Hopefully the flu shot you received this winter was a little less dramatic than the immunization — complete with targets on each arm — administered to Cpl. Paul “Tiny” Evensen at the Overseas Replacement Depot in Greensboro in 1944.
I found this great, old Cheerwine ad in the 1935 Salisbury City Directory (p. 35):
If today’s headlines have you down, trying reading old news instead. The NC Digital Heritage Center makes its first foray into Twitter with @ncnewspapers, where we’ll be tweeting a historic headline every day from that day in history. The stories we feature will span the full range of North Carolina history from the 19th and 20th centuries. It’s a fun way to peek into our state’s past, and a great introduction to the wealth of material available in these historic papers.
From The Rotator, base newspaper for the Overseas Replacement Depot in Greensboro, December 21, 1945:
The issue of The Pilot published on this day in 1935 has an odd but interesting headline on the front page: “Santa Claus Explains His Position Regarding Cigarette Smoking.”
Early newspapers from Charlotte and Mebane have just been added to the North Carolina Newspapers collection.
Twenty-seven student yearbooks, dating from 1968 to 1994, from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College are now available online at DigitalNC.org. In addition to the yearbooks, a collection of newspaper clippings documenting the history of the college are also now online. You can learn more about Rowan-Cabarrus Community College on their website.
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