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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1922
Page
2
A 1922 NEA Service vignette描写 Havana showing open bars, Bacardi drinks, and quick-paced streets. It notes vice and danger beside charm, praising Cuban efficiency and crowds at the Jockey Club and jai alai, with scenes of casinos and festive Sundays.
The dialogue notes falling church attendance as political tensions rise with phrases about Lloyd George and quotable lines. It mentions a 12,000 school superintendents meeting in Chicago and hints at social shifts including Turkish women considering face coverings and a wedding reference.
An essay-style critique argues that states enact outdated laws regulating thoughts and behavior. Examples include Kentucky considering school morality, Massachusetts fining a cripple for outdoor Sunday checkers, and Kansas City officials pushing jazz and liquor bans. The piece condemns such reformer zeal as harmful to law respect and governance.
A wartime editorial argues disarmament drives furloughs and pay cuts for navy yard workers, noting harm from abrupt layoffs. It urges humane treatment and criticizes officials for starving workers while modernizing fleets, highlighting the patriotism and suffering of laborers left unpaid.
A New York Sunday article recalls a young woman who faced poverty in Manhattan and found the city’s sympathy. She notes crowds rush to help in difficulties, while critics fail to see Gotham’s goodwill when given a chance. Miss Ulrich named assistant to Rev. Joseph Fort Newton signals rising women in clergy circles as flapper talk swirls.
Charles Burchette recalls the Wildness of Greenwich Village, a south of Fourteenth Street district famed for its art palettes and bobbed heads as a vibrant urban scene.
A traveler planned to explore dangers in a country and carried a pistol in his hip pocket. After an argument with a taxi driver, the pistol was drawn and Charles was jailed by a policeman who saw a weapon as normal preparation for such exploration.
An anonymous donor from New York contributed 290000 dollars to the Audubon Society to support its work on game restriction legislation. The gift aims to strengthen lobbying and policy efforts to regulate game.
Pickets at the Rand School of Social Science restaurant protested a business shift to a profit basis. A professional manager, described as a cold blooded democrat, was hired to run the deficit plagued eatery, triggering jail for some pickets as tensions between socialist theory and practical management linger.
Blanche Yurka with William Courtenay arranged a run of special matinees of Mae terlinck's Manna Vanna during the remaining performances of The Law Breaker.
The much talked of Paris drama La Flamme by Charles Mere will be staged locally by producer William A. Brady. Mme Polaire, famous in France as the homeliest woman, will star in the production.
Arab press reports say Egyptian nationalists united after Said Zaghloul Pasha was arrested and deported. Schools closed as students strike, workers walk out, and a national conference is seen as the next step toward a united fight for freedom from British Rule in Heyat.
D Rich treasurer of R J Reynolds Tobacco announces a handsome library building to be gifted to Buies Creek Academy in Harnett County in memory of his wife Carrie Rich. Rev Fed N Day will announce the gift at services. Carrie Rich was a longtime church and missionary leader.
In Lumberton, hundreds of dozens of Rhode Island hens are being sold at 20 cents a dozen amid a local strike impact. A merchant reports buying over 100 dozen in a single day and only receiving part of the supply while some farmers refuse to sell at that price, opting to keep or eat the birds.
Brigadier General Grenfell of Pickwell Manor launches a retail meat shop to cut prices. The move comes as General SOMSRBY butchers also shifts into meat sales to offer lower costs.
Barry suspects Fay Tudor after studying a gas mask, powder case, and bloodless clues. He learns Miss Laurel drank medicine for insomnia, and powders may have been tampered with. A possible killer motive centers on a deadly gas and hidden box.
Mrs Tudor confronts Sergeant Barry after a tense dinner where Captain Warren and Mr Clayton offer help as the sheriff presses for a hasty pursuit. The box from a girl is returned and a private talk follows, hinting at a dropped case and a next issue continuation.
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