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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1917
Page
2
J L Pickard of Station A High Point reports long battle with indigestion and nerve trouble ended after starting Tanlac. After two bottles he eats well sleeps soundly and regained strength, adding seven pounds. his wife also benefits and both urge others to try Tanlac sold at Hart Drug Store.
Madison researchers demonstrate that boxes can be stronger using more nails and optimized thickness, reducing packaging losses by preventing transit damage. The Forest Products Laboratory findings have been adopted by several associations, with cannery firms showing interest in implementing the designs.
Philadelphia residents will view the eighth annual indoor track and field meet by Meadowbrook club featuring top college and club athletes. The one mile invitation race draws star entrants including Joie Ray Vere Windingley John Overton and Michael Devanney from Yale Cornell Millrose A C.
Western amateur athletes will meet in St Louis on March 9 and compete in the annual indoor relay carnival. With top performers entered, there is strong prospect of record breaking performances across many events in the evening program.
An ad states catarrhal deafness arises from inflammation of the Eustachian tube mucous lining and cannot be cured locally. It claims only a constitutional remedy will restore function and offers a $100 reward for any case of deafness cured by the cure.
The Carmania arrives from Liverpool showing ventilators to lay smoke screens against submarines and a removed six inch gun from Cap Trafalgar. British Admiralty warned of 100 U boats in Feb and pacified patrols as Carmania sails at 17 knots through a war zone. Separate note: National Forest Reservation Commission approves 32 266 acres for eastern national forests in Alabama Maine New Hampshire North Carolina South Carolina Virginia and Tennessee with multiple tracts across Lawrence Winston Oxford Kilkenny and other counties.
The National Association of Cleaners and Dyers led by Dr H E B Mechling designates New Year's Day as the first nation wide Clean-up Day. Children whose parents cannot pay will have clothes cleaned free if a teacher certifies need. The aim is to reduce spring outbreaks of measles mumps and other diseases linked to dirt.
More than 150 members of the Lake Superior Mining Institute plus many wives and families will depart tonight by special train for the annual meeting in the south. Birmingham Alabama will be the main objective with days of mine and ore field inspections. Excursions to Chattanooga and other cities are planned.
Interesting exercises marked Founder's Day at Leland Stanford Jr University in Palo Alto California celebrating the 93rd anniversary of Senator Leland Stanford's birth and the founding of the university as a memorial to his son.
Advertising blurb urging readers to mail 5 cents to Foley & Co for a trial package of Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets with name and address details. Mann Drug Co.
A train car discussion recounts German Americans quieting patriotism as Prussian atrocities swell anti hyphen sentiment. A neighbor reportedly removed Kaiser Wilhelm and Bismarck portraits and burned them, replacing them with Washington and Lincoln pictures to show allegiance.
Ten thousand Confederate veterans are expected to attend the June dedication of the Robert E. Lee memorial on the Gettysburg battlefield. The event will follow the national reunion of United Confederate Veterans in Gettysburg with committees coordinating a program and hopes for President Wilson to speak. The equestrian statue centers the memorial with surrounding statuary depicting Confederate service branches.
An Indiana reader from Paoli, Enos Halbert, writes that a severe fall cold caused constant coughing and sleepless nights. After trying remedies, Foley's Honey and Tar relieved the cough with one bottle and cured it. He endorses it for all coughs. Mann Drug Co.
In Ghoveravilles New York Edward Van Warren who had a chronic cough was seized by a coughing fit and coughed up a black snake as long as a lead pencil. In Madison Wisconsin a two day conference at the University of Wisconsin aims to raise athletic standards for college women with discussions on honor point systems organization and financing. Southern Railway
The schedule lists train arrival and departure times at stations along the Carolina and Yadkin River Railroad. It notes that times are not guaranteed and represent expected movements as of October 1, 1916.
A Philadelphia Ledger report from Santiago describes nightly clashes in the Union club where army officers favor Germany and navy officers back Britain. Observers note German-tutored army and English-trained navy fueling a miniature, periodic warfare as a normal part of Chilean life.
Washington Star records Santor Sorghum expressing frustration that his proposal to change inauguration date gains little support from constituents who see no local funding or benefit. He notes long advocacy without enthusiasm.
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