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There was no race and Col. Turner had no intention of breaking any record. He had passengers and stopped to discharge them at Raleigh and Richmond, did not hurry...
Alpha's memory seems to be no better now than it was at the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh on Oct. 8 when his master displayed him at 25? a look to record-breaking Fair throngs with pockets full of New Deal tobacco crop money...
Alpha, in appreciation for getting his picture in Raleigh's News & Observer, whose circulation is up 10,000 copies in the first 18 months of the New Deal, was to answer inquiries as to which paper he read...
First time the question was asked Alpha caused Inventor May no end of embarrassment by croaking: "The Raleigh Observer-Times" Blaming the lapse upon the damp weather, Professor May quickly dictated a new wax cylinder, had Alpha repeat over and over in a cockney bass: "I read the News & Observer." But flushed tobacco farmers were not impressed, paid more quarters to see the hootchy-kootchy...
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