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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1917
Page
7
London actress Lena Ashwell visits soldiers at the front performing Shakespeare and drama. Tommies reward her with improvised scenery, flowers, and a silver box while a lucky bean becomes a talisman. Anecdotes include a cigar gift to a office boy and a Naples encore story.
An assortment of brief quotes and notices including Grove’s Tasteless Chill providing tonic claims, a 1-Corporal Strutt enlistment note, quotes about a trench prisoner weight, and a street-name change in East Dallas from Germany Street to America. Also mentions an English proverb and Trieste pipes remark.
An ad touts a cheap lemon lotion made from fresh lemon juice and orchard white to whiten, soften, and beautify the skin. The method promises long shelf life, easy daily use on face and hands, and notes druggists supply the ingredients. A light humor piece follows about a Kansas City man who avoids flirting due to lodge membership, ending with a magazine-style aside.
A 1916 testimonial from Kaminer's Drug Store in Spartanburg endorses Swamp Root as an effective kidney medicine. The notice invites readers to request a sample and booklet from Dr Kilmer Co. and notes bottles are sold in drug stores. Additional light vignettes and jokes follow about daily life and common misunderstandings.
The article notes small-block paving using vitrified clay blocks and granite cubes spread from Europe to the United States. J Y McClintock of Monroe County New York advocates 2½ inch vitrified blocks on gravel bases with wider shoulders for support, describing six miles laid locally. A New Jersey Morris Town turnpike test uses 3 to 4 inch granite blocks in a curved mosaic pattern to reduce slip on a steep grade.
A quirky collection of drink and dessert ideas from a vintage kitchen. Recipes include HOT DAY DRINKS with pineapple and mint, Maple Egg, Tea Cream, Grape Eggnog, Banana Float, and Jumble with berry jellies. Also features Peach Trifle, Apricot Tapioca, Gooseberry Chutney, Onion Soup and editorial note reflecting on changing times.
A fragmented dialogue section discusses Jibway staying out late, a wife who lets him sleep on the porch, and gossip in town. It weaves humor about photoplay era leisure, misfortunes prompting townwide opinions, and vanity with a $1,000 fur coat remark.
New York launched a state aid policy for highway construction and maintenance twenty years ago. About one third of the state’s highways have been improved, with over 120 million dollars spent or pledged in two decades to advance road building.
Oklahoma prison road camps are now an accepted institution per the National Committee on Prison and Prison Labor. In central and southwest regions prisoners are building the Ozark jail. in the southeast they grade the Jefferson highway. others assist in local good road efforts nationwide.
Among the industries developed at Niagara is the manufacture of artificial graphite, now largely used for lubrication and employed in many electro chemical processes. The text also contains scattered quotes about counting days and temper, referencing Eple tet and biblical style, but the readable portion centers on graphite production and its industrial applications.
A scattered gag panel style page quotes lines about farming a potato cellar fashion street life and love. Jokes touch on lawyers fences marriages and a tango expert’s father, with characters like Gertie Gotrox and Jim Meadow Turk. The tone is light and period newspaperish.
Calomel is warned as dangerous causing illness and bone necrosis while Dodson's Liver Tone is pitched as a safe remedy. The ad promises a money back guarantee if not improving by morning and claims it keeps families healthy, suitable for children, with harmless taste and no griping. The piece also includes miscellaneous humor and anecdotes unrelated to the medicine.
In a crowded court the tense scene hinged on a lawyer's sharp objection based on an obscure legal point. For ten minutes the case stalled as judges and counsel tangled in legal phrases, while the audience found the dispute largely unintelligible. The judge finally pressed, asking what the advocate thought the bench was for, prompting a reflective reply from the barrister.
An assortment of ad copy and jokes mix with social notes and ministers remarks. Cuticura soap and ointment promotion sits beside political quips about a war tax on automobile owners. Various tiny anecdotes, puns, and trivial scenes mingle with a medicinal tonic claim and wedding plant gift mention.
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