Raleigh Social Industrial Commercial and Agricultural
The Raleigh chamber of commerce presents a pamphlet praising the capital city. It highlights a population near 20,000, central State location, government buildings, a 50 mile network of streets, an electric street railway, water supply, health and sewer systems, a city hospital, fire department, lighting, hotels, banks, and telegraph services. It notes churches, physicians, teachers, and business houses, deeming Raleigh desirable for residence or temporary stay.
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Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Raleigh
Chamber of Commerce
Geo. Allen
Chimber of Commerce
North Carolinas
State House
Governor's Mansion
State Agricultural Building
State Museum
Supreme Court
State Library
Electric City
Board of Health
New Cotton Mill Formed in Gaston County
The Secretary of State on Wednesday issued a charter for the Bessemer City Cotton Mills in Gaston county for 30 years with capital stock of 25000. Shareholders include J A Smith 10000, J A Pinchback 10000, J A Smith 4000, J Turner Smith 700, C A Thornburg 100, J B Wolfe 100, F JP Smith 100. Raleigh Observer reports a train anecdote about a boy asking if he can say I’m seven years old.
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Bessemer City
Car Isle
Pinehurst Nursery blossoms from field to forest and farm
In two years a wilderness around Pinehurst has been transformed into a thriving nursery and market garden. Watts built up aisles of sashes and stock, doubled acreage, and collected 50 000 to 60 000 plants while pioneering native shrubs and evergreen stock. The enterprise now supplies northern parks with plants and furniture trees. A northern visitor can pick cotton, dig peanuts, and smoke tobacco grown on site.
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Watts
Avesperson Pel
Vinehurst
Pinehurst
Christus
Europe
Carolina
Union
Ed wards House at Coal Creek Tenn Ad card
A Kansas or Kentucky newspaper clipping recounts a curious ecard found by John Sanderson in Jellico Coal Creek country noting 25 cents an eiut 2.5 cents asleep. It promotes The Edwards House, coal creek Tenn proprietor P J Edwards opposite the R R depot. The card boasts plain rooms and meals, touts a blunt motto Pay up and keep mum, and derides local elites as hogs merchants and hingers while praising cross tie walks on principal thoroughfares.
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John Sanderson
Jellico
Coal Creek
Edwards
P. J. Edwards
Coal Cooch
Tenn
R. R. Depot
Herg
Middlesborough
Our Convict Farm Harvest Yields Reported
The State operates four convict farms with 1 000 acres of cotton and 450 acres of corn at Wadesboro housing 150 convicts. Caledonia farm on the Roanoke in Halifax County spans 2 000 cotton and 2 400 corn acres with 300 convicts. Philifux farm in the same county has 500 cotton and 1 000 corn acres with 130 convicts. Northampton farm records 1 000 cotton and 1 300 corn acres attracting 160 convicts. Crops show good yields as workers gather about sixty bales daily.
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Wadesboro
Caledonia
Roanoke Inulifax
Philifux
Northampton
Greenville
Information wanted on Archie B Morrison colored
Information is sought about Archie B Morrison born in Moore County North Carolina last heard at Magnolia Hotel St Augustine Florida in 1885 Any information should be sent to Iris brother Levi Morrison Pinehurst North Carolina
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Archie B. Morrison
Ife
Moore County
N. C
Magnolia Hotel
St. Augustine
Florida
Iris Brother
Levi Morrison
Pinehurst
N.C
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Pinehurst Nursery
Dainties
Salmagundi
Card of
Coal Creek Tavern
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