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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1921
Page
5
A mosaic of wry quotes on marriage, politics, fashion, sports and society, each brief item reflecting prewar and mid-century concerns. From "Our Soap Goes Further" ads to weathered political jabs, the noted phrases hint at everyday life and public discourse across nations and eras.
The Chairtown News of Thomasville publishes an editorial praising the High Point Enterprise and denying rumors it plans to put the Thomasville paper out of business. The Enterprise disputes the tale and notes its own wide circulation and regional role.
Samuel Vanclair head of Baldwin Locomotive works has returned from Mexico with contracts for 65 locomotives. He says real Americans mean substantial business men and firms not profiteers or confidence men. He notes profiteers have strained U.S. Mexico relations and urges keeping such men on this side of the border to improve relations.
The article weighs whether Harding chose Lodge as best qualified or due to his role as chairman of the senate foreign affairs committee. It argues Harding had no alternative, fearing a repeat of Wilson’s Versailles oversight, and notes Wilson’s constitutional rights in not ceding a senate role.
The High Point Rotary club urged the city to place markers at principal street intersections and on the outskirts to aid automobile tourists. The city council should consider the project at its next meeting and not delay until winter or next spring.
A reader from High Point, North Carolina, argues that after World War II prices for Coca Cola remain higher in the city than in Greensboro, Thomasville, and Lexington. The letter calls on local soda fountains to align prices with other cities, noting 6 to 8 or 11 cents for two in nearby towns and urging profiteers to justify the disparity.
In New York on August 22, Larchmont Yacht Club members are upset by a black and white skull and crossbones flag flown from a yacht named Pal O Mine. The owner, linked to Funeral studios, is a club member, leaving commodores puzzled on how to address the sailor’s personal insignia.
The New York City artists who summer in Woodstock produced a Greek pageant to prove American art remains free of commercialism. Robert Astor Chandler led a Bacchus impersonation in a protest against blue laws and commercialization on Harvey White’s thousand acre estate. Two thousand participants.
In Boston area a five ten inch veteran can obtain a $450 wooden leg set via Adjutant Leo Spillane. The only requirement is loss of both legs above the knee and height about five ten. In Indianapolis the American Legion notes 15 800 service men in Chicago unemployed amid worsening conditions with 55 900 jobless in Calmet sector.
The Gray Samaritans, young women of Polish descent organized by the YWCA, return to Poland to work under the American Relief Administration. Amy F. Tapping of Utica leads 14 districts with Anna Michalowska of St. Louis supervising 250,000 hungry children. They aid food card distribution and run community kitchens while seeking warm winter clothing. ARA members in New York hosted a luncheon for the group.
Sixteen year old Luna Nestor, famed as a Rus sian child wonder, travels with her mother grandmother and brother from Siberia via Vladivostok and Japan to New York, dancing through villages to earn travel funds while the Red Cross aids the crossing into Japan and beyond.
The Hadley Rescue Hall in the Bowery collapsed, taking a home for the homeless and a notable city landmark with it. Formerly Germania Hall it hosted rough drama prize fights and Bowery dances and was once Volk's Gardens. It stood beside a site once known as death by own action Hall, a notorious gathering place where many girls died by suicide.
Desk Sergeant French stated the police will focus on local auto drivers who have not obtained licenses. The list of offenders is nearly complete and those failing to comply will be apprehended soon. Licenses now cost $1.20 after a ten cent monthly increase, cheaper than $5 plus costs.
Fourteen firemen depart for Gastonia to join the state firemen’s convention starting Tuesday. High Point’s team travels for water and chemical contests hoping for honors but captain Hepler cannot attend, leaving the group without their regular leader.
W. W. Raper manager of Koolpool in High Point says the Elks band will perform tonight for swimmers and spectators. It is the first band appearance since opening and a collection will aid the band amid a large crowd expected for the event.
New York August 22 The cotton market showed firmness in early trading aided by reports of very high southern temperatures and steady Liverpool cables. First prices were steady with advances of 6 to 14 points and light offerings. December rose to 3.78 and futures opened steady with October at 18.16, December 13.55, January 13.60, March 18.78, May 13.85.
By virtue of two chattel mortgages and conditional sale contracts, Greensboro National Bank will auction at the Sheraton garage in High Point on Monday September 2 1921 at 2 30 p m the listed motor vehicles including Stuart Oldsmobile Oakland Studebaker and National automotives, due to defaulted indebtedness. The notice is dated August 20 1921 and appears in Guilford County records.
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