Telegram marks 100 years of publishing
Monday, October 11, 2010
Some 100 years ago, a young man named Josh Horne started up a newspaper he called the Evening Telegram.
- 1910 - 1934: Headlines have a familiar ring
Monday, October 11, 2010
The paper: The Telegram. The banner headline: “It will pay you to shop in Rocky Mount.
- 1935 - 1959: Bustling times in post-War era
Monday, October 11, 2010
Rocky Mount was bustling from World War II to the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. Tobacco and textile industries were thriving.
- 1960 - 1984: Tobacco, textiles fuel economy
Monday, October 11, 2010
From 1960 to the early 1980s, Rocky Mount was on the verge of becoming an economic powerhouse throughout Eastern North Carolina.
- 1985 - 2010: New dynamics drive change
Monday, October 11, 2010
Following the pace of technological advances in the last 25 years, changes in all areas of society have been rampant.
