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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1926
Page
4
A Quotation contrasts Isa 35 5 with La Rochefoucauld on blindness as a danger of pride. The piece links spiritual insight to remedies for human miseries and faults.
Duke University’s The Chronicle is praised for lacking faculty censorship. The piece notes campus papers at times publish controversial material but argues authorities err by punishing students. A free press is seen as vital to university life and governance.
The Wake County superior court dismisses W M Persons suit seeking dissolution of the Tri State Tobacco Cooperative. The column argues cooperative marketing can stabilize farmer income and urges revival of the tobacco cooperative effort, noting North Carolina prosperity tied to such ventures and proposing a Greensboro High Point road and utility link to spur development.
Northern papers list South Carolina Senator Cole Blease and North Carolina’s Lindsey Warren as modificationists. The South remains committed to prohibition, with only a few mild dissenters seen as negligible in influencing national change.
The Greensboro News urges creating a visually striking twin-strip highway between Greensboro and High Point with trees between lanes. It argues pooling local funds could cover higher costs, boosting ad value and land prices, while the state would contribute to widening the road to 206 feet.
A Vachel Lindsay style meditation notes that even convicts can contribute to society, citing Dr. Hugh S. Cumming on pellagra research from Mississippi prison volunteers. The piece argues such acts prove no man lives in vain, despite cynics, and hints at prohibition enforcement unease with spying reports in several states.
The Coffield Furniture Co will relocate to 208 North Main Street on or about March 1. Officials also announced a removal sale from Wreth Street running through February, expected to draw citywide attention.
Raleigh February 6 AP Hope of W M Person and other State Tobacco Growers Coopera complainants against the Tri tion for a court order placing that body into receivership rest with the supreme court after Wake county superior court judge dis missed the suit for lack of evidence The judge said extravagance concerns members not the court and redrying practices were not compulsory The six hour hearing featured testimony from both sides and defense lawyer Aaron Sapiro of Chicago who was denied court courtesy due to his role as an employee of the defendant
The report contrasts Captain Wilkins's planned March Arctic air expedition from Point Barrow to Spitzbergen with the 1850s two-ship US Arctic effort the Advance and Rescue. Wilkins aims for rapid land sighting and meteorological data using Fokker planes, seeking a geographical discovery beyond the Siberian coast.
Rev Lloyd T Wilson pastor of First Baptist closed two weeks of The Gang revival meetings at Wesley Memorial with a talk on ingratitude citing the ten lepers. He denounced ungrateful spouses and urged acts of kindness. The Men Evangelistic society meeting time moved to 2 30 PM Sundays at the Y M C A building.
The Associated Press honors Commander John Rodgers and Captain Fried for extraordinary news reporting during world events. The watch inscribed to Rodgers praises the crew’s adventure aboard the PN-9 and recognizes the staff’s role in reporting decisive happenings.
In Dallas on February 6 an AP report notes the Society for the Scientific Development of the Natural Resources of Texas forms with 500 citizens to explore undeveloped riches. They aim to raise 5 million dollars annually to fund scientific discovery of ichthyol from fossil fish in west Texas, a wild southwest rubber plant turned into rubber, a wax source, and vast sulphur and quicksilver wealth.
New York February 6 Blair and Company Inc and the Chase Securities Corporation gained actual control of the Associated Oil company, California second largest producer, for 165 million dollars in the largest cash transaction in American industry to date.
The bagpipe regains prominence in Scotland after an American jazz orchestra introduced the saxophone last spring, signaling a renewed local interest and cultural revival in traditional piping.
Ames Iowa February 6 AP Dean C F Curtiss of Iowa State College warns the United States faces an actual shortage of horses for farm and related work. He proposes a government subsidy for ten years, arguing it would cost less than one battleship's price. He notes five million fewer horses now than ten years ago amid rising demand.
Helen Wills and C F Aeschlimann advance to the mixed doubles final at Nice facing Suzanne Lenglen and Baron Henri De Morphurgo after a 6 1 7 5 semi final win over Miss P M Radcliffe and Stanley Doust.
Princess Obolonsty, 23, a member of a historic Russian family, was found murdered in the snow outside a Moscow bath house. Police say the janitor of a nearby building confessed to the crime.
A radio transmitter and receiver built for aerial use weighs 57 pounds. The description notes a strong light yields bushier beans, while weaker light makes them grow taller.
Mrs Stillman comforts her husband as he plans to go to Africa for treatment with Dr Baynes. The pair, now in Paris, will join Mr and Mrs Henry Davidson and their daughter Anne for a reunion linked to the 1924 divorce and family stake in a historic banking dynasty.
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