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An excerpt of S. T. Pearce's \"Zeb's Black Baby,\" a history of Vance County is reprinted in this article detailing the court trial of a misidentified husband. Arrested for bigamy and nonsupport of his children in 1923, John Bunyan Rawls was mistakenly identified as J. Bynum Reid and escaped conviction by the Vance County jury only narrowly.
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16413
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Bailey discusses how Ashley Futrell purchased the WASHINGTON DAILEY NEWS, a newspaper with a beleaguered staff and circulation of 2,700, and built it into an 11,000-circulation paper now worth millions. Heart trouble forced him to turn the paper over to his son Brownie, and it was under Brownie's guidance that articles on dangerous cancer-causing chemicals in the city's water that won the paper a 1990 Pulitzer Prize. The senior Futrell was recently named to the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 11 Issue 8, Aug 1991,
p44-47, por
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