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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1933
Page
10
Local column recounts weekend trips and visits including Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Taylor in Skippers Virginia with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Allen. Edith Bobbitt Mildred Crutchfield Lizzie Shearin and Eliza Gay also noted in Littleton Henderson Seaboard Severn Rosemary and Cole Rain areas.
Carlton Hotel in London, opened 1899 and rebuilt after a 1911 fire, seats 200 guests with 400 staff. Chef M. Herbodeau, a pupil of Escoffier, offers a pineapple dessert recipe, Pineapple a la Ninon, featuring vanilla ice cream, pineapple, strawberries and a raspberry puree.
By deed of trust dated September 16 1929 M R Wood T W M Long Trustee default on indebtedness leads to public sale. On September 5 1933 at 12 30 PM in front of Halifax County courthouse the eight lots 79 80 187 188 220 221 222 223 on Washington and Hamilton Streets will be sold for cash. Julian R Allsbrook attorney for the trustee.
A 1931 advertisement urges readers to treat sluggish bile flow by using Carter's Little Liver Pills. It explains that poor bile flow, not salts or laxatives, causes sourness, gas, headaches, and a general down feeling and claims the pills safely restore bile flow for relief. The ad lists the product name, red label, and warns against substitutes.
A historical medical ad proposes 666 Liquid Tablets and 666 Salve as a complete internal and external treatment for colds. The copy touts internal liquid or tablet forms and external salve as a fast, effective remedy, listed as the most speedy known cure.
The article lists residents and visitors in the area. Thelma A L House and children from Washington DC stay with sister Mrs R W Hamill. R W Hamill Jr. visits with pants? Mr James Burton of Suffolk VA visits Miss Sallie K Allen. Edna Stillman returns home from Creswell Roanoke Rapids. Edith May Hardy spends time in Portsmouth and Norfolk. Ray Jenkins weekends in Petersburg VA. Woodrow Moody visits with parents Mr and Mrs Russell Moody.
The article lists fresh summer produce such as tomatoes green beans carrots beets and early sweet potatoes with a focus on abundant apples peaches pears plums and seedless grapes. It promotes olive oil dressings peanut butter and diverse salads and presents two Quaker Maid Kitchen menus featuring veal steak roast pork and oven broiled chicken with sides desserts and drinks.
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