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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1920
Page
9
News review summarizes global upheavals with Bolshevik advances in Persia and Russia, French labor actions, and a broad anti Bolshevik tilt. It notes Japanese and Turkish movements, American price cuts, railroad wage debates, and peace treaty maneuvers in Congress and state parties.
In 1 Samuel 14 Jonathan and his armor bearer lead a bold assault against the Philistines as Israel faces oppression. The narrative covers Jonathan's faith, the sign of divine leading, and Saul's flawed pursuit after a rash oath, highlighting courage, humility, and consequences of zeal without wisdom.
APS reports German commercial firms seek to rekindle relations with Japan. A Nippon shipping firm operates from Hamburg and services to Germany resume. Japan eyeing German private airway ownership and possible forfeiture of railway. Japan would release German property up to 10,000 yen value, with higher assets subject to depreciation to cover German war-damages claims. Emigration from Germany to Japan shows cautious interest, with engineers and scientists most welcome amid tepid public appetite for broader labor.
In the church of Christ two sacraments are described by F. W. Robertson as the water and the commonest of all elements, a metaphor for reverence. He argues reverence appears by elevating or depreciating objects and urges making space for higher subjects to live in the Spirit and taste true beauty and goodness.
Captain Cole, custodian of the National cemetery at Camp Nelson Kentucky, is the oldest government employee by age and service. At ninety four he is the only Mexican war veteran in the South, enlisted in 1845, fought in the Mexican and Civil wars, and served against Indians in the northwest. He bears an Indian arrow head and a Confederate bullet in his body. Appointed by Lincoln, he has been honored at the White House on several occasions.
From scattered scraps a claim emerges that America’s first printing press was set up in Harvard College president's home. Other notes discuss Greek custom, furnishing homes for brides, a Chicago inventor’s hoist for under-vehicle work, and new British naval seating plans.
Jailer Thomas Taut refused to receive a drunken man who paraded a suburb with a live skank. Fred Unk, chief of police, ordered the man to beat it while the jailer watched from a distance, keeping respectful distance during the incident.
A cow owned by Philip Moore at Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire gave birth to triplets, with the farm noting the event as a rare and thriving milestone for the herd.
In the Cortes Socialists proposed government purchase of hunting lands from rich landlords to transform them into cultivated plots to feed the poor. A suggestion was made to spend 200 000 pesetas on the plan, but the government offered no reply.
Report describes a bolshevist forces hat badge with a red ground and gold letters. The item is noted as 60 far as known and the flat image was brought to the country. The description emphasizes color and design details of the badge.
About 1220 the English woolen trade centered at Worsted near Norwich where twisted double thread woolen later called worsted was first made. Linsey wolsey emerged at Linsey and long stayed popular. Kerseymere derives its name from the village of Kersey and its nearby mere.
In Paducah Kentucky Harry Seibert age twenty seven was under a freight car when it slipped and fell across his chest and shoulders. He was not injured though the incident was serious and left him shaken.
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