Those whiskey stills that were turned up by the fire have lead the police to believe that one never can tell and that things are not always what they seem. “No, who would a thought,” says Uncle Gus Ipock, “that a full-fledged distillery was being operated within a block of the union station,” yet there was the still showing its cap to the world after the blaze.
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The officers and crew of the coast guard cutter Pamlico continue to give their assistance in keeping order in New Bern. These men have proven invaluable to this city and their services have been of inestimable worth.
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Shingle manufacturers who were depending on New Bern for their patronage will surely starve to death, said one well known citizen yesterday. New Bern’s anti-shingle ordinance is certainly going to upt a crimp in that industry. (They’re talking about wooden shingles, not the fire-resistant asbestos shingles common today.)
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Chief of the fire department Jas. Bryan yesterday received the following donations from the fire companies: Chapel Hill, $50; Roxboro, $100; Ayden, $15; Carthage, $87; Hickory, $25. And still they come.
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Some of the best of the many views taken by local photographers before and after the fire were made by Miss Georgia Oxley, one of New Bern’s well-known photographers. These have been in large demand since the conflagration.
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Bambalis Brothers, managers of the Athens Café, are due credit for serving sandwiches to the firemen and the members of the battery of field artillery after the fire. A cash donation to the relief fund was also made by them.
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Leary Adams of the Goldsboro News, after a visit to New Bern Sunday, writes in his paper that about the only thing that didn’t burn in the fire zone was the real estate. If he could have seen George Street ablaze in sections last Friday afternoon he would doubtless have changed his mind about that.
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The fire did one good thing: It destroyed a lot of ammunition that was stored away for one purpose or another that is better burned up.
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“The First Year,” which was to have been presented at The Show Shop last night, was cancelled after Manager Thomas B. Kehoe had gotten in communication with the management of the attraction and informed them of conditions existing here on account of the fire.
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Occupants of several of the buildings condemned down in the business section of the city yesterday have already begun to look around for new quarters, not desiring to take the full 60 days which they will be given in which to move.
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Fire Chief James Bryan was struck in the eye yesterday afternoon with the business end of a stream of water with 150 pounds of pressure behind it. Today he has an optic that was the appearance of having underwent rough treatment.
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The Scottish Rite bodies, the two banks and the citizens of Enfield today raised $555.75 for the relief of the citizens of New Bern rendered homeless by Friday’s fire. Check for this amount has been received here.
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Fifty dollars received from the Elks Lodge in Greensboro. The Elks everywhere certainly are a liberal crowd of folks. Six or seven lodges already have made donations.
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Chief of Police Bryan wishes to call attention to the fact that the city parking ordinance on Middle Street is going to be strictly enforced hereafter. Right front wheel must be touching the curb and right real wheel must not be more than six inches from the curb.
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Robert M. Haynes of Winston-Salem, captain of Battery A. during the World War, which was compolsed largely of New Bern boys, today sent his check for $100.
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E.G. Schwartz, president of the Pine Lumber Company, and who lives in Allentown, Pa., has sent his check for $100.
From the front page of The New Bernian, Dec. 7, 1922
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