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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1917
Page
8
An advertising fragment touts fashionable clothing with emphasis on style and value. It mentions quality goods and a promising selection, urging readers to compare offerings and prices for their wardrobe needs.
Secretary Redfield profiles diverse Commerce Department activities aimed at expanding foreign trade. He cites a $4.63 billion trade surplus for 1917 and urges passage of the Webb bill to bolster international commerce. He emphasizes free ports, finance, and expanded commercial attaché posts to extend U S influence and credit abroad.
Washington reports a major increase in U S navy yards and bases during wartime. New facilities include the naval aircraft factory in Philadelphia and the Hampton Roads base with Gillport training station, New London and San Pedro submarine bases, and a Charleston projectile plant. Labor shortages grow as skilled trades were in high demand. Civil Service distributes information and applications without written exams while encouraging immediate re enlistment at higher pay.
Raleigh reports from Eminence Kentucky that R S Curtin an Animal Husbandman for the North Carolina Division Animal Industry has secured twenty pure herd Hereford cattle from Gilter Brothers noted breeders in the United States. The cattle will be shipped to North Carolina and shown in Wilson for several days as foundation stock for the beef cattle business with several pure bred heifers among the consignments for breeding herds.
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