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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1921
Page
7
Berlin confirms a new operation camera by Dr A von Rothe to record detailed moving pictures of surgeries without hindering surgeons. The device hangs over the hands, with cinematographic lamps above in a separate room, operable by a foot switch.
Minneapolis and Ontario Paper Co. sets October to December newsprint at 38 per ton, a voluntary cut of 10 from the contract price and an additional 5 reduction already granted. The move affects October November and December deliveries.
A long running underground blaze in Ohio coal mines has persisted for 37 years, continuing to burn as authorities investigate the source and impact on surrounding communities. Local officials face ongoing challenges in containment and safety monitoring.
News from Estonia July 27 reports Moscow sources and Bolshevik papers say the Cheka loses many arrest and death sentence powers. A compromise replaces broad control with limits on espionage cases and revolts, with a supreme tribunal and regional death sentences only where martial law applies.
In Rome the American academy students are required to study architecture painting and sculpture by close work on the actual monuments. They crawl over the Pantheon and Trajan column measuring details and sometimes reproduce mosaics and friezes to gain first hand knowledge of the art across ages.
A double bronze cross with the inscription for merit will be awarded to Secretary Hoover and Brang Boas of Columbia University New York for assisting the University of Vienna in its work. The decoration is to be issued in their honor.
A Wilmington chapter of the order of the Eastern Star received its charter and organized with Mrs. Poul Bell as worthy matron and Mrs. Jessie Shoemaker as worthy matron. The lodge will be named Goldenrod.
One hundred mine rescue and first aid teams from 25 states plus Canada and Mexico will compete Sept 1 2 and 3 in St Louis under the US Bureau of Mines and partners. Teams simulate mine disasters while others provide first aid as Foster Bain notes mining safety gains momentum with over two thousand trained volunteers participating nationwide.
Des Moines newspapermen and printers stage an annual Printers Golf tournament the only one of its kind in the United States. Sixteen players in five flights compete through September with names like Then enter Make Up Hell Box and Devils flights. Notable players include James W Wallace son of the Secretary of Agriculture W A Cordingley and W S Nichols.
A Thibet temple shrine is on temporary display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, enabling study of Tibetan religious art and its Indian and Chinese influences. The collection, owned largely by Alexander Scott, includes sacred images, banners, carpets, and the Padma Sambhava statue, with history tracing to looted Tibetan temples after the Younghusband expedition.
News desk from New York reports a long running domino game in River City has been active for a quarter century. Details indicate a storied local pastime with participants and neighborhood gatherings described as a civic fixture.
Federal Judge Menton ordered the nine chartered steamers returned to the Shipping Board after non payment of rental. The vessels had been received by the board and were restored to the United States Mail Steamship Company by temporary injunction in New York on August 27.
A hopeful note greets Grace Abbott stepping into leadership of the children's bureau as she vows to raise safety standards for young children.
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