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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1921
Page
5
Weathered quips and economic odds and ends
A collection of wry observations on rainless parades, aging coins, Guilford county cars, earthquakes in Los Angeles, lawn mower seasons, raspberries in pies, notable figures, advertising woes, and a humorous note on the dry movement. The items mix social quips with brief political and economic jabs.
The Chautauqua Comes To High Point For A Fine Program
The Chautauqua movement has grown to reach remote villages and now comes to High Point. A nationally known company will present a high quality program in music drama and lectures with profits going to the local YWCA. The event is promoted as a democratic community effort with no personal profit, supported by a few citizens to ensure a top tier assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
High Point
Young Women's Christian Association
Gary Advises Holding Government Bonds for Safety
The United States Steel Corp holds $110 million in government bonds and chairman Gary says they will not sell at a loss but hold until they recover or gain. He asserts government bonds will eventually be worth full value, urging small investors to hold as their bonds provide certainty amid uncertain markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
Steel Corporation
Uncle Sam
High Point Seen as Strong Convention City After Good Roads Visit
Visitors at the National Good Roads convention praised High Point for its friendly hospitality and attractive homes and streets. A western manufacturer noted the city’s furniture reputation while expressing admiration for its hospitality. The event showcased High Point as a promising convention hub with brighter prospects for furniture expositions and future gatherings, aided by a new hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Furniture City
Women Run the Treasury Idea Sparks GOP Deficit Jest
The League of Women Voters boasting $78,000 in its treasury jokes about GOP finances. A playful suggestion questions letting women manage the treasury, reflecting partisan humor of the era. The remark ties finance to political leadership without advising concrete action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of Women Voters
Remarkable Remarks From Diverse Legislative Voices
Quotes from Speaker Gillett Senator Moses and Representative Longworth highlight political introspection on reelection printing costs and municipal securities. Rene Viviani and Health Commissioner Robertson offer wartime reconstruction and public health quips reflecting era tone.
One of Them One Life Worth More Than Wealth
A moral meditation on the parable of the lost sheep. It argues that even a single life, like Helen Keller, justifies extraordinary care and expense beyond market value. Every child holds inestimable worth, demanding limitless love and aid beyond mere numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Keller
Bullets Strike Girl's Knee in Philadelphia Report
A noisy, mixed set of quotes reports a bullet strike on a girl's knee with the skirt intact. The Philadelphia Record headline contrasts the event with a police remark while the Grand Rapids Press critiques police effectiveness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Record
Grand Rapids
Mich
Bear departments and a joke about prohibition
A Philadelphia Public Ledger quote mocks the idea that polar bears belong to the department of commerce while grizzly bears and brown bears fit other departments. A Detroit Free Press quip adds a joke about fishing persistence and the eternal triangle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Department of Commerce
Department of the Interior
Department of Agriculture
Department of Prohibition Enforcement
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Detroit Free Press
Catchy Name Dilemma Sparks Drapery Store Debate
A London Telegraph quip asks if a boy should aspire to be a banker like Uncle Peter, while a drapery shop owner seeks a distinctive brand name. The light exchange reflects playful interplay between ambition and identity in early 20th century Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teddie
Uncle Peter
Mummie
London Telegraph
No Cause For Alarm in Child’s Dream Scene
A fragment from Puck London features a scare scene with a small girl and her mother. The text notes a publication titled The Dam Truth from Arizona, linked to irrigation topics and Buffalo Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puck
London
Arizona
Buffalo Times
How He Got Her Cartoon Caption in Journal Flavor
A brief cartoon caption from Cartoons Magazine notes a tailor’s daughter admiring a suitor’s suit. The quip “Many a slip twixt the hip and the lip” echoes a Wall Street Journal joke about tailoring and romance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cartoons Magazine
Wall Street Journal
British ambassador Geddes to speak at Virginia centennial
Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambassador to the United States, has accepted an invitation to address the University of Virginia centennial celebration on June 2. Centerpieces of the event include a motor pilgrimage to Monticello with nearly 200 European and American university representatives, commemorative exercises for Thomas Jefferson, and a luncheon followed by remarks by Archibald Cary Coolidge and R. T. W. Duke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlottesville
Sir Auckland Geddes
United States
University of Virginia
John Lloyd Newcomb
Europe
America
Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
Centennial delegates gather for Yale and national talks
National Geographic Society hosts a June 2 dinner in the rotunda to close the centennial days. Speakers invited include Yale president-elect Dr James Roland Angell, Academie Francaise envoy Gabriel Hondaux, UNC president Dr Harry Woodburn Chase, former US Attorney General Thomas W Gregory, UVA president Dr Hugh H Young, and Brady Urological Institute head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Geographic Society
Rotunda
James Roland Angell
Yale University
Gabriel Hondaux
Academie Francaise
Harry Woodburn Chase
University of North Carolina
Thomas W. Gregory
United States
Hugh H. Young
University of Virginia General Alumni Association
Brady Urological Institute of Baltimore
SLICKERS ON TRIAL IN ATLANTA GAMBLING CASES
In Atlanta on April 22 a Superior court session heard the trial of William Fletcher alias Canadian Willie The Count linked to a ring with Floyd Woodward Abe Powers and Jack Knife O Brien charged with larceny after trust over 27000 taken from D Wynne a Mississippi planter and Memphis headquarter. Woodward is a fugitive Powers escaped Milledeville last week and O Brien is free on bond. Eugene R Black counsel for citizens committee said case will be pushed this week with rebuttal testimony after a one day recess the investigation targets alleged open gambling and the names of many swindlers and confidence men tied to it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
City Council
Boykin
Fulton County Grand Jury
William Fletcher
Willie
Floyd Woodward
Abe Powers
Jack Knife
O’brien
D. Wynne
Memphis
Woodward
Powers
State Farm
Milledeville
O'Brien
Eugene R. Black
Citizens’ Committee
Ridges on golf balls improve distance and accuracy
The passage notes that ridges on golf balls yield longer and truer flights than smooth balls. It also mentions Marble Halls in Josephine county Oregon as a celebrated limestone cave. Other items cover wigs in 17th century England, a bottle cork device, and human physiology figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Josephine County
England
Wise and Otherwise Highlights From Global Factoids
A compiled list of varied trivia notes covers innovations and history. Topics include a fireproof tank cover for sailplanes, weatherproof preservatives for Plymouth Rock, large-scale turpentine and rosin output in Louisiana, Australia’s tall stringy bark trees, and a vine fruit producing sponges. Also featured are facts about beetles in the British Museum, Ottawa as Canada’s capital, reindeer trends, lavender oil near Lyons, and the electric motor’s discovery by Peter Barlow. Additional items cite Millard Fillmore, global white population figures, Alaska’s reindeer imports, a federal reindeer station at Unalakleet, Radcliffe’s blacksmith background, Louisiana constitutional efforts, headhunting in New Guinea, U.S. cement production, Cadiz fortifications, the University of Chile’s women students, wage-earning women in Virginia, Chile’s lack of professional fire departments, Canada’s war veteran loans, coal mines in the British Isles, and peanut-based milk substitutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth Rock
Louisiana
England
Australia
Eecuador
British Museum
Ottawa
Canada
Queen Victoria
Lyons
France
Peter Barlow
Millard Fillmore
Alaska
Siberia
Unalaklett
Radcliffe
New Jersey
New Guinea
United States
Cadiz
Spain
University of Chile
Virginia
Chile
British Isles
Percy Groves Receives Barbershop Punishment in New York
In New York on April 22 Percy Groves, a steamship steward, got a haircut shave shampoo and five steamings. The barber charged $6.15 which Groves paid but later declined and alerted police. The barber was sentenced to five days in the works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy
New York
Percy Groves
Secock
Nine story HEe building moved without stop in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh on April 22 a nine story office building weighing about 5000 tons was moved 76 feet with zero interruption to clerks and customers below. Twelve laborers used jacks, timbers, I beams, and 800 rollers to slide the structure along rails while the hardware store remained open. The move cost about 80,000 dollars versus 275,000 to tear down and rebuild.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Wood Street
Second Avenue
Boule- Varad
Building moved on rails toward Third Avenue
Describes a construction operation where a large building is pushed northward toward Third Avenue. An iron roller on the south side of the rails is advanced and reinserted under the north side to create a continuous line of rollers as the process progresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third Avenue
China Wants Foreign Trade Negotiations Opened
Vladivostok dispatch reports M Kojemieoff, vice foreign minister of the Chita government, has arrived with instructions to enter formal negotiations with foreign powers on opening trade. He may also visit Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Tokio
Vladivostok
Asahi
M. Kojemieoff
Chita
Japan
Whales Worshipped Halt Fishermen Along Bombay Shore
In Bombay on April 22 native fishermen report whales washing ashore and refuse to sail, believing sea gods protest. One whale was found with garlands draped over it as locals react to the unusual omen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bombay
Gas rates fixed by state commission in seventeen cities
The state corporation commission set new gas rates in seventeen cities with the changes taking effect on April 1. Officials said the adjustments aim to standardize pricing and ensure fair billing for consumers across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Corporation Commission
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