Tarboro General Directory and Rail Mail Listings
A historical Tarboro directory listing county officials postal staff church notices and lodge meetings with schedules for north and south mail via W and W lines. Includes sheriff coroner treasurer surveyor standard keeper and poor house details along with Masonic and Odd Fellows lodge meeting times and church service hours across Episcopal Methodist Presbyterian and Primitive Baptist congregations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Cobb
Wolst
Austin
Colm E. Baker
Hicks
Shaw
Ay Ya
R.S. Williams
A. Dusensor
D. Blw
Norville
Frank Dew
A. McCabe
Orion and the stars in a 19th century classroom discussion
In Carboro Nov 26 1875 a serialized story describes a lesson on Orion the hunter and his celestial companions. Miss Merton guides Angie and classmates through the Belt Hyades Pleiades and Canis Major, detailing star colors and positions while citing biblical references and measuring with a yardstick of three degrees. A Minneapolis woman then upstages a crowd by feeding dust to a horse to spur its movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orion
Jupiter
Miss Merton
Angie
Dissky
Sirius
Clara
Hyades
Aldebaran
Stella
Merton
Gussie
Amy
Experiments on Child Intelligence Across Races in Jamaica
A long, dense report discusses J C Houzeau and W L Lindsay’s Jamaica observations testing black, brown, and white children. It notes differing rates of improvement tied to parental influence and education, with cautious conclusions about inherent ability versus environment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Lander Lindsay
Nature
Monsieur J. C. Houzeau
Jamaica
MM. Touzeau
Dr. Lindsey
Thad
Lindsey
Pop
Science Monthly
Origin of the grass widow slang term referenced
The article explains grass widow meaning a wife whose husband is absent, noting 1849 gold rush departures to California as common cause. It traces the term to grace or favor widowhood from Roman Church decrees, with papal text viduca de gracia, later French veuve de grace, yielding the English grace widow and slang grasa widow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
A Bailed Barber in a Rochester Barber Shop Feud
A traveling observer recalls a heated scene in Rochester near the Osburn House where a barber dawdles with a patron. After quips about Buffalo and a threat to “saw your thick head off,” the kerfuffle ends with the customer enraged and leaving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
Osburn House
Shan Ved
Tam
Ictim
Bufalo
Buffalo
Saxon Gospel Verse Quoted In English Translation Note
The text discusses an Anglo Saxon passage quoted from a Saxon Gospel and its rendering into toulern English. It cites Professor Whitney and notes how words shift in form and meaning yet retain readable English, illustrated by a passage about Jesus and his disciples plucking ears to eat on the Sabbath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitney
Capabilities of an Acre by J X Smith
Market gardener J X Smith of Green Bay shares experiments in high culture showing higher net profits per acre with increased cultivation and heavy manuring. He cultivated fourteen acres despite a severe drought, spending 3676 dollars for 254 per acre and ending with the best balance yet, advocating constant cultivation and sturdy manures like stable manure, superphosphates, lime, and ashes. He says spending about 300 dollars per acre can yield larger profits than smaller spends, and notes some land may take two years to cover all expenses and taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. X. Smith
Green Bay
Late Chicago Pastry Morning Wakeup
Old Keizie urges his son Tom from bed with a brisk alarm clock quip and a rural morning scene. The boastful wake up blends playful banter about larks, Aurora, and a noisy crow with hogs in the corn field. Tom responds with quick compliance and springlike pace.
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Keizie
Aurora
Tom
Koizte
Enterprising idle talk and old time maxims from a bustling era
A conversation about starting a business with no capital but experience, followed by a Wyoming jury’s five day deadlock that produced five elopements. Then Franklin’s maxims are listed, warning against waste, beer houses, and drunken monkeys, ending with a note on Darfour and Senar natives brewing fermented beer for sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Franklin
Darfour
Senar
Also Mentioned on This Page
General Directory
Tarbor
Mavon
Fred
Philip Cowaisstoxens
Jesse A. Williamson
Jaycob Feldenheimer
Daniel W. Murtt
Alex, McCabe
Secueranr & Treaserea—Robt
White- ‘Yurat
Cure of
Porre
Ohn
W. Cotten
Apsistant Porten
Wu. T. Murtt
Jobin Madra
Jas. BE. Samonson
Altimory Macnair
Ess
Tarboro
Aluington
Falkland
SPAT
Concord A. A
N. M. Lawrence
Masonic Hall
Concord Lode
Thomas Gattin
Biton
J. B. Palammountain
Od Fellows’ Hall
Edgecombe Lodge
Odd Fellows
Huth Zanoah Lodge
LO. B. E
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Henry Monnis
Episcopal Church
Cheshire
Methodiat
Mr. Swindell
Presbyterian
Uxery
T. R. Gwen
Primitive Baptist Church
Adare’ Hout
Pitt
Adama
U Express Oil
Powell
Tarporo
N.C
M. E Lawrence
OS. Blount Cheshire, Jr
Notary Public
Olive
Old Bank
Teade Street
Job
Ie Ward & Perry
Bsousstos
Iy Peeps Philips
Federal
Supreme
W. L. Thorp
Rocky Mount
Edgecombe
Halifax
Nash and
Wilon
Supreme Court of North Carolina
United States District Court
Ralph
G. L. Shackelford
W M. Howard
Tarboro, NC
Lewis
Makkcrlius
Greenville
Rusunide
Domestic Sewing Machine CO
Wastko
New York
Wanged
Homam Outfit and
Ata
Maine
Ciist
Vulta Belt Co. Cpeinnath. O
Stinson & CO
Moor
T. William & CO
Fub
Philadelphia
Stump
Advertiser's Gazette
Ofice No. 41
Tow
GEO, T
BLL & Alee and Publishers
Norfolk
Pool Brothers Fashionable
N. C
Weber's Bakery
Cunvenwell
Chas. J.C. Cline &O
Bowery
P. O. Box
G. Brussom
D. WH. Zeilin & Llo
Macon
Merina
Boston
E. Cail
T. H. Gatlin
ROBT
Lawson & CO
Saddle
Warnesss
West
Baltimore
Blatchley
Blatchsley
Botchiey
Chas. G. Ae Manufacturer
Ba Sm
Lazarus & Morris
Fle
James H. Bell
Lazarus, Morris & CO
Courtlandt Str. N
P Sweffield
C. West & Sons
Baird
Howard Fire Ins. Co
S & Sons
Andrew Reese
Depe
Lombard St
C. Ng
Thublic
Main Street
Tarboro, N.C
F. Adams
N. J. Young
J. Snow & Co
Smith’s
C.J. Austins Wholesale & Retail Grocery
Ebusciacly
C.J. Austin
Rathbone
Acorn Cook
Rathbone, Sard & CO
Albany
N.Y
Ans
Carboro’ Southernir
Minneapolis
Massachusetts Ploughman
Fennel
Earth
Chicago
Sam
Wyoming
Zindune
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