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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1921
Page
9
High Point merchants announce observance of Dollar Day next Saturday offering greatly reduced prices on desirable merchandise. Practically every store in the Furniture City will participate and expect shoppers from within miles to purchase fall stock. Details will be carried in The Enterprise advertising columns.
In Soissons, France, rapid natural healing is transforming postwar landscapes. Forests regrow where ruins stood and trenches vanish beneath vegetation. Officials note restoring the prewar line from Nieuport to Belfort would be prohibitively costly, while sites like the Bayonet trench at Verdun are protected to preserve history.
David Franklin Houston former Secretary of Agriculture and Treasury is named chairman of the National Child Labor Committee to succeed Dr Felix Adler. The group launches a campaign against child labor in agriculture and industry, citing thousands of children in Michigan Colorado Kentucky Connecticut Oklahoma Texas California New Jersey Ohio Delaware and urging enforcement of compulsory school laws. Funds are sought. headquarters are 105 East Twenty second Street New York City with Owen R Lovejoy as general secretary and V Everit Macy as treasurer.
Dr Henry L Banzhaf of Milwaukee urged national cooperation to provide affordable honest dentistry. He called for 28 centrally located co operative dental clinics with specialists working only in their field to boost efficiency. The Milwaukee industrial dental clinic was cited as a successful model.
The Elks lodge No 1155 voted to give 45 to a Sanatorium patient treated for tuberculosis. The gift funds six months of care, extending to October 8, after which further help is sought as prior 155 from the Ku Klux Klan has been exhausted.
In Isley England on August 16 Armour sergeant John Cunningham of Northumberland won the famous rifle event. The victory marks a notable achievement for the serviceman amid a competitive field.
Cunningham wins the King’s Prize of 250 pounds in the NRA annual event after a three stage course at distances up to 600 yards. He scores 226 to beat the next competitor by one point while hampered by rheumatism and using a rifle rented at sixpence a day. he is 62 years old. A German scientist proposes a grain to bread process without grinding to flour.
Train No. 30 arrives at 3 23 AM. Train No. 31 arrives at 4 49 AM. Train No. 29 arrives at 12 45 AM. Train No. 11 arrives at 7 22 AM. Train No. 138 arrives at 10 29 PM. Train No. 38 arrives at 11 20 PM.
Mrs. Zell Hart Deming, Warren Tribune manager for 20 years, was chosen to discuss women in journalism at the World Press congress in Honolulu next October. She represents the American Newspaper Publishers Association Inland Press Association and Associated Ohio Dailies and serves on the Central Division advisory board of the Associated Press.
The Gentry Bros show in High Point on August 18 features a strong clown lineup led by Billy Stiles. Clowns perform stunts and satirize topics of the day as dogs ride wild horses and pigs, with other acts from George Jen kfer Rube Walters Art Brockett Fatty Carbuncle and George Alexander Bowie attending.
Hickory is in a great building era with over a hundred new residences in the past year and ongoing projects. Local contractors report more homes under construction than ever before in the city's history with one or two families moving in each week.
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