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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1917
Page
4
The Enterprise is delivered in the city by carrier at a weekly rate of 10 cents. Subscribers who do not receive their paper on time are asked to notify the circulation department.
The column ridicules local candidates and public figures while poking fun at social trends and names like John Jacob Astor and Alyss. It mocks reform talk, fashion, and a notorious prank, weaving quips about rice throwing and a “carni val” week into a broader satire of public life and media.
The piece argues Americans must contribute beyond fighting, outlining roles for 18 to 45 year olds on front lines and older or unfit workers at home. It urges optimistic unity, securing jobs for volunteers, and reserving women’s roles until other groups are exhausted, ending with support for U.S. entry as the coup de grace in World War I.
The Salisbury Post praises The High Point Enterprise for its improved size and quality after new press adoption. The Hickory Record notes its Cox Duplex press seven columns eight pages look and anticipates continued loyal support from High Point to build a bigger, better paper.
The Greensboro News urges observing flag etiquette at night and during war times. It notes flags are raised at sunup and lowered at sunset on government posts and ships and that during engagements or victories many flags are displayed, implying they were previously taken in.
New Bern April 16. Jesse Bray claimed he was paid 50 to help rob BF Edwards store at Merritt Pamlico County. He said Willi Brite and his wife hired him. The magistrate exonerated them and held Bray for the next Pamlico county term on robbery and arson charges as the store was burned after the robbery. The case stirred Pamlico County as a major topic of discussion.
A call to improve spoken English through Better English Week. The poem laments bad grammar like He don't and IT won't, laments slipping phrases, and urges readers to join in mastering proper language to defeat the slang hydra. It pleads for collective effort to restore correct speech and reject absurd expressions.
Berlin reports air fighting Sunday over the Arras front with losses of 17 aircraft from the French British and American forces. The statement notes a German withdrawal and heavy British losses in accompanying engagements north of the Scarpe.
There is more catarrh in this region than all diseases, once thought incurable. Local remedies failed, so constitutional treatment is needed. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co Toledo is taken internally and works through the blood to mucous surfaces. A one hundred dollar reward is offered for any case not cured.
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