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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1921
Page
5
Records show bell towers common in Italy from the eighth to eleventh centuries. Americans rarely see campaniles though California boasts a splendid bell tower example on the western coast.
A graceful university landmark rises on the Berkeley campus, built of California granite with a white marble cap. costing about 200000, the 302 foot tower houses a large clock and twelve melodious bells formed in the old world, shipped through Atlantic waters during the early World War period.
A historic engineering marvel spans the Ohio River linking Metropolix Hilnels and Paducal Kentucky. The mastodon of steel uses 33 678 826 pounds of steel 98 482 cubic yards of concrete and 7 piers with the tallest at 185 feet. The bridge extends 1 600 feet with a total length of about one mile and total height from pier base to crown of 812 feet. Construction required 148 635 barrels of cement and cost 3 100 000 dollars before modern inflation.
At Greenbury Point near Annapolis Maryland a high power radio station owned and operated by Uncle Sam served as a wartime measure to assure uninterrupted army communications with France and to direct vessel movements at sea. Four steel towers eighty feet high stand in a square and support a web of wires that send outgoing waves skyward and receive distant signals while a nearby power plant supplies energy.
Plans describe quarters for maintaining and operating forces, a storehouse for repair materials, and other necessary equipment at a strategic adjacent location. The text emphasizes the station's reach, handling radio communications with France, Italy, Germany, Norway, other stations in the country and possessions, and all properly equipped merchant and other vessels worldwide.
Wonders of America features the Hooker Oak in Chico California a monumental white oak in Bidwell park claimed as the largest of its kind. The tree stands over 100 feet tall its trunk circumference about 28 feet its longest branch 105 feet and its outer branches nearly four feet wide. Estimates push its age to around a thousand years with historians noting General Sherman believed 7,000 troops could stand in its shade at noon.
A damaged OCR excerpt references Harper's Magazine and a deceased cook. It mentions gratitude for flowers sent and a line about earning the raven, with unclear context and names lost to garbled text. The readable bits suggest a brief vignette or quotation.
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