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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1919
Page
7
Cleveland officials ban Mack Sennett style bathing suits on city beaches. Misses must wear shoulders covered and skirts not higher than four inches above the knee. stockings may be dispensed with. Park Director White cites eyestrain concerns.
Howerton Motor Company launches services for motor repair wash and polish on South Main street opposite the Dixie Milling company. Texas gas sold at 27 cents per gallon. Paul Horney is in charge as mechanic. Satisfaction guaranteed. c8-6-19-31
New York August 1 unsettled weather affected early cotton trading with gains in trade buying. Active months rose 17 to 88 points after opening, October near 32.40 and January around 62.50. market closed steady with futures at October 2.12, December 32.28, January 6.16, March 2.16, May 32.19.
Norma Talmadge presents The Forbidden City a Silk Picture directed by Sidney A. Franklin at Broadway Theatre Monday. The story follows Wong Li a Chinese mandarin whose daughter San San secretly marries John Worden an American officer. After a royal plot to kill San San and her baby Toy the infant is saved and Wong Li faces royal disfavor.
In Asheville Homer S. Cummins, chairman of the national Democratic committee, called the Republican victory of 1918 the costliest in U.S. party history and predicted Democratic success in 1929. He spoke while visiting his wife in a local hospital after a 60 speeches in 60 days western tour. Weather notes added a tropical disturbance likely to move westward in the eastern Caribbean.
Admiral Rodman commands the new Pacific Coast fleet sailing to the western United States to form the strongest naval force in Pacific waters.
A Marmaduke Pickthall letter claims Greek troops murdered Turks after landing at Smyrna. It says Turks stayed in barracks, Greeks broke in and killed those who would not shout Venizelos, with looting, mutilations, and civilian complicity. The Allied Fleet allegedly tolerated the acts.
Train timetable shows expected arrival and departure times at Thomasville High Point Sia Point Thomaryville Gordonton High Rock and other stations with note that times are not guaranteed. Daily service with some Sunday exceptions and illustrated times across the day.
The article discusses forming a High Point post of the Yankee Legion with war risk insurance, allowances, pay, and reemployment. It explains the legion’s duty to support the nation, maintain law, suppress autocracy, aid communities, and keep wartime brotherhood alive in peacetime. Charles Kephart has literature for army navy members and a local post is urged.
An exposé style exchange renders a trial scene with a witness interpreting a plaintiff’s description of being struck on the head. The Birmingham Age-Herald notes comical courtroom dialect and the need for interpretation as the witness clarifies the slang terms.
Reuters style note reports a Washington rumor that Standard Oil may acquire the Liberty shipyard in Wilmington and convert it into a large terminal for oil products. In Greensboro an unrelated summons and attachment warrant detail a $1,000 breach of contract suit by Globe Parlor Furn. Co. against Greem Mfg. Co. with return dates in 1919.
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