Seventeen Year Locust This Year Announcement
The United States Department of Agriculture warns North Carolina and 20 other states will see a large 17 year cicada brood in 1919. Readiness tips urge delaying new fruit trees, avoiding winter pruning, and using pyrethrum or acids for control.
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Mountain Counties Lead In Good Roads Movement
The Raleigh News and Observer notes a strong, united push from North Carolina mountain counties for high quality roads. It highlights Asheville’s advertising impact, mountain industry growth, and the broad state-wide benefit as road projects progress, predicting credit for mountain leaders in the reform.
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Card of Thanks from Henson family
Card of Thanks extends sincere gratitude to friends and relatives for untiring help and sympathy during the long illness, death, and burial of their husband and father. May God bless each one who helped. Amantha, N. and children.
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Germanys forgotten defeat and a changing wartime tale
A compact reflection explores memory of past German defeats and a cautionary note on changing minds amid postwar narratives. It notes the fate of an individual who shouted a slur and later recanted, suggesting history may repeat itself in political discourse.
North Carolina Senate Advances Dog Regulation Bill With Fees
The State Senate on Feb 13 approved the Frank Ray bill to regulate dogs with amendments adding enforcement “teeth” and revenue aims. The measure passed 53 to 5, including tax provisions directing funds to the school system and penalties for untagged dogs and noncompliant owners.
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Early Irish Potatoes and Planting Guide
Advice from Progressive Farmer outlines best practices for early Irish potatoes. Irish Cobber is the common early market variety. use a 50 50 mix of cottonseed meal and acid phosphate at 1500 per acre, cut seed to two eyes, plant 15 inches apart in fur rows three feet apart, and harrow ridges before emergence. Plant in February, spray with Bordeaux mixture for blight, and add arsenic insecticide with Bordeaux if bugs appear.
The Story of a Merchant Prince
An aging entrepreneur builds a thriving shop from a dollar stock and steady ads. He expands from a corner storefront to a busy two by four setup, filling the square with glass and window display. His success hinges on relentless advertising and consistent hustle.
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Hollingshead Brothers Die Within Days in Etowah
Obituary notes Joseph Hollingshead of Etawah Tennessee died January 15 1919 at age 21 after influenza and pneumonia. He had visited Watauga with wife Mattie Isaacs earlier. His burial was at Cog Hill. His elder brother James Hollingshead died January 17 1919 after nursing his brother and seeing him in a vision. Both laid to rest at Cog Hill with surviving parents W T Hollingshead and others. pd adv
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Old Booze Dies as Town Sees Joy in Mourning
A satirical verse by Walt Mason from the News and Observer laments alcohol's ruin and celebrates its demise. The poem describes mourners cheering at a grave, references jails, poverty, and social ills blamed on drink, and mocks church and funeral crowds with ironic humor.
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North Carolina items and wartime notices batch
Mount Olive plans lay 25000 yards of pavement while Will Britt son of former Congressman J J Britt of Asheville dies in France of pneumonia. A Russian war flotilla off Kronstadt is said commanded by German officers in Russian uniforms. Senate confirms Maj Gen Enock Crowder for a second term as judge advocate general. Bolshevik forces near Archangel are beaten back by British and Russian troops. influenza quarantine at Statesville lifted, no new outbreak expected. Soldiers return from France in large numbers since armistice. Harry Lauder to appear in Wilmington in March. Edison celebrates 72nd birthday. The U S George Washington arrives Brest to repatriate Wilson. destroyers to join en route to Azores. Germany may raise a large loan in the United States after peace to pay for raw materials. Archibald Scales assumes superintendency at Annapolis Naval Academy. Patterson silk mill strike ends with 50 hour week. Judge Michael H Justice of Rutherfordton dies in Asheville. Glenn Young captures three armed outlaws wanted in Georgia near Murphy and Knoxville.
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