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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1922
Page
4
A jumble of verses and quips on fatherhood, gender roles, and social commentary. The text blends a Braley poem fragment about a newborn and a series of aphoristic lines and satirical jokes on war, politics, and daily life. Named figures are not clearly identifiable.
New York and St. Louis battle for supremacy in major league baseball with the Nationals in St. Louis and the American league entry vying for top spots. The article notes fan support, a pennant tradition in New York, and a desire to see fresh rivalry beyond one city, predicting an exciting chase this season amid historic clubs and famous pennant races.
Five men including the architect and contractor facing charges in the Knickerbocker theater disaster are dismissed on unsustained demurrers. Editorials condemned the outcome as a failure of accountability after ninety seven deaths. The owner plans rebuilding on the site but declines charitable offers.
A woman died almost instantly and her husband and child were injured when an automobile struck them on a North Carolina road. The driver fled the scene without offering aid, prompting a critique of the era’s road manners and claims that drunkenness does not explain all such incidents. The piece laments the decline from earlier notions of chivalry on the highways.
The speaker urges constitutional amendment to impose capital punishment on highway killers describing the offender as a heathen of the highways and arguing distress fits the category of first degree murderers.
The Averdeen peach, Max ton melon, and South Carolina tobacco crops face moving shipments as the peach and melon season lasts only weeks. Disrupted shipping risks storage limits, price drops, and market closures, urging public authorities to safeguard transportation and protect producers against interference and losses. Government must balance rights to ensure open markets.
State Insurance Bulletin shows June insured losses totaling 105980, the lowest for any month since records began. Ninety six damage fires occurred, five reached $5000+, highest at 15000. One town nearly hit the $5000 mark, Wilson reported only a $2 loss. Six month totals improve by 605489 over 1921.
New York letter notes hotels salvage gold leaf and glass from broken china to cleaners from tin cans. It highlights 25 000 summer students at Columbia Hunter NYC and NYU. Reports Katherine Wendell’s marriage to Lord Portchester in Westminster and store detective Miss Ethel Cummings arresting a wallet thief before being struck.
After a brief altercation on the sidewalk, a man collapsed and lay prone while Miss Cummings sat atop him awaiting police. The man did not rise until officers arrived and assumed control of the situation.
Berlin reports that American frozen meat will soon flood German markets, easing high prices. U S packing firms bid aggressively, Hugo Stinnes links with Argentina for deliveries, and wholesale dealers in Argentina eye big contracts. Retail shops face steep costs and working-class Berliners struggle, with stockyards cutting 500 jobs as demand shrinks.
A. H. G. Kokker, once linked to German wartime air power, has traveled to the United States and is collaborating with American naval designers. His experiments are underway at the government aviation station at Anacostia, D. C., with active participation by Fokker in a government program.
Gov ernor Henry J. Allen was delayed by muddy roads and could not reach Emporia to address the Governors day celebration at Kansas State Normal. The program, moved from today, will be held Tuesday.
In India certain fish species can survive out of water for a day or two on hot days. They are seen moving clumsily across fields as they seek water.
In Prince George on July 8 stories of wild bears from northern British Columbia recount two dramatic encounters. A fire driven bear at Bedwest thwarted by a jack mule, then a forest ranger’s attempt to rescue a cub ends with a dramatic chase and mother bear reuniting with her offspring as the car continues eastward.
Miles and Scottie trace a counterfeit bill scam tied to Rip Lunt and a hidden store room key impression at Roger Drake’s house. Roger collapses from a terror attack as Miles pieces together a plan to expose the scheme, awaiting a night of tense anticipation and a fresh telegram to the chief.
In Kansas City on July 22, Judge EB Porterfield sentenced George Hurlburt, 9, to four years in juvenile custody for the fatal shooting of Peter Carramusa, 9, who was taunted as "monkey face" by the offender.
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