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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1920
Page
3
The Roanoke Rapids Herald, via an association with other American papers, is represented worldwide by about two hundred photographers. Over one hundred serve with armies and navies of warring nations, and select images will be reproduced weekly for Herald readers.
Miss Anne Gordon daughter of Mrs. George Burnett wife of the United States marine commander, rises among the season's debutantes in Washington society.
The new president of the French republic Paul Deschanel is hailed as a longtime chamber of deputies president and one of France’s strongest and most brilliant public men in a recent portrait drawing public admiration.
Article notes Viscountess Ulington, daughter in law of the Earl of Craven, seen skiing at St Moritz. It discusses seed age and blight resistance in beans, detailing Okahoran station experiments and practical germination rates for bean seed used on uninfected land away from other patches.
An Imperial Institute of patentees will be organized in England to guard patentees and patent owners. A gpitnarical blotter mountable on a fountain pen is invented. Most imports into Italy come from the United States and the Italian government seeks Asl Minor as a supply source. A new comb for drying the barb uses a rubber bulb to push heated air through perforated teeth.
Duo centennial of Soutnty observed on the second day of October 1922 marks a notable local event with planned celebrations and community participation. The notice emphasizes timing and local involvement for the commemorative activities.
Windsor Bertie county plans a grand county history pageant on October 2 1922 with Sir Cecil Bertie attending to deliver the main address. Judge Winston writes a county history and will hand the manuscript to county commissioners for publication under the proper act.
Four corporations and one citizen pay more than half the Durham real estate and personal taxes. The Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company led with 100,457.28 in 1919, followed by the American Tobacco Company with 47,992.72, and George W. Watts as the third largest payer at 40,998.94. The Lumberton fair board for Robeson County plans to raise annual stock from 1,000 to 10,000 and allows black residents to stage a fall event after white communities the following year. a building committee was named to plan a 10 acre exhibit hall on the recently purchased site north of Lumberton. Editor Smith tours. High Point reports John A. Smith, once linked to the North Carolina Farmers' Union, has left for New York en route to Italy and the Orient, with stops in Greece, Egypt, and the Levant. he notes he has no plans to shoot monkeys and jokes about telling cousins.
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