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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1916
Page
4
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The Dominion's birthday events are sobering amid World War I. The New York World lists major 1867 to 1916 achievements including canals dams and bridges, railway mileage, harbor works, and population growth from 3.87 million to about 8.08 million. North Carolina endures greatest flood in history with extensive damage to Asheville and Catawba Yadkin regions. losses may reach tens of millions. Officials expect reconstruction and note political mobilization in the state while sharks at board resorts prompt a quip on bathing suit trends.
John M. Parker, Progressive vice presidential candidate, urges a new national convention in Chicago on August 5 to nominate President and Vice President and maintain the party as a distinct entity. He calls to bury the Bull Moose, adopt the American eagle, and unite against the two dominant parties. Parker declines to name Roosevelt or other leaders, criticizes party officers, and signals openness to women suffrage and independent support for Wilson or Hughes as leaders, while he refuses to back either candidate.
Fears of injury to the cotton crop from heavy rains and floods in the eastern belt sparked active buying in the cotton market. Opening prices were steady with modest gains, but selling soon rose and the market eased from its highs. Futures include January 12.90 and December 13.56. Also noted: heavy selling depressed wheat in Chicago with July around 1.1154 and September near 1.1335.
Berlin reports from Innabruck that Dr Cesare Battiste former socialist member of the Austrian parliament from Trent has been executed for treason. He was captured while serving as an officer in the Italian army during the Tyrol offensive and had led the movement for union of Trent and Triest with Italy, fleeing to Italy before the war.
The quartermasters department will spend about 500000 dollars to erect screened buildings as kitchens and dining rooms along the border. The plan calls for 2625 structures to be built in the near term.
Chihuahua City July 17. Beltran, a top Villa lieutenant and participant in the January Santa Ysabel atrocities, was killed at Cerro Blanco on July 12 per reports to General Trevino. Prisoners say Villa was absent. Calexito Contreras led at Cerro Blanco. Desertions followed and Trevino reports encirclement of the outlaws as Matais Ramos pursues them. Villa, from encampments near the Rio Florido, renews effort to win back amnesty leaders.
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