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Each day, The News & Observer is looking back at some of our headlines on August and September dates in previous years. Here is a collection of what happened — the newsworthy, the interesting or the just plain strange.
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A daily look at some of The News & Observer headlines on this date in past years.
In 2011, “Cary’s unofficial Trash Lady” was hard at work.
Sue Buning often spent her free time on the hunt for litter near Bond Park. Her handwritten log showed she picked up more than 3,000 pounds of garbage in a year.
“You get a sixth sense for it, the glint of the sun off the tiniest sliver of aluminum can,” the 55-year-old Cary resident told The News & Observer.
While armed with a trash bag and gripper, Buning got a glimpse into the items people left behind. Her findings ranged from beer cans that hinted at bygone parties to water bottles tossed by joggers.
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In 1926, a Lenoir County farmer grew berries but had never tasted fruit.
At age 67, G. Wall Tull also hadn’t tried “any alcoholic beverage nor soda water.”
In other words, Tull had only consumed three drinks in his life: water, milk and coffee. Once, he was asked to try a coffee substitute but didn’t want to expand his horizons.
For Robert E. Cox, a veteran post office clerk in Kinston, it was difficult to imagine someone not enjoying the popular farm drink of cider. He also said Tull had “ample means to enjoy such small luxuries as soda pop and fruit,” including the produce he cultivated himself.
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