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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1924
Page
2
The article argues that Greensboro Winston-Salem and High Point face likely exit from the Piedmont league as fans shrink. It notes rising costs, weak local demand, and old guarantors notes. It urges a community show of support or abandonment of professional baseball in the region.
A December 20 1924 High Point Enterprise issue notes local items and editorials. It discusses the Piedmont league’s financial issues the Christmas fund needs and a highway plan from Canada to Florida. It mentions a New York medical liquor deaths and a Ku Klux Klan gasoline incident in Goldsboro.
A North Carolina Merchants' Association writer urges freeing curb space for visitors and urges using public transport to aid downtown trade. He cites out-of-town shoppers, local merchants, and the need for improved parking, especially to attract customers and retain home-town business in High Point.
High Point residents praise merchants for keeping stores open until nine per day to accommodate Christmas shoppers. Reports indicate the policy meets a real need, countering inflated seasonal business expectations.
An excerpt discusses imagined German victory and Chinese queues as bondage marks. It contrasts ancient Chinese civilization with surrounding barbarian powers and notes the historical imposition of long queues as an emblem of conquest and subjugation.
A column titled More Truth Than Poetry presents a mix of verse and satirical quips. It contrasts a poet’s faded joy with a student named William and ends with a quip about forehanded business and coal prices in 1930. The piece mocks wintering gloom and social trends.
New York cotton cloth markets were more active this week with print cloth sales reaching up to 250000 pieces of wide cloths and prices edging higher. Sheetings and drils held steady, new fall lines opened with slight reductions, and demand for bleached cottons and wash fabrics remained strong among large producers.
Washington December 20 Sayy ing that he had been cruelly mis represented Vice Chairman Plummer of the shipping board told a House investigating committee he did not oppose separating the board from the Emergency Fleet Corporation He said a December 17 vote against considering resolutions occurred in Palmer absent and was mis interpreted Two resolutions now before the board largely follow the president's plan and Plummer claimed consistent with the president's wishes for independent Fleet Corporation action and noted his January 10 resolution supporting the move with the president's approval.
Washington dispatch notes cancer deaths increased in 1923 while tuberculosis progress continued. Census Bureau data show 86,754 cancer deaths in a registration area covering 87.6 percent of the population, rate 89.4 per 100,000, up from 86.8 in 1922.
The report notes lower death rates from tuberculosis in 1923, with deaths around 99,000 if unregistered areas kept the same ratio, compared to about 95,000 in 1922. It cites 1920 figures and shifts in mortality, using census estimates to project future totals.
Chicago wheat prices touched new highs in early trading on December 20 but quickly declined. The market opened with declines of 7 to 8 cents or 3 to 4 cents then saw a broad reaction as selling spread across the board.
Washington December 206 Christmas at the White House will be quiet this year due to the death in the past year of the younger son of President and Mrs Coolidge. The president’s son, who attends Amherst College, will return home Sunday. The First Congregational Church choir will sing carols from the north portico on Christmas Eve and Mr Coolidge will light the national Christmas tree at dusk.
New York dispatch reports Mikoly Sczur, husband and father of several children in Cleveland, was arrested following a shooting at an apartment on St. Mark's Place where Mrs. Mars Nefsky was struck by a bullet entering her mouth and lodging in her neck. Sczur claimed he tried to kill himself after the incident.
A rear coach of a twelve passenger train from Minneapolis to Chicago ran off a bridge over the Chippewa River at Chippewa Falls at noon. Fire and all ambulances rushed to the scene. Early reports indicated several may have been killed, with fifteen to twenty passengers aboard.
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