From the Rockingham Post-Dispatch, October 19, 1922
Service of the New York, Wilmington and Fayetteville
Steamboat company’s Cape Fear river line was inaugurated October 13th
with the arrival of the first boat at Fayetteville. This marks the beginning of
freight and passenger service on the canalized Cape Fear. The promoters
evidently have no fear of a Friday the 13th starting date for boat
service on the Cape Fear.
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The Atlantic Coast Line railway is issuing $13 million in
bonds with which extensive improvements are to be made. With the completion of
the double tracking now under contract (by May 1, 1923), 60 per cent of the
main line from Richmond to Jacksonville will be double tract. The new equipment
to be bought now will include 45 locomotives of the most improved type; 50
passenger coaches, and 3,800 freight cars.
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J.R. Harrison, member of the Fayetteville Board of Aldermen,
received a notice a few days ago purporting to be from the Klu Klux Klan giving
him until October 23rd to get out of that town, under penalty of
being killed. Harrison says he’ll not leave.
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