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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1922
Page
12
In Guilford and many counties, efforts expand home based recreation with parks pools tea rooms and wayside taverns offering chicken dinners. The rise in resort style facilities mirrors a summer boom as motorists seek rest without long travels and new hotels cater to vacationers.
A tangle of mangled phrases references politicians like Wirth and De Valera, social oddities, and everyday annoyances. Notes on car drivers in High Point, golf balls, cigars, and subway or streetcar frustrations mingle with quips on Ruth, college grads, and a helicopter misfire.
The once untouchable Morvich loses in his fourteenth start as a faster horse defeats him by two lengths on the Kentucky track. The piece muses on the fallibility of invincibility in sports and life, noting the price of fame and the perils of guaranteed success.
In a discussion of fame and health, the piece cites Dr. Louis H. Berman noting Napoleon's sluggish pulse and epileptic fits, arguing his energy and behavior rested on the pituitary gland. Darwin is described as neurasthenic with thyroid imbalance and insomnia, shaping his prolific yet arduous work.
An editorial discusses three Danville boys from Fishburne Military Academy accused of stealing and fleeing with a car. The piece argues harshly on human frailty and original sin, noting their affluent circumstances and permissive upbringing. It questions motives beyond possession and ponders why some youths act contrary to upbringing.
The Asheville Times notes Samuel Gompers secure re election as AFL president. It praises his orderly conservatism and warns against Bolshevik influence, citing Lewis Ut as a rival who was defeated at Denver and focusing on Gompers hard line against socialist influence in labor.
A five man crew from New York and New Jersey sails for a Nova Scotia island to dig up $40,000,000 in doubloons, bullion, and coins. Leader James R. Cameron of Elizabeth New Jersey, aged 59, plans maps and charts to locate buried treasure from a South American war era.
New York dieticians and chemists hail Prof. W Paul Heath of Chicago for using airless science to improve bread butter and ice cream. They say the holes in dough come from carbon dioxide aiding digestion, not air or oxygen, in Heathized products.
Prof Heath notes canned fruit spoils from defective rubber rings allowing air to enter. Air harms vitamins as butter bubbles reveal air intrusion. The Little Hungary fire in East Houston Street destroys Roosevelt era chair. Radio paging arrives in hotels to replace bellboy scurrying.
A collage of items includes mock ads promising easy music from a carpenter’s tool with a violin bow, notes on Ugo d’Annunzio’s respectable city life with a car firm, a musical comedy lead Sue Dear by Ride Dudley heading to Long Branch then town, plus a long essay praising cheerful mind over illness and the nurse who inspired recovery by hopeful talk.
A U tournament at Brighton Beach baths Brooklyn saw the Women's Swimming Association of New York win the national championship and swim a 400 yard relay in 4 minutes 38 3 5 seconds, beating the former world record of 4 minutes 40 seconds. J D Hyatt Dead in Richmond at 76 after attending the United Confederate Veterans reunion.
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