Lions Club Boxing Nights Set for Roanoke Rapids Festival
Roanoke Rapids Lions Festival will stage two full boxing cards on September 21 and 22 at the high school field. Prison camp fighters from across eastern North Carolina will compete in seven bouts nightly, with amateur to professional heavies on the cards and Sgt. Dick Collins as referee. Featured bouts include Walter Kemp vs James Whit ted and Smoky Harris vs Henry Watson, both Negro fighters, with 28 selected boxers from camps.
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North Carolina
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Lions Festival
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Lions
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Frank Kemp
Jimmy Mayfield
Walter Kemp
James Whitted
Kemp
Smoky" Harris
Roanoke Rapids Shortstop Chester Simms Honored
Chester Simms of the Roanoke Rapids Romances earned the Daily News Athlete of the Week after a record setting state softball run at Southern Pines. He batted .733 in five title games and reached base .800 with 11 hits in 15 at bats, driving in eight runs with two home runs. Also, a 2:30 p.m. Sunday game at Roanoke Mill No. 2 pits Halifax prison camp team against Peter Doyle nine, with free will admission.
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Roanoke Rapids Romances
North Carolina
Southern Pines
Greensboro Daily News
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The
Daily News
American Sportswriters Association
Simins
Barrie
Russ DeBerry
Windy Sims
Johnny Miller
Johnny Martin
Poss Lumley
Ken Rudeen
Burrus Stoker
Chester
Sams
Rudeen
Lumley
Lynn
Harvell
Gastonia
Mt. Airy
George Moser
Simms
Sixtéj
DeBerry
Canton
Romance
Halifax
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Roanoke Mill No. 2
Troup 141
Boy Scouts
Plymouth to Rebuild Early Pilgrim Home Near Plymouth Rock
Research for an authentic reproduction of an early Pilgrim house proceeds near Plymouth Rock on a state reservation overlooking Plymouth Harbor. The project clarifies that Pilgrims’ homes used vertical plank siding rather than log cabins, and aims to start full scale construction soon.
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Plymouth
Plymouth Rock
Plymouth Harbor
Zoo Keepers Show Skill Most Practical Way
In Chicago at Lincoln Park Zoo attendants demonstrated handling live birds reptiles and mammals. Ten keepers with the best grades earn pay increases after tests requiring catching and handling an alligator a snake a jungle bird a raccoon and a rabbit, with choices of rope or snare or neither.
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Chicago
U.P
Lincoln Park Zoo
Slip of Hand Foot Lands Cabbie in Jail
A Chicago taxi driver Albert Diamond lost control when his foot slipped and struck another car, leading to his arrest. Police noted Diamond handed the wrong paper from his coat pocket as ten parking tickets fluttered away, triggering an investigation of his chauffeur's license.
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Chicago
Albert Diamond
Diamond
Australian smokers and liquor reform union history
A terse historical note explains that unions formed in the 1870s and 1898 for excise revenue and tobacco liquor control. It traces the Federation of Labor’s regrouping and the federal government’s financial reorganizations during late 19th century Australia.
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Federation of Labor
Nylon bearings for baby buggies hint at nylon use
Plastics experts from E. I. Du Pont disclose that nylon is being used successfully for wheel bearings of baby carriages in Arlington New Jersey. They forecast nylon’s broader adoption in the moving parts of light vehicles.
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Arlington
N. J
U.P
E. I. Dupont de Nemours and Co
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