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...when all the white folks in the neighborhood were invited out to George Cannidy's place for a lynching. Someone had dragged Farmer Cannidy's young daughter Lola out across his cotton patch, raped her near a pigsty, bashed in her head and left her under some pine boughs for dead. A Negro buck named Claude Neal had been arrested for the crime, lodged for safe keeping in a jail across the Alabama line at Brewton. One hundred Floridians had driven over to Brewton and without much fuss removed Claude Neal from the jail...
...market has held at the delicate and fateful 96 level (Dew, Jones), which we predicted it would reach several weeks ago. Traders are on pine and needier because every indication is that it cannot maintain this tightrope position for very long and that a sharp movement may be expected as a matter of the next few trading hours. It is the business of predicting the direction of the movement that has the experts worried. Unless prices, immediately push up through that tricky 96 level, a reaction to the 90-92 point may be expected. Repeating our advice of last week...
Where the spectators disagree most violently, however, is in the matter of the distance of the spectacle from their individual points of vantage. If all the reports were to be credited, the meteor, or parts of it would be found in Sebago Lake, Maine; in Pine Hills, Plymouth; in the mouth of Boston Harbor; two hundred yards from the shore at Scituate; and among other places, in the back yard of a gentleman on the south shore...
...began in 1720 with the arrival in Boston of a "lyon." Devotees of the "big top" first suffered a setback when "Old Bet," the second elephant to reach this country, was shot by a Maine farmer because the manager's receipts from admissions were drawing money out of the Pine Tree State. But "Little Bet," soon to follow, had a hide "so thick no bullet could pierce it." Some young pranksters in Chepachet, Rhode Island, pumped her in the eye with a BB gun, costing their fathers...
Beneath the Hudson River, one midnight, Patrolman Raymond L. Pine caught a sleek young pig trotting westward through the Holland Tunnel from Manhattan toward Jersey City...