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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1921
Page
1
A string of quirky maxims and social observations fills the page, from political sarcasm to domestic witticisms. References swing across nations, Prohibition, taxes, love, trouble, and everyday folly in a scattershot, period-voice collage of opinions and aphorisms.
Citizens call for a uniform system of road markers at city entrances and along highways to Winston Salem Greensboro Thomasville Lexington Salisbury and Archdale Road. Markers should guide visitors both on outskirts and within the city and may serve as decorative as well as functional guides. High Point could gain an attractive tourist town feature with such markers.
Pig iron makers in Chicago cut prices to 3183 a ton, only $3 above 1913 and $28 below the war peak, despite costly ore. They hope lower prices will spur demand while absorbing losses until business stabilizes, as reluctant landlords step aside.
Senator Medill McCormick warns that unemployment may hit 6 million next winter if trends continue. He cites Labor Department figures and urges concrete steps to relieve suffering, noting recent Italian public works funding as a potential model for relief. He remains hopeful that government action can avert widespread hardship.
President Harding appoints Charles G. Dawes as director of the budget to investigate all departments and propose retrenchment. Dawes acts as an advisor with no power to implement cuts. progress depends on presidential and congressional action after his findings, echoing Taft era lessons from a costly economy commission that failed.
A damaged OCR fragment from a historical page hints at a pledge or debt in 1807 involving the state, but the text is incomplete and lacks clear names places or outcomes. The readable bits show stray words suggesting a formal pledge or agreement, with no verifiable entities or dates beyond 1807.
A jumble of notes notes on August New York events mentions motorists stopping, a ball game, and several state auto licenses. It notes a weather demonstration idea by Andrew Jackson De Voe of Hackensback with six women learning prophecy. The piece promotes the motion picture The Son of Wallingford as a powerful human story with grand spectacle.
A bishop from China visiting Sioux City to officiate a wedding refused his consent to postpone the ceremony despite his serious illness. The wedding proceeded with Clara, a deaconess, and Professor from Sutherland Town as the couple, under church oversight.
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