Thanksgiving Day at the Capital for Uncle Sam’s Staff
Special correspondence reports Thanksgiving at the capital as a holiday for Treasury and other federal employees. It notes generous store hours, church attendance, charity visits to the poor and jail, and lavish theatre patronage. Bartholdi again visits to select a Lafayette monument site.
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The
Capital
Uncle Sam
Treasury
M. Bartholdi
Washington
Sentinel Wasumnerox
Dade Sam
Sam
St. Elizabeth
Onoy
Seerl Isary
Entor
Mammit
House OF Representatives
Randall
Reed
Maine
Springer
Committee On Appropriations
Ran
Julius Emmner
Cleveland
Jefferson
Marquis Lafayette
7Th Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Botanical Gardens
Manning
Battleboro Awakens with Tobacco Boom and New Builds
The Raleigh Chronicle notes Battleboro between Wilson and Weldon transforms from a dilapidated town to a budding tobacco hub. A new warehouse handles $15,000 in sales with projections up to $175,000, plus a factory, church, livery stables, paint shop, and railroad improvements shaping prosperity.
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Ralagh
Wilmington
Hector
T. P. Braswell & Son
Whitehead & Marriott
Missionary Baptist Church
Jno
Cdm
Battleboro
Battles
Carolina
North Carolina scientist Dabney praised for state work
The article extols Dr. Charles W Dabney head of the State Chemical Department for North Carolina his role in promoting agricultural science and economic value of the laboratory analyses improving fertilizer quality and his national reputation. It notes his leadership in exhibits at Boston and New Orleans and his civic character as a loyal citizen.
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Charles Wat
Sentrex
North Carolina
State Department of Agriculture
Charles M. Dabney
Colleg South
Europe
South
State Chemical Department
Dabney
Boston
Washington
New Orleans
Department of Government and State
German and American Chemical Societies
American Institute of Mining Engineers
National Association of Official Chemists
Society For Promotion of Agricultural Science
Department of Agriculture
Oaks
Dix Hotes L. Dabney
University of Texas
Primitive Baptists in Edgecombe Shape Local Faith and Culture
A Raleigh Chronicle report describes Edgecombe County as a stronghold for Primitive Baptists with twelve churches ten pastors and a culture of predestination living simple lives and settling disputes within the church. The piece notes their lack of foreign missions, emphasis on reading the Bible, and distrust of salaries for ministers. It also covers local politics education and church practices including close communion immersion and a rejection of revivals.
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Raleigh
Edgecombe
Elieve
Wilson
THE
North Carolina Midland
Log Cabin Miles and the Ridge of a Bridge Debacle
Edward Payson Hall recalls 1840s North Carolina politics at Davie and Rowan banks, where his grandfather’s toll bridge fell afoul of a towering log-cabin on wheels. A high cabin chimney blocked passage under the bridge, provoking a partisan exclamation and a raucous retreat to the ford as crowds sang pro Tip and Tyler.
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Sentinel
Harrison
Robinson Crusoe
Davie
Elizabeth Fraley
Rowan
Tippecanoe
Tip
Tyler
Old Tenetenon
Will Barat Vane Biler
Vernon
N. C
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Washington, D.C
French Bros
Rocky Point
N.C
Ss. J. Montague
Church St
Winston, N.C
Ly E A Griffith
Winston
Clark & Foril
N-W
Cuart
Shore
Yadkin Cours
Susrisen Winston
Man
Dentst
Ty Street
Twin City
Glens
R. Tt. Glenn
Glenn & Glenn
Wuenseon
Apo
Croquet
Williamson & Samvis's
Purcell House
Norfolk
B.R. Brown & Co
H. Montague
Vistor
Liberty Street
Bitting Block
Burch’s
Mitchell
Beales
New York Morning Journal
North Cassionia
Scales
Haring
Dabney, Jr
Virginia
Morrison
Lincoln
Mecklenburg
Stonewall Jackson
Chapel Hill
Leigh Academy
Memorial Hall
the University
J. Deb. Hooper
Raleigh News-Observer
Board of Trustees
Sol. C. Weill
Hooper
Reese
University
Judge Grant
Iowa
Jacob Thompson
Calvin Jones
Tennessee
Giles Mebane
Thomas R. Owen
W. W.S . James M. Williamson
Memphis
Boston Transcript
Eta
Democratic Party
Sentinel Hall
Charles W. Dabney, JR
Primative Baptists
Sproy
Martinsville Herald
Danville
Leakaville
J. T. Morehead
Col. A. 8. Buford
Richmond & Danville
Col. Buford
Walnut Cove
Friends of the Midland
Mocksville
Leaksville
Edward Payson Hall
Amtrasoe
Meos- Observer
Outlands
American Tract Society
Am. Tra. Soc
Indianapolis Sentinel
Ryttenberg Bros
Winston, N. C
Ryttenberg
Tucotino
Jersey
New York
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Benn
Pauper
New- York
Neery Opdes
BroadWay
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