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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1920
Page
5
Local Roanoke Rapids newspaper columns discuss bonds funding, political tensions, and suffrage momentum. It highlights sugar market fluctuations, editorials on discipline in schools, and predictions about women voters influencing North Carolina politics.
An opinion piece criticizes school stay-behind practices as harmful and analyzes the 1920s North Carolina political climate. It highlights suffrage activism by Dr Delia Dixon Carroll and Mrs Bickett urging women to register and vote, with projections on female turnout and party impacts.
The text discusses a clash between state and federal tax levels on incomes, notes sugar reaching the ite level, and suggests relief may come if information is credited by soft drink and candy makers. It mentions consumer strain and possible relief for the old UK consumer segment.
Andre Tardieu praises American philanthropy as France thanks the United States for 1918 and later relief funds. He notes nearly 87 million francs spent in 1918 and 171 million in later years, plus vast supplies sent to French relief groups. The Junior Red Cross mobilizes fifteen million American youth to support French war sufferers.
A humorous definition from the Boston Transcript describes Indian summer as an arrangement between the weather and the top man to let him shed his remy name, noting timely irony about seasonal labels.
The Halifax County Board of Elections orders a new registration in all precincts for the November 1920 election. Registration Books open Thursday September 30 at precincts and close Saturday October 28 at sunset. Signed by Chairman Whit A. Johnson and Attorney J B Dickens.
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