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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1920
Page
7
A poem titled Ein attributed to Dr. Brennan from the latter half of the 18th century notes Ireland as The Emerald Isle. Meanwhile Minneapolis business and professional women opened an up-to-date clubhouse.
Raleigh February 13. Miss Ona Oakes 16 a student at the state school for the blind has slept since February 2 due to a disease called sleeping sickness. Doctors report no material change and she has not spoken since Wednesday. attempts to awaken her have failed.
A Peking dispatch reports Japan protest by the secretary of the Japanese legation in Peking to Chinese authorities after the national assembly decided to continue the boycott of Japanese goods. Also mention Berlin and Moscow items on alcohol policy and trade union congress plans.
In Croydon a brigadier general failed to secure a 250 pound secretary post to the pensions committee, losing to a lieutenant colonel with 30 years of army service. Across Scotland local bodies now include 760 labor and socialist members as labor gains widen.
London announces Miss Gertrude Margaret Tuckwell as the first woman justice of the peace, noted authority on social questions and working women. Also to be sworn in are the marchioness of Crewe and Mrs. Sidney Webb, social worker.
New York futures opened steady as March at 35.90, May 33.60, July 31.62, October 29.35 and December 28.70 amid firmer exchange and stronger January consumption. Buying renewed Wall Street activity with May rising to 33.97 and July to 31.97 before closing firm.
Census Bureau reports January cotton consumption at 31 725 running bales of lint and 26 506 bales of Jinters. The text notes diamonds' industrial role, from drilling and cutting to lamp manufacture, and mentions diamond dust aiding steel work in armament production.
Santiago Chile February 14 Chile faces an 18 million deficit for the fiscal year ending December 3 announced by Finance Minister Guillermo Subereaseaux. The shortfall stems from a steep drop in nitrate exports due to transport problems and other causes. Chile had forecast 2.4 million tons of nitrate exports for 1919 but shipped only 0.9 million tons.
The Cunard line decides to preserve ship names including Lusitania, invoking old superstition that it is unlucky to name a new vessel after one that has sunk.
British leather manufacturers produced seventy million pairs of army boots for Allied forces including the United States.
Washington is obsessed with luxury says Representative Nelson of Missouri. On Saturdays F Street shows fur coats worth 160000 dollars worn by working women and on Sundays Sixteenth Street displays autos valued at a million dollars per hour. He sees no let up in luxury as the city’s great affliction.
Mrs. A. E. Driver of Archdale died at Morganton on Wednesday night. She was about 30 years old and survived by her husband and several children. The funeral is to be held in High Point this afternoon with interment in the local cemetery.
A Jewish woman preacher spoke at Cambridge University’s synagogue drawing attention from Jewish members of the university. The event underscored active participation of women in religious leadership within the Cambridge Jewish community.
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