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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1921
Page
4
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A note states the item is entered as second class matter at the High Point post office in North Carolina under the act of Congress dated March 1872.
A hot day on an express from Philadelphia to New York saw passengers fret as the engine faltered. Satave Mathews Vauclain, president of Baldwin Locomotive Works, climbed into the cab, worked the engine with his sleeves rolled up, and returned to his car with the statement, She's all right now. The article portrays the hands-on leader as characteristic of Vauclain and his work ethic.
Reports from Catherine Morris Cox of the American Friends service committee describe dire nutrition in Prussia. Meat is unaffordable. potatoes and kraut sustain families while many children suffer rickets and tuberculosis. The Quakers provide one hot meal daily to 175000 Berlin district children as the European Relief Council raises 33 million dollars to aid Central Europe.
In Hays Kansas a woman, Miss Ruth Fleisbach, runs the Chamber of Commerce guiding 211 members in monthly luncheons and a dinner held at the Methodist Church basement. She organizes volunteers from local groups, coordinates meals, and helps run the convention town’s large community chorus and music festival week.
The glass coach of the Hapsburgs now earns 100000 crowns per performance in films. The royal stables, once a burden on the republic, supply white horses and about 400 carriages for various duties. State carriages still service assembly members and relief provisions, with actresses and singers holding contracts for gratuitous use. Many vehicles survive after the monarchy’s fall, especially the Louis IV style state coach, famed as the finest coach work alive.
W P Conyers a leading Greenville businessman civic figure and clubman has been elected president of the Greenville Kiwanis club for the year 1921 in Greenville South Carolina.
London reports Poland’s draft constitution may grant the state responsibility to provide care for children deprived of parental support or neglected. The provision would extend to protections for mothers before birth and for children in infancy, a feature officials say is unique among constitutions.
David T. Fallaway of the territorial board of agriculture departs for India to locate syntomosphrum indica and related parasites found by George Compere in 1907. Compere’s parasites were not brought to Hawaii but were distributed in Australia and India. If located, the parasites will be introduced in the territory to combat fruit flies.
A phase by phase account praises Al Barrows Rain bow Revue at the Orpheum terming it the classiest show seen locally. The troupe, including Billy LeRoy and Jean Carr, delivers strong singing dancing and humor with Harry McMahon a notable tenor.
Jan 4 Greenville report says business conditions are improving nationwide with the south leading the upturn. Robert J. Woodsides, president of the Farmers and Merchants bank of Greelyville and Woodside National bank, also heads the syndicate planning a seventeen story skyscraper in Greenville.
Each seaplane in U S naval air forces when in flight is ordered to carry pigeons for the delivery of messages should the craft become disabled.
Local tobacco market opened this morning with several breaks and sales to continue through the day. Prices showed little change from before the holidays, except low grade leaf which was potentially lower than the market closed last September.
In Heflin Alabama on January 4 two men broke down Ben Fordham's door and robbed his trank of $1800. Fordham is a 75 year old bachelor. Police pursue suspects.
The Liberty Tailors at 109-111 Lombard Street Baltimore unloads over 1,000 overcoats from factory stock to three stores in High Point Greensboro and Teidsville at one dollar each. Coats with original prices 46 to 80 dollars now priced at a dollar with suits sold 24.75 to 39.75 and an overcoat included for 1.60. The plan aims to boost advertising value despite cost to the maker.
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