Our Public Schools and North Carolina’s Education Heritage
A reflective piece praises public education gains in North Carolina. It recalls Mecklenburg patriots of 1775, the Halifax Constitution of 1776, and the 1840 common school system. The article notes a large pre Civil War school fund and ongoing progress despite theft, asserting state pride and commitment to literacy.
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North Carolina
Mecklenburg
Halifax
Potomac River
Massachusetts
Maine
New Hampshire
Maryland
Virginia
Woo
Georgia
South
Gaston
New Wilmington Messenger Gains Strong Editorial Team
The Messenger announces new ownership by Donitz and welcomes Major Hearne Bonitz and Dr Kingsbury to its editorial staff. The newspaper aims for higher excellence and broader influence in North Carolina journalism with their combined editorial prowess and polished writing.
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Wilmington Messenger
Donitz
Bro
Bonitz
Wilmington
Major Hearne
Messenger
Kingsbury
Kingsbury Has Accepted A Position On the Editorial Staff of the Messenger
North Carolina
Tur Mirror
Hon Thomas Ruffin Dies in Hillsboro
Hon Thomas Ruffin of Hillsboro, a lawyer of high integrity and vast ability, died at his home Thursday morning. The obituary lauds him as a pure, noble, and able son of North Carolina, renowned for legal acumen, candor, and courtly bearing, a loss to the state bar.
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Thomas Ruffin
Hillsboro
North Carolina
Bar
Bennett's Daring Quest to Khartoum In Pursuit of Excitement
The article portrays James Gordon Bennett as a reforming extreme risk taker. It claims his Paris life of dissipation fuels his longing for thrills. Reports say he traveled to Khartoum to confront the Mahdi or to ransom Chinese Gordon, with two possible motives plausible given his character.
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James Gordon Bennett
The
New York Herald
Khartoum
Paris
Gordon
Bennett
New York
Cotton bagging swap eyed by Georgia and South Carolina
Thirty four Southern cotton manufacturers met in Augusta Georgia on the first of the month inviting Georgia and South Carolina farmers to discuss substituting cotton bagging for jute. The Georgia Alliance contracted mills for two million yards to be delivered August first. The bagging will be thirty seven inches wide and twelve ounces per yard with ten cents extra per hundred pounds to cover weight loss. Lane Mills New Orleans and West Point Mills Georgia to produce the covering.
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Augusta
Georgia
South Carolina
Georgia Alliance
Lane Mills
New Orleans
West Point Mills
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Carolina
the Messenger
Miss MM
Ella Hackney
Genuine
J. W. Shepard
Gail & AX
Manaver
Paschali
Murray & Benton
Wilson Iron Works
Kinsk
Paschall
Reas
Bers Ee Reporters
J. L. Fryar
Lottler, Wilson ~ Weider
Ema
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