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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1922
Page
4
A mixed verse and prose snippet collection features Berton Braley's light satirical poems about songs and politics. It includes rhymed verse lines such as Rum tum fiddie and a short critique of contemporary topics, ending with a 1922 copyright note and jests about public figures and manners.
A High Point demonstration promotes motor driven coaches for short hauls to relieve steam railroads. Ford cites dead weight in trains, predicting lighter, gas propelled cars will cut fares. Gasoline coaches cost about one third of standard cars, weigh one fifth, and could revive interurban rail service Charlotte to Greensboro and Winston-Salem.
A Texas evangelist in New York condemns Easter fashion parades on Fifth Avenue and Atlantic City boardwalk as temptations for poorer women. The piece argues extravagance benefits workers by circulating money, while frugality is harshly judged. It also notes contrasting social values and incongruous modern concerns.
Hapgood recalls Sabre’s return from World War I a changed man, facing a damaged leg and alienation at home. Sabre’s friend Twyning notes Sabre’s wife grows distant, while Sabre himself questions postwar society, noting greed and profit as new gods in a fading moral order.
A copy of the first compiled laws of New York printed in 1694 sold at auction in New York for 3000 dollars, noted as the most valuable item among a rare collection of original state laws owned by Supreme Court Justice Russell Benedict. The item highlights ongoing interest in colonial legal artifacts and historical documents.
Salisbury April 13 The Evening Post publishes from its new Manton West Innis Street plant and expects to complete the move within a week. The paper touts a modern plant with employee comforts and invites residents to watch the big press run in front of the office.
Shelby April 13 The Lily Mill and Power company operates a fine yarn mill south of Shelby. It is installing a finishing plant to merchantize and color fine yarns. Fiske Carter Construction company has the contract and work has begun.
Salisbury April 18 May McCorkle Davis wife of O D Davis prominent local banker died Tuesday morning after a prolonged illness. She was daughter of the late Jasms M McCorkle a leading lawyer and well known figure. Surviving are husband two sons James M and Henry W Davis and one daughter Mrs Trymmith.
Lawrence Massachusetts officials say Katama Mills employing 350 workers did not shut down entirely, though the plant paused during the textile strike. The mill is one of four still operating partially while four others have closed.
The speaker recalls a bucolic place where ferns moss and daisies thrive and birds sing at dusk. Moonlight filters through leaves as night winds drift, and in the heart of the garden love and you wait in soft dew and fragrance.
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