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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1940
Page
1
Trade Days Drive October 81 brings a big Roanoke Rapids night as the Fall Trade Campaign kicks off. Stores unveil window displays at 7 p.m. Thursday with contests for best dressed window and shopper votes. Doors stay open until 9 p.m. and a street dance follows outside the high school.
The State accepted a guilty plea to second degree murder from Claude Miles 34 of Patterson Mills Co for the fatal shooting of Robert Clay 24 at the Halifax County fairgrounds. Miles testified in his own defense amid a packed Roanoke Rapids courtroom as Judge Burgwyn sentenced him to 22 to 30 years.
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