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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1918
Page
3
In Sheffield England March 18 many workers report shockingly high net incomes after allowances as tax collectors reveal wage earners paying taxes up to 10000 a year. Toppers include tonnage men and highly paid fitters in local factories with Rhodes and Dutch workers among the best paid.
A wartime leader urges that only a just peace is acceptable and warns that pursuit of any other peace harms national effort and endangers American soldiers in France, insisting duty requires continued military action for a righteous settlement.
The city of Vienna negotiates with Hungary to relocate 100,000 Vienna school children this summer. Officials say the move aims to improve nutrition by sending children to work in agricultural districts where better food is expected.
London dispatch describes German submarine crews as very low in spirits and nervy after torpedo attacks. British seamen cite pallid officers, tense handling of bombs, and even instances of attempted justification. The report contrasts these nerves with brutal acts attributed to submarine crews during the war.
Washington reports a speaking tour by more than 5 500 notable figures to back the third Liberty loan. Included are McAdoo Daniels Lane Redfield Taft Bryan Gerard Chaplin Clark Hart Pickford Lauder Brough Delano Fairbanks Norris Swinton Vrooman and other government officials lawyers and actors.
The notice claims purchase will protect 1000 soldiers from smallpox and 666 from typhoid, aid 139 wounded from lockjaw, enable 400 operations, supply two miles of bandages for 655 wounds, and provide first-aid packets and gauze. It frames bond buyers as performing a distinct service to country and to troops in France.
The article notes a red bordered blue field button with a liberty bell and the words Third Liberty Loan in white. Sixteen million buttons are prepared for delivery to subscribers of the third issue, for any bond value from $50 to $10,000.
The advertisement praises Dreco the herbal remedy for exhausted students and overworked youths. It cites R J Lewis of Winston-Salem praising his son Verney’s recovery, claiming Dreco restores color appetite and vitality, and notes Ring Drug Co in High Point as a local seller.
An advert shows Liberty Bond investments converting into military capacity. It claims $18,000 funds rifles for an infantry battalion 850 100 would build a base hospital with 500 beds and equip an infantry brigade with pistols. A $100,000 contribution could buy five combat airplanes or supply pistols rifles and half a million rounds for an infantry regiment.
R. C. Soyars urges residents to pay city taxes within the week to avoid additional costs and penalties.
London April 12 Mrs M N Felton wife of a Falkland Islands sheep farmer was awarded the order of the British empire for vigilance as a coast watcher. Her alertness led to sighting German Admiral Von Spee s squadron and timely news to Admiral Sturdee enabling battle and the sinking of the German warships.
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