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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1919
Page
7
A classic advertising puff extols Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, vegetable alternative to calomel claiming it cures laziness, biliousness, and constipation by morning with a money back guarantee. It promotes giving it to children and says it keeps the family feeling fine for months.
A dialogue fragment from the Loulaville Courier Journal recounts a playful exchange about marriage and trust. The speaker muses on promises and dependence, with whimsical lines about painting and old masters as metaphors for expectations.
A jovial fragment discusses insisting on the Bayer package and tablets bearing the Bayer Crosse. A minister playful exchange about age follows, with comic quick quips about wit and social norms.
An old time remedy promotes gold medal capsules as a way to cleanse kidneys and digestive organs, claiming to delay aging and boost strength. The sales pitch asserts continued use preserves health and vigor, urging readers to ask pharmacists for the original imported Gold Medal brand.
The United States Department of Agriculture outlines expanded federal aid for roads and trails in national forests. The act increases the federal aid net by 200 million dollars, provides 9 million for roads and camps, and authorizes theWar Department to transfer suitable materials. The agriculture secretary may build or maintain roads within national forests without local officials’ cooperation if nationally important, a move forestry officials call the most significant step for rapid forest road development.
A Chicago Sunday School institute lesson outlines creation of man in God’s image Gen 1 27 Gen 2 7 and Eph 4 24 Col 3 10 stressing tripartite nature spirit soul and body moral dignity and dominion. It notes God’s design in creation includes environment Provision and the sacred institution of marriage as divine and foundational.
The federal aid road act provides funds of 1,000,000 dollars annually for roads within forests, with a current accumulated balance of 2,500,000 expended and 1,000,000 to become available July 1. The program aims to protect forests, ease fire response, connect remote communities, and boost recreation while prioritizing honorably discharged veterans for labor.
In the recent Pennsylvania election 504,029 votes were cast on the $50,000,000 bond issue for good roads with $84,780 in favor. The state leans two to one for proper, permanent highways and is ready to pay. The push for better highways notes autos and trucks as main drivers of demand. Foundations and road preparation receive emphasis for solid construction.
At a Lowell centenary meeting in Cambridge Prof Wil Maw Roxeon Taylor recounted a joke about Cornell’s founding struggle between Ithaca and Ovid New York. Ithaca won the site and the asylum was placed in Ovid to compensate. The quip notes that while Ithaca prospered, an old citizen asserts it takes three insane asylums to equal a college.
A garbled historical newspaper fragment references a man named Jason Howlett and Israel Pubbleton, with stray lines about letters sent through the post office and a claim of shared funds. It then shifts to ads and social commentary about health tonics and commentary on motherhood and poverty.
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