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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1918
Page
3
A brief retroactive column reviews 1917 US entry into World War I, Liberty Loans oversubscription, mobilization of soldiers and railways, and rising prices. It notes national resolve to make the world safe for democracy, and recalls cultural vignettes and figures while highlighting patriotic pressure and public sentiment.
A wall flower is described as a background figure at dances and hop events. The essay frames wall flowers as scenery and audience, noting their confinement to the edges by nature and circumstance, yet essential to the social setting.
Due to a large rise in regular army strength, many musicians are needed for regimental bands across the army. Enlistment offers musical training, paid service, and medical care with pay rising to $36 upon assignment. Training occurs at depots and Governor's Island, with paths to band leadership and advancement.
Louis Buckner of Somerset Virginia says a period of fatigue backache and sleeplessness ended after using Foley Kidney Pills which eased rheumatic pains stiff joints and swollen ankles The ad credits the pill as a time tested remedy promoted by the Mann Drag Co.
No clear events or persons are identifiable in the readable fragments. The text resembles incomplete station or page labels with scattered numbers and place names. No coherent news item, date, or organization can be established from the readable portion.
Executrix Arenta J. Angel announces qualifications as executrix of the John N. W. Gant will in North Carolina. Creditors must present claims by December 1917 to avoid bar. Public notice dated December 8, 1917 with attorney W. P. Ragan.
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