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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1933
Page
4
Six schools Nashville Spring Hope Roanoke Rapids Enfield Scotland Neck and Gaston compete Saturday April 22 at 9 30 A M in solos and vocal groups. Judge is Professor W P Twadell of Durham. Public invited with parent consent required for under fourteen.
The church on Broadway between Fulton and Vesey streets is the oldest church building still standing in New York. Its rear faces Broadway, since the original structure faced the Hudson River.
The Brooklyn Bridge was completed after thirteen years of construction begun in 1870. Nemar asserts electricity is cheap and claims nearly all home tasks can be improved by electricity, making work faster easier and cheaper.
An obelisk now in Central Park, New York, originally stood before the Temple of the Sun in Heliopolis near Cairo. It was erected about 1600 years before Christ.
A New York retail note clarifies that the men’s clothing shop has never held a sale. Reports mention a performer who brings a trained seal to homes for tricks, and another man with four trained pigs offering similar amusement.
Roanoke Rapids hosts the Nemars for Friday and Saturday with no advance ticket price. The Australian mystery cabinet spectacle promises baffling feats and audience curiosity as doctors from Roanoke Rapids are invited to attend during the performances.
Report notes heavy eaters at the Bronx Zoo with lions consuming 12 pounds of beef daily and platypus requiring 4.50 dollars worth of mealworms and shrimp per day while walruses dine on about 20 pounds of soft shell clams daily.
New York music patrons must raise three hundred thousand dollars to continue grand opera. The appeal calls on donors and organizations to support the staging and production planned for the season.
On April 2 1933 the death angel took E L Lee at 84 after years of paralysis. He lived near Hollister most his life before moving six months prior to live with his daughter E T Ellington. Funeral services were held at E T Ellingtons home by Rev S F Fogleman and burial followed in the family cemetery. He leaves a sister Miss Laura Lee a son Leslie Lee six daughters Mrs Alfred Gardner Mrs Ezra Crawley Mrs Eddie Ellington and Mrs Will Wood among others.
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