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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1919
Page
3
The Roanoke Rapids Herald features photographs from about two hundred Herald photographers worldwide. Over one hundred work with armies and navies of the warring nations. The best and most interesting images will be reproduced weekly for readers.
William Poster spent 13 years in the southern deserts of Calli fornia and moved to New York to teach locals how to live on three dollars a week. The photograph shows Poster with a homemade guitar carved from desert wood.
In the holy city of Benares on the Ganges a carved shrine to Suttee marks a relic of the ancient custom where widows were burned with their husbands. The practice had the approval of many women in the harems, and only recently has the passing of a wealthy Hindu led to the end of this sentence of death for his entire senana.
The piece questions our habit of sharing worries with friends and neighbors and whether true fair play exists in exchanging gloom for brightness. It notes many treat the right to seek light and sympathy as a privilege, risking its abuse when people value it merely as a privilege rather than a duty to others.
Mra J M Franklyn twenty year old graduate of Bellevue Hospital Training School for Nurses won a prize at 2000 by walking across the continent from Seattle to New York. She was not permitted to accept the prize as the press asked twice. The trip cost her money: 28 dollars. Change in Japan Trade. Japan’s exports for the first three months of Tir were wilted at 187,000 and her imports at...
A rural scene shows Furmly Stith painting a barn with greying stripes and a fake window as a neighbor questions the activity. The farmer claims the war prompt will reveal new things daily from fifty feet away, suggesting a distant wartime influence.
In Japan only surface rights belong to individuals while mineral deposits are state property. In central Africa natives use a cruciform copper ingot over ten inches long as currency. A new textile claims stretch along the length of undergarments. A clergyman claims invention of a high bar device to pin chimps’ nostrils to curb snoring. A Frenchman touts an electric curling device for hair that holds shape for months.
Deputy Loyd Cloninger of Mooresville was shot and fatally wounded near Morris School House while attempting to arrest Connor a notorious black man. Wounded man rushed to hospital where he died hours later. Two men alleged involved were arrested shortly after.
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