Record #:

11856

Author(s):

Ellis, Gray

Abstract:

Richard Gatling was born in near Murfreesboro in Hertford County. In 1839 he perfected a workable screw propeller only to learn that John Ericsson was granted a patent for the same invention a few months earlier. It was his invention of the machine gun, known as the Gatling gun, that revolutionized warfare and spread his name worldwide.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 2 Issue 16, Sept 1934, p2

Subject(s):

Gatling, Richard Jordan, 1818-1903; Gatling gun

Record #:

11857

Author(s):

Grimes, Alice Dugger

Abstract:

Grimes discusses the work of Mrs. Thomas O'Berry, who is the North Carolina Administrator of the Emergency Relief Administration (ERA).

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 2 Issue 16, Sept 1934, p7, 22, por

Subject(s):

O'Berry, Mrs. Thomas (Annie Land), 1885-; North Carolina--Economic conditions--New Deal, 1933-1939

Record #:

11858

Author(s):

Goerch, Carl

Abstract:

Goerch describes how an unsightly dump-heap in a swampy area near the outskirts of Wilmington was transformed into Greenfield Park through the efforts of J. E. L. Wade, the Commissioner of Public Works.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 2 Issue 16, Sept 1934, p8-9, il, por

Subject(s):

Parks--Wilmington