Old Rocking Chair and a 19th Century North Carolina Notice
A nostalgic poem recalls a grandmother and grandfather by the old rocking chair under apple trees. The text then presents a Treasury Department notice from February 1889 in Norra Canova, North Carolina, detailing amendments to tax sale laws and real estate sale procedures, including May and April date changes and sheriff duties for public tax sales.
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Barelan
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W. Bars
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Dining With Stonewall Jackson in a Civil War Christmas
Dr. Hunter McGuire recalls a Christmas 1861 dinner near Winchester with about 25 guests including Gen T J Jackson and others. Jackson ate simple fare while the table brimmed with abundant food amid the Army of the Valley winter encampment. He notes he is the sole survivor among the party and jokes about his forthcoming turn.
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Baltimore Sun
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Richmond
Little ‘Army of the Valley
Winchester
T. J. Jackson
Mars
Pendleton
Hawkes
Harman
Jones
Botts
Marshall
Kent
Col. Allen
Harvey Black
Gen. Jackson
Gov Seay Declines Dedication of Birmingham Temple Emanuel
Alabama Governor Seay replies to an invitation to attend the dedication of the Temple Emanuel synagogue in Birmingham. He cites official duties preventing participation while a broader debate on tariffs and national issues continues with Ways and Means Committee planning a general overhaul to report by mid February.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Jon Emanuel
Israel
Solomon's Porch
Golden Gate
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Tempe
Emanuel
Atlanta Constitution
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Ways and Means Committee
House
The Grave of the Poet Poe in Raleigh Churchyard
Edgar Allan Poe is buried at Westminster Presbyterian Church yard in Raleigh. His tomb stands eight feet high with a granite plinth and a shaft bearing his name and birth date. The note recalls Poe's legacy, and defends him against earlier slanders by Griswold, citing contemporaries who disputed those charges.
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S. B. Weeks
Raleigh
Christian Advocate
Edgar Allan Poe
Westminister Presbyterian Church
Fayette and Green Streets
Griswold
America
N. P. Willis
George R. Graham
Graham’s Magazine
Poe
Johns Hopkin University
The Fleeing Deer of Damascus
A small town tale from Damascus where a party dining indoors glimpsed a deer sprinting along Main Street with dogs in pursuit. They deemed it unsafe to chase and finished their supper.
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Damascus
Abingdon Standard
Change in Cincinnati Report on Tolleson and Richards
A Cincinnati observer recalls the telegram in Change in Cincinnati reporting Tolleson and Richards jailed. He says the act did more good in ten minutes on the Exchange than a year of articles. Merchants believed Southern law lax until a judge jailed two bakers, reshaping views of the judiciary.
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Cincinnati
Constitution
Tolleson
Richards
Georgia
South
War With Knives and Pistols at Bufords
A colored brakeman on an east bound Norfolk and Western freight train was attacked after placing off two colored boys at Bufords who were stealing a ride. The conductor and another brakeman aided him. a riot at the depot prompted citizens to intervene and restore order. The piece comments on racial lines and regional supremacy in the South and North.
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Norfolk and Western
Bufords
Blue Ridge Springs
Shorten
Man dumps whiskey into spring then sells land sight unseen
A Malton New man tipped two barrels of whiskey into a natural spring on his property inviting ranch men from miles around to view it. The following day he sold the spring for ten thousand dollars in gold dust and fled the country.
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Benton, Ky
Tribune
Malton
New
Indiana legislature weighs groundhog shadow inquiry
A Saturday resolution from an Indiana legislator asks a five member special committee to investigate whether a groundhog seeing its shadow leads it to six weeks of seclusion. The post office department expects receipts of 58,440,802 for the current fiscal year, about a million more than prior estimates.
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Indiana
Post Office Department
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