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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1919
Page
8
In Rocky Mount Aug 13 Rev T P Allen at First Presbyterian Church denounced food profiteers as criminals worse than highwaymen and porch climbers. He urged the Bible as the sole answer to inflation, praising Wilson for adopting religious grounded service sacrifice and love to curb extortion and aid the poor.
The High Point city council discussed replacing aging fire equipment after Chief A B Horney reported West End station gear is patchwork and North Side gear can no longer handle loads. A plan to move the North Side truck to West End would require extra staff and a new North Side truck, with council instructed to prepare formal recommendations for the next session.
A wartime anecdote from St Nazaire recounts a young woman in the Y hut asking for a discreet favor as a soldier whispered a request to sew a button. The tale sits among sports scores and club standings, reflecting homefront and foreign postings.
Mrs. Genevieve C. Stiles of Altoona sues Andrew Carns for 4000 in Blair County Court after her son was killed by Carns' automobile. The incident occurred April 10 and involved a 13 year old youth. England's famed archer Mrs Randolph Bergns, age 77, has won 536 prizes with the bow.
Brooklyn 1 New York 2 American Boston 3 St Louis 16 New York 1 Cleveland 2 Philadelphia 6 Detroit 9 Little Rock 6 Atlanta 5 Memphis 2 New Orleans 0 Chattanooga 18 Mobile 6 Nashville 10 Birmingham 3 Greenville 4 Charleston 1 Augusta 4 Columbia 1 Charlotte Spartanburg rain.
Norfolk leads with 6, Pree 44, Newport News 0 to 2, Richmond 4 1, Suffolk 1, Portsmouth 2 in 10 innings.
Milwaukee tops Indianapolis 8 to 9 in a tight clash while St. Paul scores 5 to 2 over Louisville. Minneapolis wins 6 to 3 against Toledo as Ikansas City edges Columbus 5 to 3.
In municipal court Judge Kirkman chastised Will and Lillian Boone for a repeating domestic scene. Lillian admitted discussing Will's family after insinuations were made, and both were warned about repeating the act. Other docket items include a $5 fine remitted and Hobart Haney charged with jumping trains, plus a brief lecture on flirting with death and a historical note on Reading railroad strike losses.
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