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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1919
Page
4
Through a cooperative with many American papers The Roanoke Rapids Herald presents photos from about two hundred photographers. More than one hundred are with armies and navies of warring nations. select pictures will be reproduced weekly for Herald readers.
San Diego newsman Blind Charlie Garner who offered his life in a blood transfusion to save John H. Kennedy of Gunnison California died but named Garner his beneficiary for fifteen thousand dollars. Garner lost his sight in a mine explosion years ago.
A reflective piece argues for developing the opposite side of one talent to balance inner powers. It stresses self effort, guidance from others can help but true progress comes from personal discipline. It suggests harnessing inner forces leads to less drudgery and more fruit from effort.
During the war Teelandic negotiations gave Aiken a first right to buy all products at fixed prices in exchange Teelandic ships kept routes between Reykjavik and New York, securing direct access to essential commodities.
Chinaman great sprinter Embery Hsieh from the University of Wisconsin, noted as the top individual point winner in two major meets, wed in a Russian ceremony. He came to Wisconsin from Peking in 1910, graduated this year, and plans a postgraduate course abroad.
A drunk man stumbled into a Kansas City police station claiming he swallowed his teeth. Ambulance rushed him to Bethany hospital where surgeons probed his throat through the night. X rays failed to locate the teeth and the patient wrote that he might have lost them while drunk.
In a ceremony the minister asks if anyone objects and the bride interrupts, saying she objects because the bride’s answer had been rehearsed so often that it was automatic. The moment reveals a planned retort rather than spontaneous doubt.
In Zebulon Unis town, builders push ahead despite rising material and labor costs. Projects total over 250000 dollars including a tobacco drying plant, brick stores, residences, a new cotton mill, a town water and sewer system, and a Masonic hall. Nearby Fayetteville reports a wood working plant under construction and a new railway switch track. Asheville schedules ten conventions in July signaling city as a regional hub. Winston-Salem sees William Pitts sue Southern Public Utilities for 10000 dollars after a 1911 streetcar accident that harmed several and killed one.
In Cornell Wilmington, a city council storm erupted after Labor Councilmen J P Wade and H Cureux publicized executive session proceedings, leading to chaos and a council overhaul. Ta L Sheppard was removed from the chamber as the mayor warned disruption would not continue. Meanwhile anAuto tragedy near Asheville claimed Tex Brown’s life and left his sister and mother injured. In Charlotte, 12 Mecklen burg county boys will buy 12 purebred Jersey cattle with loans totaling over $2,000, coordinated by the county farm demonstrator and chamber of commerce agencies. Robeson county fairs plan regional gatherings ahead of the October fair in Lumberton, with crop prospects described as unusually bright.
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