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VOLUME 5
NEW BERN, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1963
NUMBER 40
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From time to time, while
putting new mirrors In old pic
ture frames, Rovert Arthur of
the Craven Glass Company
comes across Interesting items.
One of the latest, resting tem
porarily on our desk, Is the
March 8, 1915, issue of the
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Headlines on the front page
are a reminder that the world
was having its troubles. Anarchy
was reigning In Portugal, Tur
kish troops had slain 80 "non
believer” Christians, 15 English
vessels had been sent to the
bottom by German submarines,
and the United States was de
manding of General Carranza
an Improvement of conditions
in Mexico City.
Harry Kendall Thaw, slayer
of Stanford White in one of
history’s most celebrated
cases, was facing trial for con
spiracy to escape from New
York’s State Hospital For the
Criminally Insane. He had been
saved from execution because
of his questioned sanity.
President Wilson, the Even
ing Bulletin announced, of
ficially cancelled his visit to
the San Francisco Exposition
because of the pressure of his
many duties. "I could not go
away with a clear cons^ggej.”_.
All was not gloom on March
8, 1915. A front page story said
hundreds of Princeton under
graduates had been converted
in Princeton’s First Presbyte
rian church by Evangelist Billy
Sunday, after two preachings of
his "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
sermon. He immediately
launched into a third sermon
for the day, for those who
could not get into the church
for the first two services.
Gimbels, in a half page ad,
was letting it be known that you
could have a player-piano or
an upright piano sent to your
home with "not a penny asked
in advance.” It called attention
to the fact that "The Great
Caruso is Chief Endorser and
Constant User of the Player-
Piano.”
Berg Brothers was having
quite a sale. Women’s 75 cents
dresses had been reduced to
39 cents, and women’s slip
pers from $1 to 25 cents. Un
bleached sheeting, usually
selling for 10 cents, had been
reduced to four cents, and
family-size wash boards were
now only a dime.
It paid to have little hands.
Odds and ends of women's kid
gloves, mostly small sizes,
were selling for 15 cents, silk
hosiery was 10 cents, boys
knickerbocker pants were 27
cents, and men’s and boys suits
and overcoats that normally sold
for $8.50 and $10 were only
$3.95.
Special corsets, medium bust
with good supporters attached,
were selling for 29 cents, and
men's soft hats were 50 cents.
Suspenders, usually priced at
50 cents were now 16 cents.
Included were the heavy webbing
type worn by firemen and
policemen, and the light-web
narrow ones.
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DELVING FOR KNOWLEDGE—^Lois Brinson of New Olive College campus, with other students relaxing in
Bern and Howard Bryan of Kinston, presidient of the the background. New Bern hopes to land the college^
Student Government Association, concentrate on facts while citizens in the Wayne town are determined to
they’ll be needing in class later. The scene is the Mount keep the institution in their own community.
FAITHFUL PUBLIC SERVANTS—Pictured here in a
cla.ssroom, appropriately enough, are board members
of the Vanceboro School District and District Principal
Ed P. Blair. Seated, left to right, are Lathon Morris,
Chairman; A. F. Wood and Eddie Haddock. Standing,
left to right, are C. D. Newell, I. W. Toler, Secretary
J. W. Buck, and Blair. Inciddentaly, there’s good ad'vice
on the blackboard behind them.—Photo by John R.
Baxter.
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