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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1920
Page
2
Schedule published for information by Southern Railroad Lines lists arrival and departure times for stations including Washington Birmingham N Y Washington Asheboro and Ashboro. Noted are conditional stops and a Sunday service note with depot ticket office contact.
The narrator recalls a California visit by daddy, a strained reunion with Crittenden, and playful yet tense interrogation about their relationship. Daddy teases and notes concern over past outbreaks, hinting at hidden conflict and a planned next day discussion.
In Los Angeles on January 6 two masked burglars smashed a large downtown jewelry store window and escaped with gems valued from five thousand to sixteen thousand dollars. Police report a night of sixteen robberies and blame the prohibition era for heightened crime as burglars turn to non stop theft due to liquor restrictions.
Frank P. Skages of Harrisburg Illinois, a noted druggist, asserts Number 40 Blood Tonic remains effective. He says it helps blood poison chronic rheumatism and catarrh and aids conditions such as mercurial and lead poisoning constipation malaria biliousness and liver and stomach troubles. He claims skin issues disappear under its use and notes Hart Drug Co. sells it.
Vienna reports forty officers from the old Austrian army have begun labor duties in wood chopping camps. Ranks span from lieutenant to lieutenant colonel. They earn 40 crowns per day, a major notes this is better than starving.
About 1000 prominent Protestant churchmen and 159 editors will gather in Atlantic City for a three day conference sponsored by the Interchurch World Movement. Robert Lansing will chair the committee as delegates review charts and maps showing world religious, moral, educational and hygienic conditions.
Louisville reports that Dr. Thomas M. Rees of Dayton Kentucky says he has produced gold and silver by mechanically duplicating nature's process after eighteen years of experiments. Documents are produced to support the claim that gold was made from the discoverer’s formula through controlled heating of specific chemicals.
Three firms controlled exclusively by Japanese are growing rice in the United States, with several individual Japanese leasing lands to grow rice without immediate business connections, according to a report from Yuba City Postmaster Harry Meyers to the federal government.
Modesto California January 6 Miss Louise Marie Hjorth a nurse who cared for the late Mrs Christian Olsen inherits 530000 from Olsen estate totaling 63575. The bequest follows her kind and attentive service during the illness.
Santiago dispatch summarizes Ultimas Noticias piece by a Chilean traveler praising American behavior. He notes Americans avoid mockery when slips occur, respect lines, bathe, keep one surname, police deference, orderly streets, first class trains, smokers cars, rare drunks, and youth education. Democracy coexists with government and men sing publicly.
In Emporia Kansas on January 6 a farm hand William Davis aged forty five died when a saw rebounded struck him in the face and the tree falling seconds later crushed him instantly.
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