Registration opens for special school election in town
Registration books for the special school extended term election are now open. Registration official Welch will be at the High School on Saturdays and at Taylor Matthews Drug Co. on Mondays and Wednesdays and at Rosemary Drug Co. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Traveling party headed to Chicago for the World's Fair plans a 12 day trip with a per head cost of 13.85. Samuel and Mrs. Marks announce their honeymoon trip through the Midwest and Canada ending by August 1.
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Welch
Taylor-Matthews Drug Co
Rosemary Drug Co
Bill Speight
Ikey Johnson
Henry Grissom
Marion Hudson
Dotchie Acree
Chicago
Benny Giles
Samuel Marks
Roanoke Rapids
Middle-West
Canada
Sam
Italo Balbo
Lake Orbetello
Italy
Teeland
Labrador
N. C
J. N. Bynum
S. H. Bradley
G. L. Hayes
Edwin Akers
D. P
Funeral Services Monday For Infant Son Ennis
Funeral services were held Monday July 17 for 8 month old Elmer D Ennis son of Mr and Mrs Elmer D Ennis of this city. The infant died Sunday from colitis. Rev J H Starnes conducted the service at the home with burial at Roanoke Rapids Cemetery.
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Little Elmer D. Ennis
Elmer D. Ennis
Elmer
J. H. Starnes
Roanoke Rapids Cemetery
Miss Edith Bursot Sentenced for Pillow Toss on Train
Edith Bursot of Turin Italy received a 46 day jail term after she threw a pillow at a railroad official aboard a moving train. The incident led to formal charges and a court appearance in the railway district.
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Edith Bursot
Turin
Italy
Two Thousand Textilers Embrace Shorter Hours and Higher Pay
Roanoke Rapids mills led by Roanoke and Patterson Mills plus Roseman Manufacturing Co adopt the New Deal textile code. Workers shift to two eight hour days for 40 hours weekly with a ten percent wage boost. Early reports show increased hours, production, and improved home life as morale rises and shows look promising.
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Roanoke Rapids
New Deal
Roanoke
Patterson Mills
Roseman Manufacturing Co
T. W. Mullen
Mrs Hannah Cotton Ordered to Slow Speech in Kingsport
Mrs Hannah Cotton of Kingsport England was ordered to slow her speech to 90 words a minute by local authorities in a ruling reflecting a phonetic norm enforcement case.
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Hannah Cotton
Kingsport, Eng
Neal declines deputy revenue post amid politics
Neal, Marion sock maker, withdraws from consideration for the deputy commissioner role after support from Senator Bailey and opposition from Senator Reynolds. Allison James of Winston Salem proposed. Neal had just been named North Carolina Park Commission chair by Governor Ehringhaus.
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Will W. Neal
Marion
Internal Revenue
Bailey
Senator Reynolds
Allison James
Winston-Salem
Neal
North Carolina Park Commission
Ehringhaus
Aged Relative Of Local People Dies At Seaboard Home
Mrs. Berda Ivey Long widow of M. Long died at her Seaboard home at 63. Funeral services were held Thursday at the Seaboard Methodist Church with interment in Seaboard Cemetery. Survived by daughter Mrs. T. M. Bullock of Roanoke Rapids and sons Mrs. E. H. Cuthrell of Norfolk, H. L. Woodard of Pendleton, Thomas Long, Herbert Long, William Long, Howard Long, and Edna Long of Seaboard.
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Methodist Church
Seaboard
Berda Ivey Long
M. Long
Pendleton
Thomas and Herbert Long
Norfolk
William and
Howard
Edna Long
Rhode Island Egg Eating Champion Peter Freeman
Peter Freeman won the Rhode Island egg eating title by consuming 50 three minute eggs, two more than the runner up.
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Rhode Island
Peter Freeman
Bank of Battleboro Robbery Nets Over $5000
Three men robbed the Bank of Battleboro this morning taking more than 5000 dollars. Paul Edwards, an ex convict, was identified from a photo as one of the bandits. They escaped in a blue 1932 Chevrolet with North Carolina plates toward Tarboro, leaving cashier James A. Daughtridge and customers at gunpoint. A reward is offered for the capture.
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Battleboro
Paul Edwards
Tarboro
N. C
James A. Daughtridge
Young People Camp Planned by Roanoke Rapids Churches
The Episcopal and Presbyterian churches across Wel don Enfield Jackson Scot land Neck Roanoke Rapids announce a youth camp at the Episcopal Camp Site on the Pamlico River near Washington N C. The weeklong sessions run July 31 to August 12 with a four dollar and fifty cent weekly rate.
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Roanoke Rapids
Weldon
Enfield
Jackson
Scotland Neck
Episcopal
Pamlico River
Washington, N.C
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Ember
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Leggett’s Dept
Carl Green
Secret Service
Charlotte
Emporia
Florida
Halifax
Lena Brown
Nets Bandits
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