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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1917
Page
3
President Harrison calls for meat conservation to support the military and allies. He cites rail accidents killing cattle and hogs as a wasteful loss, notes Southern Railway spent over 200000 dollars in a year, and urges farmers to keep stock away from tracks to ease wartime transport.
State Board of Health issues minimum infectious disease control rules under a new quarantine law. Rules require parents guardians or housekeepers with a typhoid case to avoid selling uncooked foods and to disinfect discharges using county officer instructions. Violations are misdemeanor with fines up to 50 dollars or jail time up to 30 days.
Patent remedy ad promotes Foley's Sing of Malaria Curl Tonic as a treatment for malaria with chills fevers and sweats. It claims quinine flavor improved by iron’s tonic properties and asserts it increases appetite strength and vitality, offered by Mann Drug Co.
London Aug 9 at St Pauls Knightsbridge, Mrs Henry Lyndhurst Bruce wed Captain John M J Evans of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The bride known as Camille Clifford rose to fame in New York and London stage shows and was nicknamed the Gibson girl. Her first husband Captain Henry Lyndhurst Bruce, eldest son of Lord Aberdour, died in France in 1914 as an early English nobility casualty of the war.
Dr Edward Martin of Philadelphia states in a lecture that a single cough or sneeze releases 20,000,000 influenza germs into the air of a room and a well person might inhale 20,000 germs in one breath.
In Danville Virginia on August 9 J Taylor Ellyson led for governor in Tuesday’s primary with 105 votes to spare. The campaign featured church factions prohibition wets and rival groups pulling the state into a sharp division with possible pastor estrangements and a lasting split in the dry vote.
The navy department said the American steamship Navajo of the Navajo Steamship company caught fire and was abandoned. The crew landed safely with a naval guard rescuing them. Chief Boatswain's Mate Horace Lathrop Ham led the guard. Gunner's Mate Third Class William Gibson hailed from Newton Wilmington, North Carolina.
Greensboro Loan and Trust Co. to sell lands in Randolph and Guilford counties by public auction under a Barolph County Superior Court decree. Parcels in Asheboro and Thomasville will be offered Sept 3 to Sept 5 1917 with payments plan of 25 25 50 percent and terms: 6 percent interest on deferred payments and title retained. Stocks and personal property also on sale.
Attorney E L Stack offers 376 acre farm of the late Rev W W Lawrence in Richlands township four miles from Sea Grove Randolph NC. Land grows tobacco and wheat with timber estimated 502000 feet and water mill site. Private bids preferred but auction at Ashboro courthouse on Saturday September 29 1917 if unsold.
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