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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your July 20 issue you had an article regarding the exhumation of the body of Peter Stuart Ney, which lies buried in the graveyard of the Third Creek Presbyterian Church two miles from Cleveland, N. C. You stated that the body was dug up in 1887, a skull found, and a plaster cast made of same, which has since disappeared. I wish to inform you that two weeks ago the daughter of Dr. P. A. Laugenour, who made this plaster cast, located the same in the attic of his widow. She presented the same to the writer...
...Under Two Captains in which he gave the biography of a general who fought under Marshal Ney, and later escaped execution, came to America, and was an honored Lutheran minister in the State of Indiana. He stated that Marshal Ney was not executed, but taught school in Rowan County, N. C., and lies buried at the above mentioned place. He also said that, during his lifetime, he visited Peter Stuart Ney in North Carolina. My father was pastor of the Third Creek Church, and, as a child, I knew intimately several people who were pupils of Mr. Ney. Dr. Woods...
...inconceivable to my mind that anyone who wishes to believe the truth will not believe the statements of such people as the above mentioned minister and doctor. Peter Stuart Ney was a school teacher at Mocksville, N. C. and boarded at the same house with my mother's father, who was also a school teacher in the same neighborhood. ... I have copies of Peter Stuart Ney's own handwriting, and we have coming to us from Paris copies of Marshal Ney's handwriting, which we plan to have compared by the modern handwriting experts in Washington. Several...
Charlotte, N...
Last month hundreds of Philco employes marched across the Delaware River from Philadelphia into Camden, N. J., helped RCA employes win a six-week strike for more pay (TIME. July 27). Due in no small measure to the costs of the Camden rumpus, the earnings of RCA dropped some $200,000 below comparable 1935 figures in the second quarter...