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22923
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In this collection of local stories, In 1885, two boys beat each other up with pieces of ham and an embalmed whale was exhibited in 1933. Another one is a notice from A. C. Jackson, Sheriff of Pitt County, about the rowdyism on Sundays at the local filling stations in the county. He said he would prosecute the owners and close down the stations on Sundays if they didn’t stop. In 1915, Mrs. E. S. Edwards of Bell Arthur had a three year-old child who smoked cigars for pain. He became known as “Gar-Gar Edwards.”
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