In 1899, the Knights of Pythias in Wilmington held a reception for Col. J.W. Woodward, the Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of the area of North Carolina.In 1919, the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, helping President Woodrow Wilson, authorised a resolution to guide the proposed League of Nations.
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In 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War become over, and that every one closing slaves in Texas had been loose -- an occasion celebrated to this present day as “Juneteenth.”
In 1917, at some point of World War I, King George V appeased British nationalist emotions via