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		<title>Snapshots: Demonstrating the Safety of Vaccine, 1956</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caption on the reverse of the photo: &#8220;March 13&#8211; Dr. Archibald Vinson, head of the City Health Department, administers a dosage of polio vaccine to his granddaughter, Becky Simmons, in her classroom at Calvin Coolidge Elementary School, as a demonstration of his confidence in Dr. Jonas Salk&#8217;s new creation. &#8211; Harlow Barton, Clarion-Standard&#8221; In 1956, rumors and panic were running rampant amongst parents that the polio vaccine was responsible for a spate of cases of dropsy in area schoolchildren. The real cause was a small hepatitis outbreak, traced to a heavily-polluted pond in the city&#8217;s Roxboro section. - RJ White, Ray Ingraham]]></description>
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		<title>The Brindamour Brothers&#8217; Currency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July of 1992, brothers Dave and Teddy Brindamour of Roxboro were taken into custody by the FBI, having been charged with tax evasion and use of illegal currency. A mundane and unimaginative &#8220;love coupon&#8221; gift for their girlfriends (e.g. Reedem this coupon for one &#8220;spicy&#8221; half hour massage) somehow developed into an elaborate, neighborhood-wide services for property and goods scheme (e.g. Redemption of one &#8220;Brinda-buck&#8221; entitles bearer to 6.5 lbs. of beef and 2 liters of his/her choice of whiskey, provided the bearer agrees to perform 12 hours of &#8220;labor&#8221; [as defined in chapter 2 paragraph 13 of the Brindamour Code, which was distributed amongst those in the know]). It is figured that more than 200 residents in the Roxboro area went at least 17 months without paying taxes, though, as authors of the project and printers of the bogus currency, it was the Brindamour Brothers who took the fall. For their crimes, Dave and Teddy were each sentenced to 15-20 years in a federal penitentiary upstate. The diminutive Teddy perished after a mere 2 weeks of imprisonment after an undisclosed &#8220;accident&#8221; in the prison laundry. Dave is eligible for parole this November. Federal authorities were able to confiscate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Unlucky No. 13, Powerless</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Northside residents can expect an extra unlucky Friday the 13th today, as electrical power will be cut off for up to two hours in order to repair a transformer on the corner of Garrick Ave. and Riggins Rd. The device was damaged June 26 by would-be bank robber Kevin Sturgiss when he hijacked a city bus and drove it against traffic during rush hour in an effort to evade the National Guard roadblock set up on Clark St. :: Number of buildings Downtown which skip the 13th in their floor numbering: 2 (The Ansfield Meats Tower, The Walker Consolidated Bldg.) :: Duration of Tuesday&#8217;s partial power outage, affecting the Central Corridor/Downtown, Keets Harbor, North Falls and Roxboro areas: 5 hours, 33 minutes :: Number of times the entire city has suffered a complete electrical power ‘blackout’: 3 (1967, 1987, 2003) :: Number of times the blackout originated inside the city: 1 (1987) :: Number of raccoons electrocuted in a centrally-located transformer leading to 1987&#8242;s city-wide blackout: at least 1, possibly 2 :: Amount of electricity needed to kill approximately 2 raccoons: definitely less than 22,000 volts - David Andrews, Shek Baker, RJ White]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Cognacgerie, cognacgerie, cognacgerie</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/05/18/friday-facts-cognacgerie-cognacgerie-cognacgerie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 12:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: According to a poll of more than 2,000 city residents, the Beatle considered most likely to be a considerate, gentle lover: Ringo :: The Copper Colombard, on 4th Street Lane and Annual Boulevard, claims to be the nation&#8217;s only mini-cognacgerie. The modest blue-and-white building offers more than thirty locally distilled cognacs, and was built in an abandoned Fuji Film Foto-Mat. :: The original oversized plaster bowl of fake spaghetti &#8211; formerly held in the embrace of familiar Family Italiano icon &#8220;The Spaghetti Giant&#8221; – goes up for bid at this week&#8217;s Auction for Education. Proceeds from the auction go to provide school supplies for educational facilities in several underprivileged African nations, and also to repair the axles on seven local school district buses. :: On February 3,1929 a meeting occurred between Chicago mob kingpin Al “Scarface” Capone and Roxboro neighborhood gangster Rory Sheehan at Mangini’s Bistro on Soldier Blvd. The exact topic of their conversation is unknown, but the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago’s Lincoln Park transpired just 11 days later. :: Persnickety diners may want to be aware; the &#8220;Five-Second Rule&#8221; was adopted by Chief Health Commissioner Rudolph &#8220;Guy&#8221; Fenimore as an &#8220;acceptable standard of sanitary practices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Will and Testament of Rory Sheehan</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/04/16/the-last-will-and-testament-of-rory-sheehan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While clearing a block of turn-of-the-century townhouses for a drive-through fondue restaurant, workers in 1973 discovered an artifact from the city’s former days as a gangland paradise. Wedged in between a basement wall was a metal strong box containing the last will and testament of Rory Sheehan, the fearsome Roxboro neighborhood mob boss. The box contained the will, a photographic portrait of Sheehan with his characteristic scowl, and an Irish tricolor flag. The discovery of the will not only shed some light on the enigmatic boss but also set off a three year hunt for a store of buried treasure that captured the attention of anyone within reach of a pickaxe. Rory Sheehan was born in 1879 in Dublin and settled in the city in 1894 with his father. The young Rory first found work as a grocery delivery boy. On his route was Wallace &#8220;Towers&#8221; Kinsky, the notorious state senator, who was working at the time in the DA&#8217;s office. Years later, &#8220;Towers&#8221; Kinsky would settle a sweetheart deal in the construction of the Wyndham Hydroelectric Dam with a company within Sheehan&#8217;s crime syndicate. In celebration of the deal, Sheehan treated Kinsky to a night on Issacs Street, in [...]]]></description>
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