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Good Riddance. In Raleigh, N.C., the state board of education sold a piece of swamp land called Purgatory, hoped to dispose next of neighboring Hell...
...Bost, who runs the Raleigh, N.C., State capital bureau for the Greensboro (N.C.) News has witnessed dozens & dozens of executions. He has seen the souls of convicted and condemned men take flight by electrocution and in the gas chamber. The North Carolina Governor's press conference the other day strayed off to varied things and finally arrived on the subject of executions-by electrocution, gassing and hanging. (Tom has seen hangin...
...bomb went through the Curtiss' upper works, made a shambles of the electronic equipment in the radio room, trapped two enlisted men under the radio transmitters, passed through the movie projection room and set fire to the film stored there. A bomb went through several decks of the Raleigh, came out the other side and exploded nearly 50 feet away...
...used 300,000,000 Ibs. of salt a year, most of it in curing bacon. Humans were weakened through lack of salt in their diet, and Lee's horses suffered hoof and tongue diseases. Determinedly after the subject, Dr. Lonn spent five years studying the archives at Raleigh, Montgomery, Jackson, New Orleans, Atlanta...
...daughter of U.S. Senator Charles B. Farwell, Chicago dry-goods tycoon. Reggie wore a monocle from the age of 15. When he built his Tudor mansion on Manhattan's Park Ave nue between 85th and 86th Streets (it still stands), he dressed himself as Sir Walter Raleigh and gave a mammoth housewarming, serving up a boar's head on a platter...