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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1919
Page
3
In Hendon a complex tangle unfolds as Everett hints at engagement to Dagmar Stewart while admitting a rumor about her. Rose remains a potential neighbor as仍 the narrator schemes to keep Rose close and influence Dagmar’s fate. The narrator observes Hetty’s aunt death and Betty’s heartbreak as secrets about Leela and Everett’s past surface.
In San Francisco on August 9 Princess Della Pattra a royal Egyptian scion arrives in America seeking a wealthy American husband and at least fifty thousand dollars for a wardrobe She plans to tour the country to see wonders and splendors and she boasts a royal smile with two rows of pearly teeth Her ankles are noted as not slender shafts but she remains an honest to goodness princess.
Macon Georgia August 9 Sol High tower runs a police station charge account. He appears before the police judge so often that a credit line exists and fines are paid later. He has been fined 30 or 40 times this year for minor infractions. Complete British wartime recruiting posters recruiting posters and war loan posters now sell for over 500 dollars each.
Washington reports Mrs. Elizabeth Simmons a 65 plus year old widow paralyzed by back pain and nearly blind, ousted from 809 I Street NW by a deputy marshal. Furniture ruined by rain as she endured the night on a stool, while real estate agents claim non payment and owners seek eviction. Her two tenants also left, leaving her with little money and no place to go.
Wheeling city council decides to close the local work house known as the crackerbox due to high costs. Prisoners will be moved to the county jail as guests at the facility were described as arriving with unrestrained appetites making current food provision unsustainable at present prices.
Fess Bowden, an ex convict from the Nashville road district, allegedly assaulted Mrs. Josie Lewis in Cooper township last Saturday. He escaped after striking a jail officer with handcuffs but was captured Wednesday by Nashville Chief G W Bartholomew and placed in the county jail. Bloodhounds from Raleigh failed to track him. A final odd note mentions New Zealand’s 1236 mile straight railway line.
In New York on August 9 three men dressed in evening attire robbed the Century theater cafe. They dined at the Midnight Whirl, then seized the receipts totaling $800 from head steward Emile Krell and cashiers Spiro Mavromatis and Miss May Haram before fleeing in a waiting car into Central Park.
Rev. J. Paul Reeves of Stella Nebraska regains memory after wandering three years and prepares to return to his eastern home. Former pastor of the Christian church in Morrowville Kansas, he was a drayman in Anaheim when he re discovered himself. He has a wife and two children in Nebraska.
Japanese Red Cross workers in California knit socks for soldiers using heavy rice paper, valued for keeping feet warm in winter. The item highlights wartime aid efforts and material shortages affecting servicemen.
A man wearing a cin sand and smoking a cigarette was seen this week placing large poster boards advertising an non-intoxicating chill tonic.
The Tickville town marshal is not yet announced for a future role, with beliefs he may resume duty after a period of inactivity. A Wid Onion school teacher closed the school recently and reportedly left the door open.
Although Germany built 120 Zeppelins during the war, never more than 15 or 16 were fit to take the air at one time.
Information published lists arrival and departure times for passenger trains at High Point. Schedules are for reference and not guaranteed, with details subject to changes by the railroad.
Railway timetable fragment lists multiple routes and times for Southern lines. Includes arrivals and departures to Washington Birmingham New York Washington Charlotte Richmond Danville and Atlanta with various times and connections.
Early service from Asheboro at 7:05 a.m. and 1:55 p.m. with additional stops later in the day. A note mentions a conditional stop and that service does not run on Sundays.
United States Railroad Administration announces depot ticket office telephone number 146 for passenger inquiries and service requests at the incumbent station.
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