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[Identification of item], in the Rhodes Military Institute Records #4102, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Cyrus King of D. H. Hill Library, North Carolina State University, in October 1980.

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• Antismoking movement--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Military education--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Rhodes Military Institute (Kinston, N.C.)--Students--History--20th century.
• Rhodes Military Institute (Kinston, N.C.). Anti-Cigarette League.

• HAMILTON H. HOBGOOD PAPERS (#4246).

Rhodes Military Institute was founded in 1902 by William Henry Rhodes in Kinston, N.C., and apparently served both as a military academy and business school. It closed in 1909.

Constitution, by-laws, and pledges with lists of subscribers of the cadet Anti-Cigarette League of Rhodes Military Institute and its Young Ladies Auxiliary; and scattered other items.