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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1921
Page
5
Editorial brief and notices from the Roanoke Rapids Herald dated September 30 1921 discuss subscription terms and insertion charges while critiquing Congress omissions and noting a rising trend in all wool suits and a joke about Fatty Arbuckle. Specific names include J T Stainback editor and publisher.
Local readers recall who joined the crowds to see the circus and who stayed home to avoid the spectacle. The brief item notes public sentiment and participation with a light, archival tone.
The New York Times reports that excess carryover and a boll weevil threat have trimmed the 1920 cotton crop value to about $940,537,360 from $2,172,824,368 in 1920. The world’s inability to pay high prices and large carryovers influence planters’ fortunes and credit dynamics.
A noisy mix of local farming concern over the boll weevil in Wake County and broader labor wage debates. The piece notes Halifax farmers likely encounter the pest, questions unemployment causes, suggests cutting armament funds to fund peace, and cites a World report about a Ku Klux Klan figure in Atlanta in 1919. It also covers Southern Railway tax objections and counties resisting real estate revaluation, with railroads likely to follow.
The Times warns the boll weevil damage is serious and threatens the cotton future. It urges a calm, permanent campaign against the pest rather than treating it as a single crop issue, noting some years bring greater cotton complaints and that last year was not typical.
A Roanoke Rapids Herald special education edition highlights progress in Roanoke Rapids with praise from the Roanoke-Chowan Times and Littleton News Reporter. The report notes a new half million dollar high school building occupying 212 feet by 212 feet with 260 windows, 25 classrooms, a two thousand seat auditorium, indoor pool, gym, dining room, kitchen, music and sewing rooms, and claims leadership in education sanitation and law enforcement.
Norlina Headlight notes the Rapids building is regarded as the finest of its kind in the state, highlighting its architectural merit and prominence in regional discourse.
Roanoke Rapids Herald featured the completion of a half million dollar school building. The Roanoke News notes the city’s progress in education, sanitation, and law enforcement, calling Roanoke Rapids wide awake.
The piece notes a single sea serpent sighting this season and predicts a larger rush of witnesses as a Russian pirate ship allegedly looms. It casts the ship as a terror deep and dark, speculating it may be manned by undead or revolutionary forces from Bolshevik Russia, with skeptical inquiries into its origin.
An American raised Cattleya gigas alba orchid sold for ten thousand dollars, a record for a single plant. Flowered in 1910 and shown in the United States where it won a gold medal, the specimen was found in 1900 among related plants and saved from sale. In London it fetched perhaps the highest price ever paid for an orchid.
A clipped phrase notes that apology is due and references gentlemen as derived from shelps in a terse public notice style. The fragment suggests social or courtesy correction but lacks concrete event details or names. The context implies a call for reproachment without specifying who is involved or when the action should occur.
An Idaho Statesman report describes a lawyer in the Idaho Supreme Court misaddressing the justices as gentlemen. Realizing the slip, he apologized, prompting light courtroom laughter. Chief Justice Rice joked the question of whether the mistake mattered.
A London writer in the New York Post states the British Museum has run out of space. Under the 1810 law English authors must deposit copies with the museum, which then preserves and provides access, a rule also applying to newspapers whose storage space has been exhausted. A special Farrack was built for papers, raising fears books may follow.
The article discusses the saber-toothed tiger once ruling the animal kingdom, noting a Los Angeles scientist William Spalding who sculpted a reproduction in his workshop. It highlights his roles with the Southern California Academy of Science and his work at the Brea fossil beds, interweaving historical and legal musings from Moslem law to a New York Tribe.
A versatile wrap article appears across seasons, suited to any weather and approved by critics. It features knitted garments such as capes and coat styles, including tuxedos and sweater-coats, in various colors. Fabrics use fangora cloth in collars cuffs and borders with accordion plaited and striped designs.
A historical note observes tea and wine practices, stating that in China hot wines are favored and that heated wine intoxicates more quickly than cold. The remark reflects period stereotypes about Chinese customs and drinking habits.
On April 18 1921 in Rosemary North Carolina a default on a note led to a public auction of Lot No 20 in Plot 299 Patterson Town Halifax County. The sale will be held October 8 1921 at 12 30 PM in front of the Post Office to satisfy the indebtedness.
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