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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1918
Page
2
AP dispatch from Paris reports strict wartime rationing affecting meat to be limited by day and weight, flour and sugar caps, coal and gas reductions, and restricted electricity and fuel use. Measures target households by size and age, with special allowances for labor, health, and essential needs.
Correspondence reports Mexican revolutionary juntas operating near the Paso border. Villa Orozco Huerta Diaz factions coordinated meetings in a seedy house used to recruit, raise funds, and plan ammunitions shipments to aid Villa. Lawyers and ammunition dealers profit while government agents watch closely but struggle to convict due to clever advisers and neutrality-law evasions.
Stockholm reports leaders of large employers discuss preparing for a general opium off the American system to face German competition. They argue male workers from the war will be needed and unions oppose it, insisting manufacturers must boost individual worker output to compete.
A Philadelphia report warns that a labor shortage in the anthracite sector may force cuts in domestic coal allotments, jeopardizing the 54,345,783 ton annual output estimate. It notes 144,000 miners remain, 33,000 fewer than prewar, and outlines potential shifts to meet New England and Atlantic needs.
London notes that the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies outlines postwar aims. They demand women in Parliament envoys at an international reconstruction congress after the war and equal status in law, education, and public service.
In Longiway and at Lord Furness Tees yards seven hundred women work with spades and shovels beside men as the keel platforms and temporary railway are prepared. Women beat men in cubic yards moved and assist in concrete work while building ships. In Bogota Colombia Dr Matcho Tiedef Suarez is seen as anti German and American with support from the Nationalet party. The other conservative wing Ola Historicas includes clericals and Colombian clergy are pro German. Citizens Real Estate and Insurance Co offers wet houses and lots for sale.
Niles Welch stars opposite Mae Marsh in The Face in the Dark from Goldwyn Pictures. Alec B Francis plays Miss Marshs father a retired secret service man who sacrifices her happiness to conceal the truth. Foley Kidney Pills are praised for kidney related pain by a Mann Drug ad.
Dublin August 15 Irish farmers report the Reconstruction Committee proposes government purchase of selected farms and sale or hire to competent cultivators. Sir Horace Plunkett notes some tenants are incapable of improving methods, leading to deteriorating land and hardship under oppressive creditors.
The schedule lists expected arrival and departure times for trains at stations shown with a caveat that times are not guaranteed and subject to change without notice, noting southbound service.
A local retailer advertises low priced footwear for men women and children. Casual and dress styles offered in various sizes with discounts noted throughout the page.
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