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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1935
Page
4
Two wealthiest citizens consider moving to Sark in the Channel Islands drawing public interest. The island, tax free with minimal duties, reportedly has no automobiles or unemployment, and is ruled by a queen, Mrs. Robert Hathaway. Pictured is Le Creux harbor on Sark.
The piece recalls Charon the ferryman of the Styx and the Greek coin toll for passage to the afterlife. It also notes lizards lay 18 to 20 soft shelled eggs in sun warmed earth and describes day blindness affecting more people than night blindness, per Collier’s Weekly.
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