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Joe Phifer, 21, Dies While Harvesting Wheat, June 21, 1924

Joe Phifer of Rowan Is Thrown Into a Reaper, Dies

Salisbury, June 20—Joe Phifer, 21, of Scotch Irish township, while helping is father cut wheat with a reaper, met with an accident which cost (caused?) him his death. He was driving the team of horses when a line broke and the horses ran away, throwing him in the reaper where he received severe injuries. He died soon after being rushed to a Statesville hospital.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, June 21, 1924

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