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Saturday, February 6, 2016

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The New York Public Library recently put historical photos online at their web site. Among the photos were those of North Carolinians who we...
Friday, February 5, 2016

Boone, N.C., Newspaper Poem About Spanish Flu Pandemic, 1919

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From the Feb. 6, 1919 issue of The Watauga Democrat , Boone The Flu When your back is broke and your eyes are blurred, And your...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Stylish Winter Outfit in 1948

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Most rural women used advertisements for inspiration in 1948. When they saw something they liked, they bought a similar fabric and whipped i...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Mourning the Loss of a 12-year-old and a Baby in Watauga County, N.C. 1907

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From the Watauga Democrat , Feb. 7, 1907 David Loyd Jones As the golden sun was sending her last silver rays to kiss the hilltops an...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Tarboro Man Sets Off to See the United States...Without a Ticket, 1906

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“From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket” by John Peele. You can read the entire book online at http://www.gutenberg.or...
Monday, February 1, 2016

When a Case of Venereal Disease Appeared at Lumberton High School, Health Officer Had All 423 Students Tested, 1949

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“Reports In From Blood Specimens,” from the Feb. 23, 1949 issue of The Robesonian , Lumberton, N.C. Dr. E.R. Hardin, Robeson health o...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Western North Carolina During the Flu Pandemic and World War I, 1919

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“Local Affairs” from the Watauga Democrat in Boone, N.C., January 2, 1919. Mrs. H.S. Jones of Zionville, R.F.D., who lost a son with...