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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1918
Page
7
Through an association with other American papers The Roanoke Rapids Herald is represented worldwide by about two hundred photographers, over a hundred with armies and navies of warring nations. Weekly this page features the best and most interesting pictures taken by these photographers for Herald readers.
The piece traces Noah Webster's dictionary expansion from 70 000 words in early editions to about 400 000 today. It notes dictionaries double in size over centuries, with 1820 and 1884 edition figures, and urges readers to look up unfamiliar words in daily reading. It mentions Milanke Vesniteh and a Serbian mission context briefly.
The National League for War Service mobilizes women in war work with many ambulance drivers and chauffeurs. The photograph shows Private Minott delivering a package to the Soldiers’ and Latter’s club as hundreds of women enroll, aiding Uncle Sam in the war effort.
Ordinary printing paper in some hing more than 1,000 shoes thicker than the gold leaf that can be made In England today. For commercial pur poses the leaf must, of course, have just a little more substance about It them that, but item strfingg and impress ive fact that only about five orninx weight of gold is required to make up the books that are in gilt ery use today by gliders, each of the leaves in that hook being usually three and one quarter Inches square.
In regions near Lake Vietory a vast deposit of nearly pure seigmtenthon ate of soda covers fifty square miles and may attract wartime demand. An automatic brake for draft harnesses aids horse plowing when shares detach. Latin American use of single handled plows increases. Columbia University in New York announces an extension school at 208 Broadway offering courses in railway tariff theory and practice for ocean transportation.
Manufacturing plants nationwide are ordered to shut down for five days as a desperate measure to conserve fuel. The directive targets energy use amid shortages, affecting production lines and workers across multiple sectors.
Washington orders a nationwide ten week Monday shutdown halting most heated building work and nonessential industry to ease a coal famine. Railroads hospitals utilities and government plants receive priority while shipyards and munition facilities face broad restrictions. The move, announced by Fuel Administrator Garfield under Wilson, aims to save up to 30 million tons of coal.
Atlanta resolutions urged that the federal fuel administration take control of wood and regulate its price. Dr. L. G. Mardman led the Georgia meeting to consider establishing a zone for distribution of coal in southern states, but no action was taken on that plan.
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