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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1922
Page
4
A colonial newspaper column blends weather, verse, quips, and jokes. It riffs on spring comfort, city life, and short humorous observations about crime, transportation, romance, and business, citing Berton Braley and various proverbs.
The piece surveys a plan to back money with wheat rather than gold, noting risks of price instability and potential Wall Street manipulation. It cites the British chancellor’s cautious stance and compares historical monetary bases, asking what could replace gold: wheat, energy, or mutual confidence.
A reflective piece traces the fading romance of seafaring from Marco Polo to modern gyroscope stabilizers on ships. It argues progress dulls adventurous life as steam, pirates, and unions reshape ocean culture, predicting romance will reside mainly in science and books.
The article lists district boundaries for a service census in High Point with named district pairs and responsible pages. It names individuals such as D. C. McRae Read Kearns Horney Moffitt and others overseeing districts 4 through 15 along with Mills and local plants like Highland Cotton Mills Pickett Cotton Mills and Mechanicsville divisions.
The Waughtown graded school holds commencement exercises tomorrow in the school auditorium. Dr. George R. Brown pastor of the First Methodist Protestant Church of High Point will deliver the commencement sermon tomorrow morning. Rev. J. H. Stower will lead the 11 o'clock service here.
A mass meeting of Black citizens in High Point is set for Tuesday night April 25 at Fairview graded school. Informants say the event will address educational matters and will begin at 8 o clock with several speakers.
Kiwanis directors will convene at 7 30 pm at the Sheraton hotel to select delegates for the district convention in Columbia on April 27 and for the international convention in Toronto, Canada on June 21.
Bazil H. Hedgecock and Clyde Ballinger sold to A. B. Beasley property on Burns Street for 1000 dollars in a deed recorded yesterday. A separate deed transferred Jamestown property from George E Lee David Lee and J S Lee to Oakdale Cotton Mills for 1500 dollars.
In Concord North Carolina on April 22 Richard Hahn shot an American eagle believed to be the mate of a stunningly reported bird killed in Mecklenburg county Friday. The wingspan measured 6 feet 7 inches. Hahn fired as the eagle flew over his farm.
Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday in the South Atlantic states calls for generally fair skies and normal temperatures. No other major weather events are expected this week.
State Senator W. C. Corbett died at his home in Portsmouth this morning at 8 05 o clock. The death was reported from the Virginia city where he resided and served in the state legislature.
A bankruptcy petition was filed in federal court against United States Food Products Corp. Liabilities total 36.6 million dollars, including subsidiaries, with assets of 57.8 million dollars.
Bandits held up the Morris and company office in St Louis. A policeman was killed and two others wounded, one critically, as the bandits fired back and escaped with a small payroll sum.
At Killarney Michael Collins arrived this afternoon to give an address. An Irish Republican Army officer challenged him with a revolver outside the depot, warning he would not speak until the Listowel incident in County Kerry was cleared up.
The Nebraska supreme court upheld as constitutional the law forbidding teaching any foreign language in public, private, parochial, or denominational schools to pupils below the eighth grade.
The suspension of Robert M. Stillman was announced on the New York curb exchange this afternoon in New York City.
Sabre lies grievously ill after a brain hemorrhage and a brutal emotional collapse. As friends and family gather at the County Hospital, Ormond Clive and Lady Tybor navigate past guilt, divorce, and a vanished self while Sabre clings to memory and the hope of return.
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