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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motorcade of 50 cars without licenses the 200 took Oliver Moore 15 mi. to his home in Wilson County, there strung him from a tree. As his body twisted and writhed, all shot at it until he was dead; first lynchee in North Carolina since 1921, twelfth...
...first English child born in America. Nine days later (Aug. 27) her grandfather, Capt. White, sailed back to England in the third ship to fetch more men and supplies. When he returned four years later he found the Roanoke fort in ruins, the colonists all gone. Carved on a tree was the word "Croatoan," the name of a friendly Indian tribe living down the coast. But searchers were never able to find Virginia Dare and the other settlers. Twenty years later colonists at Jamestown heard stories that all but a few had been massacred by Powhatan, that the rest...
...live in the garage, was immediately threatened with impeachment if elected over Republican Nominee Ira A. Hill. Declared "Alfalfa Bill:" "So be it. I am a candidate for impeachment, but it'll be like a bunch of rabbits trying to drag a wild cat out of a tree...
...tree-shaded Marion, Ind., onetime stamping-ground of the Ku Klux Klan, three Negro boys last week were hurried to the Grant County gaol. One of them, Thomas Shipp, 18, confessed he had dragged Claude Deeter, 23, from an automobile parked in Marion's outskirts, shot him to death. Shipp's companion, Abe Smith, admitted attacking Deeter's fiancee, Mary Ball...
...readers, breezy, baldish Editor Howe is "the people's friend," perhaps the most influential man in Amarillo. He specializes in such homely services as helping youngsters find their lost dogs and cats. He has bought "yoyo" tops for hundreds of Panhandle children. During last month's tree-sitting epidemic he gave money rewards to small boys who would come down from their perches, to safeguard their health. He revels in the nickname "Old Tack," derived from his daily irascible column "The Tactless Texan...