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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1917
Page
4
Readers urged action to resurfacing Main Street from Commerce to English to improve Heritage High Point image. The column notes a dilapidated stretch harms perception of the city to travelers on the railroad and calls for a paving district vote and earlier action.
Premier Kerensky fights to stabilize the new republic amid disorganized Russian forces and looming peace hopes. Stockholms conference and socialist attendance loom over the effort while railroads cut passenger service to aid wartime production and warfare needs.
The piece notes the Roemac paving sample on East Washington street looks crumbly and thin with the base showing through. It urges the city engineer to conduct a careful analysis before acceptance to avoid issues under the current contract. The second part mentions a Potsdam imperial head allegedly planning to vanquish France England and then America, a far fetched but noted claim.
A wartime tale from France describes a forward trench gun named Minnie causing British discomfort near Ypres. An irritable artillery officer laid a wire telephone to a field battery and fired on successive shells, finally scoring a decisive “Bull's Eye” and ending Minnie's exploits.
WANTS HELP WANTED 500 COLORED MEN preferably married to work in aluminum plant eight hours daily seven days weekly wages for steady work fourteen dollars per week to start Increases after one three and six months service Fine new houses with water toilets and electric lights Cheap rent Steady work inside all year round Apply Employment Bureau Tallassee Power Company Badin North Carolina ey
Federal officers detained a man in Denver who claimed to be related to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. He gave the name KE A Baker then said he was Dr. A. R. Baker of Cleveland. He took money on the ground of the alleged kinship and was well treated before admitting he is a St. Louis decorator.
A Vancouver businessman has completed fifty-one round trips to London, England. Nimrod, Nansen's arctic vessel, is currently transporting coal for the Allies.
Rail timetable lists southbound trains with arrival and departure times from High Point Thomasville Gordontown Denton and High Rock. Another item announces sale of Mechanicsville parcel to satisfy a mortgage note, describing lot boundaries and noting no house on the property.
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