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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1919
Page
8
Cincinnati defeated Philadelphia 7 to 3 as weather affected multiple games. National and American fixtures between Boston and Chicago and New York and Pittsburgh experienced wet grounds and rain delays with Brooklyn and St. Louis also listed with rain conditions.
A summary of multiple game scores lists Cleveland 12 over Philadelphia 0, Chicago 5, New York 6, St. Louis 4, Washington 3, Detroit 4, and Boston 56 in a single collection of results.
Atlanta leads with 6 to 0 over Mobile while Memphis and Nashville tie at 6. Birmingham has 4, New Orleans 2, Chattanooga 8, and Little Rock 4. A ton of metal yields ten thousand gross of steel pens.
Loray Club, touted as the fastest in the state, meets High Point at Welch Field in a midweek clash set for 4 30 PM. The Gastonia textile team boasts a strong lineup with Smith, Mec Lean, Davis, and Stuart in the infield, Honeycutt behind the dish, and a capable trio of pitchers led by Groome Pegram and Joyner. The clubs already opened the season with a Gastonia victory, and Loray aims to defend its rising claim to the state title.
The director general issued instructions for preparing and filing tariffs to set export rates from Ohio Indiana Illinois and Mississippi River states to southern Atlantic gulf ports from Dubuque Iowa to New Orleans and to ports along the southern Michigan peninsula. Rates will mirror New York domestic rates with export differentials to Key West. North Carolina shippers await broader Midwest adjustments to four southern states.
A veteran druggist with 40 years in practice promotes Number 49 For The Blood claiming it treats blood poisoning and a range of ailments from constipation to skin troubles. He notes widespread local use and asserts the product’s superiority. The Hart Drug Co. distributes and endorses the remedy.
Nick Reidolph lies near death in Baltimore and calls for his sister Rose who left after a quarrel with her husband J P Williams a Washington streetcar conductor. Williams learned Rose planned to return to Baltimore but she remains away in Washington hoping to rebuild their marriage.
James Humes, a convict who escaped from a road camp near Nevada City, was recaptured and returned to Folsom prison. He endured a 25 mile ride on the radiator of a prison auto, a punishment described by the guard who made him ride.
New York, Aug 26. Hyman Levin a wholesale grocer was ordered by the fair price committee to refund $40 to the Albany orphan asylum. He had sold 1000 pounds of sugar at 14 cents a pound while buying at 9 cents, indicating excess profits.
A thief took a feeding bottle filled with milk and an outfit for a baby from Edward I Blatto’s car on Mission Street in San Francisco while it was parked between Fourth and Fifth streets. Several garments rugs and grips remained untouched.
Columbia defeated Charleston 10 to 1 while Greenville beat Augusta 5 to 1 and Spartanburg dominated Charlotte 9 to 1. Charllotte appears as a misspelled counterpart in the third score.
American Association games list final scores with St. Paul 2 Kansas City 1 Columbus 2 Indianapolis 5 Toledo 9 Louisville 2 Minneapolis 8 Milwaukee 4.
A Brooklyn woman accused prohibition increased her husband’s liquor intake and led to the arrest of Samuel Antor. Officers Dill and Mutzer allegedly bought a bottle of whiskey from Antor for 5.75 in marked bills, with Inspector Cole man presenting the case to Commissioner Bick who set bail at 1000.
Oxford August 26 John Mc Grath 63 a farmer was attended by a physician for the first time in his life after falling from a haymow and breaking his collar bone.
Two teenage girls from Portland Oregon Miss Theresa Bostino 17 and Miss Marie Schradegg 18 tell police they traveled from Red Portland to Los Angeles on less than 10 dollars in eleven days. They say they hiked and bummed rides by hitchhiking and arrived in Los Angeles two weeks ago to see ships come in.
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