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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1922
Page
7
A vintage household section presents recipes and kitchen tips for nourishing family meals. Includes Hominy With Olives, Scotchies oatmeal cookies, Savory Sandwich Filling, and a method for Liquid Yeast using potatoes. Offers practical steps, measurements, and substitutions for daily cooking.
An author urges efficient time use, noting many waste hours at work and commute. He argues saving eight hours with discipline yields dividends, comparing modern transport gains to time saved, and urges applying saved time to productive work or related ventures for success.
A recipe instructs stirring five minutes with one quart water, adding a quarter cup sugar and one teaspoon salt. Soak a dry yeast cake in quarter cup warm water or use compressed yeast, then mix and keep at home temperature for 24 hours. Do not store yeast longer than two weeks.
A speaker counsels a friend to seek meaning in life beyond riches and ease. They wish for resilience through sorrow, sun after clouds, and simple joys. The note values effort, family joy, and honest contentment over luxury, urging a steady, ordinary life.
A reflective piece on handling life’s burdens. It warns against overemphasis on imagined troubles and urges preparation without over fretting. It notes progress and success come with facing odds and maintaining a positive outlook. Copyright.
F A Walker urges embracing the soft answer to defuse conflicts and preserve friendships. He argues harsh words ignite anger while gentle speech sustains goodwill, likening it to a maternal influence and urging readers to practice measured, kind responses in stressful moments.
Rev Earl Blackman of Chanute Kansas earned the title of bonal chaplain and was known as a boxing friendly “man’s man” of the American Legion. He boxed with an AEF chaplain in France, later returned to preach, resisted larger offers, built a church gymnasium for boxing lessons, and criticized Sunday blue laws as harmful to genuine religion.
Mrs Ame da Emma McCudden, official British war mother, was feted in Philadelphia where General Pershing kissed her and American War Mothers awarded honors. In New York she joined the American Legion auxiliary and received the Gold Star of women whose relatives were killed.
Gray Waggett, adjutant of Evanston Illinois American Legion post, reports from 100000 replies that three years after World War I about 61.6 percent of former service men remain bachelors. Of those who married, 84.% chose American French or German partners and 10 percent have children. House owners are 53.9 percent and business owners 15.5 percent. 21.7 percent drive their own cars. Legion posts show 44.5 percent own permanent quarters and 20 percent expect theirs soon. Data cover only the Middle West.
Discovery that Mrs. Helen Ferguson Drexler was receiving $400 a month from soldiers allotment checks led to her arrest in Chicago. She is said to have had eleven husbands to the army and navy, but none in the Marines.
The American Legion Weekly recounts a stormy evening at a state post where a reluctant relief guard clashes with a corporal over delays. The corporal demands an explanation for lateness as the sentry retorts, escalating the tense but nonlethal confrontation.
National Commander MacNider cites Senate author Senator McCumber and House sponsor Fordney stating the adjusted compensation bill will pass in February 1922 and take effect in 1922. Options include adjusted service pay up to 900 dollars for non overseas service, a paid up insurance policy, vocational training aid, farm or home aid, and land settlement projects with government land purchases and fort unit sales.
American Legion actions span welfare and remembrance. Wives and families of police officers killed by Wichita bandits received proceeds from a Legion benefit, while funds from the wartime WCTU drive were turned to aid sick and wounded Legion members. Minnesota youths fund village rebuilding in France, and Brest burials are disinterred with 1080 bodies allocated to four French cemeteries.
Newspapers praise the Boy Scouts for teaching primitive fire making and navigation. A physician lost in the woods nearly starved was helped by lack of matches, highlighting need for sun and friction fire methods. The era’s scouts are praised for practical survival knowledge and self reliance. BOY SCOUT STATUE FOR FOCH.
Two Omaha boy scouts James Caldwell and Chirence Swingholm spotted a fallen tree blocking the Omaha Chicago passenger line. They signaled danger, halted the train, and likely saved many lives. Swingholm downplayed the praise, saying scouts are for such tasks.
Sixteen year old Charles Hopper of Troop 4 Terre Haute gave a pint of his blood for a transfusion to a twenty two month old girl whose mother had two prior transfusions but was too weak to donate more. Hopper’s act is described as a voluntary sacrifice amid a report on Tulsa Scout Troop 5’s merit badge achievements and notable Eagles and leaders.
Hanford MacNider the newly appointed national commander of the American Legion is treasurer of the Mason City Indiana council Boy Scout of America.
Revised Sunday School lesson outlines Elijah challenging Israel on Mount Carmel to decide between Baal and the Lord. It covers Ahab's accusation, the people’s hesitation, the test with two sacrifices, Baal’s silence, Elijah’s prayer, the fire that consumes the altar, and Israel’s repentance, followed by Baal prophets’ execution and God’s vindication.
A fragmentary 17th century style meditation asks if God has ever failed his faithful, declaring His immutability and power. It contrasts human mutability with the divine constancy, noting that while people change daily, God remains constant across yesterday and tomorrow.
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