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Neuse River Near Flood Stage at Kinston, Oct. 5, 1924

Neuse Nears Flood Stage at Kinston

By Associated Press

Kinston, Oct. 4—Rising at the rate of two inches an hour, the Neuse River here tonight was approaching the flood stage of 1919. Happersville, a suburb, is under water, and the residents are using boats to get back and forth. Considerable damage has been done to the crops in the lowlands.

From the front page of The New Bernian, October 5, 1924

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn96086034/1924-10-05/ed-1/seq-1/

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