Palm dates across lands and deserts praised in travel note
A travel aside extols the date palm as a water sign and shade provider from Hawaii to Egypt and Palestine. It notes the fruit as luxury and medicine, the tree’s height and refuge for travelers, and mentions camels feeding on the date stone. A brief joke about a ticket seller and a glass cage ends the fragment.
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Hawaii
California
Flor‘ie
Cuba
Egypt
Palestine
Mixed up tale and jokes about Robespierre and Shakespeare
A garbled anecdote recalls H B Irving narrating a Philadelphia tale about Robespierre and Marie Corelli with Charlotte Bronte misattribution. The piece ends with a witty dialogue about a bust’s expression and a student’s attempts to adjust it.
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H. B. Irving
Philadelphia
Sardou
Robespierre
Lyceum
Marie Corelli
Charlotte Bronte
Mr. Irving
Shakespeare
Pygmalion
Cotton storage facility planned for 1990 crop in Charlotte
Plans filed in Raleigh for a $500000 incorporation of Standard Bonded Warehouse Company to build an eight acre cotton warehouse near Buckeye Cotton Oil Mill capable of storing 22500 bales with future expansion to 35000. J H Cutter and others lead the venture to offer storage sampling selling and shipping services for mills merchants and manufacturers.
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Charlotte
J. H. Cutter
Standard Bonded Warehouse Company
Raleigh
Buckeye
T. J. Davis
Leroy Springs
A. J. Draper
L. C. Withers
J. K. Livingston
Savannah
J. E. Sirrine
Greenville
Knight urges consolidation of rural North Carolina schools
Dr. Edgar W. Knight argues for consolidating small rural schools into larger, better equipped units with bus transport. He cites 80 percent rural population and uneven resources, noting success in several counties and Wilson County’s growing use of trucks for students. The plan aims to improve teacher pay, facilities, and schooling quality statewide.
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Chapel Hill
Bureau of Extension
University of North Carolina
Edgar W. Knight
University
Knight
North Carolina
Dr. Knight
Anson
Buncombe
Craven
Edgecombe
Granville
Halifax
Orange
Pamlico
Wake
Wilson Counties
Wilson County
Calomel Dangers Warned by Dodson's Liver Tone
An old advertisement warns that calomel mercury harms the body and causes sickness. It promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable substitute that cleanses the liver without upsetting digestion, claiming it won’t salivate and is suitable for children.
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Dodson
Andy
Cuticura Soothes Baby Rashes Ad
Advertisement asserts Cuticura products ease baby rash itch and burn with Cuticura Soap Ointment and Talcum. Claims fragrance adds finish and notes 25 cents each.
Method in that Madness Gerald and the pipe reveal a pennywise plan
In a family scene from Rehoboth Sunday Herald Henry Brown comments on his son Gerald smoking a pipe. Gerald, seventeen, earns two dollars weekly and Henry jokes that although mad, there is method in letting him smoke as a money saver.
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Henry
Gerald
Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Thin Woman Masters Subtle Art of Concealment
A remark about how some slender figures carry themselves with restraint, hinting at fashion and poise. The sentence suggests elegance through controlled presentation rather than bold display.
Florida shell mounds show ancient human construction in state
Florida shell mounds across the state are described as human made from the early Christian era. Excavations reveal pottery, shell and bone artifacts, rudimentary tools, and bones of fish and animals. The largest mounds near King Philip’s Towns at Lake Harmony measure about 450 feet long and eight feet high.
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Florida
Fir Red Man
Phillip
Lake Harnes
Folly Described in a Quoted Mo Raigne Phrase
A fragment cites a line about a little folly being desirable in him and the avoidance of stupidity, attributed to Mo raigne, suggesting a Renaissance or early modern context. The wording implies a reflective or literary observation rather than a news event.
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Moraigne
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Nitrate Agencies Company
New York
Norfolk
Jacksonville
New Orleans
Houston
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Gulf
Postum Cereal Co., Inc
BattlaCreex
Mich
Asheville
J. H. Reed
Wilson
Reno
Nevada
Wilson Town
Reno, No. 2
Lyons
J. E. Duckworth
Gathey’s Creek
Transylvania County
W. N. Bradshaw
Hickory
Transylvania
Mountains
Gastonia
C. O. McMichael
Grand Lodge of
Independent Order of
Greensboro
Durham
Salisbury
Mecklenburg County Medical Society
C. M. Strong
North Carolina Nurses’ Association
Rocky Mount
Thomas B. McAdams
Merchants National Bank
Richmond
American Bankers’ Association
J. S. Griffin
North Carolina Corporation Commission
Guilford County
Oxford
Woman’s Missionary Union of the
North Carolina Methodist Conference
Hay Street
Fayetteville
Anderson Settlement
Barnardsville
United States
Marshall Garner
Williams
Robert
Mede Andon
Bill Anderson
E. M. Mitchell
Buncombe County
Wilmington
L. L. Shepard
Morere
Rowan Salisbury
Calomel
Thacher Medicine CO
Chatta
D.S. Hamilton
Milner
Eveets
U.S.A
Dallas News
Dad
Mrs. Brown
Mr. Brown
Express
Harold Somes
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