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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1918
Page
4
The notice lists subscription options by mail or carrier at 5 dollars for three months and 250 per week, with telephone contacts for business, circulation, advertising, editorial and news at North State offices. It cites North State and Bell at No 12 North State and No 355, and marks the date Saturday August 17, 1918.
Next Monday through Wednesday are designated in High Point for a fund drive to aid three million Jews starving in Europe. Local business leaders will take three days off to canvass for donations while the local Jewish community has already pledged over $1,000, urging Gentiles to contribute as well. The appeal frames the request as a test of shared humanity amid famine in Turkey, Palestine, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, and Galicia.
President Wilson urges continued generous support for schools of all grades during wartime. He backs a comprehensive educational campaign and stresses maintaining attendance, training for war service, and postwar nations needs for educated citizens, urging cooperation with the American Council of Education. Military reports note German setbacks and Allied advances near Reye, Damery, Parviliers, and moves along Picardy front.
The article describes French advances five miles south near Loges wood and a flanking British movement on the northwest. French forces penetrate deep, threaten Reye and Lasgny, and position near Ribecourt and the Oige valley to roll up the line. Allied positions on the Somme Qise salient are better than in recent days.
Citizens urge funding and new facilities as eight month terms strain capacity. Officials cite high costs yet insist education must grow. call for additions to accommodate both white and black students and prevent crowded classes.
A reporter waited over an hour for Billie Burke but interruptions kept her from comments. Burke, dedicated to picture work, preferred it to stage work. Her film Eve's Daughter, directed by James Kirkwood, is set for a Broadway run with Alicia Ramsey’s play prior. It will screen Monday at the Broadway theatre.
The Burton homeplace sold yesterday afternoon in a well received auction. The land was divided into small tracts of a few acres each and sold individually with a matching adjacent lot offered at the same price as the first. Total sales reached about 17 000 under the Thomas brothers as auctioneers who rapidly disposed of the property.
El Paso reports Francisco Villa blends with Mexican laborers in crowd scenes. Descriptions note his dress ranges from horseman garb to plain gray suit, with details on height five feet ten, 165 pounds, bowed legs, and expressive facial features. He speaks rapidly and shouts in Spanish when angered.
Private Harold Hamel of the 66th Regiment reports relief after using Foley's Honey and Tar for a three month cough and recommends it. A second note from Mann Drug De Geo in San Antonio praises Foley Cathartic Pills as the best laxative for constipation and biliousness, advising travelers to keep them on hand.
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