want ad

Good nurse desires a position.

Wilson Daily Times, 3 September 1920.

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In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: widow Matilda Roberts, 54; son-in-law John Bullard, 24, truck driver; daughter Laura, 24, dressmaker; their sons John, 4, and Albert, 3; and adopted son Thomas Hilliard, 17, hack driver.

Was Matilda Roberts the person who placed the ad?

Foreman seeks a position.

Wilson Daily Times, 26 June 1930.

Bettie Foreman — the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County, lists widow Della Crumedy, 69; widowed laundress Haric Barnes, 45; and Della’s granddaughter Esther M. Crumedy, 9, at 905 Stantonsburg Street. Perhaps Bettie Foreman was a lodger.

Goodyear job.

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Wilson Daily Times, 1 June 1946.

Changing tires required observation of the color line.

Drugstore wants colored delivery boy.

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Wilson Daily Times, 20 August 1918.

Wanted: colored boy to clean doctors’ offices.

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Wilson Daily Times, 12 April 1946.

Woodard-Herring Hospital stood at 116 North Douglas Street.

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	Lisa Y. Henderson on The Vick house by night.
	Patricia P Simms on The Vick house by night.
	A student at A.… on The obituary of Arthur N. Dard…
	The public school lo… on Isaac W. Lee’s reach.

Black Wide-Awake

Documents of Historical and Genealogical Interest to Researchers of Wilson County, North Carolina's African-American Past