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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1920
Page
3
A Denver oil company employing hundreds of clerks is negotiating to buy a large apartment building to house employees. Apartments will be rented to workers at a nominal rate. Officials expect other firms may follow due to the housing shortage. The text also notes the word barber derives from Greek barba meaning beard.
An issue essay-styled notice urges strengthening the body to resist influenza. It touts Tanlac as a powerful reconstructive tonic and system builder backed by authorities, claiming it boosts appetite and aids recovery from winter colds and bronchial troubles. It also promotes Tanlac Laxative Tablets and notes widespread use during the epidemic.
In Mitcham Surrey three near perfect skeletons believed to be fifth or sixth century Anglo-Saxon warriors were dug up with two swords a bronze belt buckle and relics nearby. One skeleton shows a six foot three inch tallest warrior with a one inch forehead hole. Teeth survived though bones crumbled. No coffins found but burial appears deliberate.
Edward A. Perlmutter found two burglars fleeing with $4500 worth of jewelry but untouched sideboard, then learned the sideboard was bare and a line about losing fingers. Police searched for prints. The incident ends with a grim punchline about Edward.
Government statistics show petroleum output in Mexico fell by over thirty percent in January and February 1919. Closures of many wells, largely American, are blamed on objections to legal restrictions. Eleven wells shut since early January.
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