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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1920
Page
3
A 1920 Western Newspaper Union recipe column outlines fudge variants with molasses, corn cakes, and nutless options. It includes methods for peanut fudge, simple fudge, baked ham with mustard sugar sauce, stuffed green peppers, Yankee potato salad, sausages with apples, and diet guidance urging whole grains and salads for digestion.
A humorous tale tracks Mrs Felix Grundy wife of Nashville judge as she scorns theater and social rules. A visiting company presents Speed the Plough era audience laughs at a character shared name Mrs Grundy. The term later becomes a symbol of social censorship in American discourse.
A fragment references Miltene and Mary in a perfume ad style. The terse excerpt hints at a promotional tone with a copper cent detail, suggesting a price or offer. No clear event or outcome is provided in the readable text.
The piece explains common dream meanings about bridges. Crossing a bridge foretells business success while fear or collapse signals obstacles. Falling off warns of false friends though clinging to the structure remains a sign of overcoming difficulties.
An admonition warns of an impending economic slump with harder credit and possible unemployment. It urges readers to save a portion of income, avoid overspending, and build a financial reserve by investing in sound securities for security in rough times. The note mentions Corsica and Napoleon’s birthplace language as a closing aside.
A narrator moves from a rural acre to an urban landscape, hearing a siren song from the city. He walks toward the glare of the metropolis and its intoxicating allure, contrasting nature’s quiet bounty with crowded desire and the city’s persuasive beauty.
A Sunday school unit on Jesus feeding the five thousand from Matthew 14 13 29 and John 6 shows Jesus compassion for the crowd and his method of distributing the bread and fish through the disciples. The lesson notes Jesus withdrawal to prayer after sending the crowd away and sending the disciples by boat while he remained to pray.
The piece reflects on holy days shifting from strength to need, noting pain and illness alter faith. It contrasts health with sickness, saying one learns to lean on the Father and seek maternal comfort, even as fear and hunger for comfort persist.
William Wood Roofe, a former sergeant major of the 11th Hussars, living in Camberwell, England, is at least one survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. Now ninety two, he remains clear minded and recalls the event and Tennyson’s poem at many gatherings.
The text references the Chernokee swamp in Georgia and a tunnel shaped cave in Cavehoslovakia, with mentions of Vienna voters and Oregon’s Deschutes national forest. Reading is inconsistent, but the fragment notes locations and voting/sentencing themes without coherent events or outcomes.
On arrival in New York the noted war memorial sculptor J Davidson is photographed aboard a steamship. An odd, unrelated aside quotes a society remark about a woman’s appearance and a wandering line from a poem or lyric.
At a stormy meeting of the Communist Federation of Mexico 17 unions vote to call a general strike in Mexico City. Delegates claim President de la Huerta promised permission for workers to take over the wharves and note Havana and Corunna shipowners refuse unloading Mexican ports.
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