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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1918
Page
4
A kaleidoscope of lines from a historical page covers wartime intrigue and politics with brief mentions of tax and revenue figures, a friend’s weight gain after quitting smoking, social scenes at fountains, coal transport, and press agency shifts. It blends rumor and commentary across multiple locales and themes.
The Merchants' association banquet highlighted strong cooperation with war measures. Members planned to go to banks to buy War Thrift stamps and sell them to customers, while J Norman Wills urged continued business support. The reorganization has sparked a new spirit, uniting Amelia merchants to back the troops and improve the city’s business climate.
A wartime exhortation urges reducing butter use nationwide to fuel Allied needs and prevent child malnutrition. It advises substituting fats, cutting fried dishes to one per week, using oils, peanut butter, and cheese on bread, aiming to save two teaspoons daily per family.
In Alfany New York January 35 citizenship was restored by Governor Whitman to former Congressman William Willett of Queens County who served a year in prison and paid a thousand dollar fine after a conviction for attempting to secure the county supreme court nomination from Joseph Cassidy the county Democratic leader. Cassidy, who also served prison time and paid a fine, was restored to citizenship last year.
Master Ivey Watson, 34, son of Mr and Mrs Joan Watson, died at his Kernersville area home after a 10 day illness from measles that developed into pneumonia. Five other Watson household members have measles, two of whom are seriously ill.
The High Point merchants banquet featured talks on cooperation, organization, and service in business, with Wills of Greensboro stressing unity over competition. War relief plans and Liberty stamps were outlined by Stephenson and Clarke, urging thrift and patriotic duty, as Morris and Leonard praised state efforts and mutual insurance ideas.
The committee on public information provides translations of selected German and Austria Hungary stories to U S newspapers. These items reveal political, industrial and living conditions in the central empires.
The Sellesiche Zeitung on October 4 reports the Union of German Newspaper Publishers defends the war economy office for the newspaper trade amid attacks by Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger and Berliner Tageblatt. The president, Herr Reiss, says accusations target individuals and overlook collective effort maintaining paper availability.
Knoxville Tenn January 25 the government will locate a new industrial plant in Tennessee with an estimated cost between 700 000 and 800 000 at least and perhaps more the facility to be built at Collinwed in Wayne county will manufacture wood alcohol acetic acid and acetone with charcoal as a by product
Robert Lanigan of Columbia South Carolina reports dramatic relief from gastritis liver trouble and indigestion after using Ironized Paw-Paw liquid and remnants of Remedy. He says he can eat again and has gained weight while recommending the product widely. Interstate Drug Co. Inc. New York advertises the remedy with a formula on every bottle.
The Vossische Zeitung reports October 5 that stricter passenger rail controls are discussed amid heavy Sunday traffic. It advocates travel permits as the best measure to curb coal consumption and improve economy.
A Budapest telegram to the Frankfurter Zeitung reports Hungarian distrust of a Central Powers economic union. The Hungarian Manufacturers' Association demands Hungary keep economic independence and protect national industries, insisting talks with Germany be only informative until peace outcomes are clear.
The War Department leases extensive hotel properties at Camp May New Jersey for use as military hospitals. Col Louis Bre kemin of the medical corps will be placed in charge.
Ottawa January 25. W. Hanna resigned as Canada food controller and the resignation was accepted. He will be succeeded by H. B. Thompson of Vancouver. Hanna said the duties would impair his private interests and the prime minister paid tribute to his service.
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