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NASHVILLE, North Carolina, January 17th, 1918.
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has always prviihd hrd and
conscientious work 6n th part;of
lu Officer and Directors; vvill.
Ingneas to aiu ana eaviae wun t
depositors, lo the neceary
principle ot. SAFETY in each
transaction. .
If without a bankiwt
home, we'll welcome
your account .
The first ' National Bank
locky MqudI N. C. ;, .
.Safest For Saving-
THE NATIONAL BANK
OF ROCKY. MOUNT
ROCKY .MOUNT. N. C.
Capital and Surplus
$ 200.000.00
Compounded Quarterly On
Savings.
Your Business Solicited.
To. H. Battle, President'
R H. Ricks, Vice President.
. S. L. Arriwrton. - Vice-President.
Fnuik F. Pagan, i : Cashier.
VV. U. Robbins, Asst. Cashier.
Professional Cards. '
...M't- .F-x. -i-ri-J.
F. T. BENNETT,
Attorney -at- law
' NA8HVILLE, N. C. '" ; '
. Special attention given to
Administrations. '
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' Office In Bank of Nashville Building.
0. B. MOSS,
Attorney and Counsellor-At-Law,
Spring Hope, N. C
. Office In Citizens Bank.
Dr. CYF. Smithsbn,
' DENTIST., '
Office Epstein Building "
Rocky Mount, N C. V
DP. R 6? CHAMBLEE
DENTIST.
Spring Hope, N. C." . ;
Office In Finch Building. f
S. F. Austin UL Davenport
. ALSTIN & DAVENPORT v.
M.AVVYE8S
P iiiitaHentioo given toall matters
Not HHSocioted in any
Recorder' Court Practice.
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Wltwu.
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Naaaville.
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Hr liupi attcntton grveh vall matters
ciitru-Nicd ti our care. UQice in .
- New La Ruildiovr. , . .
H. BRANTLEY.
. Spring Hope, H. Q,
DUeases of The Eye, , Ear,
. . Nose and Throat .
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FITTING GLASSES, f .
General Aiedicifle and Surgery;
- - Uiflce. Finch Buildinat. '
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. WlliM.u.N.Q 5 Raleigh, N. C
.- Dlck'msoi. toning & titcliln,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
W; North C '"na. '
rrsctlcel.ii 0 Courts cf Wl' n j
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PftlNCESS JOLANOA OF ITALY
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Princma Jolanda Is ths ldtt
daughter of the king and quen of
lUly, and Ilka tham aha has andearad
haraelf to tha Italian peopls during
the war. '
SMALLEST WEEKLY TOTAL YET
RESULT OF .. ACTIVE MEASURES
TAKEN BY THE BRITISH AND
AMERICAN NAVIES.
Only Six Brltiah Merehantmen 8urvk
During Weak and Only One of Those
. Above 1600 Tone Itallane Hold on
to New Lin Along Plavt,
Germanv'S
waning aa the result of the stringent
measarea that have been Uken to
combat It by the British and American
naval forces.' Last week only Six .
British merchantmen were sunk. and.
only ene of these waa a craft exceeding
1,600 tona. -: - .. . r -
This Is the smallest total of vessels
sent to the bottom during any week
alnc the submarine warfare began.
th loweat previous figures having been
twelve merchantmen, eight of them in
the category of l.SOOtons and over,
and four of less than 1,600 tons.
While the ItaUana continue to hold
tenaciously to "moat .of the. new line
along the Piave river rom the Adri
atic sa to the region of Feltre and
through the northern hills westward
from Feltre to Lake Gorda, they again
have been compelled to give growui in
noth ; sectors to the Teutonic aUM
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-Upon the ahouldera ot the Itallane
alone for several days must rest the
security of the Plave line and of his
toric Venice, for the information haa
been ' vouchsafed by Major . General
Maurice, chief director of military
operations at the British war office,
that it will be Vaome daya yet" before
British and French fighting forcea can
be placed in the field to reinforce the
ItaUana. - ''"': i ''
Meanwhile, the ' enemy is etrlving
energetically to force paaaagea of the
Plave at various points and again haa
11a uu aauu "
bee. ""ess ,
In crossing the stream at Grixola, foar 1
IWOHvf UaUoBf 'f uwi uioawn vs -ivuv -.
Here, however;' In the swamp regions ;
the Teutons are being 4d by the de-
fending forcea from further gains,
' . The north around Zeaaon, 'Where
the stream was negotiated hy the
Austro-Germans Tuesday, fighting j Us
still in progress. with the Italians hold
ing the upper hand, but not yet hav
ing beea able to drive back the invad
ers to the eastern bank of the stream.
Still farther north attempts to gain a
foothold on the western bank ot the
Piave between Quero and Feaere wre
repulsed with heavy caaualties, r -v
OFFICIAL. CLASSIFICATION
AS TO MILITARY DUTY
whl93oVmr
itary duty ad divided i and
in
order In which they will be called for
srvic waa officially tanounced in the
provost marshal general's question
naire which every registered ma must
fill out and ill.' The order shows
some change. frosa, the tentative draft
published . some time ago. - 1
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ppyy MILLIONS OF TONS
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Washington Tha 1917 coal short
age Is put at EO.CSO.O 9 tons ia esti
mates co a pleted by t' e laal adaiinis
(ration. A'houfh proJactlon of bitu
minous s 1 ..roe toesiber has
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DLD NORTH STATE KEWS
Brief Netat Covering Happenlnga In
Thla SUUa That Are of Interest to
All the People.
The minimum wholesale quantity 01
cottonseed meal which must be sola
by the crusher at I4.60 per ton waa ,
reduced from SO tona to 10 tons by a
ruling issued by 8Ute Food Adminis
trator Henry A. Page.
The operating pavilion and labora
tory at the bass hospital at Camp
Oreena were totally destroyed by Ore
entailing loss of between $75,000 and
$100,000, according to Major W. L.
Sheep, in command of the hospital. A
defective flue caused the Are.
Preparations are being made to en
large Camp Greene at Charlotte to ac
commodate another brigade of about
7,000 men, at a cost of $200,000. Addi
tional cantonment buildings are to b
constructed at once by the construct
ing quartermaster's department. j
The adjutant general's department
of the North Carolina national guard
la advised by tha war department that
tha staff, retired, and reserve officers
of tha North Carolina national guard
who have not heretofore been drawn
Into the service of the federal army
will have opportunity to enter 'one or
another of the alz training camps
ibout January 15 for special training
that will give them opportunity for
commissions up to major and active
tervlce thereafter. ,
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The increased collection in the office
of Interna Revenue Collector J. W.
Bailey for the first six months of the
Bscal year, amounts to $1,761,360 95.
The collections for December, 1917,
amounted to $830,169.17 over the same
month in 1916. The department la
)nst beginning to receive the war tax
and expects tha collections for the
next half fiscal year to exceed ten
million. j
j Mr. B. R, Lacy, State treasurer, has
' been appointed by Acting Grand Mas
j ter Norfle of the Grand Lodge of
North Carolina Masons ,to fill the un
expired term of the late grand treas
urer, Leo D. Heartt. The Grand Lodge
- meets here on January 15 and the lec
tion to fill that vacancy will be held
j then. Mr. W. J. Carter waa yesterday
tee, to suc:eed the late W. T. Lee.
Mr. W. S. Wilson, legislative refer
ence librarian, has. been appointed by
the trustees of the State" library, act
ing librarian; without salary, to' serve
nntil the next session of the general!
assembly, when an effort- will be made .
to co-ordinate all the . library facilities
of ttie State under one head. The ao-
tlnn of tha tniRtao fnllnwnrt the rea-
llinttion ol Mr. Alex J. Field as State
librarian to aka up a position to
which he haa been appointed in Wash
ington, D. C.
. ' "Make New ..Tear resolutions and
take Inventories too, but don't forget
your most valuable asset your
tiaaltti tvliM tha Rtata Rnnril 'nl
, Health.' "Whatever else a man has or
doegj his flret' consideration Is his
' health. Only a,.few --years ago, good
nelJth WM congjdered good luck, and
hA. h lth- h, ,uck - bnt now - Daf;
son's health Is known to be Just what
he makea it from his manner ot liv
ing. : Health la no longer considered a
matter of chance or a condition be
yond one's control, but on the other
hand, It is largely a personal mattjr
and' depends . on intelligent care and
treatment v ' : '
With a crowd of visitors estimated
at between 700 and, 1,000 souls, with
hhlt nf dttlrv nrndnpta.
nieat and show cattle, the aixth annual
. Mrffc .. , ,va
opened at Wilson with an addre.V of
welcome from Mr, R. W. Freeman, ais
trict agent of the Agricultural Exten
sion Service, i The weather was very
cold, with snow lying, around in all
protected places, but despite this tact
Mr. Dan T. Gray, chief of the Animal
Industry Division, goes on; record aa
feeling unusually good about the suc
cess of this meeting because of the
large first day"a attendance:: v. iv -
- Judge Albert L. Coble died at hla
borne on Walnut street of heart
trouble. V-He had an attack of heart
disease Some time ago, but, had seem
ingly recovered. H appeared to he
In usual health the day before, having
attended a directors' meeting, and at-
,r: ' rj -fcil
Safety D.
.l.- VUUIUIIDDIVUOI Wl a- uwaa-w
Hlden Ramsey has set a precedent In
North Carolina by appointing a spe
cial officer to investigate pro-German
talk or dialayol - utterance In this
city. .
Gertrude Wldenhouse, eight years
010, ib oeaa, ana nor vruiusr,
'UBU""-B r"
ot mi masmuK oi y mu,i uu..
truck by the section of No. 87, the fast
est train on the Southern system
about three miles north of Concord. V
Thomas H. Sutton, president of the
FayettevlUe chsmber of commerce. Is
In V.'tislilngion to confer with a com-.
n.Kte of ord'nr in relation to the
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400.000 NEW FOOD
INSTRUC
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CARDS
III
Every Patriotic American
Household Urgfd to Ob
serve "Porkle$t" Day.
SAVE AND SUBSTITUTE
SAYS HERBERT HOOVER
At Least One Meatless and
Wheatless MeI Each Day
: is Requested Statement
From Mr. Hoover Vital
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Suggestions Given Food
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Instruction Card for Every
Household in Entire State
Raleigh, Dec. II The State Food
Administration has Jut let contract!
for the printing of 400,000 supplement
tary home instruction Cara to be dl
tiibuted one for each household In tha
entire State. The issuance of these
additional instruction cards is prompt
ed by the increased seriousness ot th
food situation In Europe, both from tha
standpoint et military hecassity and
for the relief of huajdreds of thou
sands of Europeans who are threaten
ed with starvation unless immediate
relief can be give them.
Tha supplementary Instruction card
calls for a "porkless" day each week
la addition to "Meatless" and "Wheat
Ieaa" days, and for a wheatless and
meatless meal each day. .' ' Th con
umr la urged to use sugar on a basis
of not more than three pounds per per
bob per month. , Mr. Hoovr, on on
aide ot the card, frankly and Impres
sively presents the food situation m
"As a nation we eat and waste CO
per cent more protein than we require
to maintain health," the directions de
clare. "Therefore, we can reduce the
amount of meat we eat without harm.
We eat and waste 240 per cent more
fat than la necessary."
What la Called for Now.
Aside from the general directions
contained in the first home InstruV
tion oard the new card' asks everyone'
to maintain rigid economy of at least:
ONE WHEATLESS day each week
and one WHEATLESS MEAL each
day, the wheatless day to be Wednesday.-
By wheatless we mean to eat
no wheat products.
ONE MEATLESS DAT each week,
which shall be Tuesday and one meat
less meal each day. By meatless we
mean to eat no red meat beef, pork, '
mutton, veal, lamb; ' no preserved
most beef, bacon, ham or lard.
ONE PORKLESS day each week . In
addition to Tuesday, which' shall be
Saturday. By porkless we mean ho
fresh or salted pork, bacon, '.lard or
bam. , '
; '; SUGAR 'You can materially reduce
sugar by reducing' the use of candy
and sweet drinks. We will make every
endeavor to see thafr the country - is
provided with a Supply of household
augar on the basis of three pounds of
sugar for each person per month. Do
not consume more. '"'fYv.-y'
y ' We Are a Wasteful People,
" Human foodstuffs comprise -- three
principal elements:; .. J-.
PROTEIN: Mainly present in meat,
beans, fish, poultry, milk, and to same
extent in grains. -. j; :;;-V.
FATS; That Is, butter, cream, lard,
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cotton seed oil and other vegetable
oils. , . - '
. CARBOHYDRATES : Grains, sugar,
potatoea and other vegetable j.
. Aa a nation we eat and waate (0 per
cent more protein than w require to
maintain health. - Therefore, we can
reduce the amount of meat 1 we . eat
without barm. - , . - v -. ,
, - We eat and waste 240 per cent more
fat than is necessary.
" , Of the carbohydrates we can just
as well consume corn, oats and other
cereals a wheat, and we have abund
ant supplies of potatoes and vege
tables
" rtn ant limit vonr Hunnllea of milk
and table butter, bat consume it all.
Don't waste any. - ' - 1
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fata by racing .try and MU
tew
Remember th Gospel of the Clean
Plate, the serving ofsmaU portions,
uie yvcum w .hpuw. :
What Hoarding Doe.
Aay person in the United States who
buys more foodstuffs than he custom
arily keeps at home in peace time is
date ting the Food Ad: nlnlstratio in
It purpose to aecur a just dlstribw
tion of food and in it grmt eadeaw
era to.rednee prices. Tie tvw,r r-f of
fori In ;nj.'ho"s Is r t r- V ' '
NORTH
CAROLINA
It la selfish and la a cause of high
prices.
. Such sctlons multiplied by thoa
sands Increase the demands upon oui
railways for cars and already, because
of our military demands, It la with ex
treme difficulty we can tow move th
vitally necessary food to market
There is much insi&ous propaganda
In the country against conservation
and increased production. All oppo
sition to these services Is direct as
sistance to the enemy.
The Situation Grave.
The reverse side of the card carries
a message to those who have signed
the pledge card of the Food Adminis
tration. It la as follows:
To Members of the United States
Food Administration:
The food situation In Europe Is far
graver than when the preliminary sur
vey of the food supply of the world
for this year waa made. We have an
abundance for ourselves,- and It la the
firm policy of the Food Administra
tion, by the prevention of exports, to
retain for our people an ample aupply
of every essential foodstuff. The bar
vests of our Allies have proved leas
than we had contemplated, and tha
great curtailment of shipping by the
suDmarmes auring we lasi lew
months has further prevented them
from access to more remote markets.
Beyond the demands of the Allies
submarines during the last tew
there is a call upon ua by the friendly
neutrals for food supplies, and if waj
cannot at least In part respond to
these neutral calls, starvation on an
unparalleled scale must ensue.
Greater Sacrifice Necessary.
Food haa now taken a dominant po
sition in the war, and we must ask
the American people to sacrifice far
more than was first thought neces
sary. We have exported the whole of
the surplus of the wheat from this
harvest after reserving to ourselves an
amount sufficient for our normal -con
sumption of seed and flour until th
next harvest and therefore the amount
of wheat flour that the Unltad States
can contribute to mix with the war
bread of our Allies during this winter
will be simply the amount that our
peopl reduce their consumption
month by month. In other words, ev
ery grain ot wheat or its products that
the Allies receive from the United
States from now until the next har
vest will be exactly the amount which
our people have saved each month on
thai hah.lf . ' '-
more meat ana lata ipora, a airy prod
ucts and vegetable oils) than we con
sider our monthly production permits
us to send them without trenching on
our own supplies, or, on the other
hand, unless we can consume leas. Due
to the shortage In shipping, our avail
able sugar supplies must be less than
normal from the present time forward.
Every Particle Saved Will Count
Thus every particle of diminished
consumption by the American people
Is one particle more for the soldiers,
men, women and children of our Al
lies and tor the starving people in oth
er countries. This Is a personal obli
gation upon every one of us toward
some individual abroad who' will suf
fer .privation to the extent ot our own
Individual negligence.
If we are to reduce the consump
tion of the few products which ws
should export abroad, we. will need to
eat a larger proportion of many dif
ferent foodstuffs which we cannot ex
port and which we have at home. Fer
. this reason we MUST NOT waste ANY
foodstuffs. ..A great many individuals)
In our population eat far more food
' than IS necessary to maintain their
health and strength. In this emergen
cy only the simplest of living is patri
otic. We want no person in the Unit
ed States to eat less than is required
' for good health and full strength, tor
I in this emergency America requires
I every atom ot the productive power el
' ear people. While many can eat less
all of our population can substitute
I other- foodstuffs for the few that are
. We must not overtook the tact that
Russia - collapsed not because ot th
Germans on her . borders but largely
because of the failure to organise and
, Wln
feed her own cltisens, and, IF WE
ARE TO emerge victbrloua from this
war, we , cannot risk the collapse of
another of our Allies from this same
cause. There is no waste 01 rood
among any of our Allies there is ths
most drastio reduction In their con
sumption; there Is actual privation
among their women and -childrra;
there la starvation in Belgium.
. ' Problem for Individual. -
We have already Issued a series of
suggestions la the Home Card a card
that la now hanging in over ten mil
lions of homes. These suggestions
have already shown important results,
w 10886 D0W aa otnera, xae
problem of saving in food ia a local
and individual one, so that more pre-
else na definite rule. u.t to all ca-
aot u tonnttlated. tt it , mttw (or
; the ' conscientious '. consideration : ol
every individual that he or she should
eat only that which is necessary.; to
maintain bodily health and strength
and unselfishly to select those food
stuffs the use ot which rellavea inter
national necessities. . In ; this winter
of 1118 lies th period when there will
be tested in this great tree country ot
ours the question as to whether or not
our people are capable of voluntary
individual salf-iacrlflce to aav th
world.
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X Cuban Surgeon Offers
; Complete Hospital Unit
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I'll! 1 1 1 It 1 1 1 M t H"rH I f
Dr. Rafael Menocal. a leading Cuban
surgeon, has srrtved in this country to
take np-wtth the American Rrd Cross
officials preparations for the field hos
pital and aqalpment to be sent to
Franc by the Cuban Red Cross. The
organization of thla nnlt la du to the
effort of Mm. Mariana Sera tfe Me
nocal, wife of the president of Cuba.
Doctor Menocal brought with him the
newa thst more than half of the million-dollar
fund necessary to maintain
the Cnban Red Cross hospital unit baa
already been paid In.
GREAT FORCES OF INFANTRY
BRITI8H EVERYWHERE ARE RE
PORTED TO BE HOLDING LINE
FIRMLY.
German Use Masses of Artillery
About Twenty Divisions General
By ng's Forces Mak Gain In Sev
eral Plaoaa. ""
SExtremely 'hardgMlnt with' the
Germana using great forcea of infant
ry in mass formation, is taking place
along the southwestern and south
eastern sections .of the Cambral aa
llent. In the region of Gonnelleu, La Vac
querle and southward ' to Vendhuil
and northward toward Masnieres, bat
tles waged with great . fierceness
throughout Monday, tut with th Ger
mana nowhere sucessful la breaking
the British front At La Vacquerle
they again succeeded in penetrating
the village from which they were ejec
ed previously, but a strong counter
attack again turned the scales in favor
of General Byng's forces, who threw
out the enemy, inflicting heavy caaual
ties on him. '
As in their previous attacks, the
Germana used great masses of artil
lery, but the British forces every
where met their onslaughts stoically
sad at last accounts were firmly hold
ing their line at all points.
Although the Germans in their of
fensive have been using men reckoned
at 20 divisions, the British have been
able at aeveral points to regain some
ot the ground they lost in the initial
attack which waa delivered with a
suddenness similar to that ot Byng's
big drive toward Cambrai Sunday
night they had gained the eastern
edge of the village of Vlllers-Gulslain
and driven out the Germans from La
Vscquerie. They held this latter po
sition until Monday morning, when
they were compelled again to cede it
to the enemy, only to take it again
RELEASED BALLOONS ARE
BROUGHT DOWN IN SAFETY
: Kansas City, Mo. Two United
States army observation balloons, un
leashed by accident and shot ungulded
into th air, have been brought to the
ground. One, a huge bag of the new
French type, escaped from students
at Fort Omaha, Neb, and trailing 6,000
feet of steel tethering cable, traveled
a spectacular .course through Nebras
ka, Kansas, Oklahoma and thenc
back into Nebraska, where it waa cap
tured. -v ,r-v ., :';.,'-:-yy. '
S-Vv- Chemical, Plant ; Wrckd.
Pittsburgh, Pa. Eight men were
killed, two are missing and more than
N were injured, many of them seri
ously, by an explosion that wrecked
the T. N. T." plant of the Aetna
Chemical Company at Heidelberg, a
suburb. The explosion did damage es
timated at 8260,000 to the plant and
shattered windows in factories and
homes for a radius ot nearly two miles.
NO DIRECT DENIAL OF
. FUEL OR TRANSPORTATION
' Washington. Curtailment . ot non
essential Industries to save fuel an 1 j
transportation will be accompli he 1 1
for th present, at least, alwost v, :. r v
by indirection. This was ira's c-r.
in official quarters, where it 1 '
dicftted there probal'y v !!1 ! ) ;
rect d.-' 1 of e:.her ti"l r
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VI
BECOMING AN
. ; INVESTOR
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The' ''bin" opportunity that corr
to practically evpry individual at
one time or another a'most invaria
bly requires some money. '
The wise plan is to begin saving to.
day-now. With 'the 'start and a
determination to succeed financial
progress is sure.
It only requires $1.00 to
make the start by open
ing an account in
this Institution.
Planters Nation! Bank
Rocky Mount, N. C.
Every Citizen of Nes'i
County is Invited
to Visit
NASH COUNTY'S
New Bank:
Farmers & Merchant
Bank.
Roc Icy Mount.
Has recently installed its
new fixtures and awaits witlr
pleasure to show you its
Complete ' Banking Equip
ment . " ' '
T.T. Thorne,
President
vZWOSffififi
V!J,'Vice Pr.
T- A. Avery,
Vice
W W. Avery.
Visitors Frcm NasL.v
When in Rocky Mount
Stop at the :
ROCKY MOUNT HOTEL
AND CAFE
For Ladies and Gentkmo.
European Plan.
The home of trood Eats:
Where Quality and Quantity
iaiKs. - .
HOME COOKING. "
GOOD SERVICE.
246 S. Main St."
Central Location. Steam Heat and
Running Water in Every Room. '
T. O. COPPEDGE
Physician and Surgeon
Office in Grand Jury Building
. PHONE 14
' ' Nashville, N. C.
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