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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1920
Page
4
The Roanoke Rapids Herald links with several American papers to present photographs from about two hundred Herald photographers, over a hundred serving with armies and navies. Selected pictures will be reproduced weekly for reader enjoyment.
Atlantic City launches a citywide fire alarm system with horns mounted above boxes at alternating corners along the main avenue. When one box triggers, all horns along the route sound to warn pedestrians and vehicles, ensuring rapid alert across the district.
A past content excerpt notes Canada’s vast area, a Mexican tribe with an 800 word lexicon, a tiny practical electric motor used as a dental tool holder, and gold sourced from a sand strip. It mentions Wemneyan geography, manufacturing shares in Massachusetts, London slums giving way to new buildings, Spanish railways lacking block signals, and a rubber sponge shaving brush invention.
The department of commerce says the best test of cloth is to burn a small piece. Pure wool chars and curls with little flame while cotton mixtures burn steadily and leave little ash. Another test bends a piece of the fabric. cotton breaks smoothly at the ends, wool prevents a textured look.
Miss Magic B Clemens national Catholic War Council writer disguises as Italian peasant girl to enter Flume in defiance of D Annunale blockade carrying food and clothing. The Tennessee nearing completion at Brooklyn Navy Yard launched April 30 1919 will be one of the largest and most powerful battleships afloat.
In this Indianapolis Star fragment two longtime club diners share a mortifying scene at a dining room table. A senior member dies and a grieving friend sits in the favored chair facing the apartment as a younger member offers deep sympathy. The survivor recalls being kept from the chair for over a century by the deceased.
Senator Sorghum compares some people’s views of heaven to politics, saying their imaginations shape their tastes and they champion it until doom comes. The remark reflects a skeptical stance on ideological certainty.
Cuba is the greatest raisin consumer among Spanish American nations. An inventor patents an extension tube for faucets to silence water sounds. An English inventor describes a belt driven car gear shift. The Bible’s 66 books were written by 40 men in 1,000 years. Arctic seals come in only white and yellow. A tiny dental foot holder weighs four ounces.
Interchurch World Survey Conference in session at Atlantic City gathers a thousand church leaders from denominations across the country to discuss unity and mission under a shared program.
Atlantic City hosts the World Survey Conference of the Interchurch Movement with about a thousand church leaders and lay participants. Delegates, drawn from prominent denominations, gathered at Steel Pier auditorium as units display charts, photographs and exhibits of the organization’s work.
Frankfort Kentucky the lower house of the assembly voted seventy two to twenty five to ratify the federal woman suffrage amendment.
Ottawa The governor general signed an order in council authorizing the minister of customs to refuse export licenses to manufacturers of news print paper who refuse to comply with any order of the controller of paper.
Paris optimism grows over Lloyd George and Nitti conferences in London. The Petit Parisien reports belief that preliminary agreement may establish Fiume and Zara as free and independent cities.
Columbus Ohio United Mine Workers of America convention ratified the actions of international officers in accepting President Wilsons proposal to end the coast strike on a 14 percent increase basis and a commission to draft a new wage agreement.
Taijuna Mexico buys the Dempsey Carpentier fight. Jack Kearns said promoter Coffroth offered terms and Carpentier had given conditional acceptance. He would issue a further statement within hours.
Antwerp reports Brigadier General W D Connor, chief of staff of the American department of supply, says 760000 dollars were realized from American army stocks remaining in France after the army left. He estimates the stock value at 1.7 billion and states it would have cost 75 million to repatriate them to the United States.
John Cooper Thomas, 24, a multimillionaire coal miner and Barnwell, West Virginia manufacturer, died at his winter home in Miami of diabetes. He was reputed to be worth about 60 million dollars, much of which came from his father William Thomas who died two years earlier. Thomas served as an airman in the war with the Stars and Stripes.
Washington reports Gabriel Porter, an American employee of Penn Mex company, shot and killed by a Mexican federal army officer at Tuxpam on December 21. This raises to 20 the total Americans killed in the Tampico district by Mexicans since April 7, 1917, with several employees of American companies among the victims.
Allied demands for the extradition of former German Emperor William are expected at the Hague on January 16. Recent dispatches suggest Count Hohenzollern might surrender to avoid embarrassing the Netherlands. America said not to participate in the extradition.
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