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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1935
Page
13
The USDA Bureau of Home Economics advises dressing children in bright conspicuous outerwear in winter for visibility and safety. Children should avoid play in traffic but may need to cross streets or reclaim objects, so parents may coordinate styles to create a vivid color vogue that motorists can notice from afar.
Two white traders in Africa who befriended locals were honored by Black colleagues with a memorial stone. Carved on it are a whisky bottle and a pack of cards as a tribute recalled by Rev. Dick Sheppard in Illustrated Weekly of India.
A newspaper ad offers a free full week’s supply of health giving Postum to anyone who writes for it. The Postum Company advertises the gift in this paper.
A reflective piece on living with a purpose. It cites Horace Mann urging that one should not die without achieving some victory for humanity. The message emphasizes individual task, whether large or small, and the need to determine and pursue it.
Ad parodies a coughing remedy Creomulsion promising relief by soothing inflamed membranes. The text urges purchasing Creomulsion now and warns against chances of brewing trouble if untreated.
The column surveys autograph seekers and famous stars like ZaSu Pitts Estelle Taylor Dorothy Mackaill Marlene Dietrich and Grace Moore. It notes police signings autographs, Dietrich’s tea baking, a three foot sugar statue of Grace Moore, and radio glamour including Alois Havrilla and Major Bowes broadcasts. It reports on industry shifts Jamie Dominick as a Cubs mascot and Anita Louise in Anthony Adverse. Western Newspaper Union.
The piece compares tribal and modern mass hostility showing youths taunting and challenging each other like Tom Sawyer and new boys. It notes Italians threatening the British embassy in Rome and Britain sending troops to Egypt while warships move near Malta, arguing the principle and practice are similarly undignified.
Sir George Grier, the eighty four year old English linguist, holds the title O M and is credited with knowing about 300 languages. His main interest lies in India where many dialects of backward communities have never been recorded. He helped create an alphabet for these dialects and documented words used by natives but previously unwritten.
The grandchildren of a famous financier publicly request removal of their grandmother as guardian. They cite her old fashioned views on health discipline and money, arguing she restricts their social life and urges study and responsibility rather than endless leisure. The piece portrays a clash between wealth, independence, and traditional guardianship.
Dr Johnson argues that resisting temptation once does not prove honesty. Enduring ongoing temptation without knowledge of the amount would test character, but placing that test on a person is unjust. He notes that some temptations overpower virtue, and exploiting a man’s proximity to temptation injures him and shares the fault.
Richard L. Jervis, longtime chief of the White House secret service detail, shares thumbnail impressions of seven presidents. Theodore Roosevelt loved a good fight and was a great American. Taft the greatest traveler. Wilson regal. Harding cruelly slandered yet good. Coolidge had the greatest sense of humor. Hoover studious and fond of blueprints. F D Roosevelt happiest and gayest.
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