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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1920
Page
2
Public notice style fragment advertises legal protections and services with contact details for High Point North Carolina. The readable text hints at a business offering protective order assistance and ongoing service from a local provider.
New York headquarters announces that American ambulance corps and Lafayette Escadrille volunteers may join the Federation of French Veterans of the Great War as associate members. Charles Bournet says the body aims to foster loyalty to the United States and France and to expand activities to Canada and Mexico. Eliot Morton and R Howard Gamble will review applications for associate and honorary membership.
In London’s Passing Show a Parson and Mrs Smithers quarrel over a remark. The Parson recalls preaching her husband’s funeral and his claim the man had gone to a better home. The Friend reacts with disbelief.
A new medicated elixir named Aspironal claims to shorten colds and prevent complications using “latest scientific remedies.” It is endorsed by European and American army surgeons and advertised with a refund policy: doctors promised relief within two minutes or buyers get a refund at the counter.
An advertisement touts Aspironal as the year’s sensation in the drug trade. It claims rapid relief within two minutes, endorsed by authorities and common people, and available at drug stores for half a dollar. Instructions urge two teaspoonfuls mixed with water, with a money back guarantee if no relief in two minutes.
In Carlinville Illinois Walton La Rose a St Louis medium was paid 200 by Macoupin county oil prospectors to locate an oil well by spirit communion. In Indian costume La Rose summoned the spirits but directed the dig to a dry hole. the plan called for a fifteen foot dig from the indicated spot.
In Mansfield Ohio on January 13 nickel no longer appeases youngsters as six cents replaces the nickel for everyday chores and small treats. Stores note the shift from five to six cents changing the value of a ham sandwich admission to movies and yard work wages.
Rio de Janeiro January 13 intense rivalry shapes the race among United States France Great Britain and Italy to win Brazil air projects. Handley Page has a concession to run passenger and cargo lines though no British machines have arrived. A two million pound plan covers routes from Pernambuco to Buenos Aires with eight stations. Four engine planes carrying freight and 25 passengers are planned. An American firm has two aviators and four planes but only exhibition flights so far. Government permission sought for limited near city flights. A financial insider warns Brazil offers no profit yet but foreign makers who stay and aid development may win long term rewards and influence in South American aviation.
Nearly 1,000,000 foreign born workers have left the United States for Europe since the armistice and 1,600,000 more will depart once passport rules loosen. The Inter-Racial Council chaired by General Coleman du Pont cites job resignations and racial prejudice as drivers, noting pensions to Europeans reduce US attraction. A nationwide education drive across 20 nationalities seeks to help foreign born adapt to American life while 400+ industrial and financial groups back a liberal immigration stance amid skilled labor shortages.
A vase cut from a single emerald, measuring twelve and a half inches in diameter, has been preserved in Genoa's cathedral for six hundred years.
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