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Friday, January 15, 2016

Ruby Parris Named Rowan County's "Angel of the Month," 1991

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“Ruby Parris, Angel of the Month,” by Rebecca Cozart in the Jan.-March 1991 issue of Tar Heel Homemakers When a story in the Salisbur...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

R.C. Whitener of Burke County Recommends Potatoes and Rye in Apple Orchards, 1905

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From Progressive Farmer and Cotton Plant , January 3, 1905 Seeing Mr. Archer’s article on Irish potatoes in The Progressive Farmer of...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Injury from Toy Gun Kills 11-Year-Old, 1906

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Boy Dies in Raleigh of Lockjaw After Being Wounded Christmas Day By Toy Pistol, 1906 From The Semi-Weekly Messenger, Wilmington, publ...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Dorcas Griffith Recalls Life When His Family Were Slaves, 1937

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T. Pat Matthews interviewed Dorcas Griffith June 26, 1937, as part of the WPA Slave Narrative Project. The interviews for the project are ...

Thomas Hall, Who Was a Slave in Orange County, N.C., Shares Memories, 1937

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Thomas Hall was interviewed as part of “Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project” on Sept. 10, 1937. The interv...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Sarah Gudger of Asheville Tells What Slavery Was Like, 1937

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Sarah Gudger of Asheville, N.C., was interviewed by Marjorie Jones, who worked on the WPA Slave Narrative Project. The interviewer, in try...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Influenza Has Passed, Shulls Mills Looking for New Workers; Household Sale in Boone, 1919

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Notices from the Watauga Democrat in Boone, N.C., January 2, 1919 NOTICE The Influenza at Shulls Mills is now over, but evidently all ...