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Farmville's choice

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A man working a Richmond & Backus Company printing press

About the photograph

When Josephus was eighteen years old he bought a newspaper company and was the main editor. The newspaper was The Advance.

Later he took a popular newspaper called Farmer and Mechanic and another one called The State Chronicle and made one!

The State Chronicle was printed every day for families who lived around Raleigh.