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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1920
Page
3
Mis. Lottie Shanks wins first prize in a hair competition at Boo Monday England. This marks her second time securing a first prize for her long tresses.
There are more motors for hire than private cars in Japan. Moxled exports oil at 192 million barrels yearly. A morning fog deposited 00 tons of solid matter. Ancient Romans used gold dust to powder hair. Belgium bans watches with phosphorus in manufacture, sale, or stock.
The article notes a massive rice surplus in China valued at about 110 million, with rice stored in Hong Kong and Saigon. American buyers held back while prices dropped, exporters faced payment pressures, and Japan curtailed purchases due to tight money markets.
Brigadier General Horatio Gibson, aged 1 years old as the oldest living West Point graduate, is noted as president of the Antec Club dating from 1847, as described along with his daughter Mrs. George W Wallace.
In late June reports note rice shortages in Shanghai with only a four day supply on June 2. The text then shifts to contrasting Wilmington's dead city versus its living, mentioning Sugar Grove cemetery and Emmertory counts, suggesting a lament over population figures.
In Naples the British ambassador coordinates a covert pursuit of Jake Stinger and Jerrold Mansel. Win Shute and Tris Ford strategize to expose higher faces behind the Colonia scheme while Miss Leonard and Mansel play key roles in a diplomatic, criminal confrontation over a baseball scandal.
Hongkong faces a rice surplus as merchants hold $10,000,000 worth of Saigon long rice for export amid rising prices. Deniers and exporters clash as banks press for payments while Japan cannot buy due to weak yen and American purchases have slowed.
A method using a feather to apply a drop of gulid at the stopper neck then warming the bottle gently. The oil penetrates between stopper and neck and a light tap frees the stopper.
The earth conceals wondrous objects natural and manmade unearthed over time. Remains of prehistoric animals, prints, skeletons, coins, jewelry, statues, ancient records, aboriginal tools, and toys surface periodically. Mammoths found whole in Siberia. mastodon bones dug up in Alaska New York near the Haddor River and New England.
A Transvaal Sunday Times report describes a native in Newcastle who, praising heavy rain, rushed to the town hall during the storm, offered a public prayer of thanksgiving, and drank muddy water flowing by. The vivid scene captures the local reaction to the downpour.
A fragmented report cites a Cuba tied olive product, with ripe olives blamed for multiple deaths. The ACA meeting and olive growers, packers, and exporters committees are mentioned as involved in investigations or responses.
A Sunday School lesson outlines Proverbs 19 19 11 29 25 themes of wine drinking and gluttony leading to poverty. It details woes like wounds remorse strife and red eyes, urging total abstinence and noting the drunkard’s bitter end as moral caution.
Fragmented essay discusses Christian purity and applied faith. It argues Christianity becomes real through fellowship and service, not empty ritual. It cites loving God and brother as core, referencing St John’s teaching on love and duty to others.
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