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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1917
Page
3
Landry returns from the hospital and debates travel to New York while family plans shift toward a possible spring departure. The narrator reflects on love versus trust, and Landry praises Doctor Ward for patient trust and skill as Warren and Margaret discuss their upcoming wedding.
A text fragment portrays a husband once playful becoming grave about his work, with notes of a plan labeled Tomorrow Landry’s plan to move unpopular. The reader is left with a sense of personal and professional upheaval affecting family.
Chicago dispatch reports the grand jury examining transactions of Gas ton B. Means adviser to Mrs Maude A. King in her death case. Evidence centers on the alleged forged second will of James Wing and affidavits from New York investigators who seized records tied to Means business dealings with Mrs King.
Paris December 20 the ten billion francs requested for the third war loan has been exceeded M Klotz finance minister told the chamber of deputies the domestic subscriptions totaled 10276 million francs with foreign subscriptions not included in the figure.
London report notes young women who smoke in pubs and theatres are gradually making smoking less fashionable among refined English women. The piece says this trend outpaces a semi official pledge asking women to quit to spare men at the front, as women insist they do as much war work and should not sacrifice.
The Dry Goods Economist states the Hindoo turban signifies the final word in hats. The style appears in draped straw or sabres with jewel embellishments and veiled marine fabrics. Some turban crowns are paired with mushroom-brimmed hats for refined effect.
A letter found on a German soldier recounts a Denmark style departure of a 99 man reinforcing detachment from Trom Saarlouis in Prussia. Guards accompanied the march for every two men while convalescents arrived later. The writer denounces the spectacle as shameful and calls the papers’ praise of soldiers hypocritical.
The London paper cites Germany signing a pledge not to use POWs within 19 miles of the front. British troops found two Russian prisoners in German dugouts at Anneux, four miles from the lines. Russians report 300 to 400 British POWs seen near Cambrai, with severe malnutrition and brutal punishments. Only 260 of 500 prisoners remained.
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