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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1917
Page
2
Manager Arnold B Huff of the Broadway theater announced the opening would be postponed to another day to complete extensive work. The venue, renamed but keeping the old title, will feature improved projection and a new screen, with the first show slated for tomorrow at 1 PM.
The Rye Beach club in Rye New York will host an outdoor swimming program tomorrow featuring two national championship events for women along with several men’s races and club events.
At the University of Chicago fourth convocation three hundred sixty seven students received degrees titles or certificates. Among the graduates a Chinese student earned a bachelors degree a Japanese scholar received a Doctor of Philosophy and a Hindu earned a doctor's degree.
A reader from Mississippi recounts rheumatism kidney and bladder trouble and says Foley Kidney Pills gave complete relief. The ad blends personal testimony with claims of cured and mentions disordered kidneys, pains inside and back, sore muscles, swollen joints, and fatigue. The Mann Pharmaceutical Company logo appears as the producer.
Paris reports a new law authorizing government takeovers of essential goods at fixed prices to ease living costs. National footwear will supply boots to civilians via cooperative societies at set rates, with army output scaling from 500,000 to more than a million pairs monthly. A national cloth project will follow, using requisitioned wool to produce clothing for men women and children.
Rotterdam leaders meet with Premier Cort van der Linden as about 6,000 Russians and refugees crowd the city amid street fights and health fears. With 3,000 sent to Sechidem, officials seek better solutions after Britain rejects new arrivals. The Dutch government faces pressure to act.
Arthur Taylor, son of Jessee Taylor from Wilson, disappeared two years ago. A letter to J A Paradis, former theater operator, claims Arthur is now in China aboard the United States steamship Vieksburg as a crew member.
Company A of Hickory in Camp Greenville S C Aug 31 reports arrival at Camp Sevier yesterday afternoon. The unit is described as first North Carolina infantry and composed of 19 percent men.
Melbourne reports Major General William Helmes of Sydney was killed by German shell-fire in France while commanding the Fourth Australian Division. He led the Australian joint force in New Guinea and served in the Boer War and Gallipoli, noted for bold, sometimes reckless courage. The blast also narrowly missed New South Wales Premier William Holman.
On the Greek island of Fano near Corfu the Enemies report that local women must not talk to men. Most men work in the United States and return years later, leaving wives guarded by older women. Strangers approaching are met with a shower of stones as a custom persists postwar.
William Hicks 21 shot and killed Calvin Faison 28 yesterday afternoon in a rural area near Raleigh Ane. Hicks told officers Faison advanced on him after he rebuked him for mistreatment of Hicks's sister Mrs Faison.
Stockholm reports Sweden’s emigration rose to 7301 this year up from 4078 last year as government and the National Society to Oppose Emigration push work for returning migrants and deter new departures. In Charlotte the Southern Checker Association crowned F B Fishburne champion. Sami of Charlotte placed second. The Journal notes austerity measures in Bavaria and a German policy on bathing in blood.
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