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13995
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Campaigns often were extremely bitter affairs, and they sometimes even escalated into personal combat.
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14015
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Reeves, a native of Raleigh, discusses why his alternative weekly publication, Spectator, has been successful while others in the same metropolitan area have failed. In its first year of publication, Spectator had over $127,000 in sales. Final sales figures for 1982 are expected to top $900,000.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 11, Dec 1982,
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14024
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Troxler, a Research Triangle businessman, whose company manufactures nuclear gauges, turned a basement business into a $6 million, award-winning exporting operation.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 3 Issue 5, May 1983,
p37-38, por
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14133
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In 1888, George Washington Vanderbilt II traveled through western North Carolina, where he discovered the land of his dreams. There he would build the finest country home, forest, garden, and farm in America. To aid him he called upon the best architect, landscape gardener, and forester that could be found in the United States -- Hunt, Olmsted, and Pinchot, each a pioneer in his field.
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The first fair in North Carolina was authorized by the General Assembly of 1749 on the grounds of Solomon Jordan. Since then, there have been many changes in both exhibits and entertainment features.
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14235
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This article is about North Carolina's 19th Century candidates for high office, most notably, James K. Polk and Andrew Jackson.
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14249
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The author and his friends embarked on a three-day hike through the Linville Gorge and observing the natural beauty of waterfalls and foliage. Inspired by an early description Linville Gorge by author Archibald Rutledge in The Odyssey of Bolio, the author and partners followed the rock faces and the Linville River through rough terrain and this article gives a detailed account of their journey for the armchair adventurer.
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Six year old Bobby Nell Cooper finds the hills of rural Wilkes County a distinct contrast to the bright lights of Beverly Hills and Hollywood, where she has captured the hearts of stage and move audiences since she was a tiny tot and appeared repeatedly on the radio.
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14477
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The Japanese cherry blossoms in Washington and the roses of Picardy have long been famed in story and song, but none of these excels in beauty like the apple blossoms in the mountains of western North Carolina.
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14491
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For 28 years, a large part of the population of Surry County has been greeted upon arriving in this world by Martha Dobson, a midwife who has traveled around the mountain county to deliver babies.
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14650
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This article details the industrial and agricultural changes happening in Polk County, near the South Carolina border.
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14998
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Holder describes the invasion of the Moravian territory on the northwest corner of the Wachovian tract, by the British forces who were in pursuit of General Nathanael Greene. British soldiers spent two days in the vicinity of Bethania.
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14999
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One of the grandest of all scenic spots in North Carolina, Grandfather Mountain, may soon be taken over as a state park.
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15222
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The early fathers of Ansonville were for the most part staunch Methodists, and while they were willing to send their sons out into the wide world to be educated, they preferred to keep their daughters closer to home. Accordingly, they organized the Carolina Female College. The institution was chartered and given authority to grant diplomas in 1850.
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New Bern native Bayard Wootten was born to a talented, artistic family; her grandmother Mary Bayard Clark was a well-known poet. Wootten studied at State Normal in Greensboro before becoming a teacher in Arkansas then Georgia. She returned to New Bern and opened a studio and landed her first large contract with the National Guard. Later in her career she devoted more time to capturing more artistic scenes which were published in several books, \"Charleston Azaleas and Old Bricks\" and \"Old Homes and Gardens.\"
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