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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1918
Page
4
Editor J. T. Stainback notes subscription rates and policy while wartime items urge sugar rations and enlistment. Mentions Belgian victims of bombing, German aggression, and shifts in the North Carolina Corporation Commission leadership. Calls for improved railroad nightly service and Seaboard cooperation.
A University News Letter piece contrasts a man who donates $4.17 for a War Savings Certificate with others who give nothing. It frames the donation as civilization’s pledge and questions readers about their own measure and willingness to support Red Cross and Army YMC A efforts amid wartime peril.
Halifax County War Savings Committee reports 61 percent of its pledge goal reached with Roanoke Rapids Scotland Neck Faucetts and Halifax above average while Weldon trails. Faucetts rural township leads at 65.9 percent. Calls for intensified effort to beat the deadline and place every township over the top before campaign close.
The text notes a habit of saving that established worth greater than the anticipated cool million dollars to be poured back into the county in 1923, highlighting fiscal prudence and expected reinvestment.
The Food Administration urges saving fruits and vegetables through dehydration or canning with minimal sugar. Canning requires a definite sugar quantity, distributed via certificates issued by County Food Administrators and approved merchants. Certificates may cover reasonable quantities for canning and preserving, with Home Demonstration Agents aiding distribution, under liberal discretionary approval. A stray line about a college graduate who believed he knew it all concludes the piece.
Under and by virtue of a deed of trust dated February 1 1916 from H R Kiser and Nannie Z Kiser to Geo C Green Trustee recorded in book 242 page 70 Halifax Registry the undersigned will on July 27 1918 at 12 o clock M at the office door in Rosemary NC sell for cash to the highest bidder the land described as Blocks nos 19 2 1 21 as shown by Horner and Patterson property map recorded in book 247 page 346 Halifax County Register office Geo C Green Trustee.
A clipped quip catalogues a courtroom sting of words as Puck quips about Hehman and Stack. The mock dialogue hints at legal maneuvering and the pride of lawyers navigating tiny loopholes within a case.
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