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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1917
Page
4
A partial OCR fragment mentions an emcee and several repeated letters, with no coherent event details, names, dates, or locations readable for a precise summary.
A verbose critique accuses Wilhelm II of war guilt, mocks German propaganda, and lampoons pacifist exemptions. The piece defends mobilization rules for religious objectors, outlines their forced camp duties, and argues against evading service in a free country.
The piece argues that Germany cannot be starved into submission and that manpower and artillery superiority will crack the German line. It notes fresh German divisions arriving at Ypres, the Allied push to retire German coastal defenses, and the aim to cripple submarine warfare while limiting Allied losses. It warns against American merchants raising prices and burdening consumers.
The piece notes a nationwide push for customers to tote their own packages, reducing delivery costs by millions each year. It questions whether merchants would lower prices if delivery expenses vanish and argues the idea should be debated and adopted to free workers for other duties.
Petrograd August 13 British Admiralty reports through Wireless Press that in repulsing a Tenian attack along the Slonika valley in western Moldavia the Russians took more than 600 prisoners and four machine guns. Russians and Rumanians drove Austro German forces from heights near Ocna and around Fokshani they captured 500 Austrians but had to retire slightly.
In New York on August 13, two exemption hearing defendants Louis J. Cherry and Dr Samuel Bernfield were arraigned before U S Commissioner Hitchcock and held in 5000 bail for grand jury action. Kalmen Gruber called exemption blank distributing agent faced arraignment and was held in 2500 bail. All three waived examination.
A Rutgers college group dubbed the diet squad estimates 27 cents per day as the irredicible minimum for the average American's wartime food cost.
A reader from Angus Mills, Pa. endorses Foley's Honey and Tar for children suffering hay fever and whooping cough, noting it as essential when others fail. The Mann Drug Co. is cited as a source for Foley's products.
Milton H. Rohleder aged 23 son of Mrs A H Rohleder drowned while swimming near the city water plant intake in Charlotte Sunday at 5 pm. He went with six companions including three brothers. E T Rohleder stayed afloat while E C Rohleder attempted rescue but could not save him. The body was recovered and doctors failed to revive him. He practiced law.
The first three bales of Georgia's new cotton crop arrived in New York and were auctioned from the cotton exchange steps for $700, about 50 cents a pound. The proceeds went to the Red Cross fund.
Sealed bids for a steam turbine driven pump with capacity 1460 G P M and 50 feet head are due August 14, 1917 by the City of High Point. Steam pressure 100 to 120 lbs. Condensing outfit preferred. economy of operation emphasized.
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