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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1922
Page
4
A loose verse fragment recalls homecoming joys and the old line about enjoying comforts of home. It cites Berton Braley and Mrs Payne with playful remarks on travel, return, and kinship. The text also comments on coal strikes and farm life, noting farmers sowing tame oats while sons sow wild oats.
A collage of tongue in cheek lines touching British aristocracy crime politics and social trends. References include Lloyd George Genova broadcasting political speeches Lady Astor and a coal strike. The piece satirizes class money and crime with brief wry comments.
The piece explores leadership origins from primitive rule to democracy using Windsor New Hampshire as example. It notes Windsor population fell to 15 yet retains town clerk treasurer councilmen school board and board of health. It cites natural leadership in animals and humans and argues leadership evolves to governance by intelligence.
Premature baldness is linked to sun exposure according to Dr. FE L Oliver Harvard dermatology expert. He notes animals that bask in sun show less hair yet explains sun fuels life via evaporation rain and plant growth. The article muses on life heat and the sun’s vast scale and distance.
A garbled strip of sentences reports thirty seven murders in New York last month and reflects on crowding. It adds a proverb about hesitation and notes a paradox about men rising on highs yet feeling low, with references to railroad tracks and a game involving a jack.
A terse aphorism questions the fate of women's high ambitions and mocks the idea that peace will arrive without effort, suggesting skepticism about settling conflicts through effortless means.
An article advocates daily air baths to strengthen the nervous system and skin, arguing exposure to light and air builds resistance to cold and illness. It describes training the skin with controlled water temps, then a cold shower, and cautions gradual progress. mentions skin cleansing and cautions against overclaims of cures.
Sabre faces repeated rejections from the army and confronts rivalries at work as war era pressures mount. He celebrates Harold joining up, contemplates his own fate, and admires Lord Tybar’s V C while letters from Nona reveal personal ties to Tony and England.
The first Trasic auto in radio receiving truck form appears on New York streets, a light truck with an aerial and magnavox horn for concert sound in Brooklyn. Improvised terms like finale hopper describe uninvited guests at social events amid broader talk of war veterans and American Legion activity in Toledo and Omaha.
Large numbers of veterans suffering shell shock seek employment in New York City. The American Legion helps one man but a heated dispute with an employer led to his removal and commitment to a government hospital. A Potomac river land grant is turned over for a summer camp. Read about the Legion's support for disabled veterans in Washington and Maryland West Virginia hospitals.
One of New York Citys most distinctive houses at 7 East Tenth Street sold recently. The former home of artist Lockwood de Forest features carved Indian teakwood doors and window frames, Indian tile walls in the hall foyer and stairwell, and fireplaces with ancient tiles dating back before Christ.
A fragmented notice describes provisions of a bill that passed the Senate and House of Delegates with minimal dissent. It sets aside nine million nine hundred thousand sixty pounds for unspecified purposes to be approved by voters.
Rev Dr John Grier Hibben president of Princeton University Syracuse New York proposes reorganizing war time draft boards to help ex service men find employment.
The city hosts about 15 000 taxis that average 100 miles each day. New Yorkers are described as using taxis more than residents of any other city. The figure illustrates the scale of New York’s urban taxi transit.
American ex service men in New Zealand and Denmark join to form posts of the American Legion. The organization now has 11 013 posts in nearly every civilized country.
Marjorie Rambeau comes back to town after months on the road with Daddy Goes A Hunting. She will lead in a promising French play Jenny Jones, with Wilton Lackaye, recently away from Broadway, in a prominent cast role.
R Pickard the art dealer says the loss of Mrs William K Vanderbilt contributed to the firm’s ruin. He notes art dealing appears to be on a narrow margin in these times.
The Harry Ape will be transferred from the Provincetown Players’ downtown house to the Plymouth theatre with Arthur Hopkins producing later this month. Louis Wolheim continues in the lead role, and the Provincetown success suggests further triumph uptown.
Detectives found two burglars with police records operating from an office at 25 West Twenty third Street. The simple room held purchase vouchers and office furnishings plus tools including a crowbar, goose neck, twelve high speed bits, a concrete wedge, a circle saw, and two flash lights.
Medals were awarded to seventeen telephone company staff for notable public service during the past year. Six were given for life-saving actions and exemplary community service.
After trustees refused to remove College President C. D. Duniway, students set off a giant firecracker on proxy’s lawn, burned red fuses, and hauled the American flag to half mast. The display drew the Wrath of American Legion members who demanded proper flag hanging.
A Toledo Ohio American Legion survey of ex service men shows 16 would apply the state bonus to home costs, 13 to hospital and other bills, three for clothing, two for furniture, one for a Ford, and seven would bank the entire amount.
Emile Lamard of Grand Rapids, a tobacco dealer, was jailed for six months after being picked up by American Legion members while wearing a Belgian aviation lieutenant uniform. District Judge Sessions criticized court officials for permitting the defendant to appear in regalia.
State officials of the American Legion in West Virginia refused to sanction any event inviting champion boxer Jack Dempsey. They voiced opposition after hearing that several ex-service men's groups might seek his appearance.
The American Legion auxiliary in South Dakota opens a store selling articles made by disabled ex soldiers. Proceeds fund comforts for hospitalized veterans and support wounded and sick veterans in state hospitals.
The University of Wisconsin social science club is described by the university American Legion post as radicals inciting unrest, prompting a resolution urging student action and a response from campus authorities.
Warrenton Virginia April 10 The Virginia cup race delayed from April 10 at Oakwood farm for a $500 cup to May 6 with the prize raised to $1,000. Entries are coming in well at this time.
A five minute high cost cabaret sequence in Pearl White’s The Broadway Peacock directed by Charles J. Brabin made Fox Studio a fairyland during filming. Jazz bands sounded through the upper floors as impromptu dances entertained cast and crew at the New York studio. The Rose theatre will show the film on Tuesday.
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