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1.Rebecca Boone: Pioneer Wife by Roger, Lou We the People of North Carolina Vol. 2 Issue 1, May 1944
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Rogers recounts the life of Rebecca Boone, the wife of the famous frontiersman, Daniel Boone.
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Rogers recounts the life and accomplishments of Fannie Heck, who was one of the most widely known religious leaders among Southern women.
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Rogers recounts the life of Mrs. Hunter G. Smith (Josephine Churchill Graham), who recognized the needs of mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters of Confederate soldiers, many of whom were in destitute circumstances, and worked for the establishment of a home for them. Her goal was realized when the Confederate Women's Home opened in Fayetteville in 1915.
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Born in Washington, North Carolina, Susan Dimock became the first woman member of the North Carolina Medical Society, although she never practiced medicine in the state. Refused admission to medical colleges in Boston, she applied to a Swiss university, was accepted, and graduated with a degree. She returned to Boston and became well established in her profession. On a voyage to Europe, she lost in a shipwreck off the coast of England.
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Penelope Barker had had an eventful life even before the famous Edenton Tea Party. She had three husbands and lost two to death; the third died in 1787. She bore six children, mothered three of her first husband's, and saw eight of her children die. The Edenton Tea party took place on October 25, 1774 and is the first recorded women's political rally in America. Barker organized fifty women to participate in order to send the English government a message of what women in North Carolina were prepared to do to resist repressive laws.
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Tryon's Palace, once called the most beautiful building in either North or South America, is to be rebuilt, using the original plans which were discovered in the New York Historical Society after being “lost†for ninety years. A fire destroyed the main building and one wing in 1798. Estimated cost is between one-half and one million dollars.
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Eleanor White Dare was the first English mother to bear a child in the New World, yet few facts about her remain to give a complete story. Rogers recounts what is known.
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Sharpe discusses the menhaden fish, which is known by fifty other names, its history, and its importance to the nation's economy.
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Mary Lewis Wyche is considered by many the pioneer of organized nursing in the state. In 1902, she founded the North Carolina Nurses Association and was the driving force behind the passage of the first nursing act in the country which was passed in 1903.
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Rogers discusses the history of the organization and the work performed by North Carolina's home demonstration agents, from its inception in 1911 through to the end of World War II.
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Some eight or ten rug distributors are supplying rug-making materials to around three thousand families in the four counties surrounding Buncombe County. The result is that 80 percent of the country's hooked rugs are now made in the North Carolina mountains.
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In the summer of 1888, Creedmoor, in Granville County, was the site of a thriving tobacco market. Then a disease, later named the Granville wilt for the location where it was found in the country, struck. The market later closed; farm values went down, and many farmers lost their property. Debnam recounts the story of E. G. Moss and Dr. Thomas E. Smith, who were largely responsible for solving this agricultural problem which threatened the area's tobacco economy.
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13.“Dis†Assembly Plant by Sharpe, Bill We the People of North Carolina Vol. 3 Issue 4, Aug 1945
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Assembly lines put things together, with a finished product coming out at the end. Sharpe reports on a dis-assembly line which takes things apart, also with a finished product at the end--in this case chickens. Sharpe, using photographs, describes the line at the Chatham County Siler City Poultry Exchange. The plant can process 20,000 pounds of chicken a day with six minutes needed to process each bird.
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10067
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Sharpe discusses reasons why some mountain tops in the state from 2,000 to 6,000 feet high will not support trees.
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The Order of the Eastern Star is one of the largest women's organizations in the world and ranks third in membership of all organizations. Rogers discusses the Grand Chapter of North Carolina and the work this organization has done in cooperation with the Masons. Also listed are the Grand Matrons and Grand Patrons of the North Carolina chapter from 1905 to 1945.
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