Roanoke Rapids Needs a New Hotel
Roanoke Rapids News notes a long history of local issues and recipes, reports on wartime sentiment and the need for better lodging infrastructure. The piece catalogues canning instructions, political opinions, and a call for a new hotel in Roanoke Rapids to serve travelers and residents alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robin Hood
Roanoke Rapids
Bert Avery
Wheeler
John Wood
Pum
Howard Stinson
Hamlet
Hert Avery
Estelle Hamlet
First National Bank
Ron Rapids Power Co
JR Baird
IR Myrick
John Mincher
Jim Spivey
Atlantic Life Ins Co
Rt Avery
Ron Hardware Co
AL Clark
HT Wheeler
Roa Rapids Power Co
Nat'l Bk
Mos Int & Exchon
Helpful Recipes for Canning Berries and Jams
Instructions describe how to can dewberries raspberries blackberries and huckleberries and make jams. Gather ripe firm berries place in a wire basket or muslin sack and plunge into boiling water blanch to soften. This allows packing more berries per jar and prevents berry rise to the top.
Hypothetical Crime Shaw: Shakespeare Questions as Bogus Check Test
A terse exchange wonders why a stranger’s worth was checked. The speaker recalls being hypnotized by Shakespeare based queries. The other suggests testing dubious payers with Dun and Bradstreet style prompts to verify legitimacy.
Calotab Promise of Easy Liver Cleansing
An old advertisement touts Calotabs as a pleasant liver cleansing remedy. It claims Calotab taken at bedtime with water purifies the system, leaves no taste or unpleasant effects, and results in a morning feeling of vigor and a hearty appetite.
Honor Pupils of Our County Schools Certificate Winners
The list names pupils who earned Certificates of Honor for no absences or tardies during 1918-1919 and those who passed the uniform seventh grade examination. Schools include Garner Hardvawee Hobgood New Hope Thurman Enfield Dawson Halifax Hardvance McDaniel Pearson and others, with principals listed for each location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garner
Bessie Cherry
Annie Lou Carroll
Hardvawee
Sallie Barslay
Hetty Braswell
Allena Locke
Lorenzo Locke
Ruby Locke
Verman Locke
Mildred Sexton
Lucius Whitley
Hobgood
Elisabeth Hynan
Dorothy Moore
New Hope
Stella Hicks
Edna Shearin
Tillery
Richard Lewis
Nelle Applewhite
Thurman White
Calvary
Sadye Basker ‘Ville
Nancy Candace Allen
Muriel King
Minnie King
Clyde Myrick
George Harold Myrick
Firman Myrick
Henry Myrick
Claud Medlin
Helen] Walker
Dawson
Clara Pope
Clara Barnhill
Louise Barnhill
Elsie Ray Simmons
Jimmie Simmons
Enfield
B. H. Johnson
Doris Branch
Virginia Branch
Winnie
McDaniel
Ruth Neville
Nannie Ben Burt
Mary King
Lillie May Shaw
Mabel Shaw
Ollie Shaw
Pearson
Rose Felton
Lottie Hudson
Helen Powell
Palmyra and Selma School Leaders Named in Lists
Palmyra M ISD announces Hobbs and Newell as principals along with Fleming and Roebuck in the roster. Selma Roebuck and Miss Olivia House are noted with educators King White and Principal Benjamin Gilbert Leggett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmyra
Alice Hobbs
Mary Ruth Newell
Tillery
Richard Lewis
Florence Fleming
Selma Roebuck
King White's
Olivia House
Benjamin Gilbert Leggett
Truste esale of land in Halifax County North Carolina
Trustee George C Green announces a sale under a 1918 deed to satisfy a secured indebtedness. On August 6 at the Thelma post office door the 200 acre Littleton township tract will be offered to the highest bidder. About 100 acres already sold to C W Brown and W H Brown. remaining tract not included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theed
Lorner
George C. Green
Halifay County
Thelma
N. C
Enah
Littleton
Halifax
State of North Carolina
W. F. Horner
Cornelia W. Reed
C. W. Brown
W. H. Brown
Geo
C Green
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Rouse Rapids
Brald
the Herald Publishing Co., Inc
J.T. Stampack
Eprtor
North Carolina
Herald Publishing Co
Burleson
Senate
League of Nations
Germany
von Haimhausen
T. W. Wilson
Paris
France
Washington
White House
Ethel Leatherwood
Berlin
Points East
Annie Cherry
Carl
Cardus
Rosnoke Rapids
Dean
W. T. Glover
Box 274
Roanoke
Rapids
Glover
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Adv
Hall
Medicis
Hamet
SF Buster
Stabley
Streets Rapids Power Co
May Avery
Gert Avery
Hamlet, For Fixing Camp First Nat] Bank, For Interest On Joan First Nat'l Bk
Nat'l Bank
JT Wheeler
Halifax Builders Supply Co
Herald
Billie King
Shafte Bert Avery
Fletcher Lashley
C J Massey
T Ron Rapids Power Co
WE King
CG Hamlet
CV Strauther
Harrell's Printing House
JR Brown
Nannie B Daughtry
Pletcher Lashley
JT Chase
Mar
G Hamlet
T B Browning
Rapids Power Co
Saunders & Mohorn
Man Hole & Catgh Basta A
Man-Hole & Cal
Herald Pub Co
R P Daughtry
Cient National Agency Co
H T Wheeler
Eng
Anawer Co
Paul Robinson
H. T. Wheeler
W S Hancock
Stenwort Roapene Tawar Co
March
Tekamghtens
Ie Wheeler
Aleyn Toa Spids Power Co
Apelssillie
Atantic Life Ins Co
Board of Town
Am E
F. M. Coburn
Roanoke Rapids Power Company
Roanoke Rapids, N. C
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