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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1920
Page
4
A collage of quotes and observations on politics, race, and society including lampooning of officials, notes on city trash cans and billboards, a cryptic wedding absence, and cautions about lynching and Jim Crow cars. The piece reflects era tone with varied voices and sharp social critique.
A city council delay on repairing Centennial Avenue and East Washington Street prompts calls for explanations. Authors urge action before street ruin worsens and taxpayers face costly reconstruction. The public deserves clear reasons for the postponement.
A narrator imagines starting a new paper that shuns polite euphemisms. It would portray ordinary people openly, expose scandals, and celebrate candid truth rather than flattering town leaders or omens of doom. The piece mocks complacent journalism and anticipates a sensational, unfiltered edition.
A portrait of a boy nicknamed Slimy who haunts the press room, buys literature, hawks it in a cafe, and earns a few dollars daily. He is described as illiterate yet shrewd with money, ignorant of headlines, and notable for refusing to wash his face.
A fragile calm returns to Congress after a two week holiday as members face the task of approving a stalled treaty with the central powers. A compromise is expected and leaders hope the executive and legislative branches will reach agreement soon to satisfy public trust.
Congress reconvenes after holidays as Italy launches a victory loan subscription drive. Supreme Court decision on beer cases awaited. J Hampton Moore to be installed as Philadelphia mayor. Armistice Day murder trial begins in Centralia Washington. United Mine Workers meet in Columbus over coal strike policy. Pershing resumes tour with Camp Grant inspection. Kansas considers industrial court in special session. Republican National Convention planning opens in Chicago. Victor Berger to speak in New York for Socialist party. Secretary Daniels orders Navy board of awards to reconvene for revisions.
Havana hosts the Cuba American jockey club winter meet opener while Ascot park in Los Angeles starts a 15 day meet. National Commission meets in Cincinnati as Virginia league opens in Newport News. Indiana hosts the three cushion championship in Indianapolis. Demetral vs Londas headlines wrestling in New York. Sharkey Walkwye and Brock Btown fights on boxing bills in Philadelphia Cleveland New Orleans St Louis and Westfield Mass.
The Brooklyn Edison Company expects to switch from coal to oil at its plants. The move would save about $600,000 yearly in fuel costs. Negotiations are under way for an annual oil supply exceeding 2,000,000 barrels.
A man who kept his new year discipline until now receives three blue ribbons and the goat head as the unusual reward for perseverance.
In 1919 High Point shows 441 births and 187 deaths, with 39 of the deaths among African Americans. Township figures record 141 white and 18 negro births and 52 deaths, 51 white and 1 negro. Officials credit absence of a 1918 influenza epidemic and improving health conditions.
Fashionable London women prepare for a Riviera season the first since 1914. Ash from winter pollution keeps Mediterranean hotels booked through January and February. Wartime use of French hotels as hospitals has not deterred British travelers seeking sun and leisure.
London January 5 war data from Navy shows destroyers and depth charges top the list for sinking submarines. British destroyers accounted for 27 U boats while other ships and aircraft combined sank the remainder of the 54 submarines, with seaplanes and an airship contributing minor totals.
Lexman a fifteen year old Hindu boy aboard the Adriatic last Sunday, now at Ellis Island, faces deportation to England when the ship returns. He travelled first class with M Marshall and his son F N Marshall jute dealers of Calcutta whom he had served for years. Officials say he must be deported under the law barring Indians under sixteen.
Four year old Jack Wheeler, who saved his infant brother from drowning in a creek, died of scarlet fever after a two week illness and was buried in Jefferson City.
A concise list of historical anniversaries: Samuel Huntington dies in Norwich in 1796, ships Baccante and Saracen capture Cattaro fortress in 1814, Canadian insurgents attack Toronto in 1835, Chinese emperor bans intercourse with England in 1840, British and French bombard Canton in 1858, Emma Abbott dies in Chicago in 1891, Japan rejects armistice in 1895, and Asquith unveils compulsory service in 1916.
Rev Olympia Brown born Prairie Ronde Michigan 85 years ago today. Maj Gen Adelbert Cronkhite born New York 59 years ago today. Rudolph Eucken born Ostfriesland 74 years ago today. Isaac Bacharach born Philadelphia 50 years ago today. William R Wood born Oxford Indiana 59 years ago today. Bennie Kauff born Middleport 0 380 years ago today.
Fifteen Belle Isle government station workers were rescued by the steamer Seal after the Aranmore founder left them starving. They had loaded with winter supplies and were saved by the Seal, per a message received here in Quebec.
On a clear day the estimate shows seven thousand horsepower per acre arriving as radiant heat, equating to about four million four hundred thousand horsepower per square mile reaching the earth.
J Hampton Moore becomes Mayor of Philadelphia after a career in Congress and national roles. He led the Bureau of Manufacturers in the Commerce and Labor Department, presided over the National Republican League, and headed the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association through extensive national travel. He first served in the Fifty-ninth Congress and was reelected four times.
Six transports arrived in New York bringing 7,000 troops. The report notes the death of Count von Hertling, former German imperial chancellor, in a related line of the dispatch.
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