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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1918
Page
4
A long reader page from Roanoke Rapids NC includes editorials and notices on wartime duties and shortages, with reflections by Herbert Kaufman from Sunday American and a discussion of health, poverty, and disease prevention. It cites a Russell Sage Foundation study and urges thrift, health habits, and community effort.
The editorial notes that anonymous communications are not printed. It urges writers to provide name and address for accountability and protection, while stating that they need not publish authors’ names but must know them.
A terse critique describes Russia as illiterate and unorganized, still bearing the weight of serfdom, priest-led rule, and heavy taxation, highlighting a mood of ongoing grievance and structural stagnation.
The text argues real tailoring comes from top tailors not just custom making or high price. It claims best results require paying a premium for made to measure suits, such as 75 to 80 dollars, to ensure expert finishing and fit. It emphasizes two paths to top tailoring: rely on the best tailors or pay a high price for bespoke work.
In Halifax County Superior Court the next friend Lucretia Medlin and others seek to sell at public auction on March 2 1918 at Rosemary post office door at noon the lot No 2 in the Fulghum division Roanoke Rapids Township adjoining G W Fulghum Sterling Shaw and others described by metes and bounds totaling 41 acres. GEO C GREEN commissioner.
By virtue of a deed of trust dated April 20 1915 to S G Daniel trustee for H L Harris the property of L B Hedgepeth and Ads G Hedgepeth will be sold at public auction February 22 1915 at the Halifax court house door. Located Faucetts Township Halifax County the tract covers fifteen acres with a two room dwelling tobacco barn and outbuildings and is bounded by Perkins estate J S Hedgepeth W H Hedgepeth estate and T D Cook. Sale at seven o clock A M. Daniel trustee.
Notice states C M Dickens and wife defaulted on a note secured by deed of trust dated December 2, 1918 recorded in Halifax County NC. Trustee will publically sell at the court house door Halifax at noon March 4, 1918. Lot 1238 fronts 25 feet along Roanoke Avenue with 140 feet depth to an alley.
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