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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1917
Page
6
An EB Anderson letter to Guilford county pig clubs urges farmers to plant sweet potatoes for hog feed to cut costs. It recommends fertilizer mix with hay feed and notes planting thousands of slips, plus sowing turnips, rape, rye in late summer to save on corn and shorts for fall and winter hog feed.
An advertisement for Foley’s Keep Fit and Feel Fine cathartic tablets from Mann Drug Co promotes bowel cleansing and digestive relief. It claims to cleanse the bowels arouse the liver and improve indigestion biliousness bad breath bloating gas and constipation. Regular bowels are urged.
A long report details proposed taxes on beverages and goods to fund wartime needs. Excise increases include beer taxes, spirits import limits, wine surcharges, and snacks like soft drink additives. Second class postal rates and newspaper revenues are also touched by the Senate bill. The measure faces partisan clash as it moves between chambers.
In San Juan Hill a one hour plus clash erupts after the arrest of Lawrence Joaquin a black private in the fifteenth infantry for disorderly conduct. Police reserves deploy clubs bricks and knives as riotous mobs clash. Joaquin and two others are taken into custody.
Detroit reports Tyrus Cobb extended his hitting streak to 33 consecutive games by a two-base hit off Cicotte in the early game with Chicago. He trails the major league record of 40. Morning games included Boston 6 Philadelphia 3 and Detroit 3 Chicago 4.
The Nokomis, a 303 ton steel yacht of 180 feet, owned by H E Dodge, departed Detroit May 16 for the St Lawrence river and New York and will be taken over by the government at New York soon under a changed name. The vessel, once a luxury liner, is destined for naval duty with projected plans kept secret.
Roosevelt argues against dual citizenship and German language media in wartime America. He praises universal service for universal suffrage and calls for English as the national language. He contrasts German brutality with Civil War era seamanship and urges loyalty to the flag and democracy of service.
City Manager Thomas J. Murphy left his car on Washington street to attend a city council meeting. The vehicle disappeared after the session ran late. Police were alerted to a possible theft, but a friend later found the car and had it moved to a garage for safekeeping.
A reader cites track experience as practical value enabling him to leave home early for a 7:58 train. In another exchange a parent teases Bobby about fighting Stapleton boy and counting to ten after the clash.
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