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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1923
Page
6
Edward W. Pickard surveys Lloyd George’s American tour remarks on German reparations, a crackdown critique on prohibition enforcement, and Pinchot’s attack on federal alcohol policy. The piece notes Coolidge’s measured response, governor conferences, Stresemann’s rise in Germany, and Allied reparations plans amid unrest.
A Raleigh court batch includes a mandamus ruling against Charles F. Dunn of Lenoir for forcing a sheriff to execute a tax deed. The opinion, by Associate Justice Heriot Clarkson, discusses judicial jurisdiction and upholds the emergency judge’s rejection of the mandamus. Other items note Hay yields per acre in NC, unemployment placements, motor title registration, and power rate hearing dates.
Across North Carolina towns such as Elizabeth City Durham Asheville Kinston Wadesboro and Oxford brief items report crimes accidents hotel plans court terms and local developments. Notable notes include a fatal shooting near Combs town a automobile wreck injuring Phineas Smith a northern hotel project in Fayetteville and a planned tour camp expansion in Asheville.
A Detroit News excerpt recounts the Rhine legend of the Lorelei guarding a vast underwater treasure. Miserly men who value gold over beauty are doomed to see gold beneath the river without ever reaching it, driven mad by its lure.
Sharp clash erupts between General John F. O Ryan and the forms director as Charles Forbes of Seattle insists on being heard. Senator Reed warns no one is on trial while Forbes presses his right to reply amid a stormy session. Also Greece reports a royalist revolt led by Met and others, with military government acting to quell unrest and deter opposition ahead of the vote.
The Supreme Council Southern Jurisdiction plans the 1924 session in Charleston. The council, described as the mother council of the world, cites historical ties to Charleston, S C, as the organizing place of the order.
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