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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1922
Page
4
A mosaic of quips and quotes from Bert Braley and various wits. Notes on worry versus cheerfulness, summer to winter, trains, miners, and fashion mix with playful proverbs. The tone skims social foibles and current events with light satire.
The New Freedom Newspapers note that flappers, embodying modern liberty, faced ridicule from editors for long, burdensome garments. They observe that flappers' shift to practical low heels and comfortable travel reflects progress, reducing critique over dress length and cleanliness.
In this opinion piece the author lauds young women adopting short hair, low heels, and short skirts as practical and healthy. The flapper is portrayed as a forerunner of an age of common sense in a free country, challenging critics who label her immoral. The piece ends with a buoyant cheer for freedom.
Doctor Galin notes eyes placed high aid distant view and vigilance at crossings. The piece urges careful driving and 100 percent use of sight and judgment to prevent railroad grade crossing deaths and injuries.
William Wrigley Jr notes that huge and persistent newspaper magazine and outdoor advertising built chewing gum demand. He argues stopping ads would slow or halt business like removing the engine from a train, contrasting lasting campaigns with forgotten brands like Pyle’s Pedroline.
The text recalls a business decision to cut advertising as a supposed saving. Once ads stopped, Pearline sales dwindled and the product vanished from shelves. New owners later recognized the mistake, noting how other national brands filled the gap.
The census lists Industrial City population at 14 802 with surrounding suburbs and immediate subdivisions just outside city limits totaling about 6 060 residents.
A historical note explains census figures from 1900 1910 and 1920. It discusses suburban population totals 4165 624 and 14302 and argues that prior to 1970 suburban growth limits would be exceeded by including an additional 5500 people since 1910.
Annual manufactured output totals about 24 million dollars with furniture and woodworking contributing 14 million and textiles 1.1 million. Other sectors include OO figures, reflecting mixed industrial performance. The report highlights sectoral shares and overall production value.
Total workers in all plants 5 660 with 2519 in furniture and woodwork textile. Annual payroll about 720 000. weekly payroll 110 000. Furniture and wood working about 2500 with cost 47 0 ie).
The report records 7 520 residents aged 60 and over with 5 000 taxpayers and 000 pounds paid in real estate taxes. It notes native born whites TE30S8 and 900 Negro residents, plus 94 foreign born individuals.
The report lists three banks with capital and surplus of 35 335 510 89 and three hotels the Sherman Elwood and Arthur. The Sherman recently completed at a cost of STAG ONO, features 150 rooms and 150 baths. The Southern Furniture Exposition building tops as the world’s largest furniture exhibition hall with six acres of floor space and construction costs of 4 000 000.
The report cites coastal climate data with precipitation and mean temperatures, and argues that the city near High Point with a 15,000 population hosts more manufacturing enterprises than any other city of similar size in the United States.
The Asheville Times rebukes Governor Morrison for urging a law and order stance in the coal strike. It argues the policy mirrors Harding era hands off tactics, warns of dire consequences from a finish fight, and pleads for government action to protect peace and economic stability in North Carolina.
A fragment notes a group of young men quitting well paid railroad work in Durham on the orders of a looming high authority figure. The passage suggests rumor and frustration among clerks and workers regarding management pressure and loyalty.
An editorial lauds clerical workers as vital to railroads and industry while arguing their strikes cause limited disruption. It notes vacancies are quickly filled by temporary hires and asserts seasoned clerks learn to broaden their roles, urging a peacetime parting of ways with striking staff and rapid adaptation by new hires.
A car driven by a driver urged by Mrs. H F Bowman hit the curb in front of Cline's drug store in the Sheraton building, smashing an eight by nine foot plate glass window and base. the driver and car bumper were only slightly damaged.
A strange force compels Hobart Drake and his brothers Roger and Andrew into absurd acts while they are unaware. Patricia Drake disappears amid a web of clues as Miles, Owen Mills, and Scottie McCready investigate. Possible motive ties to a thwarted romance with Richard Kemp.
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