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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
4
The notice records Associated Press rights and local paper publication details. It states the Enterprise is delivered in High Point North Carolina, with a 19 cent weekly subscription and a call for timely delivery notifications to the circulation department.
Local citizens debate Main Street improvements from English to Commerce streets as taxes and readjustments loom. The piece cites blue laws, property-owner attitudes toward funding, and a community push toward safer, better streets while noting a Philadelphian style remark about Paris and a youth gift to Company M.
A wartime appeal praising Mother America as the Mighty Mother who guides children to stars symbolizing justice and virtue. It urges citizens to support war efforts and postwar ideals, calling for contributions of records or money to aid Company M in High Point before their departure.
The High Point Enterprise urges immediate re surfacing of Main Street from Commerce to English. Business leaders and property owners backed by the paper advocate paving as a cooperative, patriotic effort with instalment payments and a paving district to prompt city action.
A partial timetable indicates that the Carolin and Yadkin Railroad Company trains may be expected to arrive and depart from listed stations but exact times are not guaranteed. The schedule shows the time at which a train is slated to stop, not guaranteed.
The author argues the war department can prevent a repeat of a deplorable Houston affair by properly training black soldiers within white units. It claims this plan requires no extra expense, avoids isolation, and would curb national race prejudice and reduce potential danger.
President Wilson approved navy estimates for an additional 550 million dollars to build destroyers to fight German submarines. The plan includes 225 million for constructing and expanding engine and shipbuilding plants to speed production, with facilities moved inland to access new labor centers as existing capacity is fully engaged.
Secretary Daniels left for Charleston West Virginia to attend ceremonies marking the breaking ground for a 2 million dollar navy projectile plant to be operational next April Rear Admiral Fletcher and naval board members accompanied the secretary Plans for a 15 million dollar armor plate factory on the same site have not been completed.
Copenhagen reports the Berlin Kreuz Zeitung says it will be ten days before the central powers respond to Pope Benedict XVs peace note. Berlin and Vienna have not finalized negotiations though talks continue with Turkey. A joint reply is considered likely.
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