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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1947
Page
2
The Herald announces new rates due to rising costs. Regular advertisers pay 400 per column inch, non regulars hire per column inch. Foreign advertisers and classified rates adjust to 1e per line five words one insertion, 12c two insertions, 1c three insertions, 9c four or more insertions. The paper cites no alternative because of production costs.
Hostess Mrs Edward Ford Jr welcomed guests at a Cedar Street home last Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Steve L Robinson assisted, with daughter Susan Hope greeting guests. Rowena Montague and Sara Cannon helped serve coffee and cake, the table lit by tapers and covered with a maderna cloth.
The invited guests list features Misses Sara Cannon Rowena Montague Omara Daniel Ruth Chapman and Ada Edwards along with Mesdames R Edward Ford Jr Claude Cannon Talton O Briant Lloyd Sandlin Earl Daughtry Bill Cates Byron Gurley Gordon L Price and J M Cannady.
The Sunny Side Garden Club will meet Monday at 3:30 PM in the home of Mrs. Sam Bunn on Hamilton Street. Visitors Mrs. W. L. Sellars, Mrs. John Long of Rocky Mount, and Mrs. Ellen Pittman of Tarboro visit their sister Mrs. Alice Jones.
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