High Point Water and Tax Facts from 1914 Report
Facts from the Industrial Department of the Commercial Club describe water capacity with a 600 000 gallon supply and a 3 000 000 gallon reserve. Taxable property value for 1914 is 4 392 700 based on 46 percent of actual value, with a tax rate of 1.45 per 100 of assessed value. Building and loan associations hold 450 000 in assets as of June 1 1915, with 475 000 invested in homes in five years. High Point operates two newspapers The Enterprise and Weekly Review, and reports the Southern Furniture Journal as a Southeast publisher.
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High Point
The
Enterprise
Associated Press
Weekly Review
Southern Furniture Journal
Southeast
A Bargain of Souls in Immoral Case
The Enterprise reports a case where a man and a woman were found guilty of immoral conduct and offered a choice between costs and marriage or punishment. If they marry, the judgment is suspended. if not, the woman faces the workhouse and the man the roads. The piece questions the morality of coercive marriage and calls for state aid to rehabilitate fallen women.
Alarm on Asiatic Influx Declared Minimal After War
A U S warning from commissioner general Anthony Caminetti downplays a feared Asiatic influx after World War I. The piece argues such immigration is unlikely to surge as labor slows and killing nations postwar demand meat elsewhere. An editorial note thanks Caterer Harry Raymond for American Beauty roses and mentions Col Bob Pickett donating roses to the business manager.
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United States
Anthony Caminetti
Harry Raymond
Bob Pickett
Voice of the People thanks The Enterprise for exchange list
A reader from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill thanks The Enterprise for adding them to the exchange list. The letter lauds the paper’s lively columns and calls it a valuable community investment. Signed by E. C. Bronson, professor of rural economics and sociology, December 6.
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the Enterprise
E. C. Bronson
The
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
N. C
Thackers Adopts Unusual Plan to Gain New Friends
Thackers the popular men s store sends out 1000 letters with National Cash Register cards attached and accepts these receipts at face value on Saturday December 9 and Monday the 11th for hats shoes shirts socks ties collars handkerchiefs or any item chosen The tickets total 135 dollars and mark a strong inducement to attract customers amid high living costs.
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Thacker's
National Cash Register
Bulb Bargains From Holland Arrive Soon
Advertises single mixed tulips at 1.25 per hundred, Darwin mixed tulips 1.50 per hundred, mixed crocus 1.00 per hundred. Also notes first size bulbs from Holland and 80 boxwood pyramids and balls arriving in a few days. F H Ford offers contact via Wil lenbar Terrace phone 363 12-6-31.
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Darwin
Holland
F. H. Ford
Willenbar Terrace
Adlerika Instant Relief Claim At High Point
High Point residents are amazed by the claimed instant effect of Adler-i-ka a mixture of buckthorn bark glycerine and related ingredients. One spoonful purportedly relieves constipation sour stomach or gas by acting on both bowels and may aid appendicitis prevention with few doses.
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Matton Drug Co
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High Point Enterprise
Asa Biggs
C. M. Brown
J.P. Rawley
North State
Bell Telephone Connection
N. Co
Industrial Department
the Commercial Club
Voice OF
People
A. F
A. M. Lodge No
Ss. S. Wall
P. Z. Christman
Moffitt Furnishing Company
A. M. Idol
Adjt
L. S. Fox
Wachovia Bank
Loflin & Brockway Funeral Directors and Embalmers
R. L. Loflin
L. L. Brockway
Main Street
Mattison
J. G. Wilson Corporation
Norfolk
Best Street
W. M. Kinney
S. Main St
Virginia Avenue
W. F Armfield
Linderman Dove Tail Jointer
North Carolina
High Point Publishing Co
DR. Murphy
First Reformed Church
Lindsay Street
Standard Tailoring Co
Western Union
Greens
Boro Daily News
Mann Drug Co
New York Life Insurance
F. A. Ogburn
Bank of Commerce
Yuletide
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
Ham
Bennett’s Market
You
Agen Morris
Bank Commerce Bldg
H. A. Millis
W. R. Morrow
Sec
Treas
Broadway
Earl Strom
Francis Ford and
Grace Cunard
Ee Francis Billings
Petrie
Mellichampe Printing Co
Claude B. Vestal
Public Accountant
Max Bones
R. E. Andrews
E. Commerce ST
I L. Goldman
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