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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1919
Page
4
Notices and editorials discuss Good Roads benefit logic, federal finance hopes, and decimal metric systems. Mentions Gaston Township road bonds, tax policy, and World Trade Club as a call to study highway economics. Also references personal notices and legal actions in Halifax County North Carolina.
The World Trade Club of San Francisco argues for metric weights and measures citing that the metric system, created by a Briton James Watt in 1788, is now used by most nations while the United States and Britain lag. The club notes the British system traces to German origins and Germany switched to metric in 1871.
Public notice of a trust sale by George C. Green trustee on August 6 1919 at noon at the post office door in Halifax County North Carolina. The property includes a 24 acre tract in Littleton Township as set forth in the 1919 deed from WF Horner to Reed with prior deeds recorded in Halifax County.
Trustees seek bids to issue bonds up to 55000 for building and equipping Roanoke Rapids Graded School District facilities. Bonds priced at 1000 each, interest not over 6 percent, payable semi annually April and October. Bids due by August 11 1919. bids must include 10 percent certified check.
An old advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for unrecoverable catarrh cures with Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Claims describe blood purification and mucous healing, urging immediate use and promising health improvement with testimonials mailed from Ohio.
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