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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1919
Page
10
The piece notes a call to suspend the Congressional Record as a paper saving measure. Judge Frank Carter questions Democrats about potential leadership changes involving "Billy" Bryan. The text also mentions Lincoln women boycotting egg merchants affecting prices and references a long delayed letter finally arriving after 18 years.
Mr Palmer asserts cost of living is decreasing and urges belief, though residents prefer to wait for the grocer’s view before accepting the premise. The Main street crossing improves slowly with hoped asphalt work and bar repairs. Centennial avenue repairs miss Christmas and the city posts new garbage cans amid taxpayer dissatisfaction.
The report notes Clemenceau sustaining a cracked rib on a visit to Lloyd George yet attending daily supreme council sessions. It adds he has been shot but remains energetic, hailed as a formidable veteran of the war. The article comments on democracy, radicals, and the need to curb forceful dissent.
A reader blasts the High Point city council for placing ornate advertising on garbage cans. The letter argues for plain cans bought by the city and questions the council’s judgment and sense of progress.
At leisure hour Saturday stores on the east side of South Main from Main Drug to the post office suffered a city caused blackout lasting until closing time. A Rankin street transformer outage disrupted lighting and ruined sales for many merchants. The recurring outages, blamed on the transformer, cut revenue on the biggest shopping day of the year.
A plea that tuberculosis threatens all and must be fought by every group. Clergymen physicians teachers parents and workers are urged to educate prevent and control spread. The National Tuberculosis Association leads the effort funded by Red Cross Christmas Seals to stamp out the disease.
The En terprise notes the Knox resolution marks a first step toward ratifying the Versailles peace treaty after senators prepared for holiday recess. While fate of ratification remains uncertain, the move signals progress and pressure to end months of foreign affairs gridlock.
A science note states electricity travels about 248 500 miles per second while light speeds 186 400 miles per second. The comparison highlights electricity’s greater velocity in conductive media and signals ongoing interest in electrical science.
In Seattle sugar frost threatened Ok Anogan apple growers. A warehouse built of baled hay near Omak was completed in time to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in apples. About seventy thousand boxes sat exposed before hay was rushed in to cover them. Farmers were invited to use the structure, which gained an extra tar paper outer layer during the storm.
A musket said to have belonged to Alexander Selkirk the man whose island adventures inspired Robinson Crusoe has circulated through British museums. The weapon bears the inscription A Selkirk Largo 1771 and was bought by Randolph Berens for 6.25 dollars, insured for 16 000. Selkirk ran a tavern near Clapham and died at sea in 1723 while serving as a lieutenant.
Our Christmas sale offers fur scarfs in black brown taupe and grey arriving for gift giving. Prices are $12.50 $15.00 $18.50 $22.50 $25.00 and $35.00 with easy budget options for her gifts.
The item lists birth and death dates for Joseph Smith and Dr. Thomas W. Evans, adds events from 1864 to 1917 including Fort Fisher destruction, Canadian Liberal ministry, Dreyfus sentence, Przemysl siege, and Russo-German peace. It notes a spirit message claim about Theodore Roosevelt, centennial Canada historian Kingsford, Pershing visit, the S-16 submarine launch, Washington’s 126th anniversary observance, a German bosom paper shirt invention.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy that treats catarrh by acting through the blood on mucous surfaces. It promises to cure with 100-dollar reward if it fails and offers testimonials and pricing to customers in 190.0 form, with Druggists selling at a small price.
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