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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1925
Page
1
Chaos and casualties mount as the tornado's path spans 300 miles in Illinois Indiana Kentucky Missouri and Tennessee. Reports total 848 dead and 2909 injured with Desota Illinois and Princeton Indiana hardest hit amid widespread destruction and ongoing rescue efforts.
The Rowan County Board of Health issues a drastic edict prohibiting dogs from running at large unmuzzled. Any dog found at large will be killed by county and town officers due to rabies outbreaks and bites to people and stock.
In Yonkers New York Barney Williams died after winning a bet that he could drink a pint of whiskey without stopping. Harold Powers a store keeper and Mrs Williams were held as witnesses. Police reported Mrs Williams believed her husband would sleep outside and allowed him to stay outdoors. Also a note on hairless fox puppies stating about one in a thousand are born hairless and remain so.
Chicago dispatch reports 810 confirmed dead with likely higher totals from Murphysboro as tornado ravages across Illinois Indiana Missouri Tennessee and Kentucky leave at least 18 million in property losses. Red Cross says hundreds injured unreached while relief expands with nurses aid ships and antitetanus and water sanitation efforts.
The post office department will issue a one half cent postage stamp to be used for weights in third class mail after April 15. This is the first half cent stamp distributed in the United States. New postal rates take effect mid next month with third class mail at one and a half cents per ounce or fraction up to eight ounces. Post cards will cost two cents while government postal cards stay one cent.
The first layer of crushed stone covers one mile in the southern part of Hillsville as the Great Lakes to Florida Highway advances. The state will fund preliminary work with $150 000 from Bland county and a July start under the Robertson act while Bluefield and Bland county back the project to connect Lakes to Florida through Appalachia.
President Coolidge selected John G. Sargent of Vermont for attorney general after Charles B. Warren's nomination failed twice. Sargent, a former Vermont attorney general and the President's friend, was quickly confirmed by the Senate in open session.
Washington reports the Agriculture Department’s 1925 planting intentions show possible farm crop expansion if carried out and weather allows. however the department warns that broad expansion could lower prices and yield poorer returns for farmers.
The Woman's club campaign to make Elkin the Town Beautiful has sold and delivered 1,000 crape myrtles to residents. Most have been planted this week, using a dwarf variety chosen for a watermelon pink bloom to enhance Elkin's appearance.
In Shelby the elderly freedman Phillip Roseboro recounts his Civil War service as body servant to Captain John Roseboro and Captain Jim, claiming wounds at Seven Pines and capture at Vicksburg. He longs to visit Stone Mountain to see Robert E. Lee and Grant, while awaiting promised pension backed by white friends.
Senator Simmons challenged the claim that President Coolidge won a large majority stating the figure was a plurality of about six million with a true majority of 2,231,163. He noted La Follette’s candidacy reduced GOP support and cited final totals Coolidge 15,749,032 Davis 8,760,557 La Follette 4,667,612.
The text lists average marriage ages in several nations. Germany 28 for men and 25 for women, Denmark 2 for men and 25 for women, France 29 for men and 25 for women, England 28 for men and 26 for women, Italy 28 for men and 24 for women.
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