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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1920
Page
2
Kentucky districts hold millions of gallons of liquor on the last day before constitutional prohibition. Authorities report about 35 million gallons valued around 200 million dollars remained in warehouses. Some plan export or sale for medicinal use while saloons in Louisville face closure. Prohibition enforcement begins as officials act against violations across the state.
Diana and Madge chat over pipes and cigars while strolling past a shopfront. They joke about a failed romance, discuss Clara, and plan cocktails at Tic-Toc as they admire fashion and flirtatious glances from passersby.
A string of visitors and residents active in Greensboro High Point and nearby areas includes J Elwood Cox Dred Peacock W C Jones among others. Recent nuptials involve Raymond Underwood and a Greensboro ceremony. J A Barker returns from Canada and Oklahoma trip with wife. Ed Rosenthal and B H Taylor conduct business with firms in Philadelphia and Richmond. multiple residents travel to New York for business trips.
In Poughkeepsie on January 16 two cats were discovered by carpenters while repairing the Academy of Music floor. The animals had become petrified under the floor fifty years earlier when they had hidden there. One cat suffered a torn ear and both bodies are described as lifelike yet as hard as flint with no other missing parts.
In a Cincinnati quip a speaker argues that attire does not define a man though the Grouch notes many lawyers are made by suits. The exchange contrasts appearance with professional status.
Perrel F. Payne advertises large wood loads priced at $2.25 per unit or load. The notice provides a contact phone number 471 for inquiries and indicates the seller aimed to reach customers seeking sizable timber or firewood supplies.
The North State Telephone company held its annual meeting and unanimously resolved to sell its Washington street building, adjoining the Home Banking space. The sale is set for Saturday January 31 at 11 o'clock, with W H Ragan and W H Townsend appointed to conduct it. The group discussed other matters including rapid progress on installing an automatic telephone system expected to finish in the coming months.
An illegal distillery with over 10 000 gallon capacity and a plant for moonshine whiskey was destroyed six miles from Phoenix City Alabama. Sheriff Betts and two deputies seized two enslaved men who refused to divulge information. The brick furnace still had only one run. Two thousand five hundred gallons of mash beer thirty four barrels and four boxes used for fermenting were destroyed.
Hugh Point Royal Arch chapter No. 74 holds regular convocation Friday at 7:30 PM in the Masonic hall on East Washington Street. D. H. Hall serves as Most Excellent Master.
Florence McGrouchlin, fourteen, regains speech after a hike near Kremmling when four mountain lions frightened her. She fell to the ground and could not scream until under medical care. Her companions were unharmed.
A man recalls meeting Gertie Gotrox last summer at the shore and notes she recognized him on the street today, highlighting her memory for faces and a remarkable encounter.
A spectacled tourist asks what to do upon learning of an albite still in a hidden region. Jig Fiddlin of Sandy Mush Arkansas advises to keep still.
A seven foot plus cowboy known as R E Madsen, billed as Big Bor from the west, arrived in High Point and stirred crowds on Main Street at noon. He refused to speak before tonight’s 2 Iscol Theatre show, where he will perform as a real cow boy in the act.
The dialogue notes a football team disbanding after a clash of ideals among former military ranks. Four former colonels, two majors, three captains and two lieutenants are cited, while the coach was an ex corporal. The article highlights a split between American Wrestling association officials and Western members over the toe hold rule.
In San Francisco on January 16 a mass deportation movement among Russian workers began, rooted in Russian churches. About 3,000 men and women in the district intend to seek deportation, arguing they support Soviet government and oppose deporting only some of their countrymen.
In Sante Fe on January 16 a posse of seventeen state mounted police led by Patrolman Fred Montoyvo was disarmed Christmas Day by about 200 Santo Domingo Indians at their village. The group had tried to seize cattle alleged to be rustled and slaughtered for beef. Authorities say the surrender likely prevented a massacre as the Indians were heavily armed and angry.
A rare July 4 1863 issue of the Daily Citizen from Vicksburg turns up in Pasadena. Printed on wall paper after Union troops seized the city editor J M Sword had little paper and a Minnesota printer finished setting type using wallpaper to publish on the street.
If names count for anything Aun ar Ohman, the Swedish champion, should be a likely contender for Marathon honors in the big Boston event next April.
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