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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1919
Page
4
The city council advertises space for ads on city hall doors amid a mix of wishful thinking about Irish questions and holiday cheer. It notes leftover ad space and critiques garbage can issues the council approved for street display.
If Christmas arrived more than once annually, Austrians would face greater economic wreckage, with consumers and businesses fearing inflation, shortages, and disrupted annual budgeting. The remark suggests seasonal shocks threaten stability beyond a single holiday period.
General Pershing visited his boyhood home in Missouri yesterday, reportedly bringing along his poke. Admiral Sims is praised for declining a medal while others who faced submarine dangers receive nothing. The piece notes possible snowfall and mentions coal bins as a fallback.
The Enterprise declares there will be no paper tomorrow as a fair warning and notes that readers should not expect any edition.
A Columbia businessman returning from Greensboro by air reports only a tossed hat as the notable incident. He notes the crossing is improved though not perfect and comments on Vice President Marshall’s refusal to run for president after seven years as senate presider.
Watts resigns and joins a newly formed corporation to provide income tax information to the public. The venture aims to succeed if the colonel can include a curriculum enabling fools to obtain money to pay taxes.
A playful note wishes Miss Goldman and Alexander Berkman a merry Christmas as they voyage toward Soviet Russia aboard the ship Buford. The writer envisions a stormy sea scenario with prayers for the captain and sailors. A suggestion proposes inviting the corporation commission to visit during a rainstorm to influence Southern railway passenger discharges.
A preacher warns that modern civilization faces peril from anarchy and violence and argues that only Christianity can steady humanity. He cites Russia and Central Europe as examples of decline and urges people to follow Christ's light to avert societal collapse.
The article surveys a tense post settlement scene with operators rejecting new accords, Palmer pressuring for acceptance, and Judge Anderson jailing miners in Kansas. It notes halted Kansas mines, ongoing coal production, and worries about future strikes and economic impact.
William Hohenzollern and family plan a second Christmas Eve at Amerongen while Queen Alexandrine of Denmark marks her 40th birthday born on Christmas Eve in 1879. Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's secretary of war, died fifty years ago. Pershing visits Lincoln Nebraska to end a journey. The Tree of Light in Madison Square will glow nightly until New Year’s Eve. Bank and industry workers nationwide look for a large year end bonus distribution.
An odd, fragmentary column recalls Ostradsinge Poor John and tales of thirsty readers. The text critiques headlines about German passenger liners under the American flag and a relic described as a bar, hinting at a drought era mood and plans to visit a doctor.
Today recalls Queen Alexandrine of Denmark born in Mecklenburg 40 years ago. Henry H. Morgan American consul general and trade commissioner in Belgium born in New Orleans 59 years ago. Bishop Richard G Waterhouse of the Methodist Episcopal Church South born in Rhea County Tennessee 64 years ago. Rt Rev Robert L Paddock Episcopal bishop of eastern Oregon born in Brooklyn New York 50 years ago.
The article notes diverse European Christmas foods and customs from mince pies in England to plum pudding, carp dishes in Vienna, mistletoe decor in homes, and festive behaviors in Russia and Lancashire factory scenes. It cites historical mentions, legends of the Christmas tree, and royal Yuletide hospitality at Sandingham showing a blend of ritual, myth, and social habit.
A compact chronology lists events from 1838 to 1917 including births and deaths of figures such as Sir Francis X. Langelier and King George I of Greece, the 1853 San Francisco bound troop ship disaster, the 1864 Fort Fisher bombardment, Edwin Stanton’s death, German air raids on Brussels, Henry Ford’s return voyage, Danube occupation near Bessarabia, Allied bombing of Mannheim, and postfight marriage offers to Georges Carpentier.
A special International News Service photographer meets Santa at a secret Northwest rendezvous. Santa explains using an airplane instead of reindeer to reach more children quickly and rest the old reindeer. he charms with jokes about Toyland and the rapid Christmas circuit. He poses in a modern flying sleigh as dawn approaches.
A condensed portrait traces W S Copley from a penniless barber in Huddersfield to a major investor in Australia and later in England. Born around sixty years ago, he emigrated to Australia, worked in various trades, and built a fortune in housing cattle ranching engineering and later in large corporations including insurance cotton brewing and banking.
The Military College of Chapultepec in Mexico City will reopen in early January after being closed since 1914. Once a premier institution, its faculty consisted of Mexican military leaders trained in Europe and the United States. Chapultepec castle has long served as the president’s nominal home, though Carranza prefers a modest central city residence.
Cuba American Jockey Club hosts Havana racing as Jefferson Parish Fair Association runs winter meeting in New Orleans. Junior and boys national tennis championship and intercollegiate chess tournament staged in New York.
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