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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1918
Page
3
The Roanoke Rapids Herald is backed by about two hundred photographers worldwide, over one hundred with wartime armies and navies. This page will weekly reproduce some of the best images for Herald readers.
An OCR fragment notes the Overseas Red Cross dress as gray hambray with a white apron worn over the back, while a Springfield Illinois laundry owner displays an eight by eight foot service flag to show a local Chinese resident serving in the army. The dialogue includes Mrs Somers Day and Mr Binger discussing entry access and duties.
Report on Thoras J Meaney condemned to death in California for the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing. The piece notes continued efforts to save him. It also includes wartime details about toluol shortages, pulp mill by products, and turpentine recovery from spruce. A night duty recruit interrupts a shadowy intruder with a terse exchange.
Thomas Paine argues that monarchial and hereditary systems enslave people, force relocations, and burden citizens with taxes, making revolution a necessary principle for proper government. The fragment cites oppression under monarchies and hereditary rule.
Allied forces report steady progress with no abatement in offensive strength. Units press on the enemy across front lines, maintaining momentum and coordinating advances with allied commands and supply lines.
British, French, and American troops push the German line northward from Arras to Soissons with gains in key sectors including Lye and Chavigny near Soissons. French crossings at the Allette river at Champs strengthen the front as rear guards hold firm and attacks continue with heavy combat.
Washington news confirms a major shipyard project at New Bern by the West Coast firm West Cong Shipbuilding Company of Everett. The plant will employ 500 to 1,000 workers initially, with two sites for wooden and concrete ships and ferries, plus concrete schooners and transports.
Washington. Rev Paul Plunket of Greenwood plans to ship out aboard a merchant vessel as an ordinary seaman. He has quit his pulpit and signed a wartime merchant marine contract, training at Bow fon where he scrubs paint and polishes brass. He says he once knew human nature as a preacher, now learns the life and sees thousands of boys sacrificing for democracy.
Reported in France that American positions were perhaps not strong as observers noted regrouping by the forces and possible retirements. The contest appeared to hinge on officer merit and the demeanor of two organizations as fighting raged before daybreak.
Amsterdam report says the Russian volunteer army captured the Black Sea port of Novorossiek via a dln patch from Kley. German threats in May with submarines and airplanes did not shift control from the Irans-Cancasht government.
In France the American army pressed German positions as French troops on the inlet and left of the Americans struggled to hold the line north of Solasons. Thousands of high explosive shells and shrapnel were fired in late afternoon contact with little advance by German forces.
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