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Mystery poison.

Wilson Advance, 16 November 1899.

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Roosevelt fraternal organization fratricide fraud Frederick Douglass High School free-for-all freedmen Freedmen's Bank Freedmen's Bureau Freeman Freeman Round House Freeman Roundhouse Freeman Vines free pass free people of color Free Will Baptist church Freewill Baptist church freight car freight train hopping Friends of Geer Cemetery frostbite fugitive Fulcher Fulghum Fuller. fundraiser fundraising funeral funeral home funeral program funeral records funeral register furlough furniture fusion Gaither gambling gangrene garden Gardners township Garveyite gas chamber Gaston gastrointestinal disease Gause Gay Gear genealogy Genius Grant Gentlemen's Agreement gentrification Geographic Information System George George H. 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O'Hara janitor Japan jazz jazz orchestra Jefferson Jeffries Jenkins jeweler Jim Crow jitney John C. Dancy Johnson Johnson C. Smith University Johnston County Johnston County NC Jones Jones County NC Jones Hill Jones Street Jordan Joseph C. Price Josephus Daniels Josh Gibson journalist Joyner Joyners Depot Joyners township judge judgment Juneteenth jury duty justice justifiable homicide juvenile juvenile crime juvenile delinquent Kaiser Kanakanaka Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity Kearney Kennedy Kent Kentucky Kerney kerosene Kersey Keyser kidnapping Kimble Kimbrough kindergarten King Kinston NC Kirby Kirbys township kitchen Kittrell knife fight Knight Knights of Labor Kornegay Ku Klux Klan L-plan cottage labor labor contract labor dispute labor history labor rights labor union la grippe Lamm Lancaster Land land division landlord land ownership land purchase landscape landscaping Lane Lane Street Lane Street Project Langley Langston Hughes language larceny Lash Lassiter last will and testament Latham Lathan laundress laundry law enforcement laws concerning slaves lawsuit lawyer Leach leaf house Leak leased slaves lecture legacy Legacy Museum legal notice Leggett leisure travel Lenoir County Lenoir County NC Leonard Medical School letter letter to editor levy Lewis Liberia liberty loan librarian library LiDAR lien lightning lightning strike Lillian Smith Lily-White Republican Lily Whites Lincoln Benefit Society Lincoln University Lindsey Links Inc. Lipscomb liquor liquor law liquor license literacy litter Little Little Richmond Liverpool livery stable Livingston Livingstone College loan local history Locus Locust lodge lodge hall Lodge Street Lodge Sttreet Lofton logging logo London's Primitive Baptist Church London Woodard Long long-lost relative Lord lost and found lottery Lovette Lucas Lumber mill Lumberton NC lunchroom Lupe Lyles Lynch lynching Lytle Mable MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Mack Madam C.J. Walker Madame C.J. Walker Mafuta magazine magic show maid mail carrier Mainor malaria Malcolm X malfeasance Malone Mamie Smith Manchester Street manifest Mann Manning manslaughter Manuel manufacturing manumission map Marable marble marble cutter marbles march marching band March on Washington Marcus Marcus Garvey Maree market marl marl digger Marlow marriage marriage license Marsh Marshall Martin Martinez Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Mary Church Terrell Maryland Mary McLeod Bethune Mary McLeod Bethune Civic Club Masonic cemetery Masonic lodge masonry Masons massage therapy mass meeting Master of Public Health mathematician mathematics Mathis Matthews mattock Mattocks Maultsby Maury Street May Mayo mayor mayor's court McAllister McBrayer McCadden McCowan McCoy McCullen McCullers McCullins McDaniel McDonald McDuffie McGirt McGowan McGrew McKeel McKeever McKeithan McKoy McMannin McMillian McNair McNeil McNeill McPhail McPhatter McQueen measles meat market mechanic mechanics medal medical association Medical Corps medical malpractice medical treatment Melton memoir memorial Memorial Day memoribilia Men's Civic Club meningitis mental health mental illness mentor Mercer Mercer Street merchandise merchant Mercy Hospital Meredith Merritt messenger Methodist Methodist church Mexican Expedition Mexico midwife migrant from Virginia migrants from Alabama migrants from Georgia migrants from South Carolina migrant worker migration migration from Alabama migration from Georgia migration from Michigan migration from Mississippi migration from Ohio migration from South Carolina migration from Tennessee migration from Texas migration from Virginia migration to Alabama migration to Arizona migration to Arkansas migration to Boston migration to California migration to Chicago migration to Connecticut migration to Delaware migration to Florida migration to Georgia migration to Indiana migration to Louisiana migration to Maryland migration to Massachusetts migration to Michigan migration to Mississippi migration to Missouri migration to Nebraska migration to New Jersey migration to New York migration to New York City migration to Ohio migration to Oklahoma migration to Pennsylvania migration to Philadelphia migration to Rhode Island migration to Seattle migration to Tennessee migration to Virginia migration to Washington DC Military military duty military transport milk Miller milliner millionaire millpond millwork Mincey Mingo minister minstrel show miracle misappropriation of funds miscarriage miscegenation misreporting missing person missing persons mission missionary Missionary Baptist church missionary circle mistaken identity Mitchell Mitchner mixed-race mob justice Mobley Model A Ford mojo Money Montague Montgomery Alabama Montique monument Moody Moore Moore County Morgan Moring Morisey Morris Morris Brown University Morrisey Morrison mortality mortality schedule mortgage mortgage deed mortician Moses Mother's Day mother and daughter mother and son 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Baptist Church New Year New Years Day New York Black Yankees New York City New York Times Niagara Falls NY Nicholson nickname night rider Noble Sissle nomenclature nonagenarian Norfleet Norfolk and Southern Rail Road normal school North Carolina A&T North Carolina A&T State University North Carolina Central University North Carolina Digital Heritage Center North Carolina Genealogical Society North Carolina Industrial Association North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company North Carolina Supreme Court North Carroll Street North Pender Street North Reid Street North Vick Street Norwood notice of sale numbers nun nurse nursery school nursing home nutrition O'Daniel Oakdale cemetery Oaklawn cemetery Oates Oats obelisk Obery Obey obituary Oblate Sisters of Providence occupation occupied Japan octogenarian Odd Fellows Odd Fellows cemetery Odum Office of State Archaeology oil mill Oklahoma Old Fields township Oliver Moore Omega Psi Phi fraternity one-place study one-room school Opelika AL opera house Oral History oral interview orange orator Order of Elks organist organized labor organizing campaign orphan osnaburg Ottis Our Wilson Outlaw outreach Owen L.W. Smith Owens Oxford Colored Orphanage oysters Pace Page pageant painter Palmer palmist Palm Sunday pandemic parade pardon parents Parish park Parker Parks parochial school Parrington parsonage partition passenger list passing passport pastor pasture Pate paternalism paternity Patrick patronage job Patterson PBS Peacock Pearce Pearson Peele Pellan Pender Pendergrass Pender Street penmanship pension Pentecostal church Pentecostal Holiness church people with disabilities pep squad Percival percussion performer Perrington Perry pertussis petition Pettiford Pettigrew Street Peyton pharmacist pharmacy Phi Beta Sigma fraternity Phillips photo album photo booth photograph photographer photography studio photo restoration phrenologist physician pianist piano piano lesson picnic Piedmont Railroad Company Pierce pig pigpicking Pinkney pistol pit master Pitt Pitt County Pitt County NC Pittman Pitts place name Plank Road plantation plasterer plat Plater plat map playground Pleasant Pleasants plumber Plummer pneumonia poet poetry poisoning Polaroid polemic police police brutality police killing political action political appointment political campaign political violence Politics poll holder pollholder poll tax Pool Poole pool room poorhouse Pope poppy population pork porter portrait postal service postcard poster postmaster post office potter's field Pouncey Powell practical nurse prayer preacher predator pregnancy preliminary hearing Presbyterian church preservation Preservation of Wilson presidential election Presidents Day presiding elder press presser pressing club pressing shop Price Pridgen primer Primitive Baptist Primitive Baptist Church Prince Prince Hall Masons principal prison prisoner Privett prize prize drawing probate professional association professional license professor progressive prom promissory note property property division property line property sale property tax prostitution protest Psalms pseudo-scientific racism public health public history public intoxication public library Public Records Law public service public work Puerto Rico Pullman porter punishment Purcell purchase purchase-option agreement purchase order Purefoy Purple Heart purpose Pyatt quack medicine quarry quartet Queen Anne architecture Queen Street questionnaire quilt quintet quotation race race movie race music race work racial classification racial identity racism racket radio railroad railroad accident railroad fireman railroad labor railroad postal clerk Railroad Street railroad worker Raines & Cox Photographers raison d'etre Raleigh NC Ramseur Randall Randolph Randolph County NC Rankin Ransom Ransome rape ration Ratliff rat poison Rawlings Rawlins Ray reading room real estate real estate development realtor Reavis rebellious slave receipt receiving stolen goods reclamation recommended reading Reconstruction Reconstructoin recreation recreation center recruitment rector red-light district red-lining redevelopment Red Hot Hose Company redlining redrying plant Reel Life registered nurse registrar registration Reid Reid Street Reid Street Community Center reinterment Renfrow renovation rental housing rental property REO Six reporter Republican Party reputation resistance resisting arrest restaurant Rest Haven cemetery restrictive covenant retailing liquor retirement retraction Revell revival revival meeting revolutionary Revolutionary War revue reward rheumatism Rhyne Rice Rich Richardson Richmond Richmond VA Ricker Ricks Riggins right of way rivalry Rives road camp road duty road gang road improvement road maintenance road map roads roadshow roadwork robbery Robbins Roberson Roberts Robeson County Robins Robinson Rocky Mount NC Rodgers Rogers rooster rootwork Rose Rosemond Rosenwald school Ross Roundtree Rountree Rountree cemetery Rountree Place Rowe Royall Ruffin rummage sale rumor runaway runaway slave Russell Rutherford Ruth Whitehead Whaley saddlebag house safe Saidiya Hartman sailor Saint Agnes Hospital Saint Agnes Hospital Training School Saint Agnes School of Nursing Saint Alphonsus Catholic Church Saint Alphonsus Catholic School Saint Augustine's Saint Augustine's College Saint John's AME Zion Saint John AME Zion Saint Luke A.M.E. Saint Mark's Episcopal Church Saint Rose Church of Christ salary Salisbury Sallie Barbour School saloon salvation Sampson County Samuel H. Vick Sanborn map Sanchez Sanders Sandy Creek sankofa Santa Claus Saratoga township Satchell Sauls Saunders Savage Savannah GA saw mill sawmill sawyer scam Scarboro Scarborough scholarship school school attendance school board school bus school catalog schoolchildren school consolidation school district school funding school lunch school picture school song school year scientist Scotia Seminary Scotland County Scott scrapbook sculptor Seaberry seaman seaman's protection certificate seamstress Sears Roebuck second grade Secretary of Defense security seduction Seeds of Hope segregation Selby self-defense self-employment Sellers semi-pro Senate committee Senegal sentencing separate but equal sergeant sermon servant service station sesquicentennial Seventh Day Adventist Church sexual harassment Shade Shaffer Shallington sharecropper shareholder Sharp Sharpe Shavers Shaw Shaw University Shellington Sheppard Sherard Sheridan sheriff's sale sheriff sale Sherrod ship manifest ship manifests shipwreck shoemaker shoe repair shoeshine parlor shooting shooting death Short shotgun house sibings siblings signature sign painter silent film Silver Simmons Simms Simon Simpson Sims singer singing group Singletary sister sisters skating rink Skinner slang slap Slater Industrial and State Normal School slave auction slavecatcher slave dwelling slave hire slaveholder slave narrative slaveowner slavery slave sale slave schedule slave trade slave trader Small smallpox Smith Smith Street snake oil snapshot Snead snow social club social life social norms Social Security social work social worker soda shop softball softball league soil map soldier soloist Sorrell Southern Claims Commission Southern University South Street Spanish-American War speaking engagement Spearman speech Speight Speight High School Spell spelling bee Spells Spicer spirituals Spivey sports injury spousal abandonment spring spring camp Spring Hill township Spring Street Spruce Street St. Clair stabbing stable staff sergeant stage show stained-glass window Stallings Stanback Stanton Stantonsburg Stantonsburg Road Stantonsburg Street Stantonsburg Street School Stantonsburg township State Board of Health state hospital Staten state pharmaceutical examination State Teachers' Association Staton steamship stemmer stemmery Stemmery Street stenographer Stephen Stephens stereotype Stewart still stillbirth Stokes stonemason store storm Strange Fruit Strayhorn street street maintenance street scene Strickland strike Studaway student studio photograph studio photography subdivision sudden death sugar Sugg Suggs Suggs Street suicide Summerlin summer school Summerville Sunday School Sunshine Alley sunstroke supercentenarian superintendent Superior Court surgery survey suspicion of murder Sutton Swader sweet potato Swift swimming swimming hole Swindell swindle swing band Swinney Swinson Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church Tabon Taborn Tabourn Tabron tailor Talley Tampa Tarboro Tart Tartt tate tattoo taxation taxi taxi driver Taybron Taylor Taylors township Taylor township teacher teacherage teachers Teachey Teachy teamster Tedder teenager telegram tenant tenant farmer tenant housing tenement tenor Terrell territory band testimonial testimony thanks Thanksgiving theatre theft The Green Book Thomas Thompson Thorn Thorne Thorp Thorpe Tillery timeline Tinsley Toad Town tobacco tobacco barn tobacco company tobacco culture tobacco factory tobacco farmer tobacco market tobacco stick tobacco warehouse tobacco workers Tobacco Workers International Union Toisnot Depot Toisnot Primitive Baptist Church Toisnot Swamp Toisnot township Tomlin Tomlinson topographic map tornado tour tourism Towe Tower town commissioners Town Creek community town lot Town of Black Creek Town of Elm City Town of Lucama Town of Saratoga Town of Sharpsburg Town of Simms Town of Stantonsburg town ordinance Townsend township township of Stantonsburg trademark trader train train death train station train travel transportation trapping trauma Travel treasure hunt tree trespass trial tribute triple-A cottage triplets troops truck farm Truist Bank Truman Capote trustee tuberculosis Tucker Tudor Revival Tupac Shakur Turner turpentine turpentine industry turpentine worker Tuscarora Tuskegee Army Air Field Tuskegee Institute Tuskegee Veterans Hospital twins Twitter two-room school Tyler typhoid fever Tyson U.S. Army U.S. Navy uncle undertaker unemployment benefits union Union League union organizing United Church of Christ United Holy Church United Service Mission Assistance United States Army United States Colored Troops United States Navy United States Postal Service United War Work Campaign Unites States Colored Troops Universal Negro Improvement Association university University of Michigan up North uptown urban renewal usher board Utley vaccination vaccine vagrancy valedictorian Valentine's Day Vance Street vandalism vaudeville Vaughn vegetables vehicular homicide Venters vernacular architecture vernacular art veteran veterinarian vice Vick Vick cemetery Vick Elementary School Vickers Vick Street Victory Garden vigilantism Vines Viola Street Violence violence against children violence against women Virginia virtual tour visitation Viverette vocational training volunteer fireman volunteerism vote voter registration voter suppression voting rights W.E.B. Du Bois Wade wages wage violation wagon Wainwright Avenue waiter Wake County Wake County NC Walker wallpaper hanger Walnut Hill Wanamaker want ad want ads Ward war dead war injury war memorial warrant warranty Warren Warren County Washboard Serenaders Washington Washington-Carver Heights Washington DC Washington NC Washington Street washwoman watchmaker water fountain water pump waterway Watson Wayne County Wayne County NC wealth weather Weathers Weaver Webb webinar wedding wedding anniversary Weeks well well digger Wellington Wells Western Reserve University Western Union West Lee Street West Nash Street West Point WGTM Wheeler whipping whiskey Whitaker White Whitehead White Oak White Oak Swamp white only Whitesboro NJ white supremacy Whitfield Whitley Whitney Who's Who whooping cough widow widow's pension Wiggins Wiggins Mill Wiggins Street Wilbanks community Wilberforce University Wilder wildlife Wilkins will Williams Williamson Williamson High School Williford Williston Wilmington & Raleigh Railroad Wilmington NC Wilmington Riot Wilson Wilson Academy Wilson County Wilson County Genealogical Society Wilson County Historical Association Wilson County Industrial Association Wilson County Medical Society Wilson County Public Library Wilson High School Wilson Hospital and Tubercular Home Wilson News Wilson Normal and Industrial Institute Wilson Primitive Baptist Church Wilson Tobs Wilson township wine Wingate Winley Winn Winstead Winston-Salem NC Winston-Salem Teachers College winter wisteria witness witness fee witness tampering Women's Army Corps women's auxiliary women's club women in workplace Wood Woodard Woodard Avenue wood stove Wooten work work apparel work fatality workplace injury workplace violence workshop Works Projects Administration World War I World War II Worrell Worth Worthington Wright wrongful death Wynn Y.M.C.A. Yancey Yancy yearbook Yellock Yelverton YMCA Young Young's Line youth Zimmerman Zion's Landmark zoot suit

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