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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1920
Page
4
A compact column of wry sayings and quips touching politics crime and society. It ridicules overhasty shopping politics and crime while noting rioting in Bologna and the need for thrift and charity. The piece references public figures and events with a humorous, critical edge.
Discussion reports a discriminatory provision allowing deportation of alien women for immorality within three years of arrival while alien men are not deported for similar acts. Examples include unmarried alien mothers, fathers who are American or alien, and cases involving a French girl, a sea marriage, and a detained woman at Ellis Island.
The essay argues snobbishness in women may serve an evolutionary purpose by linking social aspiration to securing stronger partners for offspring. It notes men have broader public roles, yet both sexes push toward social strivers, suggesting strength mates with strength and weakness fades over time.
An article notes that about 200 cities now use city managers, arguing the plan treats city government as a major business with expert oversight. It highlights the recent convention where managers shared ideas, comparing democratic accountability under managers to traditional political bosses. The approach began in Staunton, Virginia twelve years ago.
The excerpt recalls violent lynching rhetoric and grim questions about the motives of a 15 year old girl a boy and a blind man caught during a still raid in Green County Tennessee amid debates on women’s rights and public justice.
The column recalls a Toledo painter who repaired his own teeth after knocking them out and shows a Cleveland student missing only one day in sixteen years yet earning school leadership roles. It mixes humor, nostalgia, and quirky feats from local figures.
Mrs Hiram D Walker of Brooklyn seeks a divorce claiming her husband threw his eye at her The eye is described as an old glass eye unused since he obtained a newer glass eye.
The report states Russia will begin a moneyless period after January 1 with the rest of the world following once Christmas shopping ends.
Ivy Pace aged 18 married Ada Evers a 38 year old widow at Hartford Indiana. The ceremony united two women with the groom absent from this record.
Mrs Shaw McLaren of the English Women's Freedom League urges confining the father from home except mealtimes, arguing church state and public opinion grant his power. Dean Minerva Hinks notes men abandoned skirts long ago for trousers as society shifts. A Paris cable defines teajamas as daytime housewear resembling pajamas.
A chilly wind is cited as shaping the perception of Lees Leg, surpassing male criticism since its inception, with debate tracing back to Paris or possibly Yonkers.
Miss Ada Oakes of Washington North Carolina and Wal Ey Pine of Salisbury joined in marriage with Reverend Oscar Wood officiating. Arthur Pine served as best man and Miss Anna Laurel as bridesmaid. The couple honeymooned with Mrs. E W Shingle in Hickory.
In Montgomery County Illinois voters elected a non existent candidate named J Johnson defeating the incumbent county surveyor who had served the area. The outcome shows a landslide for a symbolic figure rather than a real person.
Deb and Van Eyck confront a wedding plot as Mrs Burns schemes to seal a marriage while debts and scandal swirl. The narrator observes Van Eyck, in public charm, hiding a ruinous financial leverage and a hidden elopement plan with Deb under pressure from her mother.
In open centers planned for Hebron Bethlehem Haifa and other towns Sr A C Harte in charge of Palestine work outlines a plan for an international Y M C A building in Jerusalem featuring a memorial tower. The tower will record the name of every Y M C A worker who died in the great war.
Constantinople reports Premier Ferid Pasha has started converting his palace into a fortress by building a high wall. The measure aims to protect against enemies released from jail by the new cabinet.
Sacramento health official says Japanese parents in the area are renaming children with American first names. Every child previously named Kusaki or Hashimura is now being called Harry Bill or Mary, reflecting a shift in cultural naming practices.
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