Looking Back …

A look at the people and happenings of the area over the past 100 years

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Looking Back for Dec. 30

Prices of electronics in 1923; bodies of WWII servicemen James Joyce, John Dillon and Lester Terrell arrive home; early controversy over answering machines; Rangeley Ruritan Club officers of 1998.

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Back in Time for Dec. 29

Police in 1923 capture Dodge Roadster loaded down with booze; 1948 gas prices; Remember Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Geter with Pine Hall Grocery?; Donnie and Timmy Myers are Eagle Scouts in 1973; when cell phones were new.

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Back in Time for December 28

Martinsville Building & Loan Association advertises houses on a monthly payment plan in 1923; Clarence Kearfott and W.M. Shaw represent a soldier denied meal service in 1948; Roscoe Reynolds takes on Mason’s Department Store for Blue Law violations in 1973; LaRhonda Johnson, Pamela Gunter and Chris Hinson have winning essays in 1998.

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Looking Back for Dec. 27

1923 movies showing in Martinsville; Model A driver sues school bus driver in 1948; Robert Armstrong joins Commonwealth Attorney’s office in 1973; icicle lights are all the rage i8n 1998.

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Back in Time for Dec. 26, 2023

November 2023 school nursing report - nine Christmas Day arrests in 1948, most for drunkenness; sewage treatment negotiations between City and County in 1973; Construction of jail on Kings Mountain Road; 1,000 houses without electricity in 1998

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Looking back on Dec. 22

On this day in MHC: Khorassan wives honored; 150-gallon distilleries destroyed; a potential precedent by Judge Kennan Whittle; Ronald E. Smith; $3 million in local Christmas bonuses; county’s first Family Christmas in the Park.

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Looking back on Dec. 23

Christmas Seals raise money for tuberculosis sanitoriums and a Public Health Nurse; Banner Warehouse sales; American Furniture officers; 4-year-old houses on Oak Street condemned; Marvin Kendall killed at his sawmill.

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MHC Christmas Eves through time

1924 officers of the Henry County Fair Association and the Red Cross; 1948 officers of the Variety Club; Georgia Ward of Preston hung more than 80 handmade stockings; Wrap, Pack and Mail at Liberty Fair Mall; the Roundtable Foundation’s Christmas Shopping Spree and Pizza Party.

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Christmas Day through the years

Hunting statistics from 1923; the Piedmont Serenaders; the Howards of Spruce Street, Clarks of Starling Avenue and Depkins of Forest Park best decorators; Patrick County teens die in a wreck; Varnie Mae Witcher of West Street honored; Sportsman Club’s gift boxes; Mission Center’s dinner.

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