An Olde Kinston Gazette Reprint: Suicide in Kinston; Former mayor takes his own life former mayor to be buried today at three o’clock.
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An Olde Kinston Gazette Reprint: Suicide in Kinston; Former mayor takes his own life former mayor to be buried today at three o’clock.
Kinston’s population was only 10,000 in 1921 when newly elected Mayor Mills Marshall Happer declared in his inaugural speech that he intended to keep “obnoxious characters” off the streets, crack down on “certain institutions,” and see that all businesses in Kinston were closed on Sunday to officially recognize Sunday as “a day of church going and religious observance.”