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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1940
Page
8
A New England storyteller recalls Henry owner of a rotted waterside house and a chilling encounter with a headless man walking the shore. The specter edges him toward the ocean leaving a deadly odor and forcing clothes to be burned amid a crowd.
The Jax travel to Pamlico Sound to face the Pamlico Pack of Washington High in their fifth conference game and seventh overall. Last year the locals beat Washington with ease but plan for a tougher test this time. Coach Hoyle has not decided the starting pitcher and will not change the lineup from prior games.
An observant young woman reports a truck driver on Roanoke Avenue halted and reversed in the street to avoid a crossing black cat, narrowly avoiding a rear collision with a following car. Out of town guests for the Mc Crary Hawkins wedding include Mesdames White Markham Barry Summerell Powell from Portsmouth and Norfolk, Va.
Miss Ann McNeil hosted a Monday evening gathering with games and dancing. At ten o clock she served punch and cakes to guests Edith Wood Ida Mae Edmonds Lois Lyles Louise Hudson Violet Dean Corbett Kathryn Wood Marjorie Hudson Allan Welch Dick Stainback James Brown Dick Jernigan Robert Teele Theron Harris and Eugene Glover.
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