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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1919
Page
3
The Roanoke Rapids Herald, via a newspaper association, publishes weekly photos by about two hundred photographers. More than one hundred crew operate with armies and navies of the warring nations, presenting viewers with the best and most interesting images for Herald readers.
Mrs William G McAdoo daughter of President Wilson and wife of the former secretary of the treasury receives a Liberty Loan work medal at Balboa just hours before a bench explosion near the Palmer home. The scene includes playful banter as the couple prepares for breakfast.
Organizers promote a national health campaign in Iowa with home demonstration agents cooperating with teachers, food clubs, and parent teacher associations. They plan to form health clubs, prepare menus, and distribute literature on food, exercise, and health as part of the effort.
An advertisement in a London newspaper under Marriages announces the wedding of Lord Ribblesdale, famed as a pictorial peer, to Ava Willing Astor mother of Vincent Astor and formerly married to Col. John Jacob Astor. The note of the Astor family links is highlighted with Titanic disaster context.
An officer recounts a French returnee tale about San Juan Hill, noting its toughness and the area’s harsh climate. The veteran says even canary birds sing bass there, illustrating the neighborhood’s rough character with a New York Evening Post flavor.
A fragment from a scene about a show this afternoon. A man told paw the Indy on stage was G, prompting paw to question what he knows about the music and the performer.
In 1944 Mayor James Rolph of San Francisco, head of several shipping firms, bought the hull of the Celtic Monarch in Valparaiso harbor. The vessel, rusting, served as a coal barge for years, later being painted and repurposed with barley cargo for Europe.
In Asheville during May 1922 the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in North Carolina elected officers led by Grand Master C. H. McMichael and Grand Secretary John D. Berry. A new full-time assistant grand secretary will visit lodges and drill staffs to boost membership as the centennial of American Odd Fellowship is launched with Hon. M. L. Shipman as general chairman. The 1920 session is set for Gastonia in May 1921. two concert classes from the Goldsboro Odd Fellows Home begin tours to raise funds. 25 new children were admitted at the Orphan Home during the last board meeting.
In Albemarle, JD Johnson of Misenheimer launches a local goat industry with 125 goats on a 100 acre fenced pasture. He plans rapid expansion as buyers supply additional stock while clearing and preparing land for future grazing and farming use.
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