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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1916
Page
4
The Washington Post calls officials to attend baseball games to ease national burdens during World War I. It praises the sport as democratic, unifying, and restorative while contrasting other nations’ turmoil. The News and Observer critiques Raleigh’s convention role and notes political shifts and Villa reports.
Voters must register to vote in the June 3 primary for North High Point. Registration books open April 27 and close May 20. Registrars will be at designated precinct locations each Saturday from 9 until sunset and other times at homes or businesses.
In New York on April 28, brisk stock inquiry continued with initial prices rising from small fractions to over a point. Union Pacific Reading New York Central led railroad gains alongside Crucible Steel Baldwin Locomotive and Bethlehem with United States Steel boosting the recovery as metals gained on favorable trade conditions.
In New York on April 28 the cotton market opened steady with a 2 to 5 point advance and traded higher early. July futures reached 12.14 while October stood at 12.31, with May at 11.95 July 12.11 October 12.29 December 12.46 and January 12.51.
Favorable weather and lower Liverpool quotations push Chicago wheat prices down. May contracts trade around 1.125, July about 1.145, with initial ranges slipping before a brief rally and subsequent decline.
The High Point Milling company operates a modern flour and corn meal facility with output near 200 barrels per day. Their White Frost flour is sold by leading local grocers. Proprietor Mr. Horney emphasizes thorough cleaning of all grain and strict sanitary precautions to ensure high quality products.
An old time advertisement promotes Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound for restoring natural hair color. It claims quick, natural darkening with no gray visible after use and emphasizes cosmetic, not medical, benefits.
Berlin authorities deploy portable field kitchens nicknamed goulash cannon to sell cheap hot dinners in streets. Lichtenberg leads adoption with basements turned into large boiler cook centers producing meat and vegetable stew sold for a small fraction of traditional meals. The system aims to feed workers efficiently and could outlast the war.
The Southern railway announced purchases totaling 45 locomotives and 1,?08 cars from Baldwin Pullman Pressed Steel Mt. Vernon Lenoir and others. Mobile and Ohio buys 1,000 30 ton steel center sill ventilated box cars. Equipment will be all steel electric lit and built to current standards.
Paris reports Denmark to Germany supplies of heather increasing amid claims it serves as forage substitute and as tea. A Schleswig native German soldier explains burning heather before exposed trenches heats air to disperse poisonous vapors during gas attacks.
Winnipeg reports a war driven shortage of office and errand boys across Manitoba and neighboring provinces. Boys over sixteen enlist. laws push younger boys to school, forcing firms to hire girls. Telegraph companies solve the gap by employing crippled soldiers as messengers.
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