High Point Boys Scale Wall After Robbery Arrest
Two High Point youths Lawrence Phillips and Len Long White were arrested in Greensboro on Saturday for allegedly stealing a gold watch and two old coins from Mrs Rogers of High Point. They escaped from a police office by climbing the wall using a drain pipe and wall crevices. The stolen items were recovered and returned to Chief Gray of High Point.
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Greensboro
High Point Police
High Point
Rogers
College
English Streets
Gray
Saloonless Nation Prohibitionists Rally in St Louis
Dr Rowe argues for Sabbath rest and warns against Sunday work while Dr Claxon touts Miss Willard as the mother of Prohibition. The talk emphasizes a saloonless America as key to wealth, home life, and church reform with Miss Willard celebrated and North Carolina cited as a model.
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A. W. Claxon
West
St. Louis
America
Miss Willard
Never give a bully a big stick says Barnes editorial
Albany February 21 William Barnes ends his editorial with Never give a bully a big stick as he comments on the Republican delegates at large contest. He argues Roosevelt’s menace has united Bay State Republicans and favors a peace seeking president who would arm the United States without power for forceful action.
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Albany
William Barnes
Roosevelt
Bay State
Meen
McCall
Weeks
Crane
Lodge
Iardiner
Bird
Cushing
Washbbuen
Ovent
United States
Notice of High Point Street Bonds Election 1916
City of High Point North Carolina calls March 7 1916 election on issuing 50000 90 dollars of street improvement bonds mayor W P Picket appoints registrars and judges for four wards. Polling places and registration dates are listed with registration closing February 26 1916 and results to be certified March 8 1916.
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High Point
N. C
Sand City
D. S. Gurley
W. D. Simmons
C. M. Brown
A. B. Horney
W. G. Brown
J. S. Dennis
Z. M. Silman
J. E Wagner
E. T. Hedrick
J. P. Myers
L. Parrish
N. M
General Assembly
Willard Bedbound Might Cancel MoRay Fight at MSG
Chicago reports heavyweight champion Jess Willard ordered to bed by physicians casting doubt on his March 25 bout with Frank Moran at Madison Square Garden. The postponement comes as Willard’s health is in question while the city enters the final week of bond-election registration.
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Chicago
Jess Willard
Frank Moray
Madison Square Garden
New York
Ford Performance
Ford
Universal Ford Service
Detroit
Cut This Out It Is Worth Money Promises Trial Package
An advertisement urges readers to cut out a slip and mail with name and address to Foley Co. Chicago for a trial package of Foley products including Honey and Jar Compound for coughs and croup, Foley Kidney Pills and Cathartic Tablets, via Mann Drug Co. adv.
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Foley & Co
Chicago
Foley
Mann Drug Co Adv
Fo r Kidney Pills Offer Back Pain Relief Promise
An advertisement asserts Fo ley Kidney Pills aid back and side pains stiff muscles rheumatic aches and kidney trouble symptoms such as puffiness around the eyes and disturbed sleep. The message claims thousands have benefited and is placed by Mann Drug Co.
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Mann Drug Co. Adv
Fire destroys Lanier Hall at military academy
Gainesville Ga Feb 21 Lanier Hall administration building of the military academy near here was destroyed by fire early Sunday with loss estimated at 343000. It was insured for 25000. The barking of a poodle dog belonging to Mrs S S McCoy wife of a professor awakened those who slept in the building and probably prevented loss of life. The cause of the fire is unknown.
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Gainesville
Lanier
Hivers Dhe Military Academy
S. S. McCoy
French ship Memphis Sunk by Austrian Submarine
A Vienna dispatch reports the French steam ship Memphis was sunk off Durazzo by an Austrian submarine, marking another naval loss in the Adriatic during the ongoing conflict.
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Paris
Memphis
Durazzo
Vienna
Streets Improvement Without Tax Hike
The message urges readers to weigh street upgrades against tax costs, asking if prudent planning favors better roads without higher taxes and calling on readers to act, register now.
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E. K. Ingram
Lawrence
Phillips
Len Long White
F. Rogers
Fice
Ness
Dr Rowe
Rewe
Lloyd George
England
Woman's College of
Northwestern University
Evanston
T. U
World’s Christian Temperance Union
Lady Sommerset
A. Marshall
P. A. Jones
Moore
Ida Strickland
Ida Marshall
Walter White
Amloore
Barnes
Tiuh Point
L. J. Ingram
J. L. Sechrest
W. F. Brown
Fourth Ward
J. F. Hoffman
Third Ward
Jarrell Hot
Main Street
Welch’s
Rankin Street
N. Y
W. P. Picket
Willard
Hart Drug Co
Horlick
R, MA. Hall
Lost House
Richgerd Harding Davis
Keystone
Charlie Chaplin
Chichester
Ritako
Giles Piuns
Pilia
Albert E. Smith and
J. Stuart Blackton
Vitagraph
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Produced By
Ralph Wince
Edward J. Montagne
Anita Stewart
Earle Williams
Company of America
Countess Gabrielle de Villars
Francis Burnham
Louis XVI
Joseph Kilgour
Marie Ontoinette
Julia Swayne Gordon Espiau
Marquis du Themigon
Duc de
Harry Northrup
George O'Donnell
Wiliam Shea _ Charles Chapman
White Oak Street
Independent Insurance & Investment Co
O. E. Mendenhall
W. R. Morrow
Southern Bugsy Company
North Main St
Columbia Records
High Point Enterprise
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