North Carolina's Rich Resources and Home Manufacturing Call
The Wilmington Star extols North Carolina's vast forests minerals and water resources. It argues development hinges on local timber processing and domestic furniture manufacturing, contrasting southern potential with northern profits and urging regional industry to keep value local.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington Star
Caroli
Tech
Hickory
North Carolina
The
Star
North
South
Petersburg Mail
Virginia
Buchanan
Lynchburg
Farmville
Richmond
Petersburg
Elopement tale ties Hartford man to heiress
Hartford area report recounts Frank H. Corbin, a married Newington businessman, eloping with Miss Lucy A. Robbins of Newington. Mrs Corbin exposed the affair after a prior confession. Corbin faces divorce proceedings. Robbins, about 25, reportedly has $10,000 or more of her own and left with roughly $10,000. Separate note covers Knickerbocker Ice Company losses in Maine and the steamer City of Merida collision near Hatteras in dense fog on Tuesday night.
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Hartford
Mr. Corbin
Miss Robbins
Merida
Hatteras
Pittsburg
Jesse Miller
Greenville Township
Somerset County
Miller
Alsatian Baron Casts Veiled Shadow Over Kate Castleton
Stockton Herald reports an Alsatian baron touring with Kate Castleton’s company, described as a flamboyant patron who funds lavish displays, diamonds, and champagne. The pair shared private evenings at the Grand Central Hotel as they traveled from Stockton toward Sacramento.
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Stockton Herald
Pretty
Castleton
Alsace
Gentle
Miss Castleton
Kate
Fred Gebhardt
San Francisco
Grand Central Hotel
Roederer
Stockton
Sacramento
Denver
Steamboat Rouses Neuse River Communities
Newbern Journ reports Captain Dixon of the steamer Kingston reached Goldsboro on the Neuse river voyage. It marked the river’s highest ascent in eighteen years, drawing large crowds of Black residents who once never witnessed a steamboat. The engine chime caused great excitement as townspeople scattered in panic, likened to Gabriel’s horn.
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Newbern
Dixon
Kinston
Goldsboro
Neuse
Gabriel
Four Ghost Stories and a Ghostly Grave in West Liberty
A Madison Ga news item reports a horse that bears leg prints as if ridden, with a stable lock changed yet the animal exhausted after dawn rides. West Liberty locals recount white robed specters near a lone grave for Morris Haggerty, fueling theories of witches or hidden treasure.
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S.B. Cohen
Licking
West Liberty
Morris Haggerty
Dr. Thornby
Tar Heel Topics and North Carolina News Snippets
A collage of notes reports tax cuts in the legislature, an experimental farm and hospital near Washington under Dr. Salmon of Asheville, a Moore county hunter turned rich by a gold mine, and progress claims about the Dismal Swamp drainage. Also mentions Edward R. Staxley, Gov. Edward Stanley legacy, and a Warrenton record book rescued from 1814.
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Washington, D. C
Dr. Salmon
Asheville, N. C
Jons Barnes
Moore County
Daxter R. Goopter
Warrenton
U. S
North Carolina Line
Facts for the Colored Folks Examinations Aid and Rail Plans
A conorep youth placed second in the Vernon Mississippi district West Point cadetship exam. A colored man in Lancaster County Virginia attempted self harm with a shotgun last Monday. John J. Smallwoop of Southampton County Virginia sent $25 to flood victims in Cincinnati and Lawrence, Ill, and $10 to aid hungry Irish. E F Martin says rail work will start next week, with a Wrightsville train planned for July 4 and funds for the Wilmington Onslow line from Fort Sill, Indian Territory. Shaw University shows 300 plus students, with new wing plans and improvements. notable visitors include Col Fuller and doctors from Philadelphia.
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John J. Smallwoop
Southampton County
Cincinnati
Ohio
Lawrencenng
Ireland
Petersburg Mall
E. F. Martin
Wilmington & Wrightsville
Wrightsville
Wilmington Onslow
Fort Sill
H. M. Tupper
Elijah Shaw
Wales
Massachusetts
Shaw
Col. Fuller
Brattleboro
Vermont
Kean
Col. Brainard
Philadelphia
Shaw University
Ses
Sea Medical
Medical Echool
Atlantic States
Atlantis
Nashville
Raleigh
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Winston, N.gc
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Winston, N. C
Jacob Tise
J. H. Tise
C. H. Tise
Jacob Tise & CO
East Side Court House Square
Robert D. Johnston
Merchant Tailor
Winston
WN. C
New York
Pene
Har
Harris
N. C
Wilmington
French Bros
Rocky Point
N.C
National Hotel
National Capital
Vania Avenue
Balti- Hi
Pentmore& Potomac Depot
F. Tess Proprietors
Mazzi
Elseehere
John Dyer & Son
Gray & Martin
Third Street
Dongstic Szewixe Macaixe Co
W. P. Ormsby
Main Street
Winston, N.C
Mitchell
Culver- West
Culverwell Medical CO
Ann St
N. Y
Mitta
W. 1
Blackwell & CO
Durham, N. C
Timporu
Shriners
David E. Foutz
Baltimnore, MD
Alyon&healy
State & Monroe Sts
Culeage
Fie
Knickerbocker Ice Company
Maine
Castleton’s. Gebhardt
Madison
West Liberty Scorcher
Mahanoy City
Old Williams
Philadelphia Press
Shenandoah
David Williams
East Centre Street
Tar
Drummond
Edward R. Staxley
Lenoir
Edward Stanley
John Stanley
U.S. Congress
E. B. Stanley
Svar
Conorep
Vernon
Mississippi
West Point
Lancaster County
Vaz
Richmond State
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