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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1921
Page
5
A collage of quotes from religious and civic leaders cites moral concerns and optimistic church membership. Notable figures warn of wasteful spending, while the Federal Council of Churches reports two million Americans joining churches in the past year, marking a record for the nation.
State highway engineer Charles M. Upham orders uniform sign posts along all North Carolina roads. Markers will show mileage, detours, and eventually mile posts, aiding automobile tourists and residents by making routes clearly understandable.
Revenue Commissioner Blair cites a large eastern city case where a prominent man owned two stores and hid income from one, illustrating the lengths some will go to beat taxes. The report notes extensive recoveries totaling 20 million dollars and argues that some men cheat the government despite other criminal aversions.
The article notes European powers still hope the United States will join the League of Nations. It asserts league actions presume U S membership and that vacancies remain for an American representative in all subsidiary bodies. A reception committee is ready to welcome the United States if it joins.
The article notes Belgium Holland and Britain seeking inclusion for delegates to the Washington disarmament conference. Belgium cites suffering from weapons and wants arms restraint benefiting all small nations. Holland asserts colonial possessions justify a seat at the talks. Japan's challenge is keeping peace talks small and manageable.
New York July 22 reports sculptor Albert Stewart works amid a zoo setting with a bare space between his studio and the animal enclosures. The unconventional environment is described as the most strange studio in New York, lacking typical artistic atmosphere.
A reader who admires lion lines compares himself to Michael Angelo in studying animal build. He recently dissected a lioness killed at the gap to learn more about the structure of these large, handsome creatures.
George Traham, a visitor from a city between Chicago and Denver, tips heavily in New York. He rewards theater ushers taxi drivers shoe-shiners and others, tipping a nickel to a box and another to the conductor, insisting it is deserved for better service. The conductor cautions that tipping is not customary while Traham continues tipping despite the lesson.
Oliver Morosco selects a varied Cambridge season focusing on democracy in theater. The Harvard prize play The Cony and the farce Wait Till We're Married share equal regard with a new musical Letty, underscoring a mix of serious and light works in the lineup.
Gilbert T Young a salesman at 9 Fifth Avenue lace house objects to being known as Miss Brown's husband and filed suit for epilation. He acknowledges Miss Brown is now his wife and notes the oddity of the situation while seeking a remedy to restore his own name and identity.
A slow clerk paired brides with wrong grooms delaying a planned double wedding for Cornelia and Josephine T Anna at 431 Avenuewood Avenue. The Italian city gossip mentions a bustling hurdy gurdy gate in City Hall Place and a large American Legion pilgrimage with President speakers and early reservations.
The organization will join the American Legion with headquarters at Fort Myers. Charles W. Bartlett, chairman of the distinguished visitors committee of the national convention, will go to France next month as Missouri’s representative for selecting a site for a memorial to Missouri soldiers. Bartlett will meet Marshal Foch and invite him to attend the Legion's national convention in Kansas City in October. Roy L. Rinker of Apache, Oklahoma offers a reward for locating an ex service man within 10 miles who is not a member of the American Legion.
Register of deeds in Greensboro records five transfers yesterday. Largest deed documents B F Caviness and wife transferring property in Gilmer township to WE Thompson for 1000 dollars. Other transfers include Hinkle to Aberrtson on Ward Street for 10 dollars. Pitts to Albertson on four parcels of Taylor property for 10 dollars. G L Taylor to Hinkle on Ward Street for 10 dollars. George L Taylor to Mattie H Albertson on Cassell Street for 45 dollars.
The American Legion post at Mul-Yerev Kansas won first prize in a recent membership contest. Fifty of its sixty six members are union labor men, while the remaining sixteen include merchants farmers clerks doctors and teachers.
The Toyal Order of Made has been formed at Fort Myers Florida by Dad Holdan Faste who announced the order will welcome ex service members of the Army Navy and Marine Corps who served in the Spanish American World Wars or are now in service. Members will promote clean patriotic living and fellowship for veterans.
A jumble of dated trivia references including veiled women outdoors, a Roman era baseball form, US salt consumption, radium extinction worry, millions of game licenses, coin street wartime use, Swiss jeweled pivots, chrysanthemum species, Sultanate trade bans, celluloid substitutes, Holland potato flour exports, a four ton bomb carrying giant plane, Statue of Liberty steps, lighter-than-air wood, early US post office, TB cost assertion, Arkansas river miles, steel sound speed, ancient shorthand, bareback riding, long living livestock and swans, self starters for airplanes.
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