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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1931
Page
3
Local Happenings note numerous visitors and weekend trips. Lona Acree visits relatives in South HEN and Skelton. J M Ingram spends a few days in Norfolk. Mrs. Luke Draper and children vacation in Lasker, and Edith Morris returns from Hopewell. Several families from Norfolk, Greensboro, Greenville, and Winston-Salem visit here or travel nearby beaches and towns.
Eighteen year old Mildred Babe Diasikson of Texas is hailed as one of the world’s greatest all around women athletes. She reportedly equaled the 100 yard dash record and broke the 220 yard mark at the National AAU championships in Newark New Jersey. She holds more than 40 records in several sports including baseball basketball and golf. Other local items note visitors and social events across Halifax County with multiple mentions of families and towns.
This snippet references authentic Bayer Aspirin known by the medical community and consumers for safety. It notes labeling and branding markers like the word genuine to identify official product, implying long standing trust and widespread usage among patients and doctors.
In the Superior Court of Halifax County Roanoke Rapids Graded School District 2B a foreclosure action has begun to foreclose a tax sale certificate and lien of unpaid taxes on land listed for taxation in the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District. The notice informs all persons other than the defendant to take notice and asserts the land owner is B. Glover with a described parcel in Halifax County North Carolina.
Compiled notice states that Verne Freeman and others with an interest must respond to a claim involving taxation liens on Lot No. 24 in Roxboro Roanoke Rapids Township Halifax County North Carolina. The property is described by Block No. 20 on the Patterson and Horner map, recorded in Deed Book 286 Page 7 at the Halifax Register of Deeds office.
The document details several Halifax County North Carolina parcels including fifty 150 foot frontages on a newly opened street and back boundaries to block lines, tied to prior deeds from 1914 and a 1927 map. It references L. L. Hodgens and Onie Hodgens, L. G. Shell, Venne, and H. L. Bell C. F. Zeiler Realty Corp., with dates and recording specifics, and notes liens and unpaid taxes affecting Rapids Graded School District.
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