Man Is Named To Manipulate Death Chamber Switch
Raleigh dispatch reports Warden Busbee will appoint a switch operator for the March 26 electrocution at the prison near Method. Joe Stone of Robeson County is chosen as the first outside executioner, with Albert Harlee noted as his first victim. The article recalls prior wardens Captain Sale and Warden Busbee and their K deaths.
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Man
Death Chamber
Raleigh
Busbee
Joe Stone
Method
T. P. Sale
Sale
Gaston Negroes
Craig
Jack Johnson
Harry Wills
Warden Busbee
Mr. Stone
Robeson
Albert Harlee
No question is ever settled until it is settled right
A poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox admonishes workers and the oppressed to persist against powerful forces. It contrasts victory symbols with truth and urges continued struggle for justice despite heavy oppression and wealth.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Metropolitan
Sale of Mount Airy street paving lands planned for April 1925
Under North Carolina law and Mount Airy ordinances the town will sell at the Dobson court house door on the first Monday in April 1925 the assessments for Cherry Street two six foot wide paving strips. J C Hollingsworth houses and paving totals $605.15 and $394.12 with interest and costs itemized, adjacent to Mrs Sara Spaugh and E Herman and Lewellyn. R V Dyerle, City Tax Collector.
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North Carolina
Mount Airy
Court House
Dobson
Cherry Street
J. C. Hollingsworth
Sara Spaugh
Cherry
E. Herman
H Lewellyn
Sde
R. V. Dyerle
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Wade C. Moody
Nelson & Moody Funeral
W. M. Hollingsworth
Mount Airy, N. C
S. A. Conduff
H. B. Rowe
J. P. Cox
Bennett's Mount Airy, N.C
Christian & Rector Insurance Insurance
GEO. D
Roy C. Mitchell
M. D. Jackson
Lovill-Rowe Insurance Co
Elizabeth Lovill
Sallie Lovill Rowe
J. E. Banner
J. D. Hogan
Granite City Motor Co
Sydnor & Sparger
Robert J. LC
Holcomb & Midkiff
Mountairy
the News
Hacey Fiske
Metropouitan Life Insurance Co
New York
Crry
My Dear
Mr. Fiske
Mit
Financial Statement
Reinsurance Fund
Hobbere
Rore
Mil
Ygada
Pulkephebtere
C.N
United States
Canada
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Wood
Boone County
Woodburn
Dixie
Reid
Virginia
T.W. Wood
Simon
Pichmond
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