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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1920
Page
2
An advertisement touts Aspironal as a superior cold remedy endorsed by army surgeons and medical authorities. It guarantees relief within two minutes with a refund offer if not felt, and urges quick purchase at drugstores with a simple two teaspoonful dose.
High Point club officials in the Piedmont league announce two warmup games at Welchs field before the April 21 league opener. Toronto’s International league team visits April 15, while Guilford College squads may tour early April for workouts.
The 1919 farm wage data from the Agriculture Department show monthly wages with board averaging 39.82 dollars and 56.29 without board nationwide, with harvest day wages at 4.48 dollars in the North Central states. Western regions report the highest monthly with board at 62.96 and 87.12 without. Wages rose sharply, indicating a partial recovery after prior price-driven increases.
London dispatch reports the King’s bodyguard, once 200 Grenadier Guards averaging six feet four and 2111 pounds, now musters only 18. An urgent appeal calls for 200 tall men to restore its strength.
Eddie Brietz notes High Point’s purchase of five Hornets players as Earl Bitting’s arrival at hot corner sparks talk. Raleigh writer Hiram Cheek weighs in on local gains while other clubs seek hitters. The column hints at April twenty first as a focal date in a spirited sports season.
Notice remarks that Joe PP Rawley, business manager of this hero sheet and member of the Commercial club Elks and Rotary, is not fond of baseball and may be swayed. The passage humorously envisions ballpark chatter, gate receipts, salaries and season anticipation as the sport returns to full swing.
Berlin garbage collectors now out earning many professors and officials. A worker with a wagon and two horses nets 9906 marks yearly plus tips, becoming a tyrant who will remove garbage only after receiving fees. Berlin papers dub the figure the Garbage Lord.
Rear Admiral Pedro Marques de Frontin, former director of the Navy War school and commander of a Brazilian naval division in European waters during the war, is named chief of the Brazilian naval staff succeeding Admiral Gomez Pereira.
British anger rises over alleged general led atrocity in Amir Star district with claims of Belgian-style abuses against local Hindoo population. Reports hint at repeated violence and call for inquiry.
Dr. Jack Magland of Spartanburg South Carolina cites personal relief from malaria and rheumatism after using Number 40 For the Blood. He endorses continued use for blood poisoning, catarrh, constipation, stomach and liver issues, and skin conditions. Sold by J A Hart Drug Co from Evansville Indiana where a 49 year pharmacist backs the remedy.
A traditional Chinese belief holds that the kitchen god visits heaven at the start of each year to report on the private lives of the families he oversees, with his departure marking a transfer of guardianship to the household.
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