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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1920
Page
3
A fragmentary read presents playful lines about a wife addressing her husband as sugar jump and his frequent absence. The text mixes light humor with odd, misspelled phrases suggesting a study of worry and student life.
Rev. James A. Clarke on behalf of the High Point Ministerial Association asks organizers to avoid scheduling social functions that conflict with Wednesday evening prayer services. He cites prayer as a sacred church duty and urges churches not to close for nonreligious events, noting long tradition of midweek prayer.
Five grammes of radium, about a heaped tablespoon, valued at $500000, were recovered from old guns used in the late war. The finding highlights valuable materials remaining from wartime arsenals.
The debate rejects a purely production focus and asks how people would use extra time. It questions societal norms around work life, leisure, and community needs beyond efficiency gains.
Navy orders end to hamburger supplied by private contractors at Portsmouth Yard. From now on the meat will be bought as is and chopped by navy cooks and their assistants, after sailors protested the private market.
France remains the only rival to the United States in naval stores production, about one fourth of U S output. Southern pines especially longleaf drive a market exceeding 20 million dollars yearly. A new western venture begins as Portland turpentine firm gains a permit to extract pitch from 160 acres of Douglas fir on the Umpqua National Forest.
The Cap Polonia, once slated for a postwar world voyage by the former German emperor, was allotted to a leading shipping company which gave her up after one voyage due to huge coal use. Wooden plugs and other obstructions were later found in the steam pipes and removal is expected to drop coal consumption to normal.
Rio de Janeiro reports preliminary work on irrigation canals for the northeast drought zone. Congress appropriated 59 million dollars to build the canals and extend railways. Completion is expected within five years and the region is seen becoming highly fertile and prosperous.
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