Word: highroads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolt ended than the Government had to face another problem. Packs of famished wolves were reported in East Finland sweeping south from Lapland. Farmers' livestock was slaughtered, the beasts even invading village streets. In mid-Finland a young girl was torn to pieces as she walked on the highroad near her home. Civil guards turned from the Fascists to the wolves but were able to report the death of only two by the week...
Fortnight ago two Negroes, Pig Lockett and Holly White, held up a white couple on the highroad near De Kalb, Miss., took from them $45. Last week feeling in De Kalb ran high against Pig and Holly. Therefore two policemen put them in an automobile, started to transfer them to Scooba, Miss, for a preliminary court hearing. Townsmen intercepted the motor, bound the policemen to trees, hanged Pig and Holly from other trees - 14th and 15th lynchees of the year...
Because many a citizen has been stopped on the highroad by U. S. Prohibition agents whose say-so was their only identification, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock last week announced that all automobiles carrying such agents will be marked with a distinctive shield on the right front door. The shield will read...
...Moissac on the Tarn, Guillaume Durand, sabot-maker, saw his wife and three relatives drown while he stood on a wall with two children on his shoulders. In the nave of the village church were piled 100 corpses. On the highroad below medieval Albia man and woman, complete strangers clung to a treetop for 33 hours, during which time the woman gave birth to a child. Seriously damaged was the Bordeaux wine country-hundreds of vineyards in Sauternes, Barsacs, whence sweet white wines, were uprooted...