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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1917
Page
8
The American commission to Russia led by Elihu Root arrived in a Russian port city and will travel by train to Petrograd after meeting local officials. They expect to reach the capital around mid June.
Shanghai reports General Chang Hsun, governor of Anhwei, arriving in Tianjin and forming a provisional government. Heu Shih Chang named dictator with Wang Shih Chen premier, Tuan Chi Kwei as minister of war, Thao Julin as foreign affairs minister, and Tung Saulung as interior minister. The gendarmerie chief is to monitor Li Yuan Hung, now isolated in Beijing amid strict telegraph censorship.
The Chi Li province has severed relations with the central government. Detachments reach Siang Wan Chuan, twenty-five miles from Tianjin. Hew Shih Chang named premier of the new military government. Chang Soulin mobilizes railway cars toward Peking. troops stay near the city awaiting the president’s decision.
Data from Reicharbeitsblatt show women under social insurance surpassed men by 10 802 on March 1 after leading February by 3 973 457 women and 3 962 655 men. Records hint at men moving to battle and women shifting to other labor lines. In late period figures rise to 4 793 472 women and 5 256 922 men. 1814 figures were 6 006 164 women and 6 160 912 men. Red lamps signal policemen on patrol.
Petrograd faces rising danger as released prisoners flood the city. A millionaire merchant Greg koff was shot by three men who demanded money, one gangster killed, another captured, and 30 000 roubles recovered. Clerks strike for double wages retroactive to the war start, forcing shop closures. Rioting reported in Kiev with soldiers absent and protests against Minister Kren sky's desertion policies.
Charlotte brief notes the city Presbyterians negotiating to use Elizabeth college property once owned by George W. Watts and later his sister Mrs. Charles I. King for a new Presbyterian hospital. The $250 000 site has drawn hospital trustees attention since the college closed two years ago. Four local DAR chapters sponsor city military companies to send letters and comfort to troops. Electric branding irons heat by electricity to burn marks in meat products.
Dr J Y Fair of Richmond spoke at the First Presbyterian church for the Y W C A of the Salisbury Normal and Industrial Institute and later at the Methodist tabernacle to the graduates. Tomorrow morning Hon R N Page will deliver the annual address. Henderson M Brown of the Salisbury Evening Post is severely ill with typhoid fever.
Salisbury June 4 Dr John A Leach of Greensboro preached the annual sermon to the Salisbury high school graduates on The Philosophy of Temptation What Is It and What Is It For He discussed three kinds of temptation and cited Abraham Joseph and Peter as examples He urged the class with practical advice and a Methodist style closing exhortation Richard Page won the Rendleman debate medal Saturday night Certificates of perfect attendance were awarded to 232 pupils reflecting an measles epidemic during the school years
Commissioners will sell at public auction on June 19 1917. First tract in Davidson County near Cyrus Hilton and James Kennedy, about even acres, with S. A. Cecil deed. Second tract in High Point on Main Street near Pickram Welch and R L Loflin, about 31 feet by 200 feet. Cash on confirmation. bond with security. Sale for partition per court judgment.
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