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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1917
Page
3
The Roanoke Rapids Herald is represented worldwide by about two hundred photographers, over a hundred with the armies and navies of the warring nations. A selection of the best and most interesting images will be reproduced weekly for Herald readers.
Jon Cox a heavyweight pugilist has enlisted in the Naval Reserve and inspires many recruits with demonstrations of his strength. He has helped recruit cooks for the service while Coffin as a Mascot Mime Hertha from West End London once lived in a lavish home with a somber vault like coffin on display.
United States regulars are quartered in the old Mexican adobe village at the San Diego Exposition grounds. Upon passing the sentry one is given a pleasant surprise to see our boys at home in the Painted Desert, formerly concensl.
A diner finishing a first course frowns at an almost untouched steak as two clearance attempts fail. The new waiter jokes about high demand for steak, noting only three in stock with two already in use and asking the customer to settle for the current one.
A large clock at Beauvais cathedral comprises 92 000 separate pieces and 52 dial plates. It displays world times plus local hour, day, month, moon phases and tides. The mechanism suggests vast astronomical and calendrical functions beyond ordinary timekeeping.
A terse London courtroom note recounts a man charged with unlawful possession of a gold watch and chain. The prisoner claimed innocence, saying he found the watch on the pavement, while the judge deprecates the notion of finding such valuables on London streets.
United States reiterates support for the future of Russian democracy as it approves another loan to the Slavic nations. Officials say the move strengthens economic ties and signals confidence in gradual reforms.
Secretary Lansing publicly renews U S faith in the Petrograd administration by announcing another hundred million dollar loan. He cites confidential dispatches supporting a strengthening government and notes Riga’s German advance is not alarming. Lansing dispatched a note to Ambassador Bakmetoff in reply to Tereshchenko assurances.
Negro soldiers of the Twenty fourth Infantry in Houston were disarmed after a mutinous incident on Camp Logan grounds. Six hundred black troops, escorted by units from the Nineteenth Infantry and coast artillery, were marched to the parade grounds where their rifles and ammo were stacked and moved to the camp storehouse under guard.
Rickmough Virginia records show 53 infantile paralysis cases in August, raising the outbreak total to 101 since the epidemic began. Health Commissioner Dr Ernord G Williams notes cases spread beyond Rockingham while tracing the infection’s spread through the valley and northwest Virginia.
Washington predicted new government supervision of meat packing and distribution after Herbert Hoover leaves for Chicago to consult with meat packers and the Federal Trade Commission. A licensing system may be instituted by the food administration as the next step in regulating the industry.
The chief signal officer seeks observers from airplanes among graduates of the artillery instruction course at Fort Monroe Virginia or the machine gun course at Fort Sill Oklahoma. Enlisted men or civilians who are expert photographers radio operators or machine gun operators may apply. Accepted applicants will receive a two months course of instruction.
Austin Texas James H Ferguson was suspended from the office of governor when a nine man Agora board named by the House of Representatives presented to the Senate twenty one articles of Impeachment alleging official misconduct W P Hobby lieutenant governor succeeded to the governorship pending petition of the charges The designated Wednesday at the hour beginning trial
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