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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1888
Page
1
The Archbishop of Canterbury says one of the greatest evils facing the working classes is the practice of early marriages. He identifies it as a strong social problem affecting laboring communities and calls for reflection on its consequences.
Two Draper sisters operate a successful Auburndale farm eighteen miles from Boston. Once school teachers, they now own the place and raise prize chickens. Each egg is stamped with birth date to guarantee freshness, allowing premium pricing while they work from 3 AM to early morning hours.
Carroll D. Wright cites a railroad president and several conservative businessmen who claimed three thousand men were unemployed in Lawrence Massachusetts. The Board of Labor found only three hundred job seekers. He notes Massachusetts State Board of Charities tallied sixty two thousand tramps, while the census found only one thousand one hundred.
The article notes early plots against Alexander III including the 1885 Anichkov Palace conspiracy and the 1886 Novotcherkass conspiracy that officials denied abroad. It highlights the March 18 1887 anniversary plot as the first near success and says police discoveries followed almost continuously since then.
The Army and Navy Greette reports a push by top Grand Army of the Republic posts to urge government purchase of Lookout Mountain land for a national park. It would honor Civil War valor and the courage of former enemies on the Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, and Lookout Plateau grounds.
The Manchester Afficer praises the Concord Railroad for equipping trains with medicine cars stocked with remedies and first aid supplies. Contents include bandages, cotton, needles, catgut, adhesive plasters, antiseptics, scissors, forceps, pins, and basic medical tools to aid injuries or sudden illness until a physician arrives.
New South Wales offers 125000 reward for a rabbit extermination method. Pasteur suggests using chicken cholera as a weapon, but risks devastating birds cattle sheep and possibly humans. NSW spends millions on fencing and landowners face heavy costs with limited success.
Owen Jones of Edgecombe county and W E Page & Co of Robersonville announce assignments for creditors with liabilities of 4000 and 7000 dollars respectively. The J W Hearn libel trial in Raleigh ends in a not guilty verdict after twenty minutes. A Rockingham native, W H Brooks, is attacked by James Norton near Springfield, Richmond county, dying from a head wound. The Georgia Carolina and Northern Railroad completes Monroe to South Carolina line, nine miles. Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad workers moved to grading duties. In Robinson county a dance at William Hurt’s Negro house ends with Martin Campbell found dead off Hunt’s yard, with a revolver in hand to imply suicide. coroner records a puzzling crime and the white man involved has vanished.
Marion ships 11 794 bales of cotton this season versus 8 381 last season. Reports claim 62 500 dollars yearly spent on horses and mules in Marion. Various local incidents include deaths from accidents and heart disease, political office changes, railway suits, and a veterinary view on a horse disease with quinine as a recommended tonic.
Newberry residents startled by the robbery of the Newberry post office by assistant postmaster John Hawkins. He left March 28 to visit his mother in Orangeburg, but the theft, estimated around 500 dollars, was later uncovered. Capt. J. W. Brunson named deputy collector for the state to target illicit distillers and wagon peddlers. Meanwhile Cumberland county reports a severe measles outbreak in Manchester affecting factory workers and shutting mills.
Algernon Lovejoy a Barnes & Co. employee was killed near Humphreys Clinch county by a falling tree. O P Ritch of Silver Creek found and blasted a 65 ton ore ledge while iron ore exploration. A year old negro child died in Calhoun from coal oil exposure by other children. mother away. Mrs Michael Dougherty near Rocky Ford died by self harm with strychnine.
A bookkeeper from E. B. Taylor & Co. in Richmond, Virginia absconded to Canada with $15 000. Billy Gill, a noted desperado, was lynched by vigilantes near Ashland Kansas. A barn near Paris Kentucky burned after a lightning strike, destroying about one hundred head of stock.
South Carolina Comptroller-General referred the question of taxing bank stock to the Attorney-General. The ruling says shares of bank shareholders must be listed at their true money value, including surplus and personal property, regardless of securities like United States bonds. County auditors instructed to revise returns to reflect true share value.
The Southern Press Association elected C. H. Jones as president and W. W. Screws as vice president with Adolph Ochs as secretary and treasurer. Directors include E. P. Howell and N. K. Ellison. The group will meet next year in Chattanooga and travel by special Louisville and Nashville train to Beauvoir and Pass Christian for a dinner hosted by New Orleans Press members.
Mr. 8. J. Zeigler son of Major M. G. Zeigler of Abbeville has been elected warden of Shreveport Louisiana.
Julien B. Rodgers, editor and businessman of the Macon Evening News, travels to Augusta and Aiken to press a pending lawsuit over title to Aiken property. Attorneys Hammond and Evans say records show Rodgers’ family may still own hundreds of acres around the town, affecting leases expiring soon and potentially reshaping the city’s ownership.
Police in Belgrade revive a man found frozen in the street after a hearse journey to burial. Neighbors and the priest fled fearing a vampire. The man, drunk and exhausted, woke at the hospital and explained he had collapsed from cold. The incident highlights Serb vampire belief and eventual救 recovery.
Senator Berry recounts an Arkansas assault trial where a club rail axe-handle knife and a shotgun were shown as used in the deed while the assaulted man defended with a revolver a scythe a pitchfork a chisel a hand saw and a dog. The jury reportedly would have paid a dollar to witness the fight. In California land prices rise as wheat fields yield to orchards and vineyards.
The House Commerce Committee orders a favorable report on a resolution for a Congressional inquiry into West engineers' strikes. President nominates Brig. Gen George Crook to Maj. Gen and Col John R Brooke to Brigadier Gen. Senate confirms J T Williamson as Columbia Tenn postmaster and W L Walker as collector of internal revenue for Jacksonville Fla. A debt statement shows March debt decline and totals. A superstition tale describes a dealer using a bat liver for luck, tied to a Mississippi river trip and craps game.
An early spring guide on top dressing for grain and grass. It outlines timing, soluble nutrients, and suitable substances including well rotted manure, a salt phosphate mix, and nitrogen rich nitrate of soda for nitrogen deficiency, with cautions for lawns and rich soils.
Poem praising a blue coated minstrel and its mate as symbols of a prosperous year. The speaker, George Ww. Bungay, imagines the bird as interpreter of nature’s signs and a bringer of cheer to home and loved ones.
A Chicago Mail writer recalls a railroad romance amid a major strike. An apprentice rose to be an engineer who saved a child and adopted by his town, later marrying the child when grown. Faced with strike rumors, he chose to remain loyal to the company, honoring the road that sheltered his wife.
A Milwaukee and St Paul train leaving Chicago at 11 30 pm ran four miles west of New Hampton Iowa and plunged into a swollen creek after a bridge collapse. At least a dozen were killed and fifteen to twenty injured with engineers and firemen among the dead. Rescue crews pulled others from submerged cars as water rushed through debris.
Dr A C Robinson notes the danger of teeth acting as poison in fights. He cites cases where bitten areas require extensive healing or even amputation despite medical efforts. He warns tobacco whisky and stomach disorders may worsen oral toxicity and stresses the frequency and difficulty of treating such injuries.
Gardener's Monthly notes Wolflin Microscopica, a tiny native of India in the Lemnaceae family. It has merged stems and leaves into a single frond with a rhizoid for buoyancy. Asexual frond multiplication rapidly expands pond areas. flowers appear as a single stamen and a single pistil. In the Eastern United States two species exist: Woulia Columbiana about one twenty fifth inch across and W. Brasiliensis, smaller. American specimens found near Philadelphia.
A collage of wry jokes and quips from various periodicals shows playful stereotypes, social jabs, and light satire. It cites lines about manners, weather, travel, and romance, with brief anecdotes and humorous vignettes attributed to multiple newspapers.
A timid youth sought to address one of two brothers in a counting room. He stammered asking for the right person, but the answer was clear he must speak to the brother. The judge recorded the firm as run by two brothers and the youth’s confusion in addressing them.
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