Posted in Just A Bite, tagged nc sales tax, wall street journal on May 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“The Attorney-General of North Carolina has ruled that passengers in railroad cars who are served a meal in North Carolina must pay the state sales tax even though they don’t finish the dessert until they’re in Virginia, which has no such tax.” – From “A Dangerous Ruling” in the Wall Street Journal (Nov. 9, 1954) [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged camel cigarettes, r j reynolds tobacco, richmond va, wall street journal, winston-salem nc on April 13, 2013 | 1 Comment »
“The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., formerly one of the largest subsidiaries of the American Tobacco Co., contemplates entering the cigarette manufacturing field. “The main plug and smoking tobacco factories of the company are located at Winston-Salem, N.C., but it has not definitely decided as yet whether or not to locate the cigarette manufacturing end of [...]
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged cameron mcwhirter, civil war deaths by state, confederate monuments, earthquakes in nc, josh howard, nc capitol, paintings of george washington, Thomas L. Clingman, thomas sully, wall street journal, William B. Creasman on March 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
– Did Civil War actually claim more Virginians than North Carolinians? Don’t miss this one — keen reportage by Cameron McWhirter of the Wall Street Journal. – Won’t you come home, George Washington? – Asheville’s monumental forgetfulness – Pa, you can cancel that tsunami insurance….
