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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1920
Page
3
Through an association with several American newspapers The Roanoke Rapids Herald is represented worldwide by about two hundred photographers. over a hundred serve in the armies and navies of the warring nations. Weekly selections of the best pictures will appear for Herald readers.
Dr. A V Sochocky unveils a secret radiium method enabling use of radium from American mines. He holds a pin sized sample worth over $5,000 as half of $875,000 set aside to fund the first radium bank for medical use.
View of the Thomas Jefferson monument on the University of Missouri campus. The monument is exact to Mr Jefferson's design. The marble tablet on the monument was badly damaged when university buildings burned on January 9 1802.
Mrs Ruth Richards Frye of Albion wins a divorce from Clement Allen Frye of Cleveland, Ohio after years of a blissful marriage disrupted by an affair with a female teacher. The judge notes a late night romance and the couple’s four children, with Frye failing to keep a promised probation.
In Newark New Jersey baby Jerome Vreeland seventeen months old was placed inside an empty washboiler by his brother Sidney six. The lid could not be removed. Mrs. Vreeland carried the boiler to a barber shop for help. Patrolman Spiliner appeared and turned the boiler over freeing the child. Jerome’s weight then pried the lid off and the mother fainted.
In Ewing Kentucky a jury acquitted Prof. 3 J Asher principal of the high school in a cruel and inhuman conduct case. The mother of a girl student he whipped caused his arrest and after acquittal patrons raised a purse to reimburse his defense costs.
Rosa Biges of Vincennes files charges in a Justice court alleging unnamed women caused her to pursue actions against Sadie McDonald Rosetta Taker and Margaret Dugan. Separate item notes a fatal infant death in Kentucky from tooth extraction complications.
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