Greensboro, Nov. 6—To prevent any possible attack on the city jail here by a mob, the city purchasing agent today laid in a stock of tear bombs for the use of the police department. A dozen of the bombs costs $90. They are copper shells which break when coming in contact with a hard substance and a steel ball in them breaks glass containers full of fluids, which united and form a thick cloud of gas, heavier than air. This renders those into whose eyes it gets blind for 30 minutes, but when that time is up, slight is restored with no other after effects.
The fluids were made by the inventor of Lewistite, a deadly gas which the United States government was preparing to use when the World War ended.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Nov. 7, 1925
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