Old paper tells of surrender and Lincoln assασination
Elizabeth City reports a rare 1865 New York Herald issue on display at the Albemarle District Fair. The front page shows Lincoln's assassination under a single column “Important” while Lee’s surrender to Grant appears on the back page. The artifact also includes dispatches, Confederate clippings, and a Danville mob note.
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Elizabeth City
Albemarle District
New York Herald
Lincoln
Lee
Appomattox
Kenneth Munden
New York
Dispatch
Herald
Washington
Seward
Jefferson Davis
Virginia
South
Danville
Cotton Goods Market Holds Steady Amid Drought-Driven Demand
New York October 10 cotton goods markets stay very steady as demand quiets from prior weeks. Spot and nearby deliveries of print cloths sheetings and similar goods command a premium due to drought curtailment in the south and mills remaining well sold. Heavy goods remain on order through year end while fine combed goods sell well.
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New York
Wheat prices rise on winter weather in Chicago weekly grain
Sudden wintry weather hindered threshing of spring wheat and spotlighted a national wheat shortage east of the Rockies. This lifted wheat prices for the week, with prices up 2 3 4 to 1 4 cents in morning trading, while corn and oats mixed and provisions fell up to 27 cents.
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Chicago
United States
Rockies
BBC
Wind postpones national air races at Mitchell Field
A 65 mile per hour gust at Mitchell Field in New York caused postponement of today’s national air races including the Pulitzer speed classic. All events rescheduled for Monday as officials announced the move.
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Mitchell Field
N._Y
Crosswords Puzzle From 1925 Bell Syndicate Themed Grid
Reader is challenged with a mixed horizontal and vertical word fill puzzle listing many clues. The note explains how numbers start words, cross-links guide filling, and hints urge solving for both directions. Puzzle claims a fifteen minute solve time.
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U. S
Bell Syndicate
Oldtimers Recall Chapel Hill Campus Changes After War
Chapel Hill observers mark fifty years since reopening after the Civil War noting student honor systems and a student council now handle discipline. Reminiscences recount the first class of 69, late night bells, church attendance debates, and faculty methods from 1820 to 1876.
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Chapel Hill
Battle
Athletics as Outlet and Reform at the University
The record recalls a student row with a recall letter and amnesty, resolved when faculty and offenders agreed to end the disturbance. Athletics emerged in the late eighties as a key outlet, curbing pranks. President Winston praises modern athletes as central to sobriety, manliness, health, and morality.
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Board of Trustees
Battle
United States
Winston
University of Today
Rum runners seized near Cutler by customs men
Four men, 1200 bottles of whisky, two cars and a trunk were seized by customs officers who caught rum runners unloading liquor from a small boat into vehicles near Cutler Florida early today.
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Miami
Fla
Cutler
Here
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