Word: carolinas
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will issue, the latter part of February, a book of remarkable importance, "The Liquor Problem, in its Legislative Aspect." It is the popular statement of the results of a very careful investigation of the working of prohibitory and license laws of various kinds in Maine, Iowa, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Missouri. This investigation was made by experts under the direction of Eliot and Low, and James C. Carter, Esq., a Sub-Committee of the Committee of Fifty, which has undertaken the problem of the Drink Question...
...Carolina...
...complete. The season will be opened by a game with Union on April 3 at Princeton. On April 16 the team will leave for the annual southern trip, playing one or two games each with the Baltimore league team, Georgetown, the University of Virginia, and the University of North Carolina. The team will return to Princeton on April 23. Jerome Bradley '97, captain of last year's ball team who was re-elected at the close of last season, has resigned, and Walter W. Wilson '97 of Clarion, Pa., has been chosen as his successor. Wilson has played two years...
...unharbored coast and the malarial swamps of North Carolina had turned the course of the earliest settlers northward toward Virginia. Soon the discontented and lawless from the latter colony emigrated southward and formed a separate settlement, which on account of its make-up was in a condition bordering on anarchy. The industries-purely agricultural-were, however, more varied than in Virginia. The main staples were tobacco in the north and rice in the south. The absence of manufactures and commerce made town life uncommon, most of the people being small farmers and living on small and widely scattered plantations...
...South Carolina, where more than half of the population was non-English, the general character of the immigration was excellent. Most of them came for religious reasons, a great majority being Hugenots. They lived under the parish system of local self-government, much as it existed in England...