Facts About High Point and Guilford County
Guilford county has produced two state governors, Alexander Martin and John Motley Morehead. The area features oak and hickory forests with pine in parts, red clay loam soils on hills, and yellowish sandy loam elsewhere. Small coal and iron deposits exist but were never mined commercially, while veins of gold and copper stretch across the southern county. Gold mines once had national renown, though modern activity has waned.
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Guilford County
State
Alexander Martin
John Motley Morehead
California
Notable anniversaries and political notes from old Greensboro papers
A collage of retrospective items recalls events from 1817 to 1896, births and deaths of Maryland senator Charles H. Tibson, Berlin coronation festival, anarchist demos in Europe, and satirical jabs at colonial-era funds. The piece questions reform for wayward women versus disease control in cattle and hogs, urging state action.
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Charles H.tibson
United States
Maryland
Queen Anne County
Washington, D. C
Prussia
Berlin
General Assembly
Will They Never Cease to Ham Mer Away at the Elections
A political agitator laments constant campaigning ahead of the next national elections. The piece notes Wilmington’s Judge Stacy rumored for Congress and a prospective challenger in New Bern, with citizens exhausted by stump speakers and candidates. It mocks endless political preoccupation and even jokes about a hair cutting device, reflecting a satirical, era voice.
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Congress
A Coney Island Princess Debuts on Paramount Screen
Irene Fenwick made her first appearance on the Paramount program in A Coney Island Princess. Chosen by Famous Players for the title role, she appears with Owen Moore. The princess part demands seasoned acting and Fenwick has an enviable stage and screen record. Del Henderson directs. At the Broadway today.
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Coney Island
Irene Fenwick
Paramount
Famous Players
Owen Moore
Miss Fenwick
del Henderson
Broadway Today
Fox Feature Sins of Men Tops Today's Showing
Manager McIntyre screens Sins of Men starring Dorothy Bernard and Stuart Holmes as a harsh arraignment of evil deeds. Tomorrow features A Lass of the Lumberlands with Helen Holmes and Liberty with Marie Walcamp and Eddie Polo among Universal stars.
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McIntyre
Fox
Dorothy Bernard
Stuart Holmes
Lumberlands
Helen Holmes
Liberty
Marie Walcamp
Eddie Polo
Universal Fame
East Syrvie
Theda Bara
Uruguay Adopts Official 24 Hour Time Standard
Apparatus enables electric light baths for invalids in bed. Radio telegraphy links a sugar company’s mills across the Fiji islands. An inventor markets a room heater attachable to a stove pipe that also serves as an oven.
Year Ago in the War January 19 1916
Paris reported peace talks between Austria and Montenegro broken off. Turkish forces retreated in the Caucasus with loss of guns munitions and prisoners. Russians opened a new offensive on the Bessarabian front east of Czernowitz making four attacks.
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Paris
Austria
Montenegro
Caucasus
Bessarabian
Czernowitz
Tailoring Representative at Cannon Fetzer Store
A Schloss Bros. Tailoring representative is at Canon-Fetzer's to take measurements for new spring suits. The shop carries a complete line of restricted spring woolens. Men are urged to visit, inspect the line, and are not obligated to buy. Each suit sold is guaranteed to fit. Louisiana inventor patent adds double threaded clamps for railroad rail ends. Adjustable window shade brackets have been patented.
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Schloss Bros. Tailoring Company
Cannon-Fetzer Company
Louisiana
Save the Child and the Nation
Mrs Char Jette E White national lecturer for the Child Conservation League argues that saving children underpins national strength not merely military buildup. She cites Germany lowering its death rate through generation long training and urges the United States to improve youth conditioning to reduce mortality.
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Germany
United States
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the Somme
Carrie Nation
North Carolina
Jesus
Harry K. Thaw
Rae Tanzer
Greensboro
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Ham
Wilmington
Stacy
New Bern
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Bean
Broadway Theatre
Morris
Morris Plan Company
High Point Morris Plan
Bank of Commerce
Uruguay
Pany’s
Fiji Islands
Cannon
Fetzer’s
Southern Adjustment Co
Charlotte
Mrs. Char
Ray and King Sts
J. R. Reitzel
N. Main
Jette E. White
Child Conservation League
North Main
Care Enterprise
Baptist Church
Mangum Avenue
W. C. Coffin
I. L. Goldman
Comemree Street
Vick
Broadway
Irene Fenwick and
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High Rock
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Royal Arch
J. H. Dobbs
Jas. J. Griffith
Sec’y
Atlantic Sales Co
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