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Bruce Osburn

Inflation must have driven Yancy's prices up because when we moved there in 1948 the price was 25¢ and along about 1951 or so they shot up to 35¢... and with hand-squeeze clippers to boot! OUCH!

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My guess is that there was already an established area of Hamlet called Fairview Heights and the school was built within that area, hence Fairview Heights School. Sounds logical....

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An on-line inflation chart shows that the $290,000 (yearly ?) payroll in 1932 has an approximate equivalency in 2017 dollars of $5,200,000. Buttercup was indeed an major employer in the Hamlet area!

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Actually, I'm not mad. I was just trying to inject a little humor into the game by teasing Eddie of guessing "mule" 8 minutes before I guessed "horse". Give us another trivia question, Eagle One and I'll play again. (Notice there are no exclamation points in this post. This one i...

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Hey! That's not fair! I eliminate all the obvious answers and Eddie slips in sideways with the right answer! That's just like Jeopardy... the fellow with the last answer gets the prize. I quit!

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A horse?

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I got it! I got it! A tractor! He was hiding under a tractor!

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Well, now I'm 0 for 3... three strikes and I'm out, but since the last one could be considered a foul tip I get another swing. So how about a haystack?

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Okay, so I'm 0 for 2. Well, how about a rickety ol' farm wagon left out in the open?

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Okay, so I was wrong. How about hiding in a peach packing house on the south end of Battley Dairy Road?

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I know! I know! He was hiding under a huge sand lug on Goodman's tobacco farm!

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Sorry, guys, I never intended to get so deeply into this post but I found more info on dear ol' Fannie Settle Covington Dockery. It appears, from on-line info, that Fannie was much more than just a regular run-of-the-mill slave owner. Her second husband, Oliver Hart Dockery, owned a plantation in hi...

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A little more about Fannie Dockery. CIVIL WAR CLAIM OF DAMAGES BY FRANCES SETTLE COVINGTON DOCKERY During the advance of the Union Army through Richmond County in March 1865 the soldiers' clothing, sustenance and feed for their horses were supplied mostly, if not solely, by the people of the country...

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Was the Ideal Farm Dairy (or is that Diary?) located on highway 74 East of Hamlet, directly across from where Coco-Cola would later build a bottling plant? We had milk delivered to our house on present-day Gin Mill Road way back in the early 50s and it was delivered by the dairy located on #74. But ...

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OOPS! I made a big mistake in the initial post to this topic. Further searching turned up thirteen Richmond County residents who recovered compensation covering parts of their claims, but not all claims. The lucky ones were James Chavis of Laurel Hill; John Chavers of Rockingham; Daniel Currie; Benj...

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Just recently, while searching on-line records for my elusive Civil War ancestors, I ran across a site for claims submitted by citizens of southern states who petitioned the U.S. government for compensation of property stolen by Union soldiers. During William Sherman's northward advance through the ...

Bruce Osburn

You gotta' love that ad copy: "Will be operated in a high class manner". Does that mean coat and tie for men and high heels for the ladies? Or does it mean all the teen aged drunks will be hidden from sight out behind the last group of cars parked near the bushes?

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A good example of self-help reducing the cost of a meeting place, reducing actual cost to just a little more than half of what the building is valued. But I don't know that I -- as a dues-paying member of a private club -- would like to cough up a half-day's wages to attend a members-only function. ...

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OOPS! Looks like I goofed up when I said "diner". I unconsciously used the lower case generic term for a small restaurant and didn't mean to identify it as the Diner, of which you can find one in most cities and towns. Sorry.

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Freddie, I thought that was where the diner was located, right across Main Street from the Terminal Hotel. The only time I remember eating there was way back in Autumn of 1962. A buddy and I were on weekend liberty from Norfolk and stopped in for a late night sandwich and coffee when we ran into a c...

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Where was this restaurant located, and how long was it in operation?

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OK, it's the timber rattler.

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By golly, Betty, I think you nailed it!

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Well, OK. How about milking fish in a hatchery? You know, squeezing female fish that are heavy with roe to forcible extract the eggs for artificial insemination and then allowing the eggs to mature and hatch to be introduced into local streams. And isn't there a state fish hatchery near Hamlet?

Bruce Osburn

Since N.C. carries the name of "Tar Heel State", is the collection of pine sap still practiced? Could that be called "milking the pines"?

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Interesting ad. But who is the model? Anyone recognize their granny?

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Jody, thanks for answering my questions. You told me all I asked, and more. Now I have a better understanding of what it took to make a freight go down the tracks.

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Perhaps an old time railroader can tell me what purpose a freight train caboose served. What accommodations did it have? Who occupied it? What was its source of power for lighting, heat. etc.? How did a worker in the caboose communicate with the engine? And when cabooses were discontinued, what repl...

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How about something to do with hand-cars before they became motorized, sort of like the ones we used to see Charlie Chaplin hand pumping to get out of the way of a runaway engine?

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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cg ... 71&df=all&

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I was surfing around today and zoomed-in on 2nd Street with Google maps to see the long leaf pines Jerry Pait said were planted by the Hamlet Garden Club to hide his grandfather's house from view (1957 City Lake Project). I also noticed that Boyd's Lake is now a lake in name only, having deteriorate...

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Interesting item, that envelope. From Hamlet to San Pedro in 32 hours, that's better than today. But what's just as interesting to me are the two postage stamps. It's widely accepted here on the east coast that St. Augustine, Fla., is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the USA. But those two...

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Good history, David. And that sleeper car ticket is even more interesting. $9.15 seems like a reasonable price to pay for a a restful night's sleep from Hamlet to NYC. But what kind of taxes were piled atop one another to arrive at a 10 per cent tax rate? Scary!

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Jody, your post about the Rockingham Railroad sent me off on a google search and I discovered that I had been mistaken for more than 65 years about that road. I have always referred to that road as the Rockingham and Bennettsville Railroad but my google search did not reveal any such road, only the ...

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Regarding the item about the Rockingham and Hamlet airport... I didn't know that the ACL road was at one time in Richmond County but I see that it was once the road that the Rockingham and Bennettsville RR ultimately ran on. "Keep your eyes and ears open and you'll learn something every day&quo...

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For those of you who are interested in this topic:
http://vp40.com/wp-content/uploads/2012 ... -ships.pdf

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An item from the Daily Dispatch , Richmond, Va., Apr. 5, 1884: FLAMING FORESTS. North Carolina Pineries Swept by Fire -- A Town Menaced. A Raleigh special says: The greatest fire ever known here began yesterday. Last night and this morning it swept through the vast forests of yellow pine which stret...

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Okay, I gave up and did a little googling. This is what I found on Wikipedia: U.S. naval aviation began with pioneer aviator Glenn Curtiss who contracted with the Navy to demonstrate that airplanes could take off from and land aboard ships at sea. One of his pilots, Eugene Ely, took off from the USS...

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I think the 1st launch was from a converted collier (coal ship)

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@TR4, The filthiest stuff I have ever seen on a city sidewalk is pigeon poop. In 1956 when I went on liberty in the loop in downtown Chicago I've seen rows of mounded humps of bird droppings that extended for blocks. The rows of crap were just a few feet from the buildings, precisely the same distan...

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Egg yolk.

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@TR4, You asked in a post that has mysteriously disappeared where you could buy a couple of quarter horses. I had no idea where you might find them so I did an on-line search but had no success. However, I did find a beautifully matched pair of saw horses at Home Depot for $28.00.

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TR4, It looks like my riddle solving is terrible. But since no one else took a guess, how about telling me how you have only half a horse. (And I don't think I'd like to have half a horse because I'd probably get the end that needs feeding.)

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Your half a horse is a mule. Got'cha!

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You are part custodian, along with three other individuals, of two horses. Therefore you actually have just half of a horse, with the other horse and a half in the care of the other three people. Case solved.

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The reason I didn't reply to this post earlier is because I thought sure someone would post the date of the first one right away. But this looks like more of a poser than I first suspected. I don't know when the first parade was held but the last one I went to was in Dec. 1952. And I doubt very seri...

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Great link David, thanks for posting it. I spent the better part of the early evening surfing through the site. A lot of memories resurfaced as I looked upon the faces of my classmates, back in a time when we were all young and foolish. And although a span of more than 60 years has passed I still re...

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Hey! Those rentals seem to be reasonable but I can go one better. In 1960, when I was in between navy hitches, and living in Waycross, Ga., I had room and board at an old tourist court. You know the type, a restaurant surrounded by stand-alone cabins. They were quite common in the 40s and 50s and co...

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OK, so I screwed up with "Hump Master" but I do believe that ol' mutt still had a railroad-jargon name. Maybe "car knocker" or "hotbox". Or "Seaboard". Or maybe just a simple "Move, Dog!"

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Dog's name was "Hump Master".

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