Impressive Soil Conservation Training Gains Ground
The soil conservation training courses run by the Soil Conservation Service educate about 250 men in agronomy forestry agricultural engineering fly control methods and wildlife conservation. Trainees receive a living wage while gaining practical field instruction and lectures from top authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forney A. Rankin
Soil Conservation Service
Mother Earth
United States
America
Land Conservation Agency
T. 8. Bule
South Carolina
Zachary Whitaker
H. N. Wheeler
United States Forest Service
Piedmont North Carolina
Conservation Service
Department of Agriculture
CCC
High Point
United States Department of Agriculture
Daniel Webster
Tax receipt display and license penalties for liquor dealers
The tax receipt must be prominently displayed in the place of business. Penalties for failure to display a license are left to the collector and special investigators. The collector stressed that licenses are not issued to dealers to sell liquors.
What Do You Know of North Carolina
Retained questions explore North Carolina history. From a lawyer who captained a steamboat contesting a railroad right of way to the Military Reservation, 1821 iron industries, blockade runner trips in the Civil War, the 1722 assembly plan against British adventurers, and early stock stands before railroads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
General Assembly
Diverse 19th Century Land and Law Details From Old Records
The document surveys six historical notes: Captain Harper’s 1874 trial over a railroad bridge destruction linked to right of way. a Tennessee boundary set for Revolutionary War bounties totaling about 7,500 square miles. a legislative bounty offering 3000 acres for iron works upon meeting 6000 weight iron. Nassau blockade runners with 4265 runs and 362 from Nassau, aiding the Confederacy. colonial residency rules for officers to curb patronage. and tavern stock stands along turnpikes with Matt Marshall’s David Vance feeding 90,000 hogs monthly during early transport era.
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James W. Harper
Kinston
Captain Harper
Lenoir County
Western Territory
Tennessee
Cumberland River
Virginia Line
Tennessee River
Nassau
Confederacy
Wilmington
England
Asheville
Kentucky
David Vance
Marshall
Quail in Home Crash Sparks Supper Surprise
While preparing supper County Agent H A Patten heard a crash and found a partridge had struck a living room window. Patten planned quail for supper. The article also notes a 1900 practice of collecting rain water on Ascension Day for bread leavening.
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Vail
New York
H. A. Patten
Patten
Special tax on wines stressed by federal agents
Special investigators from the federal Internal Revenue Service began enforcing liquor rules in Greensboro on August 3. Beer license holders paying $20 do not cover wine sales. Wines require a separate federal privilege tax of $25, and a beer license cannot be upgraded for wine sales by a higher fee.
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Greensboro
Federal
Department of Internal Revenue
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Fore Union
College of Business
G. de Wicker
Fork Union
Virginia
Agricultural College
Webeter
White House
Washington
Roosevelt
Fred H. May
Efird’s
Eeans
Efird’s Dept
N. C
Ente
Les
France
Olina
Es Beauty Tech
Doherty
Palmeach Beach
van Gown
M. B
Littlegreen Dames
M. Lynch
Duke Power Company
Carolinas
Aluve
Carolinas, Inc
the Carolines
Charlotte, N. C
The
Romaine Ramet
North
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