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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1927
Page
5
Colonel Edward C. Carrington of Baltimore faces a trial in a Chicago court over divorce actions. The case follows a midnight duel in New York where he allegedly beat his brother Campbell Carrington with a cane. Campbell’s friendship with the colonel’s wife sparked the clash, leading to probation for a year and the cane’s removal from the scene.
In a dangling caption that reads like a rehearsal note, the pair of dancers and their trainer practice a street routine titled Cats on the Hoof. Fred Stoddard coaches Babe Darling and Jack McTaggert as they move without pause for sustenance.
Six year old Earl Jones of Corning New York leaped into an icy lake to rescue his four year old brother Donald after he fell in. Earl swam out to reach Donald and pulled him to safety despite not knowing how to swim. Friends urge a Carnegie medal for the courageous act.
SILLINOS reports a new campus craze as students at an American university stage the first feminine roller derby. The university band joins the motion rolling as co-eds roll on campus with a safety first approach.
Capt. Hanrahan known as the Irish Commodore of the American navy retired after a career with no missed fights. He previously commanded the cruiser Omaha from Honolulu to San Francisco in 74 hours, shaving two days off the fastest steamer time, and now resides in Los Angeles.
Construction of Bryan Memorial University in Dayton Tennessee begins as plaster bust of The Commoner is donated by Grace Bryan Hargreaves. The sculpture was crafted after Elizabeth Ney's 1896 campaign period.
Grace Kenney kept her gender secret while driving a taxicab for six years in Los Angeles to support her daughter. While her husband was in a soldiers hospital she adopted male attire and even studied boxing with a professional pugilist.
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