Record #:

14567

Author(s):

Sink, E. Carl

Abstract:

No longer is there justification for referring to the peanut as the \"lowly groundpea;\" it has blossomed into a $23,000,000 crop for farmers.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 13 Issue 32, Jan 1946, p3-4, f

Subject(s):

Peanut industry

Record #:

14569

Author(s):

Moore, Louis T.

Abstract:

In addition to Africans, there were also Indian and white slaves, and there were many rules and regulations in force with respect to their treatment.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 13 Issue 32, Jan 1946, p6,18

Subject(s):

Slavery--Regulations; North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Slavery

Record #:

14570

Author(s):

Lawrence, R.C.

Abstract:

From the Revolutionary War through the Spanish-American War, Lawrence has selected two North Carolinians whom he has considered to be particularly outstanding. From the Revolutionary War, Lawrence describes General Nash and Colonel Buncombe; from the Mexican War Louis Wilson and General Bragg; from the Civil War, William Pender and James Pettigrew; and from the Spanish-American War Ensign Bagley, and Lieutenant William Shipp.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 13 Issue 32, Jan 1946, p7, 20-21

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography

Record #:

20624

Author(s):

Thomas, John G.

Abstract:

Clarence L. Hardy of Greene County is the world's biggest tobacco farmer. He grows tobacco on a 12,000-acre farm in Green and Pitt counties. He never went to college and had very little schooling in his early days, but he is a large contributor to educational, religious, and civic organizations. Recently he has given sums totaling $100,000 to Atlantic Christian College in Wilson.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 13 Issue 32, Jan 1946, p8-9, por

Subject(s):

Philanthropists