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This article is a re-print of an article found in the STATE's March, 1947 edition. Michael lived in a log cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina during the Civil War. She made clay piped used by both Confederate and Federalist soldiers. Michael sold her pipes at 25 cents a dozen. She died at the age of 75, just seven years after Robert E. Lee's surrender.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 44 Issue 7, Dec 1976, p21-22, il
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14252
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Jack and Hilda Hardin started an errand service in Charlotte, North Carolina eight years ago (1939) despite a lacking precedent, but the idea paid off. Today this unique service - believed to be the only one in the State - performs so many chores local businesses don't know how to live without it.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 15 Issue 2, June 1947, p8
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14256
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Charlotte traffic officer Ernest E. Pressley and his trained pets - four dogs and a pigeon - have become one of the nation's most popular traffic safety lessons.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 15 Issue 3, June 1947, p3, 18, f
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14262
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The production of cellophane containers is developing into quite a business in North Carolina. Future prospects are considered bright.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 15 Issue 4, June 1947, p9, 16
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14269
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A new type of brain operation being performed in Charlotte looks like a sure cure for some suicides and may convert certain types of criminals.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 15 Issue 5, July 1947, p9, 18
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14271
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Sam Queen has been coaching square dancers for a long time up in the mountains of western North Carolina, and his dancers have become nationally famous.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 15 Issue 6, July 1947, p3-4, f
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14336
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This is the story of a grocery clerk in Sampson County who saw in a dream a \"mighty tabernacle with many window\" and worked many years - almost single-handed - to make his dream a reality.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 15 Issue 8, July 1947, p7
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14411
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If anything unusual, startling or disconcerting in connection with aviation happens to take place in the vicinity of Charlotte, Haskell Deaton is probably behind it.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 15 Issue 18, Oct 1947, p6, 24, f
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14655
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Alcoholics Anonymous of North Carolina began with the first meeting in Shelby. Following that Charlotte, Raleigh, Asheville, Durham, Greensboro, High Point, Fayetteville, and Statesville started chapters of the group with further organizations planned throughout the state. Most of these branches facilitate meetings and organize financial help for those needing hospitalization, the one exception being Charlotte which runs a nursing home for those wishing to \"dry-out.\" No state statistics are given but it was assumed that there were 20,000 members nationally in 1947.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 14 Issue 36, Feb 1947, p11, 22
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14668
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A business venture by Mr. Troy M. Herring was inspired by his toddler. After watching the tireless child move about his home in Roseboro, Herring designed a collapsible baby pen to be used both at home and when traveling. He patented his invention in 1946 and by the next year joined fellow Roseboro citizens to open a factory capable of producing 100 pens a day.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 14 Issue 41, Mar 1947, p11
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14688
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Mrs. Mebane Holoman Burgwyn of Woodland wrote a book called \"River Treasure.\" Its intended readership was eight to twelve years old and focused on fictional character 12 year-old Guy Harrison's adventures in the Occoneechee Neck, an impoverished area farmed by African American families. Ralph Ray of Gastonia illustrated the work and despite their collaboration the author and illustrator never met.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 14 Issue 47, Apr 1947, p3-4, il
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Butler recounts the story of a Charlotte couple, James T. and Anne Duckworth, who started the fad of blowing rainbow bubbles, which has developed into a $2.5 million business in just eighteen months. It began humbly in a Charlotte garage with an old garden rake used to stir the bubble solution in a 55-gallon barrel. Life magazine called it the nation's \"first genuine post war fad and the perfect form of relaxation from war--quiet, inconsequential and fascinating.\" After that the business took off.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 14 Issue 32, Jan 1947, p3, 21
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Colonel Glenn C. Nye was a native of Raleigh who flew against Nazis in World War II. As one of the youngest commanding officers, the colonel commanded a group of B-26 Marauders from an American Air Force base in England. His efforts during the war earned him the Silver Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 11 Issue 45, Apr 1944, p4, 16, il
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