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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1939
Page
9
Mrs. D H Mason and daughter Essie Wayne return from Greenville. Various residents and guests visit cities like Raleigh Washington Norfolk Suffolk and Richmond while attending fairs, schools, and social events. Debutante Ball marshal Wilson Mullen attends in Raleigh.
The city received the final $22,409.17 PWA grant check for Docket NC 1117-F, bringing total PWA street project funding to $105,136.22 from three checks. The Roanoke Rapids Municipal Building received a prior grant of about $10,000 in 1936.
The article notes prices are driven by manmade events more than nature with war in Europe pushing up meats sugar flour lard potatoes while poultry fish cheese and many vegetables stay reasonable Eggs butter rise and value foods include sweet potatoes beans peas cabbage celery apples and peaches. It then offers three moderate cost dinner menus featuring fried chicken roast duckling and roast turkey with various sides and desserts.
Stolen from the seventh block on Jefferson Street last week were four pieces of lumber 2 by 10 16 feet long four torches and about a half dozen new torch wicks. The items belonged to the government. Police are investigating to stop thefts from the street department as guards are not at the sites.
Frank Neal, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Neal, left Wednesday to enter Wake Forest College. Miss Mary Cameron of Baltimore is visiting her mother, Mrs. Ella Cameron on Cedar Street. Raymond Newton spent last week in Chicago, Ill.
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