I found this column, with advice on a healthy diet, in an issue of the Marion Progress from October 19, 1916. We’d probably do well to follow the same advice today. After all, who doesn’t want to avoid biliousness?
I found this column, with advice on a healthy diet, in an issue of the Marion Progress from October 19, 1916. We’d probably do well to follow the same advice today. After all, who doesn’t want to avoid biliousness?
We’re in the midst of uploading issues of The Roanoke News (Weldon, N.C.) from 1878-1922, and have been enjoying a particular column called Local Intelligence. Running fairly consistently on page 3, the Local Intelligence section included short sayings, weather reports and predictions, farming and medical advice, the prices of various goods, as well as general commentary on society, fashion trends, local events, and politics – often with a bit of humor!
“Cherries have made their appearance and the people cherish them.”
“Garlic is no longer considered a cure for hydrophobia: this robs the disease of much of its horrors.”
“Don’t blame the dudes for wearing tight pants. It prevents rats from running up their legs, and consequently scaring them to death.”
For more of these bits of wit and wisdom, see the full Local Intelligence section for May 22, 1884, and be sure to take a look at other examples of the column in issues of The Roanoke News.
We have recently digitized and published online several histories of Randolph County, North Carolina. Nominated or contributed by the Randoph County Public Library, these volumes will be of interest to current and former residents, as well as anyone interested in the histories of Asheboro, Seagrove, and other towns and communities in Randolph County. All of the titles can be viewed in their entirety online and the text can be searched by keyword. The books currently available on DigitalNC are:
The 39th annual International Whistler’s Convention is now in full swing in Louisburg, N.C., the self-acclaimed whistling capital of the world. The competition lasts for five days and is full of interesting rules and regulations: whistlers enter the contest in three categories — Classical, Popular, and Allied Arts (in which a performer can combine whistling with other talents, such as miming, singing, or drama) — and are expected to follow a Whistler’s Code of Ethics.
Piedmont Airlines was a mainstay at airports throughout the southeast from the 1940s through the 1980s. The Winston-Salem-based company often flew into smaller airports that were not served by larger airlines. In North Carolina alone, Piedmont flights were available from Rocky Mount, Elizabeth City, Hickory, Morehead City, Southern Pines, Fayetteville, Kinston, and Asheville, among other towns, not to mention larger airports in Charlotte, Greensboro-High Point, and Raleigh-Durham.
There are a lot of historic buildings represented in the Images of North Carolina collection on DigitalNC, but it’s not often that you have a chance to buy one. I just saw through the Preservation North Carolina website that the Old Ashe County Hospital is up for sale.
With the centennial of the sinking of Titanic in the news all weekend, I wanted to see how the tragedy was covered in small-town North Carolina papers. There is a rapidly-growing list of titles available in the North Carolina Newspapers digital collection, so far we have only one title from 1912: The Mebane Leader, a weekly paper nominated for digitization by the Alamance County Public Libraries.
Lew Powell’s On This Day In North Carolina (John F. Blair, 1996) alerted us to an article from a Charlotte newspaper in 1825 criticizing the first appearance of a Sunday newspaper in the U.S.
A new paper has lately been established in New-York, and is issued on Sunday! This, we believe, is the only instance in the United States, of a paper published on the Sabbath. The Evening Gazette, of Boston, is partly a Sunday paper — a small portion of it, under the head of “second edition,” is dated on that day; though we are not aware that it is distributed to subscribers on the sabbath.
In the student newspapers from Brevard College that were recently digitized, we came across an interesting article from January 1959 about two Cuban students who were at home during the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power. Here are a couple of excerpts:
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