Yow Sisters Run Over by Frank Kennedy, Feb. 2, 1925

Girls Injured When Run Over by Frank Kennedy. . . Yow Sisters Were on Way from Church When Accident Occurred—Hearing Later in the Week

Three Sisters, Bright, Hattie and Lola Yow, were fun over last night by Frank Kennedy, 19, who lives in West Concord, when he failed to see them walking on the highway near the Hartsell Mill. Two of the girls, Bright and Lola, are in the concord Hospital today on account of their injuries.

The accident occurred near the Hartsell Mill as the three girls were walking home from Church about 9 o’clock. Kennedy passed around a buggy and in doing so failed to notice the girls just in front until he had hit them.

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Another story which is current is that Kennedy was so intoxicated that he had practically lost control of the wheel and had run off the pavement to the side of the road where the girls were walking. This report could not be verified at the police station and Kenney states that he did not see them on account of the buggy.

Kennedy is now held in jail until the extent of the injuries to the girls can be discovered. It is thought that Lola, 18, is the most seriously hurt, receiving a broken jaw and possible internal injuries. Bright, 16, has had her left leg broken but is otherwise uninjured. Hattie suffered no injuries.

A hearing will be held on Wednesday should the extent of the girls’ injuries be discovered by that time, otherwise it will be held later in the week.

The accident occurred about 9 o’clock, the girls walking to their home which is on the Charlotte road just beyond the Hartsell Mill.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Feb. 2, 1925

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Fitness of Prisoners, Cost of Upkeep, Feb. 2, 1925

Survey of the North Carolina State Prison. . . Out of 1,287, only 522 are from 90 to 100 per cent efficient physically, according to a statement issued by Superintendent George Ross Pou. It is further shown that 182 prisoners are totally incapacitated and the physical efficiency of 105 is below 50 per cent. Two hundred and forty-four are between 75 and 90 per cent efficient and 234 from 50 to 75 per cent efficient.

Superintendent Pou has also made a study of the per capita operating expense of 21 prisons. For the 21, the average is $395.62, as compared with $356.45 for North Carolina. It is shown that the lowest annual per capita cost is incurred at Brushy Mountain Penitentiary, in Tennessee, where I cost only $244.55 to keep a prisoner a year, while the Canada Prison leads with $564.75 for North Carolina. States that operate on a per capita less than North Carolina’s are: Pennsylvania, 350.40; Virginia, $379.20; Connecticut, $348.57; Missouri, $317.55; Maryland, $316.09; South Carolina, $307.55; Kentucky, 305.91; Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, $274.30; Georgia, $299.69; Tennessee (Brushy Mountain), $244.55.

Ten prisons in the survey show a greater per diem expense of each prisoner I the North Carolina prison has been figured out by Superintendent: tobacco, 02.00 per cent; outer garments, 06.40 per cent; under garments, 01.60 per cent; shoes, 06.90 per cent; medicine, 01.45 per cent; germicides, 00.75 per cent; soaps, 01.25 per cent; bedding, 06.80 per cent; guarding, 33.40 per cent.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Feb. 2, 1925

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Fadoil Family Wants $160,000 in Damages for False Marriage, Feb. 2, 1925

Pretty Syrian Girl Figures in Big Suit

Suits were filed in Wake County last week by Anisa Fadoil, Syrian girl, and her father, C.K. Fadoil, against A.B. Sallenby, N.J. Rboud, George Nasseff, Ely Joseph, J.A. Abeyounis and J.R. Abeyounis, for damages amounting to $160,000. The damages are asked for a false marriage into which the girls claims she was tricked, and a false arrest which her father alleges was hatched against him.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Feb. 2, 1925

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Gertrude Gibson Hit When She Stepped in Front of Car, Feb. 2, 1925

Knocked Down by Automobile on North Union Street

Gertrude Gibson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Gibson, of this city, was knocked down Saturday afternoon on North Union Street by an automobile, and, while not seriously injured, was painfully bruised and received what is thought to have been a broken ankle.

According to spectators, Gertrude had been riding and stepped out of one car directly in front of another. In the usual Saturday afternoon congestion of Forth Union, it was impossible for the car to swerve sufficiently to miss hitting her although it was traveling at a very slow rate when it did hit her.

An X-ray picture is to be made of the ankle today to determine whether or not it is broken.

From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Feb. 2, 1925

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Robinson Baby Named Frieda After Singer, Feb. 2, 1925

Frieda Gets a Concord Namesake

One of the newest residents of Concord is little Miss Frieda Blanks Robinson, born on Friday night to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Robinson at Forest Hill. Dr. W.D. Pemberton, family physician, was responsible for the name Frieda.

It came about in this way: Dr. Pemberton had gone to the High School to attend the concert which was being given by Miss Frieda Hempel, and after hearing the program about half through, he was called to the telephone and asked to come to the home of Mr. Robinson. After the birth of the baby, the doctor, still thinking about Frieda’s dulcet tones, asked permission to name the new arrival, which was granted. He thereupon conferred the name Frieda upon the child and the parents gave it its other name—Blanks.

From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Feb. 2, 1925

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Injured Foot Keeping J.F. Hurley at Home, Feb. 2, 1925

Mr. Hurley Suffers From Injured Foot

Salisbury Post

The many friends of Mr. J.F. Hurley are glad to learn that he is improved today after being confined to his home since Wednesday. Mr. Hurley is suffering from an injured foot and will not be out for several days longer.

From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Feb. 2, 1925

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In Appreciation of S. Kay Patterson's Work, Feb. 2, 1925

In Appreciation

S.K. Patterson

Somewhere in every movement, behind every enterprise in which success is evident is some one or a group of individuals. This person or these persons are the ones who have faith in the thing that they are trying to put over. They are the persons who are out late at night and in the foul weather as well as sunshine hat their faith might become a reality in the proposed project. They are the ones who do what we all in business, finance the enterprise. Generally they are never headlines, and have not desire to be; they stay behind the curtains, no one brings a bouquet or expresses a word of appreciation. The group of such men and women is larger than one ever stops to think.

This is our thought: the recent Frieda Hempel concert was the biggest thing that concord ever pulled off of its kind. There was only one person whose time and thought was freely spent int his enterprise, but for whose faith and hard work Concord would never have even seen this internationally famed musical star, much less have heard her. This one person is our enterprising citizen—S. Kay Patterson.

From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Feb. 2, 1925

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John M. Perkins, 82, Died Feb. 2, 1925

Death of John M. Perkins

John M. Perkins died this morning at 2 o’clock at his home on Buffalo street, following an illness of four months. Death was due to paralysis.

Mr. Perkins was born in Wilkes County in 1843 and was 82 years of age at the time of his death.

Mr. Perkins had been a member of the Forest Hill Methodist Church since coming to Concord about 50 years ago. He is survived by his wife, three childerne, M.L. Perkins, Mrs. M.L. Morris, Mrs. C.F. Pennington, all of Concord, also 16 grand-children and six great grand-children.

The funeral will be held at the Forest Hill Methodist Church tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock and interment will be made at Oakwood.

From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Feb. 2, 1925

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Bounty on the Scalps of Cats, Feb. 2, 1925

Offers Bounty on Cats: Says They Are Menace. . . Chicago Realtor Hopes to See Catless Cities in Future

Chicago, Feb. 2—R. Sayre, a realtor, has announced that Philadelphia will be a catless city in the near future. Mr. Sayre just lives to destroy cats. He not only lives to destroy cats, but lives to induce all other persons to kill cats.

He holds cats up as the enemy of the human race, explaining this in a pamphlet he has written. When he talks cats he goes on high and speeds.

He is offering a bounty on the scalps of cats, but has not yet paid out much in this direction yet.

He names all the sins medical men blame on cats and then adds a score more. They are a menace to children as disease-bearers and have killed off half the songbirds in Michigan. He hopes a catastrophe will hit the next cat show. Mr. Sayre does not differentiate between the cat aristocrat and the alley cat. They are all just cats to him. He is carrying on a wide campaign by mail.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Feb. 2, 1925

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