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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1920
Page
5
Mr and Mrs Br Tt Moore of Salisbury are guests of Mr and Mrs J KR Reitzel on North Main Street. J L Brown is in High Point on a short business visit. H f Ballance of Wilson visits on business. Mrs Mary Higgins of Chicago stays several days at Kiwoad hotel.
Frances Stott Key 1914 piece printed as part of National Week of Song. Miss Moore selects the national anthem for study and memorization in city schools urging clipping and pasting of song sheets and household singalongs each evening.
Lady Maud Perry voices objections to bare back fashion in a Daily Sketch interview. She argues drapery improves the human figure, theater enjoyment, and urges reforms including shorter skirts, breeches with cloaks, one piece dresses with head holes, and abolition of hats for economy.
London Feb 24 British air ministry proposes that leading dirigible constructors merge to streamline development. The American chamber in London reports progress expected this year in replacing large sheds with mooring towers across the country for airship operations.
Texas census workers report several centenarians including a Mexican man aged 132 who produced a birth parchment dated September 18, 1788. A 120 year old Negress was also found among multiple other centenarians in the survey.
The garment features an accordion-plaited marine blue Georgette front and back with green-blue geometric sleeves, red-gold cuffs, and green-gold button detailing. It is built on an emerald-green China silk foundation and showcases a neo feminist sleeve outline as illustrated.
A poetic dedication urges actors and young audiences to revive a toy theatre for imagination. The speaker warns of looming disenchantment while inviting belief, wonder, and a playful, magical world. Benjamin R. C. Yow is cited from An anthology of Magazine Verse.
J. Dodge of Winston-Salem was counted among business visitors in the city on Monday.
Pixie Griffith spent yesterday in Salisbury on business. J Branch of Kemphis was a business visitor in High Point in the past few days.
J W Tomlinson returns from a Miami business trip. B Lt Besick and son visit Greensboro on business. Miss Gladys Hoskins is ill at home on Denny Street. Mr and Mrs G T Penny spend several days in the city with relatives. H T Wright of New York visits today. Thomas J Moser spends the afternoon in Greensboro on business. Dr W J McAnally leaves for Florida to join his wife for ten days or more.
Miss Grace Clodfelter came back yesterday after spending two weeks in Lexington with friends and relatives. The visit completed without incident and she was greeted by family members at the station.
Emory R. Bencini, infant son of Mr and Mrs Robert Bencini, remains ill with pneumonia at their Gatewood residence, family informed today.
Business visitor Wilbur Strickland arrived in Asheboro today for meetings with local firms and potential collaborations across regional markets. He is scheduled to engage with economic development contacts and discuss investment opportunities.
Miss Rena Little is confined to her home on South Main street due to illness, local residents report.
H M Moore of Greensboro spent yesterday in the city on business. J C Penny of Greensboro spent yesterday in High Point on business. Dr T M Stanton was a professional visitor to Charlotte Monday. W T Cherles is spending the day in Winston Salem. H J Brooks of Greensboro and J H McDowell of Greensboro spent the week end in High Point. J H Sanford was a business visitor to the furniture city Monday from Charlotte. Mr and Mrs Leland Estes of Danville are guests at the Elwood this week.
C. D. Warlick of Salisbury and M. B. Merriman of Greensboro were in the city yesterday on business visits.
Manequins in repose on rich divans display new nighties and sleeping attire in London stores. Fashionhouses use show bedrooms to let customers view models worn by well-proportioned girls, aiding judgment of effect when asleep or waking. Some private upstairs rooms aid traffic control during the display.
Willard Dyer, a Greensboro business visitor, and M. W. Parrish of Asheboro were in the area on business yesterday. E. D. Smith of Wilmington, a furniture buyer, visited High Point. Clarence M. Crowson Jr. is in Greensboro today. Roy Johnson’s influenza illness is reported improving. RB Baker and Lam Robbins spent yesterday in High Point. E and E A Hatcher spent the day in Greensboro on business. Mr and Mrs F T Hudson of Salisbury were here on business. Miss Ogolee Benbow of Oak Ridge visits her aunt Mrs R S Russell on Boulevard Avenue. Mrs Russell ill with influenza. Miss Benbow staying indefinitely. O F Wilson and family ill with influenza.
The report outlines 500,000 in support for the Brazilian army this year under a reorganization plan. It would include 2,626 officers and 29,000 men plus reservists. Conscription is universal for 18 months. Brazil maintains regulars reservists and a National Guard as a second line of defense.
In Chester Pennsylvania on February 24 a shipbuilding firm applies to the government for permission to add a granite and steel shipway at its plant. The Delaware River shipyards are turning out some of the nation’s largest ships, signaling a thriving industry nicknamed the American Clyde.
The New York health commissioner ordered a brand new schedule of work hours to reduce crowding on cars during rush hours and curb the spread of influenza.
Berlin reports that wartime isolation pushed German designers to reinvent styles locally. Designers trained in Paris returned home to apply proven techniques and create practical outfits. Dutch and Scandinavian buyers fueled the German fashion trade, while a national association urged German women to favor homegrown clothes. A milliner notes hats still imitate Rue de la Paix abroad.
London fashion writers report a shift to the English type with long coats, trim waists, and straight silhouettes. Tailors showcase chic street ensembles featuring black cloth with narrow white stripes, hobble-length skirts, high collars, and Georgette frill accents.
The German Jurists' League denounces the haste in passing major laws through the National Council and Assembly. They cite an alleged shortage of competent legal advisers guiding the process and warn of insufficient scrutiny before statutes are enacted.
In Fiume on St Sebastian's day the women offered a silver poet's inlaid plate to D'Annunzio. The ceremony was witnessed by army representatives and a large crowd, underscoring the poet's standing among the city’s populace.
On the voyage back from Washington Lord Grey paused a seamens fund speech when two passengers disrupted him. They were identified as of German descent and were compelled to publicly apologize and post written confessions on the ship bulletin board.
Reports said William Hohenzollern planned last July to flee to the United States raise the imperial flag within the three mile limit and appeal for asylum by wire to the White House. German agents warned such a move could lead to his extradition, and the plan was abandoned.
The Woman's City club of Indianapolis opened a downtown clubhouse. A note recalls Sarah Bernhardt once tasting the cooked hand of an orange orangutan and declaring she enjoyed it immensely.
After years of agitation the University of Virginia is about to admit women to its graduate and professional schools, signaling a milestone in higher education access for women.
Miss Maude Wetmore of the National League for Woman's Service is named to the women's campaign committee supporting the nomination of Major-General Leonard Wood for president.
The text notes that a bath-money is included in every Turkish marriage contract, with the husband agreeing to pay the wife a fixed sum for bathing needs. If unpaid, she can go to the Cadi and invert her slipper to seek redress. failure to respond can justify divorce.
The American College for Girls at Constantinople celebrates its coming semi centennial. Founded in 1871 as a girls high school, it became a college in 1890. This year enrollment exceeds 600 across collegiate and preparatory departments.
A report states that a married woman in Spain remains under her husband’s absolute control over her person and property. He alone decides what constitutes wrong and can forbid business activity or confine her to a convent, reflecting a medieval legal position.
The Japanese woman is credited with advancing language progress in the past century. Forbidden to study Chinese, once a male monopoly, she embraced the native tongue and led the country's literary movement to prominence.
The piece notes Frances Hodgson Burnett began as a Tennessee schoolteacher earning a small wage and writing in spare time. It mentions her first story mailed with stamps earned from blackberry picking and later, at peak fame, an annual income estimated between £50,000 and $75,000.
Mrs T P O Connor wife of Tay Pay editor and Irish MP visits Washington winter. A Texan by birth she spent girlhood in Washington and rose to fame as an actress playwright and celebrated hostess. Her Chelsea London home hosts drew esteemed guests in social circles.
An ad frames a hospital as a patient needing aid and asks readers to “write the prescription”, noting readers hold the remedy ingredients. The humor centers on a missing signature or contribution to heal the institution.
Tipping in top city clubs became a suspension issue for givers and dismissal for recipients. In Clare fair, Ireland, 30 000 pigs were sold. Lord Fisher notes England’s wartime collapse was a near miracle with the remark Somebody has been praying. The French Chamber grew by Alsace Lorraine and lost 83 deputies in the war. Wages for New York book and job printers rose to 45 a week. Senor Ibanez calls the United States The Paradise of Women. The dry law will not curb crime, a lawyer says. it is a vast organization run by better-class criminals. Sir Tan Hamilton pleads Liman von Sanders not be tried by an Allied court martial. The United States has supplied English cotton mills with raw materials since 1791.
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