Kinston, June 19—Ocracoke Island, last place in North Carolina if not in the country, to adopt the automobile, now has 10 cars. “Big Ike” O’Neal, kinsman of “Cousin Sidney” O’Neal, the island’s celebrated story-teller, Dallas Williams and William Gaskill have acquired motors. The percentage of cars now is about one to 65 inhabitants. First flivvers were allowed on the island about a year ago. There have been no traffic accidents to speak of. Ocracoke’s streets are lanes, its main street a creek.
From page 5 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, June 20, 1925
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