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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1916
Page
2
The High Point press views 1916's passing as the old year dying and 1917’s birth bringing plans for a paved main streets, a city planning commission, and beautification. It notes improvements in water and sewer, railway advances toward Denton to Mt Gilead, and efforts to curb unsightly pig pens, with broad citizen backing.
Danville Virginia December 30 The youngest Danville police officer W C Hall off duty created a disturbance on Main Street with a drawn revolver in his hand. A struggle while attempting disarmament occurred with pistol discharge. Hall was taken to a hospital and suspended as the investigation proceeds.
New York December 30 Dr Jacques Loeb head of the Rockefeller Institute declares there is no biological basis for the idea that a nation loses inherited virile virtues by avoiding war. Speaking to Amelia Association for the Advancement, he says war rhetoric misuses biology and treats life as a constant struggle for existence. He criticizes the concept as antiquated and unproven.
Associated Press reports extensive quake damage in Kobe Japan with many hillside residences ruined and walls toppled. Kioto railroad station windows shattered and chimneys displaced while no deaths or total demolitions occurred. A tourist group sighted a hillside movement and experts cite subterranean fissures offshore.
High Point readers are told a simple mixture of buckthorn bark glycerine and Adler-i-ka performs instant relief for constipation sour stomach and gas. The ad claims both upper and lower bowel action and suggests several doses may prevent appendicitis with brief treatment aiding chronic stomach trouble.
New York theater news reports Christmas ticket cards from Winthrop Ames and plans for a Henry Miller theater on Forty third Street. Francis Wilson returns to stage in The Laughter of Fools, and Julia Arthur brings Seremonda to the Criterion.
Sore muscles stiff joints rheumatic pains and bladder trouble may be eased with Foley Kidney Pills. While food and clothing costs rise these reliable remedies stay affordable. Foley Kidney Pills relieve backache side pains and provide family health support from Mann Drug Company.
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