There are a lot of curiosities in the old newspapers we’re digitizing, but rarely do I come across any complete mysteries like this ad, which I found in the Fayetteville Observer from January 8, 1863. Do any of you know anything about Blue Mass?
Archive for January, 2012
Blue Mass
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on January 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
100-year-old candidate peered through ‘revolutionary’ lens
Posted in History, On This Day, tagged dr henry stenhouse, goldsboro nc, johnny carson, ophthalmologists, wayne county nc on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1990: Dr. Henry Stenhouse, a Goldsboro ophthalmologist, announces his candidacy for Congress. At 100, Stenhouse is perhaps the oldest person ever to run for office in North Carolina. “I’m a revolutionary,” says Stenhouse, who opposes welfare, seat-belt laws and AIDS research. After a campaign that includes an appearance on “The Tonight [...]
Stephen Colbert turns state motto on its head
Posted in Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged esse quam videri, nc state motto, stephen colbert, videri quam esse on January 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“In the last part of the show… Colbert typically leaps up from his desk and bounds across the set to a table in front of a fireplace with the Latin motto ‘Videri quam esse’ (“To seem to be, rather than to be”), where he interviews a guest about a new book or movie….” – From [...]
Check out what’s new to the North Carolina Collection
Posted in Tar Heelia on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Several new titles just added to “New in the North Carolina Collection?” To see the full list simply click on the link in this entry or click on the “New in the North Carolina Collection?” tab at the top of this page. As always, full citations for all the new titles can be found in [...]
Artist’s career turned, accelerated after Caro-Graphics
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged allan holtz, caro-graphics, fulbright fellowships, michael jones, murray jones jr, shirley-jones gallery, stripper's guide on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The hat tip I extended to comics historian Allan Holtz for his research on Caro-Graphics was inadequate to begin with. Now Allan has added to his Stripper’s Guide blog a fascinating — and surprising — profile of Murray Jones Jr., primary artist for the 1930s newspaper panel depicting a predigital North Carolina miscellany. Jones, we [...]
North Carolina Newspapers on Twitter
Posted in DigitalNC, History on January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
If today’s headlines have you down, trying reading old news instead. The NC Digital Heritage Center makes its first foray into Twitter with @ncnewspapers, where we’ll be tweeting a historic headline every day from that day in history. The stories we feature will span the full range of North Carolina history from the 19th and [...]
Occupy Charlotte, circa 1840s
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Does this sound familiar? The most odious feature in this system is that it robs the MANY, imperceptibly, to enrich the FEW;–It clothes a few wealthy individuals with power not only to control the wages of the laboring man, but also at their pleasure to inflate or depress the commerce and business of the whole [...]
Sen. Bailey gives a filibuster tutorial
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged court packing, fdr, filibuster, sen edward burke, sen. josiah bailey on January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Senate rules forbade members from speaking more than twice per day on a given piece of legislation, but a senator was free to offer as many amendments to the bill as he wished and could then speak twice on each amendment. …. [Preparing to filibuster FDR's plan to 'pack' the Supreme Court, Senator Edward Burke [...]
Union troops no match for N.C. mosquitoes
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged 1493, charles c mann, malaria, mosquitoes, nc civil war, roanoke island on January 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“An expeditionary force of 15,000 [Union troops] landed at Roanoke Island in early 1862 and spent much of the war enforcing a naval blockade from a fort on the coastline. The air at dusk shimmered with Anopheles quadrimaculatus. Between the summer of 1863 and the summer of 1864 the official annual infection rate for intermittent [...]
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