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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1923
Page
5
A garbled column notes baseball, taxes and legislature with mentions of Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, and Hoover relief in Russia. It hints at North Carolina legislative urgency, euro tensions, and public amusements at the state sanatorium.
Doctors and High Point citizens praise the convention and the town’s hospitality. An ex-service man accuses the state sanatorium of uncleanliness, calling for a thorough investigation to ensure taxpayer funds are used properly for tuberculosis care.
High Point citizens at a public meeting adopted a resolution urging passage of the Towner Sterling bill creating a department of education. The article notes the bill’s careful preparation, broad expert consultation, and national debate over merging education into a department of public welfare.
The piece argues that early biographers mythologized Washington and that while he had human frailties he possessed a simple, great character. He was not a social spinner but a man bred in Virginia English gentry with clear motives, steady in aim, dignified in conduct, and worthy of reverent reverence.
The United States Navy to aid a biological survey in eradicating rabbits on Laysan Island Hawaii to protect native birds. Dr Alexander Wetmore leads the effort with a gunboat dispatched to eliminate the pest in a battle described as to the death.
Local Lutherans of High Point organized for foreign relief under the National Commission of the Lutheran Church in America. Donations of money and clothing are to be delivered to Jester Furniture on Monday February 26 for shipment abroad. The national council seeks $550,900 and matching clothing to cover last year’s effort that clothed 156,000 people.
Officers Friddle and Stainey received a $50 reward for recovering a stolen Dodge touring car in Spartanburg South Carolina and arresting B J Johnson who faced theft charges. Johnson, son of Eagle Johnson, was jailed locally before being released to the car owner and Sheriff Meitcafe for return to South Carolina.
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