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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1918
Page
4
Local Roanoke Rapids news page laments wartime setbacks and calls for unity and liberty with a Labor Day bridge note. It rails at Allies, praises neutral betting, and laments Vardaman in Congress while urging W S S purchases. The issue includes a war poem heavy with references to tanks, Fritzes, and the Berlin front, encouraging patriotic support.
The paper explains a new War Industries Board order requiring weekly papers to drop subscribers with over three months in arrears and to require advance payment. Renewals are being prepared. those over a year in arrears will be cut off after September 15 and those three months past due after October 1. The change ends liberal past due practices and shifts to strict collection.
Testimonial advertisement by Mrs. W T Glover of Roanoke Rapids praising Down's Kidney Pills for back and urinary troubles. Claims years of kidney pain eased after using the product, with price noted and Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York listed as makers.
Having qualified as administrator of the estate of Mrs Monnie S Cox deceased of Halifax county North Carolina this notice asks all creditors to present claims by August 16 1919 or be barred. Indebted persons should pay promptly. Joe Cox administrator dated August 16 1919.
A new device for war aviators is a pistol like camera that fires a trigger to take clear enemy photographs from 600 feet or more. Invented by Germans, it appeared on a downed aircraft and was copied in large numbers for French aviators.
One W. H. Young recounts a South American businessman tale of Senor Dom Jose de Braganza who sought status to the point of printing on his calling cards Ex-passenger first class RM 8 P He once sailed first cabin on a Royal Mail Steam Packet line ship, illustrating vanity for rank.
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