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- Woodward Byars2 entries, including The Women's Curb Market moves into the old Holiness church on Columbia Street (by March 13, 1942)
Sites linked through the same people
- Home demonstration clubs through Woodward Byars
In the chronology
- The Women's Curb Market moves into the old Holiness church on Columbia Street The Women's Curb Market moved into the building that had been the Holiness church, opposite the Town Hall on Columbia Street, a roomier and more comfortable place, according to county home demonstration agent Woodward Byars. People: Woodward Byars The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 13, 1942, p. 1
- Women's Curb Market in the old Holiness church reports $17,000 in 1942 sales Louis Graves described a Saturday opening of the Women's Curb Market in the former Holiness church on Columbia Street, now converted into a market, where 200 to 300 customers came each Saturday. Home demonstration agent Woodward Byars reported about $17,000 in sales in 1942 by the market's 23 farm-women members, with Mrs. Glenn Lloyd as president and Mrs. Jeter Lloyd as secretary and treasurer. People: Woodward Byars The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 22, 1943, p. 3
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Records of the time
- The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 22, 1943, p. 3cited by an event here
- The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 13, 1942, p. 1cited by an event here
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- NC LIVE: prepared search for Women's Curb Market or former Holiness church Library card Search NC LIVE for this site’s names and Orange County. Sign in through your North Carolina library to access articles, e-books, and newspapers.
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