Fight coverage and urban growth meet in newspaper splendor
The article reviews boxing match details between Carpentier and Dempsey with crowd reactions and press coverage from High Point and Jersey City. It also notes daylight time, telegraph wire reports, and the Enterprise’s rapid publication alongside local Sheraton hotel prospects and Metro politan loan signals signaling city growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Dempsey
Georges Carpentier
Jersey City
Carpentier
Enterprise
High Point
Associated Press
Raleigh
Ralegh
Enterprise Office
High Point Exposition Promotes Finest Furniture South
High Point North Carolina hosts a million dollar exposition building and a rival hotel funded by local factories to showcase top grade furniture, drawing 460 visitors from across the nation to prove the town’s claim of premier craftsmanship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
N. C
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Jamestown
New York
Red Hills
North Carolina
Newport News
United States
Times-Herald
Hampton Roads
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Hampton
Chamberlin Hotel
Atlantic
Damfino
Return of a Half Percent Regular Fellow and Shamrocks
Lord Alington arrives in New York with bank connections, staying with the Vanderbilts. In a separate note, Mrs. E. A. Shanks returns from Ireland with shamrocks, but customs classify the plant as dangerous fungi and she must discard it at sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Alington
Mr. Alington
Cornelius Vanderbilts
Mississippi Congressman Introduces Bill on Women Smoking
Congressman Paul Johnson proposes a bill to fine any woman smoking in the District of Columbia while men may smoke. With tax and tariff bills stalled in committee Congress seeks topics for summer discussion.
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Paul Johnson
Mississippi
Congress
District of Columbia
Mexico President Defends Sovereignty in Hughes Terms
President Obregon rejects strict terms from Secretary Hughes stressing that certain actions would require surrender of sovereignty and self respect. He notes constitutional limits to presidential power in Mexico.
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Obregon
Hughes
Mexico
Alvaro
Debate on League of Nations in Senate Session
Senators discuss the League of Nations during a stalled debate. The session centers on collective security, treaty terms, and US participation, with lawmakers weighing isolationist and internationalist arguments amid partisan friction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Confidence in High Point Hotel Loan Signals Growth
The High Point Hotel company secured a 200000 loan at six percent from Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, signaling external confidence in High Point's economy. Local bankers call it a solid move amid tight money markets as plans for a nearly one million dollar hotel advance.
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High Point
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
New York Beach Skirt Debate Baffles Censors
In New York on July 4, beach officials struggle with a skirt rule for women over ten. Regulators required knee length bathing suit skirts, but the so called ukulele skirt uses many ribbons to fake full coverage. Officials fret over enforcing intent amid fashion tricks and public confusion.
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New York
Sound
Ocean
Youthful elopement feud ends in suit over engagement ring
Marie Flannery refuses to return the $1,500 solitaire given by Charles B Benedict claiming age and sentiment shield her from civil suit. Benedict sues, Marie and her father cite youth and the family Bible as defense, arguing she cannot be party to the case.
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Marie Flannery
Charles
Mr. Benedict
Marie
Alumnae House Groundbreaking For Vassar Project
Mrs Elon H Hooker of New York and her sister Mrs Fairy ueene Coonley of Washington raised the first spade full of earth for the Alumnae House to be presented to Vassar College. The event marks a major donation and ceremonial start of construction in the university town. Teasing public interest, donors emphasized strengthening alumnae relations and campus life.
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Elon H. Hooker
New York
Fairy Ueene Coonley
Washington
Vassar
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High Point Enterprise Publehea
High Point Enterprible, Inc
P. Rawley
G. Dickerson
É. W. Bacon
J. Lever
City Editor
National
Frost, Landi
Kohn
Brunswick
Fifth Ave
Peoples Gas
Meshlyab Boulevard
Chicago
Sex
Russia
Bryan
Congressional Gas
Utopia
Descamps
Stokes
Dempsey
America
Sheraton
Metropolitan
Newport News, Va
MacCracken
New York Police Department
ho&Stess House
George Loft
Greenwich Village
Napier George Henry Sturt
Baron Alington
House of Lords
Ireland
E. A. Shanks
Sammy
Shamrock Dangerous
Cerfie
Ion
N. H. Silver Company
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