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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1922
Page
4
A reflective piece contrasts the boy’s love of play with advice toward nobler aims. It blends summer humor, street sayings, and light moral notes while noting society’s quirks and the lingering pull of recreation despite duty. It references Babe Ruth, headlines, and everyday observations from Berlin to local summers.
An article calls for caution at High Point crossings urging Virginia law fines for failing to stop ten feet from tracks. It details dangerous views and crowds at Main, Hamilton, Tomlinson, Ashe, High, Broad, Taylor, and other crossings, accusing Southern rails of unsafe designs and urging a joint plan with rail officials to lower tracks and improve future safety.
Sheriff Blue moved quickly to place three black assailants in the state penitentiary after a brutal Friday morning attack on a man, wife, and child at their camp near Southern Pines. Two confessed. the third claimed innocence. The sheriff acted to prevent a mob and uphold law.
An editorial argues for immediate punishment to deter crime in North Carolina. It criticizes the end of public executions and whipping as outdated but urges swift court action and public sentiment to demonstrate law and order, noting two of the accused have confessed.
The piece argues that loyalty among strikers nationwide could block or enable settlement with Southern Railway officials. It notes the company has hired new workers and dismissed older ones, invites a conference, and hinges on whether union allegiance and national guidance will influence strikers to accept or prolong concessions.
A New York woman laments prohibition for making her husband drink. The Greensboro Record notes her fury, cites酒 bartenders who avoided alcohol, and argues turnabout is fair play as many husbands were sober before prohibition. The piece questions who benefits or harms from the liquor ban.
The writer notes a population dip as many prohibition agents head to Saratoga Springs to enforce dry laws during the races. He jokes about fashion and ears, then quotes C Nes tle on high coiffures with permanent waves for daytime and evening wear, praising the wave as essential.
Jessica E. Smith of 25 East Sixty Fourth Street asserts she was the first American woman licensed to drive, noting decades of a perfect record before an unspecified setback or incident ended her run.
A woman summoned to traffic court for speeding on Fifth Avenue received a suspended sentence due to a contrite apology and an unblemished record. In a separate moment, a man in an elevator was complimented on hair like a silver fox, then admitted he did not know the man at all.
The theater guild acquires for a future production Paul Apel’s dream comedy Hans Stinscraper's Trip to Hell. Joseph Sehild kraut, regular company member for two more years, will play the title role. Lehnld kraut previously starred in Lil line, similar to the new play. Meanwhile West Side court saw Prince Louis Henri de Me aduteas de Bourbon enter and leave, discharged from a complaint, in a costume recalling Russia’s czar era.
In a historical note the narrator recalls New Jersey sending thick mosquitoes northward. Territorial pride flares as the speaker jokes about skeeters. A retaliatory move follows with buckets of shops and a DA onslaught deterring rivals while ferries shuttle them to the Jersey side.
Tad Teiman and the Six Happy Entertainers bring a two day engagement to the Orpheum in High Point with a varied program dominated by jazz. The opener features a Mack Sennett two reel comedy to warm patrons before the main act. Admission is 15 and 25 cents for matinees and 20 and 30 cents for night shows. No show Wednesday. Jack Minnis and his Southern Belles start a three day run Thursday.
Cosmopolitan's latter production Fdin the Woman released by Paramount is a top notch mystery drama. A small town girl rises to fame through the stage and becomes entangled in a murder plot showing loyalty, guilt, and dramatic reversals with a standout cast led by Harrison Ford Alma Reubens and Eileen Huban. Two days only Monday and Tuesday at the Broadway.
Vancouver Aug 5 Justice Ruggles ruled poker is a game of skill. The court held legal a promissory note for 260 dollars by C. S. Morris to Jacob Mayville for an alleged poker debt. Morris argued poker is a game of chance and debts from it are not lawfully enforceable.
In a tense scene at Mark Ablett’s inn, Robert Ablett is found dead with a bullet wound after Mark’s returned absent years. Antony Gillingham and Bill Beverley interrogate motives while Cayley cautions a theory of accidental death, debating the key’s whereabouts and Mark’s possible escape.
The writers note reckless speed is a concern while condemning walkers who pause in the street and urge them to place detour signs to guide traffic.
Washington August five. A draft aeronautic code of safety will ban low flights over crowds and trick flying in all parts of the United States. The code, prepared by the Bureau of Standards National Aeronautic Association and Society of Automotive Engineers, may include pilot license checks, airfield rules, radio and lighthouse provisions, and medical and signaling equipment. The Wadsworth Hicks bill for a bureau of commercial aviation in commerce department proceeds in Congress with unified civil military aviation control and presidential support. The National Aeronautic Association convention will focus on expanding air power and civil aviation with army and navy cooperation.
The statement notes that fourteen larger armies exist, but emphasizes that the speaker’s nation encompasses the Atlantic and Pacific oceans within its reach. This framing highlights geographic breadth alongside military strength.
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