Tarboro General Directory Listing Names and Offices
A fragmented 19th century Tarboro directory lists county officials and local lodges including Superior Court Clerk Probate Justice H. E. Staton Jr Register of Desore Alex McCabe Sheriff Joseph Cobb treasurer Robt H Austin and other county posts. It also catalogs lodge names meeting times and church services across Concord Edgecombe and surrounding areas with pastors and meeting schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Staton, Jr
Alex, McCabe
Joseph Cobh
Robt
H. Austin
Hicks
Ool
A. H. Shaw
Wm. A. Duggan
B.S. Williams
Wrm
A. Duggan
Ino
Lancaster
Wiley
Pin Back My Skirts Mothers Plea In Fashion Verse
A Carboro Southerner poem portrays a young woman pleading with her mother to pin back her fashionable skirts. She laments weary feet and reveals conflicting feelings about modesty and fitting in with peers. The piece contrasts social pressure with personal struggle and youth fashion trends.
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Melinda Melrose
Lucknow Imambara and Hoseinaba Imambara described
Correspondence from New York notes Lucknow’s Imambara with grand gateway minarets and domes, built by Assadowlah to surpass all, its thick foundations and marble courts, now partly ruined and used as arsenal. The Hoseinaba Imambara by Mohamed Ali Shah is praised for symmetry, gardens, a buried royal mother, and a water tank aiding the thirsty city.
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Lucknow
India
Heber
Assadowlah
Oude
Mohamed Ali Shah
Kaiser Bagh and Kaesar palace ruins and elephants show in India
An extended tour recounts Kaiser Bagh ruins, unfinished mosque and tower Sué Khunda, Kaiser Bagh palace with silver pave, a Fakir on marble platform, stables for about 100 government elephants, and daily scenes of elephants drinking, transporting goods, and a comic incident with a beverage bottle and a fashionably dressed observer.
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India
Kaiser Bagh
Post Office Department
Advoit Pickpocket at Queen's Great Show
A Kansas Times correspondent describes a Tuesday crowd at Queen's show. A Jersey girl, with her suitor, carried an operatic evening pocket stash including an apple, peanuts, gum tops, ammonia, and a handkerchief, amid the romantic performance.
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The
Kansas Times
Jersey
Treatment of Habitual Drunkards in a British Medical Journal Opinion
Sir Thomas Watson argues for state supported reformatories for habitual drunkards. He describes alcoholism as a disease with a craving that can be treated by detaining afflicted individuals for periods of three to twelve months to allow the poison to be eliminated and recovery to begin, urging that such action would be a national blessing.
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Thomas Watson
Cross
America
British Medical Journal
A Bride Tour Ends In Rural Kentucky Depot
A young Kentucky couple bound by marriage heads toward the depot for what they call a bridal tour. The groom, anxious to reach home, sends Sallie on a visit to her kin and stays to work harvesting. Sallie returns days later and the pair walk on to their life together.
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Kentucky
Sallie
National Vice and the Spitting Habit Across Society
A critical critique of public spitting as a national vice, contrasting American manners with other nations. Includes anecdotes about conduct on public conveyances, a suicide note from Thomas L. Wells in Atlanta, and various light vignettes on social behavior and humor.
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General Directory
Tarborgo
Mavon
Fred. Philips
Oas10seas
Esse
A. Williamson
Renheimer
Daniel W. Hurt
Alex
Joseph Cobb
Stevetany
Terascren—hobt
White Wurst
Crumov Police
John W. Cotten
Poitier
Wm. T. Murtz
John Madra
Jag
Bo Simonson
Altimore Macnair
Tarboro
Sparta
Concord R. A
N. M. Lawrence
Masonic Hall
LO O’elock A.M
Concord Lodge
Thomas Gatlin
Repiion
Repiion Encampment No. 18, £ 0. C. F
J. Bo Palmaountan
Patrikch
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Edercombe Lodge
J.G. Charles
N. G
Edgecombe Council
Friends of ‘Temperance
Odd Fellows Hall
Advance Lodge
O.G. T
Zanonk Lodge
Henri Mounts
Discopal
D. Cheshire
Methodist Church
Swindell
Pasion Presbyterian Church
T.J. Allison
Stalin Lane
Thursseonary Baptist
Ip i. Owen
Priniti
Aptint
Cen
Pau
Adams
Frank Powell
N. C
Gregory Hotel
Jos. Blount Cheshire, JR
Notary Public
Old Bank
Trade Street
G. L. Shackelford
Ensor
E. Terate
E D. Barnes
I. Morris & Bro
Om Hotels
Yarboro
Raleigh
Gaston
South Front Street
Newbern
Atlantis Hotel
Norfolk
S. Dodson
Hoan
Opalei IN
Mr. Pender
N C
Hi Polacco
Pamlico
Insurance & Banking
Tarboro, N.C
Geo. Howard
MO. S. Dancy
Joseph Blount Cheshire, JR
Tors
George Howard
Jesse H. Powell
Kemp P. Battle
Battle
John
Dancy
H. Gaulin
Matthew Weddell
Elias Carr
J. J. Battle
Joseph B. Coffield
Wm. M. Pippen
C. Farrar
John Norsted
John L. Bridgers, Jr
Caren Williams
Taiboro
Jas. E. Simmons
Pitt Street
Iast
Seaboard
Roanoke
Ofice
Portsmouth
Wein
Mall Trai Ate
Edenton
Plymouth
Blackwater
Chowan
Franklin
Ghio
Supt. of Transportation
Odenseimer Mer Bros
AEE
Sive
Richmond
Fifteenth Street
Lipscomb
Tarbero
Mound Federate
Ve Arboro Female Academy
Gen. Pend
Uf, Tarboru
Thomasville Female College
Avidson CO
N.C
Dr. Strong
Bonaire
Bers
Drueboibo Ss
Montomingyt
Volta Belt Co
X. CO
Newark
Augusta
Maine
Angie & Delis
Buck Free
Jil Anger Co
Latte, Mo
A. Donau & CO
Bank Post-ofice
York
Brunswick
Land
Fiame
Stinson & CO
I. William & CO
Puiladelp
Bou
Pool Brothers
Rocky Mount
A. C
M Bbers
New Hanover
Jacob Weber
Main St
G.saimson & Co
Portland
Eouus
Ite
Nyie
J. 1 Zeal Macon
Pb Prive
All Dro
Piedmont Air Line
Danville
Tichmond
RE. W
Charlowe
Salisbury
Greensboro
Dundee
Burkvile
Artive
Burkville
Ponder
Arr
Goldsbor
SOUTH
NG West
Mail
North Western N.C. B. R
Salem
Releigh
HM Northern
Lynchburg
Burkeville
Charlotte
Ies
Allen
TM. Bealcott
Old Dominion
Lalo
Eer
Baltimore
Hiladelphia
New York
Boston
Eil
Tination
Ington
Conton
Wilmington & Weldon
John Myers
Washington, N. C
W. A. Bassett
T.W -Toles
T. C. Bassett
Carboro’ Southerner
New York Letters
Orient Observer
N. F. Graves
Earth
Niobe
Thomas L. Wells
Atlanta
Bill
California
Yuba
Lowa
Corning
Columbus Journal
Ohio
Ilo
Germany
Victoria
Toolittle
Winnebago
Jeff. Davis
Fortune
Printer's Ink
P.T. Bargum
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