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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1919
Page
3
Johnson City story tells how a weak, bedridden woman with appetite loss recovered after several bottles of Cardul, claiming renewed health and strength. Ad promotes Cardul as a women’s tonic made from vegetable ingredients and tested over forty years.
At New Orleans the American Cotton Association released state by state reduction figures by Virginia 33.3 percent North Carolina 20.1 percent South Carolina 26.1 percent Georgia 20.5 percent Florida 24.5 Arkansas 20.0 percent Missouri 37.5 percent Oklahoma 25.0 percent California 20.0 percent Arizona 25.0 percent Alabama 5 percent. average 20.2 percent. J S Wannamaker of St Matthews was named chairman. Directors for the Export Corporation include J A Brown North Carolina J D Jennings South Carolina and R T Willingham Georgia. The corporation will elect principal officers.
New York Julius H Barnes federal wheat director has informed L F Gates Chicago board of trade that the exchange should reinstate the rule limiting open trades in corn to 200000 bushels per interest or individual. The move aims to prevent undue speculation and, if adopted, may negate further regulation from Herbert Hoover food administration director general.
Allies mass warships from Britain France America Italy and Greece at Smyrna with patrols and land forces at Saloniki. The move follows the peace mandate to Greece and is seen as enforcing terms that may force Turkish withdrawal from Europe.
Three large U S Navy seaplanes led by Commander Towers and Lieutenant Commander Rellinear rose from Treparsey harbor in Treparsey bay and taxied into a westerly wind before lifting into the air bound for the Azores on an air voyage deemed as perilous as Columbus’s ocean crossing.
Paris reports that the Chinese cabinet offered its resignation which President Hen Shih Chang reportedly declined to accept. Peace talks with Turkey and Bulgaria may occur in Constantinople or another Near East city. Efforts at Shanghai to arrange harmony between northern and southern China have collapsed.
The Southern Baptist Convention voted to meet in Washington D C on May 12 1920 and to establish an education board. It approved spending 15000000 for Christian education in the South and named Dr John B White of Anderson to preach the convention sermon.
Washington reports that as Trepassey Bay N F crews begin the first long Atlantic flight, the navy department released an April 15 order governing all aircraft and navy vessels involved to cover emergencies expected during the voyage.
Allied peace delegates at Paris prepare for Austria and Germany terms while German leaders denounce the pact and threaten survival as Ebert Scheidemann rally the public. Austria seeks leniency and possible annexations. Pan-European tensions rise as Poland Ukraine and Kolchak move against Bolsheviks.
Nearly all French manufacturing plants converted for war production have returned to peacetime work. Others built for war now transition to peace pursuits with personnel reductions. Some war plants still under contracts shortened shifts to nine, eight, or seven hours. In major centers, total employment now stands at 14,048 men and 43,708 women.
A public notice describes various cleaning and laundry tasks and mentions products such as GOLD DUST, FAIRY SOAP, COTTOLENE, and other household specialties. It states these items are made by The N. K. Fairbank Co., a subsidiary of the company.
The founders of The American Cotton Oil Company transformed cotton seed waste into oil cake meal hulls and linters. The venture opened a new wealth source for the South, currently yielding over five hundred million dollars annually across multiple southern states and cities including Montgomery Memphis Fort Smith Clarksdale Pine Bluff Raleigh Macon Jackson Wilmington Huntsville Meridian Rock Monroe Columbia Mobile Jackson Augusta Greenville Henderson Atlanta and Shreveport.
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