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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1920
Page
8
A vast leper hospital complex near Sao Paulo will house hundreds of patients and include research laboratories, separate depots for men women and children, its own church postal telegraph police and fire services water light and a cemetery. It aims to place Brazil at the forefront of leprosy treatment.
A postwar furniture market report notes unusually many buyers in High Point as Grand Rapids hosts its show. Volunteers from stores and jobbers nationwide, especially South Atlantic states, participate daily. Despite tougher conditions, prompt shipments of furniture are available, with delivery timelines stretching 20 to 60 days.
Farmers in sections of the country are making whiskey on a cooperative plan using a movable still. A seven member party relocates the still to run for anyone with mash, sharing half the run with the farmer. Federal agents are actively locating the movable still.
A sensational ad touts Aspironal as a superior two minute cold and cough remedy endorsed by European and American surgeons. It promises instant relief within two minutes under a money back offer and urges druggists to refund if relief isn’t felt.
The annual meeting of stockholders of the High Point Morris Plan company will be held in the directors room of the Bank of Commerce building on January 16, 1920 at 16 o'clock a m for elections of the board of directors and any other business that may come before the stockholders. W R Morrow Secy Treas 1 15
A two car crash at West Market and Green streets in Greensboro yesterday afternoon involved John Blair of High Point and J D Lassiter of Greensboro. Passenger J A Gray Sr of this city sustained several slight cuts on nose and head. The Blair car east bound on West Market collided with Lassiter’s southbound vehicle, Lassiter’s car hitting the sidewalk and the Bell Telephone building while Blair’s vehicle struck a tree near the Greensboro Record office.
In Omaha bootleggers have shifted to high jacking private liquor stocks rather than importing across borders. Within thirty days about $100,000 worth of liquor was stolen from wealthy individuals, with no arrests or captures to date. Automobiles and wagons have been used to move the stolen goods, and authorities report no detections.
Schedule shows times trains may arrive or depart from stations listed. times not guaranteed. Readable entries include 1:56 p.m 2:14 p.m 3:28 p.m 4:00 p.m 9:00 a.m 9:45 a.m 10:42 a.m with noted variability.
A door key left hanging outside a home in Sweden signals the residents are not at home. This traditional cue alerts neighbors and visitors to the absence of inhabitants.
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