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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1920
Page
3
The American steamer Liberty Grove, blown by a mine in Ameeland Island channel December 5, was torn apart. The forward half remained anchored with Captain Storosland and two crew. four crewmen died at sea. The wreck split into two sections with wreckage scattered along the shore as Dutch boats aided survivors.
Paramount Artcraft presents The Third Kiss starring Vivian Martin at the standway theatre next Wednesday. Miss Martin plays Missy an heiress hiding her wealth while aiding settlement work. Rupert Rawlf proposes elopement. Oliver Cloyne offers marriage to save Rupert’s name. Cloyne’s third kiss after two rejections triggers the climax, following a heroic rescue from a factory blaze. Harrison Ford, Mack Sennett and Ben Turpin also appear in this program.
Bert Bendée and his Hello Girls opened a week at the Orpheum theater to crowded houses. The 14 performer company drew strong encores with a varied vaudeville program including a monologuist and song and dance acts. Plaster of Paris features the soubrette and the husband wife pair Bert Bence and others praised. another entire program change is planned for tomorrow afternoon with no third change on Friday.
Gloria Hope stars as Dorothy Mason opposite Jack Pickford in Burglar by Proxy. A lovesick duo defies engagements while facing Jack's toothache flat tire and his amateur burglar reputation in a lighthearted drama at the Broadway theatre.
New York news brief reports the Municipal Civil Service Commission lowers height requirements for street cleaners and drivers due to few applicants. Soldiers at Longacre Hut of the Knights of Columbus fail height rule but are deemed fit. accepted at five feet. The job pays four dollars thirty five cents daily for eight hours.
Pimples on the face neck sores ulcers mucous patches copper spots and scaly skin are listed as symptoms of poisoned blood. The advertisement touts Number 40 For The Blood as a proven remedy from J C Mendenhall Evansville Indiana a four decade druggist sold by Hart Drug Co.
Wallace Reid stars in The Valley of the Giants at Paramount Artcraft. A street with a railroad center was secured in Los Angeles after petitioning the Board of Public Works, enabling night shoots for three consecutive evenings. Grace Darmond leads a strong supporting company.
Steubenville dispatch reports a rural eastern Ohio census taker learning a woman's age by comparing her tale with her deceased sister. The enumerator checked the sister's tombstone, then subtracted two years to record the woman as sixty, noting the woman appeared twenty years younger than that.
A full grown cow with a five legged camel hump arrives at the Rochester Abattoir Company after being shipped from Michigan. The slaughter house gang decline immediate action and will let the animal live a while despite prohibition.
A poetically grave line honors a dentist as he fills his last cavity. The note evokes Princeton and a Tiger mascot in a commemorative, reflective tone.
Tom Scott and Charlie Hodgin two white youths of High Point were arrested in Lexington for stealing Basil Hedgecock's Ford from in front of the Orpheum theatre at 8 30 last night. Police plan to hear them in municipal court Wednesday. Also noted is a local drive by 200 high school boys to fight high living costs with dress restrictions and uniforms.
Columbus reports Louis H. Capelle of Cincinnati proposed a five year old bill to regulate women’s apparel including skirt height neck V neck depth and lace or tulle transparency. Protests from pulpit press and public followed as the measure failed. Paris gossip linked the bill to backless gowns now common in France. Capelle says the aim was to spotlight foibles of womankind.
Doc Hart returns to the Brooklyn Dodgers after a stint with the Cubs. He previously trained the Dodgers from 1916 to 1918 after arriving from Chicago and will resume duties next season.
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