entering under the eye and exiting the back of the head Doctors testified the youth was leaning backward at impact Coroner's jury adjourned for more testimony and McFadden remained jailed pending the inquest continuation
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