High Point Industrial Profile 1916 Population Growth
Industrial Department notes High Point population 15 000 in 1916 and four square miles area. Elevation 940 feet, mean temperature 58 degrees, lowest death rate in the state in 1915 at 21.6 per thousand. Water from municipal plant, cheap electricity, five banks with capital and surplus 350 000, deposits 2 415 599.27, ten year increase 100 percent. Annual freight 1 500 000. Manufactured products total 68 000 000 last year. City yields 700 dollars per resident annually.
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High Point
City of Diversified Industries
Early steam packets to run New York to Liverpool
One hundred years ago a plan progressed to organize the first steam propelled ocean packets between New York and Liverpool. The item marks the start of regular transatlantic steam service, noting the era and key aims.
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New York
Liverpool
Sir Edwin Arnold
Daly’s Theater
Paragraphic musings on politics art and culture mix
A jumble of social satire and contemporary references critiques open threats to judges, income tax, leaks, war names, and futurist trends. The piece playfully references figures like Congresswoman Rankin and General Joffre while riffing on fashion and newsprint curiosities.
Allies favor peace aims while urging US effort
The allied replies to President Wilson affirm the aims behind the war and insist on a united stance with Germany. They emphasize a lasting peace to prevent future European slaughter and note England and Italy’s sacrifices, while counting on American food exports to aid or restrain the conflict. The piece also discusses North Carolina prison reform and highlights the Stonewall Jackson Training School report, urging funding and a suspended-judgment approach to juvenile offenders.
Theda Bara Stars In Gold and the Woman Rose Theater
A Fox production opens at Rose theater featuring Theda Bara in a classic vampire role. The film Gold and the Woman showcases her famed allure with a strong supporting cast amid reports it is among Fox Studios best yet released.
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Fox
Rose Theater
Theda Bara
Miss Bara
William Fox
Benefit Day for Woman's Club Music Dept Features Stars
Manager Stone hosts a benefit day for the Woman's club music department with Earle Williams starring in The Scarlet Runner episode The Mysterious Motor Car. Also showing Universal Screen Magazine, The Tramp Chef with Gale Henry and William Franey, and The Penalty of Treason Rex feature.
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Stone
Earle Williams
Vitagraph
Universal Screen Magazine
Gale Henry
William Franey
Rex
Rex Universal
Heinie Conklin
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High Point Enterprise
THE
Associated Press
M. Brown
J.P. Rawley
North State
Bell Telephone Connection
Congress
the Industrial Department of the
Francois Coppee
Paris
Louis Napoleon
Maximillian
Europe
Jamaica
Kansas
Vent
Kaiser William
Mr. Moon
Tennes
See
Moon
Joffre
the Marne
Greensboro News
Hamburg
Miss Alyss
Jeanette
Wilson
Germany
Sons of the
Vaterland
England
War
India
America
Lieve
United States
Ance
Ing
Governor Bickett
Raleigh
Bickett
North Carolina
Mitted
Jackson Training School
Stonewall Jackson
Concord
Inter
Jackson
Greensboro
Enterprise
Guilford County
Industrial Committee of the Commercial Club
Order of Maccabees
Order’s
Sherrod
Thompson
Carpenter
Leonard
Beavans-Stamey Company
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co
J. Gurney Briggs
Mgr
Broadway Theater
Redding
L. Mazer
S. Fifth Street
Philadelphia
White Oak Street
L. W. McFarland
East Side
Smith Street
Snow Park
Co. C. Burton
Mt. Gilead
N. C
Mann Drug Company
Evans’ Store
Enterprise Office
J. L. Goldman
Comerce Street
Co. B. Mattocks Co
J. H. Dobbs
E. H. P. J. J. Griffith
Broadway
Morris Plan Company
High Point Morris Plan Company
Bank of Commerce
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