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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1935
Page
12
Merchants Association sponsors a delayed TRADE Week moving to the May 16 start. Committees visit every business to stage a major regional event with a traveling music truck. Avenue completion delays contribute but the festival and trades push ahead with hope blocks will be paved.
Federal government awards James I Barnes of Logansport Indiana the contract for a brick Post Office building with granite facings and cast stone accents in Roanoke Rapids. Bid amount $36,000. Government holds title to corner property at Avenue and 7th Street. 250 calendar days to complete. Beginning work around June 1. Local notices of social and prayer meetings noted along with patient recovery of Marvin Cooke in Roanoke Rapids Hospital.
The House voted nearly two to one to reject the conference committee report on the revenue bill. The administration backed plan urged a straight 3 percent sales tax with no exemption. The bill returns to negotiations likely a new conference committee to modify it.
The Southern Dixie Life Insurance Company district offices, previously in Weldon, relocate to Room 10 Imperial Theatre Building Greensboro with S. E. Wilson as district manager. The move places offices closer to Roanoke Rapids serving Rocky Mount Wilson Tarboro and Scotland Neck with four local salesmen from Roanoke Rapids. A Zion Methodist Episcopal Church offering in Cambridge Maryland was stolen during sanctuary worship.
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