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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1918
Page
4
The Roanoke Rapids Herald lists the Herald Publishing Co. with J. T. Stainback as editor. It notes subscription at 1.50 a year, day and night telephone numbers, its April 4 1914 postmark status, and policies: return of manuscripts requires stamps, worded items billed at one cent per word, and no insertion under 26 cents.
War updates and social commentary mix with political notices and moral campaign ideas. The piece references spring official events in North Carolina, war rhetoric, daylight saving, vice statistics, and a call to promote war savings bonds to fund ships, food, and soldiers. It blends humor with wartime policy notes and civic appeals.
The governor cites Dr Elliott and Surgeon General Gorgas linking vice to military casualties, arguing civil life drives safety. After visiting three camps he reports men living cleaner, healthier lives than 95 percent of peers at home, with army records showing immorality sickness at 38 per thousand in 1917.
Neuritis is not a mere rename for rheumatism but a misused label for varied nerve pains. It arises from alcohol, arsenic, lead exposure, syphilis, autointoxication, and infections from tonsils or gums, with injury and local inflammation as other causes.
Thad suffered with rheumatism for a long time until Mr. Harris of 205 S Cherry Street Richmond told me about a real medicine. My rheumatism was so bad I could hardly work and my stomach was awful. Acid Iron Mineral cured me of rheumatism, improved my appetite, sleep, and weight by 12 to 14 pounds, and I consider it the best medicine. It purifies blood, drives out uric acid, and strengthens worn tissues. Made from Mississippi ore, shipped to Roanoke for testing and bottling, sold in Rosemary by Rosemary Drag on good stores everywhere.
The American Red Cross plans a new field of service in U S army camps to link hospitalized soldiers with families. A Red Cross hall and camp liaison staff will inform relatives of admissions and progress, mirroring the organization’s work in France and under War Secretary Baker’s directive.
Under a 1917 deed of trust J J Smallwood to Geo C Green Trustee and a 1917 deed from William and Laura Sledge to Geo C Green Trustee, default on indebtedness prompts two sales. On March 24 1918 and March 23 1918 at 12 o clock at the Post Office Door Rosemary N C the foreclosures will sell cash for Roanoke Rapids Township parcels including Lot 7 Block C and Lots 6 7 Block B and Lots Now 2 3 4 in Block F as recorded in plot books and registers office for Halifax County. Gro C Green Trustee.
The sale by L G Ivey to C Green Trustee dated January 1917, recorded in book 280 page 16, secures specified indebtedness and default. On March 23 1918 at 12 PM at the Post Office, cash bids will sell parcels in Halifax known as Lots 3 4 3 in Block D, Plot Book 1 page 36, Register's Office Halifax County.
Under a 1916 Deed of Trust C A McCullom trustee will sell at public auction on April 20 1918 at noon in front of the Roanoke Rapids Post Office the two acre tract in Roanoke Rapids Township Halifax County North Carolina bounded by Sixth Street Wells Tillery Challoner and the Patterson and Horner land. Proceeds to satisfy the secured indebtedness. This notice dated March 11 1918.
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