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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1917
Page
3
An advertisement urges car owners to protect worn tires with International Rubber Half-Soles, claiming 5,000 to 16,000 miles more service and substantial savings compared with new tires. It promotes exclusive city rights and asserts major money and mileage benefits with the product.
Paris reports two thirds of war front court martial cases stem from drunkenness or fear with drum head trials and rare executions. General command suspends sentences to end war, prison and hard labor are uncommon, defense by civilian lawyers like Maitre Demange and Micheli Pelletier noted.
Following the lead of Germany, France, Italy and other continental countries Great Britain will implement daylight saving tomorrow. Clocks move forward one hour at 2:00 a.m. and remain in effect through mid September across the United Kingdom.
Of the West Point graduates who served in the Civil War one fifth were killed in battle and one half were wounded, illustrating the severe toll on the academy’s alumni.
The Franco Prussian war cost the bel ligerents 316 million dollars and left 311000 killed or wounded out of 1713000 engaged, reflecting a total human and financial toll.
New York April 16 American league teams showed stronger results in ante season inter league games against Nation clubs. Of about 50 contests 38 were played 19 NL 18 AL and one tie. Runs hits and errors favored the Americans slightly compared with last year. Grace Mack of Salem earned a certificate as an official leather measurer, the first woman to do so in Massachusetts. Marilla Ricker may run for Congress in the upcoming special election after Sulloway's death.
A collage of maxims on envy and hostility, women’s fashion, and male fear. It riffs on human vanity and pretext, jokes about aging and clothes, and jokes about Jonah’s fish story while noting naval limits and coastal rocks.
In Switzerland an electrically operated coin in the slot machine is described as a device to clean the sides and soles of a person’s shoes. The invention aims to add shoe cleaning to gaming mechanics using a coin activated mechanism.
The remark notes that about twenty ships of the line could be built and fully equipped for less money than the cost of launching a modern battleship, highlighting a cost comparison between older vessel types and new battleships.
A concise quote attributed to Victor Hugo condemns singing against a child as a sin against God, framing the moral stance as direct and absolute.
W H Ragan guardian buyer A L Burns raised bid to 425 deposits final bid in the Guilford County Superior Court special proceedings. The sale of the Z A Burns farm will occur in front of Bank of Commerce High Point on Thursday April 12 1917 at 2 PM. Commissioner W H Ragan listed and Atty W P Ragan represents.
Under court order a land sale is held in Jamestown Township four miles southeast of High Point. The tract covers about 24 acres and is described as beginning at a stone with bounds to a stake, and sold for cash to the highest bidder. Sale scheduled for April 23, 1917 at 12 o'clock.
By order of resale in Guilford County Superior Court commissioners will sell two tracts at public auction on April 23 1917 at 12 noon. Tract 1 contains 24 acres in Jamestown township four miles southeast of High Point with described boundaries. Tract 2 contains 51 acres adjoining the above with boundaries noted. Sale for cash. H T Cox commissioner.
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