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A daily look at some of The News & Observer’s headlines on Sept. 20 in past years.
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On this day in 1943, during World War II, the War Department was sending 1,500 prisoners of war to North Carolina to help harvest peanuts.
The state requested that prisoners be sent to six Eastern North Carolina counties for the peanut harvest. The prisoners were sent to camps in Scotland Neck, Tarboro and Windsor, and then to harvest peanut crops in Bertie, Halifax, Hertford, Nash, Edgecombe and Martin counties. The harvesting was delayed by permitting paperwork being sent between North Carolina and Washington.
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Raleigh residents were concerned about the safety of family in Florida in the wake of a hurricane that hit the Miami area in 1926. National news estimated 1,000 deaths from the storm. The hurricane hit the east coast of Florida and crossed the state before heading into the Gulf of Mexico.
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