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"A woman of questionable character has escaDed from a ] hospital in Wilmington, .where she was being treated for an overdose of laudanum (opium) taken with the evi- 1 dent intent of self-destruc tion. Street car companies have issued orders to their motormen to run their cars with especial care for a time, as the woman has threatened to throw herself across the tracks at some opportune time in order to kill her self* "Governor (Robert B.) . Glenn was in the grand stand at a negro baseball game at | Winston-Salem when it was ; struck by lightning and two ( negroes seriously stunned. He was not shocked in the least." | These were all front-page stores from The Duplin Journal, a weekly founded in Faison in 1901 and edited by John M. Faison. A copy of its July 27, 1905. issue was found by Theron Leonard of I Winnabow, the Morning News mailroom foreman, who collects and preserves old newspapers as a hobby. Glancing through the four page Journal takes today's readea back to a different era. I Subscription rates were SI a year; 50 cents for six months. "All communica tions to be addressed to the Duplin Journal and when I anonymous go to the waste basket." the masthead pro claimed. Automobiles were still a novelty. A front-page I Journal story, excerpted from the Raleigh Post, des cribed how "Prof. Vernon Howell of Chapel Hill" had taken a friend for a ride in his I motor car at Pullen Park. There, "the machine, weigh ing 1.600 pounds, plunged down a five-foot embank ment." I The Chapel Hill professor had to hire a colleague from I A. & M. College (modern day N.C. State University) to "rescue" his car. In place of today's car crash accounts, the Journal reported that "Mrs. Alice Fowler, a rural mail carrier from Burlington" had been "painfully injured" when her buggy-horse was fright ened by a passing train and I ran out of control. Banking was organized differently at the turn of the century. Instead of branches of three or four financial I giants, each community seemed to have an indepen dent bank of its own. The Bank of Duplin at Wallace. The Bank of Warsaw and the I Bank of Faison (which boasted capital of more than $38,000) all advertised in the Journal. Even the crops were dif I ferent. Cotton farming has largely disappeared from Southeastern North Carolina, yet in 1905 the Journal devoted twice as much space I to cotton quotations as it did to tobacco prices. NO fewer than six fruit and produce wholesalers, from as far away as New York, I Philadelphia and Boston, placed ads in the Journal--a reminder of how important strawberries and other fruits once were to this area's ? economy. In 1905, the Journal seemed to be a healthy newspaper: roughly half its space, including the front page was taken up by adver ? tising. Of course, there were no ? ads for used cars, movies or TV show s. On the other hand, the Journal was filled with pro motions for all sorts of patent ? medicines, including some ads camouflaged as news stories. ("An Ohio Fruit Raiser, 78 Years Old, Cured of a Terrible Case After Ten H Years of Suffering," read one headline.) Congress did not pass America's first Pure Food and Drug Act until 1906. i First Quarter Savings Bonds Sales Sales of Series EE Savings Bonds in Uuplin County during the first three months of 1983 totaled $12,340,591. according to W. Ray John son, volunteer county chair man. ? Many nostrums still on the narket at that time had no nedical value, despite grandiose cl.'lms to the con :rary. Some, in fact, proved ander chemical analysis to be little more that grain alcohol >r liquified opiates. Some of the medicines promoted in the Journal are still around, like Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound or Carter's Pills. Others have disappeared: Mozley's Lemon Elixir for the Liver and Bowels, Pax tine Toilet Antiseptic ("for women troubled with ills peculiar to their sex"l Cas carets Candy Cathartic (for "Lazy Liver") and Kodol Dypepsia Cure ("Digests what you eat"). Other aspects of Duplin County life were not so charming. In one ot its edirotials, the Journal noted that more than 150 cases of smallpox had been repined in Wayne and Sampson counties. It sug gested that farmers get their Families vaccinated as soon as their crops were in, as the disease was certain to spread. "The time is not far dis tant in Duplin When vaccina tion must be thorough and it will be up to our cunty commissioners to act in this manner." the editorial said. Elsewhere, the Journal took notice of Wilmington financier Hugh MacRae's ef forts to promote colonization of the region by foreigh immigrants. In 1905. MacRae was just starting to bring Dutch. Polish. Hungarian and Greek immigrants to the Castle" Hayne area. Italians were being brought to St. Helena in Pender County, and Ger mans were trying to settle in Columbus County at New Berlin--the original name of Delco. The Journal quoted with approval the comments of J.B. Blades, a lumber dealer from New Bern. "We are doubtful of the advantage to the South of introducing Italian labor. I. personally, had rather see less manufacturing and a slower growth of the country than having them intro duced. What we desire are the people from Northern Europe, who can assimilate with our people and become a part of them...We are not in sympathy with...the mafia systems. We do not want (to be) cursed with cutthroats and anarchy.'-' ? Like most white-owned publications of the period, the Journal supported white supremacy and segregation. Black people were referred to as "negroes" or "colored" with no capitalization. In its July 27 issue, the paper' quoted an editorial from the Manufacturer's Record, a trade journal published in Virginia: "The most reliable of the negroes are those who came out of slavery and who have little if any schooling, while the youngest generation pro duces the poorest laborers, in every respect unreliable." Another glimpse of social relations in 1905 may be found in the Journal's main local story, the hanging of Dan Teachey in Kenansville. North Carolina did not adopt the electric chair until 1910; before then, executions were carried out in the county seats. Teachey was hanged on July 20. 1905, in the pre sence of 30 witnesses, "in cluding officers, guards, physicians, ministers of the gospel and newspapermen." the Journal reported. "At 9:30, the death war rant was read to him, to which he listened unmoved, although his sister, who sat by his side, was greatly agitated. He was then baptized and received into the Presbyterian church... Prayers were offered by request by Rev. V.A. Royal, a Methodist minister, and Postmaster Jones." Teachey had been con victed of the murder of Robert Rivenbark. Accord ing to the Journal's account of the crime, the two men had met on March 4, 1903, "at the home of one Easter Williams, colored." According to witnesses, Teachey shot Rivenbark in the abdomen, beat him severely and then beat Easter Williams'"with the pistol, which was still smok ing in his right hand, and a stit-k in his left." Rivenbark lingered for two day before dying, the Journal reported. A letter to editor, signed only "A Friend." urged readers to take pity on Teachey's parents and seven sisters and not to blame them for his wrongdoing.
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