Births Spark Notice In Local Columns March News
Swain Hughes Loy weighs eight and a half pounds born the night of March 8 to Mr and Mrs H S Loy, Leggett’s manager. Mr and Mrs Lewter Bryant announce a son born March 8. Mr and Mrs Bill Adkins announce a son born March 8. The column notes a surge of births as the paper urges prompt submissions and mentions upcoming printers code changes.
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Swain Hughes Loy
H. S. Loy
Proud Papa Loy
Leggett’s
Mrs. Lewter Bryant
Bill Adkins
CWA Worker Injured in Scaffold Fall at Halifax Project
Bruce Jordan a CWA carpenter fell sixteen feet from a scaffold at the Halifax site remodeling the old Halifax School into a Woman's Club and community building. He suffered a broken leg and was taken to Roanoke Rapids Hospital. He rests well at home between Halifax and Enfield.
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Bruce Jordan
CWA
Halifax
Jordan
Roanoke Rapids Hospital
Enfield
Whooping Cough Fatal To Infant Garner
Doris Jane Garner one and a half year old daughter of Mr and Mrs A F Garner died Friday at the family home on Madison Street as a victim of whooping cough.
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Doris Jane Garner
A. F. Garner
Madison Street
Driver Escapes Injury After Midnight Wreck
A transfer truck driver, Jimmie Gibson of the Reliable Transfer Company, crashed at South Rosemary corner just outside city limits around 1:30 A M Sunday. Miraculously he escaped serious injury as the front of his vehicle struck a station without anyone present.
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Jimmie Gibson
Reliable Transfer Company
Cops to Don New Uniforms Roanoke Rapids Officers
Roanoke Rapids police will wear new uniforms for the first time tomorrow after a City Board of Commissioners decision to buy caps brass buttons and blue suits. Bids arrived recently and pockets were added to coats by a local tailor after uniformed officers objected.
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Roanoke Rapids
City Board of Commissioners
Topping Store Robbed on Eleventh Street
The R. L. Topping store in the Thompson Building on Eleventh Street was pried open between midnight and 1 AM Tuesday night. Items missing include cigarettes tobacco and pound cakes. Police think night shift from Rosemary Mfg Co frightened the thieves away after the break in was found.
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R. L. Topping
Thompson Build
Eleventh Street
Rosemary Mfg. Co
Cold Weather Delays Roanoke Rapids Sidewalk Project
The Roanoke Rapids ten mile sidewalk job shows slow progress as weather freezes ground and slows concrete pours. CWA labor head C H Byrd plans two mixers and multiple shifts to reach 250 workers next week while crews finish and refinish slabs near the school as teachers warn children and parents to stay off fresh concrete.
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Roanoke Rapids
CWA
C. H. Byrd
Byrd
Supt
C. W. Davis
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Raleigh
Richmond
Herald
New State
M. G. Mann
Farmers’ Co-operative Exchange
South Rosemary
Rosemary Corner
Palm Springs
Ruth Holly
City
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