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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1923
Page
5
The poem catalogs manners and social quirks with humor about peeling oranges with a thumb and crumbling crackers in soup. It shifts to satirical lines on trials in Wallburg, a sinking fund for a ship bill, and hints at bootlegger bands, ending with reports of a maniac with a gun attacking women.
A vehicle struck a child and the driver fled the scene, prompting calls to reconsider claims that cars are civilizing forces. The incident raises safety and accountability concerns about auto travel.
Samuel Gompers and Secretary Davis argue against wholesale foreign labor entry. They link immigration to profiteers and wage suppression, favor selective entry and local examination, citing North Carolina as proving domestic labor sufficiency and limits on strikes and radical movements.
New York courts jailed a landlord for placing monthly revenue above tenant safety in heated housing. The piece praises the winter's relative moderation and cites the coal strike as background while urging broader law to protect tenants.
An eastern state chamber of commerce proposes a 13 month 365 day calendar with a thirteenth month between June and July and a January 90 day, plus an international leap day holiday. The item notes calendar debates and cites regional industry in High Point and Thomasville as context.
Editorial view highlights the North Carolina Press association mid winter meeting in High Point. Editors praise the city’s hospitality and the Southern furniture Exposition building. They note High Point’s forty furniture factories, large skilled workforce, and robust shipments domestically and abroad as signs of regional progress.
Commodore Gar Wood of the Detroit Yacht Club enters his express cruiser Gar Jr. HL in the Miami Havana race planned for March 3. At least six cruisers are expected to contest the Gulf Stream crossing with $10,000 in Cuban prizes.
The Sekizen bank collapse at Osaka triggers runs on small western banks and underscores the need for a thorough readjustment of Japan's unstable banks. Financial papers cite unsecured loans and property with fixed value as the primary causes of bank failures.
Col Edmund H Taylor Jr 93 noted Kentucky distiller and stockman died at his country home Thistle ton near Frankfort after a brief pneumonia illness. Three sons and five daughters survive. Funeral services will be held Monday morning.
New York January 20. A monster eleven to twelve feet high and twenty three or twenty four feet long will be exhibited. Baluchitherium$, prehistoric cousin of the white rhinoceros, world's largest land mammal aside from elephants now extinct, lived 2,000,000 years ago in Mongolia. Remains found by an American Museum expedition and Asia magazine crew suggest a former Asia to North America land bridge. Skull is in 663 pieces, now massed four feet four inches long. jaws bear teeth as large as apples.
Durham Jan 20 Announcement of Dr G Campbell Morgan English divine and Dr Andrew Sledd of the Candle school of Theology for the Trinity College summer school for preachers June 6 to 15 was made by the program committee. They will join home mission plans for a country church focus.
Trinity routed Jamestown High School on Thursday as Parkin scored 256 of Trinitys 49 points and Bouldin starred at center while Jamestowns offense struggled to contend with Trinitys passing and pressure.
Danville Va January 20 The Dan Valley Mills board elects Frank P Ferrell secretary and treasurer succeeding William B Hill who resigned January 1 James I Pritchard Sr is re elected president and H R Fitzgerald is re elected vice president Ferrell has served as an attache for the past 20 years
In New York on January 19 Bishop William T. Manning released a public letter urging Rev. Percy Stickney Grant of the Church of the Ascension to clarify his reported disbelief in Jesus Christ as God and Savior or, if impossible, to withdraw from the ministry.
Emmanuel Lutheran led by Rev F L Conrad offers Bible school at 9 45 morning worship at 11 with a sermon The Christian's Unworldliness Vespers at 7 30 Rev George R Brown leads Methodist Protestant on North Main street with Sunday school at 9 45 Morning service at 11 with Rev George L Reynolds preaching and an evening sermon by Rev J H Stowe at 7 30
Saint Mary's Episcopal presents rector Rev H N Bowne on the third Sunday after epiphany. Corporate communion for men at 8 am. Church school and Bible class led by H S Coffield at 9:30. Morning prayer and sermon at 11. Evening prayer and sermon at 7:30.
Morning service at 9:30 led by pastor Rev. T J Rogers followed by an Open Door program at 11. League service at 6 15. Evening hymn and prayer at 7. Prayer meeting set for Wednesday at 7 30 with B B Byrum superintendent of Sunday school.
Green Street Baptist with Rev J E Lanier as pastor holds Sunday school at 9 45 led by R L Winfrey superintendent. Services at 11 am and 72 30 pm with weeknight prayer meetings at 10 pm to support subscriptions for the new church building fund.
The First Reformed Church announces Sunday services led by Rev Milton Whitener pastor and John W Hedrick superintendent. Morning worship at 11 with sermon A Good Church Member. Sunday school at 9 45. Evening service at 7 with Visions sermon The Prerequisite of Vision. Good music planned for both services.
Between 5.0 million and 7.09 million people visited America's national forests in the last year, reflecting broad public use and interest in outdoor recreation across the system managed by the U S Forest Service.
It was reported this morning that Marshal Foch would arrive in the Ruhr valley during the day.
The 30,000 pound bell cast in Cincinnati for donor Joseph Buddeke sits 125 feet above ground in the St Francis de Sales church belfry. rung once in 1896 its flat tone could be heard 15 miles away. now tapped only by a hammer for safety.
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