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News Items of Interest To Colored People: Youth Institute Held Here by High Point Enterprise.;
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Subjects: Mayfield, C.M., Mrs.; McLeod, A.P., Mrs.; Long, Helen, Mrs.; Langford, J.W.; Jones, J.W., Rev.; Gwyn, James, Rev.; Stewart, B.W., Rev.; McCallum, J.V., Rev.; Gidney, C.L., Rev.; Cole, Helen, Mrs.; Patterson, J.J., Rev.; Mayfield, L.M., Rev.; Gidney, Gwendolyn.; Harris, Mary.; Johnson, Melvernia.; Brooks, Glen A.; Scarborough, W.C.L., Rev.; McCallum, James, Rev.; McLeod, W.S., Rev.; Leasure, Barbara.; Withers, Marie.; Gladden, Isabelle.; Watson, Evon.; Davis, Bettye.; Brooks Memorial Methodist Church (High Point, N.C.);
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News Items Of Interest To Colored People: Church Opening by High Point Enterprise.;
"Sunday, January 28th marked the close of worship services in the Old Brook's Memorial Church. Sunday, February 4th, at 3. p.m. the opening service of the New Brook's Memorial will be held... "
Subjects: Shaw, A.P, Bishop.; Harriston, N.M., Dr.; McLeod, W.S., Rev.; Jones, D.D., Dr.; Mayfield, L.M., Rev.; Cole, H.G., Mrs.; Mason, F.R., Rev.; Shufford, J.W.; Patterson, J.J.; Hairston, W.E.; Mason, D.D.; Winchester, R.W.; Bass, F.O.; Waddell, A.W.; Elliott, W.F.; McCallum, R.F.; Friend, I.A.; Carter, P.G., Rev.; Gidney, C.L.; Phelps, G.M.; Speight, S.A.; Jones, J.W.; McRae, R.B.; Goodson, Kenneth.; Melton, J.E.; Pilworth, A.D.; Phillips, H.W.; Scarborough, W.C.L.; Laughlin, M.S.; Womble, C.F.; Black, Eugene.; Frazier, S.M.; McFarland, W.G.; Davis, H.A.; Cole, W.P.; Frost, E.;
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Colored news: Rev. W.T. Lomax returned to St. Mark by High Point Enterprise.;
Subjects: Lomax, W.T., Rev.; Brown, L.A., Rev.; Brooks Memorial Church.; Meekins, J.B., Rev.; Weatherby, R.T., Dr.; Phelps, G.M., Rev.; Rhyne, R.B., Rev.; Cook, P.J., Rev.; Rush, J.C., Rev.; Ashe, H.L., Rev.; McCallum, R.F., Rev.; Scarborough, W.C., Rev.; Hall, J.H., Rev.; St. Mark M.E. Church (High Point, N.C.);
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Police: 16 charged with selling heroin. by High Point Enterprise.;
Page: A14-1.
Subjects: Kirk, Mike.; Smith, Jamie L.; Williams, Rodrick O.; Guffey, Daren Scott.; Taylor, Marion.; Baskins, Kendrick D.; Albea, Scarborough B.; Wilfoung, Antonio J.; Stewart, Drummon D. Jr.; Gladden, Antoine M.; Hayes, Diasia A.; McCullough, Cory A.; Perkins, Joseph L., Jr.; Harris, Bryce D.; Conyers, Rashon W.; Collins, David Jr.; Pratt, Robert J.; Taylor, Tydarrus M.; Campbell, Kwashawn L.; Bennett, Antoine K.; Ingram, Robert M.; Orr, Toure A.; Chambers, Sampson L.; Ali, Sultan R.; High Point (N.C.). Police Department.;
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The Allstons of Chicora Wood : wealth, honor, and gentility in the South Carolina lowcountry / by Scarborough, William Kauffman.(CARDINAL)176233;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The early years : West Point and return to Carolina -- Politics and marriage, 1828-1840 -- Constructing a plantation empire -- Church and school : Robert Allston's religious and educational contributions -- Politics and family : Senate president, the Nashville Convention, and Ben at West Point, 1840-1855 -- Governor and the approach of Armageddon, 1856-1861 -- War and defeat : the deaths of James L. Petigru and Robert F.W. Allston, 1861-1865 -- Postbellum travails : Adele's school, return to Chicora Wood, Bessie as woman rice planter -- Appendix A. The Allston and Petigru families -- Appendix B. The Allston plantations -- Appendix C. The public career of Robert F.W. Allston.
Subjects: Biographies.; Allston, Robert F. W. (Robert Francis Withers), 1801-1864.; Alston family.; Plantation life; Rice;
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Williams Papers.
All of the following documents are xerox copies. Indenture deed between James Campion of Cumberland County and Stephen Johnson of Wake County, December 25, 1848, 3 p. Letter from John C. Scarborough, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, to D.B. Parker, Chairman of the Harnett County Board of Education, February 27, 1894, 2 p. Deed between John Woodall and William Williams for land, September 16, 1846, 3 p. Deed between John W. Johnson of Johnston County and Thomas Covy or Covey of Cumberland County, February 2, 1829, 2 p. Deed between heirs of Thomas Covey (Noah Messer & wife Christiana, Atkins Baker & wife Sarah, James Messer, Aquillia Messer, Rhoda Messer, Mary Messer) and Joseph Beasley, January 11, 1850, 2 p. Deed between Obediah Hagens of Cumberland County and Thomas Gardner of Cumberland County, December 20, 1815, 2 p. Deed between Obediah Hagins of Cumberland County and Thomas Gardner of Wake County, December 21, 1815, 2 p. Deed between Thomas Gardner of Chatham County and William Williams of Cumberland County, May 6, 1850, 2 p. Letter from H.L. [Hannibal L.] Godwin to "Friend" October 20, 1914, 1 p. Deed between Daniel Lashley and William Williams, both of Harnett County, August 28, 1860, 2 p. Deed to Lott Messer for 300 acres in Cumberland County, February 15, 1794, 1 p. Deed between Moses Harvel of Wake County and Elisha Rogers of Cumberland County, August 10, 1853, 3 p. Deed between James Champion of Cumberland County and Stephen Johnson of Wake County, December 25, 1848, 3 p. Bill of sale from John Green of Harnett County to William Williams of Harnett County for a 3 year old slave child named Quince, June 16, 1856, 1 p. Bill of sale for 100 barrels of rosin sold for J.C. Williams and Bro., February 9, 1872, 1 p. Deed between Jacob Williams and William Williams for land in Cumberland County, May 4, 1842, 3 p. Deed between Thomas Gardner of Chatham County and William Williams of Cumberland County, May 6, 1850, 2 p. Letter from John C. Scarborough, State Superintendent of Public Instruction to D.B. Parker, Chairman, Harnett County Board of Education, February 22, 1894, 3 p. Bill of sale between Kimbrel Jones and William Williams, both of Cumberland County for a slave woman named Jincey, age 27 and her daughter Martha, age 3 months, January 17, 1855, 2 p. Deed between James D. Bond and William Williams, both of Harnett County, January 13, 1872, 2 p. Deed between Willey Jones and Obediah Hagins, both of Cumberland County, November 9, 1814, 2 p. Receipt for the payment of taxes in Wake County, Panther Branch Township from Charles Williams, January 1872. Maps from Olney's School Geography, 1829, of Asia, Africa, globular projection of the world, North America, South America, Europe, and the United States, 1 p. each.
Subjects: Fiction.; Deeds; Deeds;
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The Best of the West : an anthology of classic writing from the American West / by Hillerman, Tony.(CARDINAL)129114;
pt. 1. In the beginning ... : New Mexico's mystery stone / Dixie L. Perkins ; The message in the bottle / George Winship ; Drake's brass plaque / james D. Hart ; The real Manila galleon ; The long way home / Meriwether Lewis ; The stone Thoen found / Frank Thompson ; Boulders taller than the Great Tower of Seville / Garcia Lopez de Cardenas ; "The most sublime spectacle on earth" / John Wesley Powell ; Fifty leagues of silver / Alonso de Benevides ; Captain José Zúñiga's report ; Are we prisoners of war? / Zebulon Montgomery Pike ; The Russians in California / William A. Slacum -- pt. 2. The original westerners: Ishi, the last one left alive / Theodora Kroeber ; The man who killed the deer / Frank Waters ; The pacifist warrior / Jack Schaefer ; The way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday ; Colter's Run / H.M. Chittenden ; "Can you blot out those stars?" / Myron Angel ; "I will fight no more forever" -- pt. 3. The Navajos: The murder of Narbona / Franc Johnson Newcomb ; Barboncito's plea ; The hogan / Gladys Reichard ; Laughing Boy / Oliver La Farge ; The death of Old Man Hat / Walter Dyk -- pt. 4. The Hispanos: The muleteers / Max Morehead ; Brothers of the light / Marta Weigle ; Blessing the animals / John A. Lomax ; Ramona / Helen Hunt Jackson ; A Santa Fe fandango / George Frederick Ruxton -- pt. 5. Frontier life: The burning bush / A.W. Whipple ; A twenty-dollar Christmas ball / Alexander Kelly McClure ; Christmas in Round Valley / John Wesley Clampitt ; "A rather pretentious sod house" / Everett Dick ; "Wuite discouraged and impatient for his death ..." / George Yount ; The bashful trapper / Jacob Fowler ; "And the skies are not cloudy all day" / Alan Bosworth ; The $175,000 sack of flower ; How Americans get ahead / William Shepherd ; J.C. Penney's first day / Norman Beasley ; Wolf Willow / Wallace Stegner ; The melting pot / Robert Laxalt ; Basques in Nevada / Robert Laxalt ; Nails and whiskey / Alexander Toponce ; Death Valley Scotty's story / Eleanor Jordan Houston ; Burial customs at Fort Pierre / Thaddeus Culbertson -- pt. 6. Cowboys: The Harvard cowboy / Richard Trimble ; The spree at the end of the trail ; Charlie Siringo's flirtation / Charlie Siringo ; "I threw my timid friend a bisquit" / Theodore Baughman ; The cowboy strike / David Dary ; The first rodeos / Charles Nordhoff ; The chuck wagon / Eugene Manlove Rhodes ; When you call me that, smile! / Owen Wister -- pt. 7. Tall tales and practical jokes: The travelling stones, and other such affairs / Duncan Emrich ; The first jumping frog ; How trout survive mountain winters ; "I am not aware that anyone has been born lately" / J. Ross Browne ; I paint the truth just as it is / J. Ross Browne ; The buffalo corral and milking pen / James Stevens ; The Greasewood Golf Course / Dick Wick Hall ; The badger fight / Bill Oden ; "Anything that will make money" -- pt. 8. Characters: "Genial if rambunctious" / Marthy "Calamity" Janes Cannary ; How the ski came to snow country / Robert Laxalt ; The emperor of California / Joshua Norton ; Schlatter the healer / Agnes Morley Cleaveland ; Law west of the Pecos / C.L. Sonnichsen ; How Phoenix got its name / Lawrence Clark Powell ; Unlce Dick Wootton / Agnes Morley Cleaveland ; Culture comes to Virginia City / R.D. Miller -- pt. 9. The mines: Gold only waiting to be gathered up / Paul Horgan ; "Something shining in the bottom of the dicth" / James W. Marshall ; "Men living like coyotes" / J. Ross Browne ; Sutro's tunnel ; Growing up in Bonanza Town / John Taylor Walford ; Boyhood at the Chloride Flat / James K. Hastings ; The Sun River stampede / Robert Vaughan ; The post-hole banks / J. Frank Dobie ; There's gems in them thar hills" / Randall Henderson -- pt. 10. Women: "A pretty hoorah place" / Nannie Alderson ; Now the prairie life begins! / Susan Shelby Magoffin ; The pregnant private / William Gilpin ; Great Western, the Army's Amazon / Arthur Woodward ; Doing the washing / Eleanor McGovern ; "A ball put in your carcass" / Caroline Nichols Churchill ; Rags to riches to rags / Robert Laxalt ; And from rags to riches to starvation / Marshall Sprague ; Buscuits, coffee and beans / Annie D. Tallent ; Greasy meals, infested with lazy flies / Isabella Bird ; Contempt of court / Ellen Jack ; Goldfield booms / Anne Ellis -- pt. 11. Law and disorder: Missed four thousand times / Elfego Baca ; The Marquis de Peralta ; "It began with a wrong and outrage" / Eugene Manlove Rhodes ; The real Billy the Kid / Howard Bryan ; Billy's alive, and so is Jesse / C.L. Sonnichsen ; That famous shootout at the O.K. Corral ; The soldier of fortune / Thompson M. Turner ; "No complaint was made against him" / Thompson M. Turner ; Taking politics seriously / Ralph Emerson Twitchell ; The Hanging Windmill / Howard Bryan ; More action at Hanging Windmill / Howard Bryan ; The Johnson County War / T.A. Larson --pt. 12. Travel: Over the Oregon Trail / Bernard DeVoto ; Thus the first mail was brought on camels / Edward F. Beale ; Aubry's great ride / J. Frank Dobie ; "Without anything to eat but the dead" / Virginia Reed ; "Goodbye, Death Valley" ; Fifteen-hundred hats were lost yearly / Raphael Pumpelly ; The great wagon-train swindle / William Miles ; Hrace Greeley's wild ride / Artemus Ward ; What the travel agent doesn't tell you / H.M. Chittenden ; Cold feet ; A revolver is an admirable tool ... / Sir Richard Burton ; The desert traveler's kit / Joseph P. Allyn ; How exquisitely pleasant, how cosy and delightful! / James Rusling ; The race for Raton Pass / James Marshall ; The continent is joined / Theodore H. Hittell ; They do not drink, fight, or strike / Charles Nordhoff ; The Rawhide Railroad / George Estes ; 185 miles in fifteen hours and twenty minutes / Alexander Majors ; Finally, behind the wheel! / Upton Sinclair ; Steinbeck's Highway 66 / John Steinbeck -- pt. 13: The military: The last word from the Alamo / William Travis ; The Mormon Battalion / James Ferguson ; "We have come amongst you" / Stephen Watts Kearny ; Paddy Graydon's Civil War ; Custer's last lett home / George Armstrong Custer ; Mrs. Custer hears the news / Elizabeth Custer -- pt. 14. The Western way with words: "José Maria Martín! Stand up! ; "Stand up, ye son-of-a-bitch" / Walker Dixon Grisso ; Why wilderness? / Ed Abbey ; "The dirty nincompoop who edits that journal" ; "To the world!!" / James W. Nesmith ; "I ask: what is life?" / Herman W. Knickerbocker -- pt. 15. Fiction: The rules of the game / Charles Lummis ; The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte ; The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane ; Cabin fever / Dorothy Scarborough ; "It must be something exciting" / Wallace Stegner ; McTeague / Frank Norris.An extensive collection of Western fact and fiction, arranged by subject-e.g., explorers, settlers, cowboys, miners, women, Navajos. A leading chronicler of the Western landscape selects more than 150 pieces--fiction and non-fiction, classic and contemporary--that evoke the people and spirit of the West.
Subjects: Fiction.; Literature.; American prose literature;
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The biographical dictionary of Black Americans / by Kranz, Rachel.(CARDINAL)202774;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Aldridge, Ira Frederick -- Ali, Muhammad (Cassius Clay) -- Allen, Richard -- Alston, Charles H. -- Anderson, Marian -- Angelou, Maya -- Antoine, Caesar Carpetier -- Armistead, James Lafayette -- Armstrong, Louis -- Attucks, Crispus -- Baldwin, James Arthur -- Bambara, Toni Cade -- Banneker, Benjamin -- Bannister, Edward Mitchell -- Baraka, Imamu Amiri (Leroi Jones) -- Barnett, Claude Albert -- Barthé, Richmond -- Bassett, Ebenezer Don Carlos -- Beckwourth (Beckwith), James Pierson -- Bethune, Mary Jane McCleod -- Binga, Jesse -- Blake, James Hubert ("Eubie") -- Bland, James -- Bontemps, Arna -- Brooke, Edward William -- Brooks, Gwendolyn -- Bunche, Ralph J[ohnson] -- Cardozo, W[illiam] Warrick -- Carney, William H. -- Carver, George Washington -- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell -- Childress, Alice -- Cinque, Joseph -- Couvent, Justine / Madame Bernard -- Cromwell, Oliver -- Crummell, Alexander -- Cuffe, Paul -- Cullen Countée [P.] -- Dailey, Ulysses Grant -- Davis, Angela Yvonne -- Davis, Benjamin Oliver Jr. -- Davis, Benjamin Oliver Sr. -- Davis, Ossie -- Dee, Ruby -- Delany, Martin R[obinson] -- Dixon, Dean Charles -- Douglass, Frederick -- Drew, Charles Richard -- Du Bois, W[illiam] E[dward] B[urghardt] -- Dunbar, Paul Laurence -- Dunham, Katherine -- Du Sable, Jean Baptiste Pointe -- Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("Duke") -- Ellison, Ralph Waldo -- Evans, Mari -- Evanti, Lillian [Madame Evanti] -- Evers, Medgar Wiley -- Fauset, Jessie Redmon -- Flora, William -- Forten, Charlotte L. [Mrs. Francis J. Grimké] -- Forten, James [Sr.] -- Fortune, T[imothy] Thomas -- Franklin, John Hope -- Garnet, Henry Highland -- Garvey, Marcus [Mosiah] -- Gaston, Arthur George -- Gilpin, Charles S[idney] -- Giovanni, Nikki -- Grimké, Archibald H[enry].Haley, Alex Palmer -- Handy, W[illiam] C[hristopher] -- Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian -- Hayes, Roland -- Healy, James Augustine -- Hemings, Sally -- Henson, Matthew Alexander [Matt] -- Horne, Lena Mary Calhoun -- Hughes, [James] Langston -- Hunt, Richard Howard -- Hurston, Zora Neale -- Jefferson, Lemon ["Blind Lemon"] -- Johnson, Charles Spurgeon -- Johnson, James Weldon -- Johnson, John Harold -- Jones, James Earl -- Joplin, Scott -- Jordan, Barbara -- Julian, Percy Lavon -- Just, Ernest Everett -- King, Martin Luther Jr. -- King, Martin Luther Sr. -- Lafon, Thomy -- Larsen, Nella -- Latimer, Lewis H[oward] -- Lawless, Theodore K. -- Ledbetter, Huddie [Leadbelly] -- Lee, Canada [adopted name of Lionel Cornelius Canegata] -- Leidesdorff, William Alexander -- Lester, Julius Bernard -- Lewis, [Mary] Edmonia -- Locke, Alain Leroy -- McCoy, Elijah -- McCullough, Geraldine Hamilton -- McDaniel, Hattie -- McKay, Claude -- Marshall, Thurgood -- Matzeliger, Jan Earnst -- Mays, Benjamin Elijah -- Micheaux, Oscar -- Morgan, Garrett A. -- Morrison, Toni [Chloe Anthony Wofford] -- Motley, Constance Baker -- Myers, Isaac -- Norton, Eleanor Holmes -- Odetta (a.k.a. Odetta Gordon, Odetta Felious Gordon, Odetta Holmes) -- Overton, Anthony -- Owens, Jesse -- Paige, Leroy Robert (Satchel) -- Parks, Gordon Roger -- Parks, Rosa -- Paul, Thomas Sr. -- Payne, Daniel Alexander -- Perkins, Marion -- Poitier, Sidney -- Powell, Adam Clayton Jr. -- Price, (Mary) Leontyne -- Prosser, Gabriel.Rainey, "Ma" (Gertrude Pridgett Rainey) -- Randolph, A. (Asa) Philip -- Rapier, James Thomas -- Rillieux, Norbert -- Robeson, Eslanda Cardozo Goode -- Robeson, Paul -- Robinson, Jackie (Jack Roosevelt) -- Rudolph, Wilma (Glodean) -- Russwurm, John Brown -- Salem, Peter -- Scarborough, William Sanders -- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso -- Scott, Dred -- Simmons, William J. -- Singleton, Benjamin ["Pap"] -- Smalls, Robert -- Smith, Bessie -- Smith, Ferdinand C[hristopher] -- Smythe, John H. -- Spaulding, Charles Clinton -- Still, William -- Tanner, Henry Ossawa -- Terrell, Mary Church -- Thurman, Howard -- Tolton, Augustine -- Toomer, [Nathan] Jean -- Trotter, James Monroe -- Truth, Sojourner -- Tubman, Harriet -- Turner, Henry McNeal -- Turner, Nat -- Vann, Robert Lee -- Varick, James -- Vesey, Denmark -- Walker, Alice Malsenior -- Walker, Madame C.J. [Sarah Breedlove] -- Walker, David -- Walker, George -- Walker, Margaret Abigail (a.k.a. Margaret Walker Alexander) -- Washington, Booker T[aliaferro] -- Waters, Ethel -- Weaver, Robert Clifton -- Wells-Barnett, Ida Bell -- Wheatley, Phillis -- Whipper, Ionia R[ollin] -- Whipple, Prince -- White, Clarence Cameron -- White, Walter Francis -- Williams, Bert -- Williams, Daniel Hale [Dr. Dan] -- Williams, George Washington -- Williams, Paul Revere -- Wilson, August -- Wilson, J[ames] Finley -- Woods, Granville T. -- Woodson, Carter Godwin -- Wright, Richard -- X, Malcolm [Al Hajj Malik Al-Sha-Bazz] -- Young, Andrew -- Young, Charles.
Subjects: Biographies.; Dictionaries.; African Americans;
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