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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1918
Page
2
Federal action authorizes expanded surveys by the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including tide measurements and current data in Alaska. New vessels and launches are funded to conduct the work, improve navigation safety, and support coastal operations.
Carson College for Orphan Girls opens in Floutown Pa with an initial pupil quota of thirty. Miss Elsa Ueland, president, leads a staff offering a grammar curriculum plus special studies in a new, well planned campus donated by Robert Carson whose million dollar endowment funds the project. The school will not require uniforms and aims for quality education in a beautiful setting.
Amsterdam dispatch summarizes Berlin Vorwaerts critique of Prussia labor statistics. It notes rising female employment and child labor, declines in male workers, and increased violations of labor protections under wartime laws. The piece cites overwork hours, night work, and lax factory inspections, urging immediate reforms.
An American cadet completes solo flight at a English aviation camp where British instructors guide him through maneuvers. The process emphasizes control, landing technique, and the teacher pupil bond as the student prepares for front line service in France.
A commission of top lawyers from England Scotland and Ireland will examine statutes and common law to determine if women have a right to sit in the House of Commons. The government will decide if Parliament should move to allow women candidates. The Labour Party plans to draft a bill granting women the right to sit in Parliament.
London reports estimates by Chancellor A Bonar Law showing annual pensions could reach 250 million dollars if the war ends by March next year. Government actuary Sir Alfred Watson predicts gradual drops to 200 thousand dollars yearly by 1938 and continued reductions each decade, while 341,025 disabled men are on the pensions list with 28 percent from wounds. Small villages and a market garden project near Moreton, Dorset, are planned for wounded sailors and soldiers.
Advert appears to claim Foley Widney Pills relieve kidney and bladder troubles backache sharp pains rheumatism stiff joints sore muscles puffiness under eyes nervousness fatigue and sleep disturbance and promote restfulness. Mann Drug Co.
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