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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1920
Page
3
Billy Malone's Musical Comedy company opened a week at the Orpheum before a full-house crowd. The show features a lively chorus and a humorous Harp comedy star with a confidential monologue. Pearl White's The Black Secret serial is promoted as a Monday Tuesday feature for 15 weeks.
Katherine MacDonald stars in The Thunderbolt as her first production for First National Exhibitors' Circuit. The film will be seen at local theaters, bringing a new release to audiences.
A Broadway theatre figure recently caused controversy in Los Angeles by nearly breaking up a chic dance. Miss MacDonald, dancing with a famous film star, left the ballroom as the jazz influenced shimmie movement drew a response, and the hostess immediately cancelled all shimmie dancing from the program.
W P Bogardus of Mt Vernon Ohio recounts a Civil War tale from Washington where President Lincoln reportedly vaulted a six foot fence to approach a fire at the White House stables. The anecdote, told as if witnessed by guards, has not been published before.
London March 9 The newly opened German embassy will avoid flying the flag for the time being while secretaries comment on English fashion after a Sunday park walk. One secretary said English people do not appear as chic as before and may not wear smart clothes, a first impression likely to be revised.
Marvin H. Williams, a cement buyer, narrowly escaped death when a derrick cable broke and sixty pound blocks toppled. He stood under a beam that broke the fall, leaving him bruised but with no broken bones. The report ends with a stray line about Wall Street used in New York crisis reports.
Gilmer Brothers announces a Daytime bakery installation at their local store, with plans to move the grocery department to the former Amos Furniture space and expand it. The bakery will use an electric mixer, via troughs, proof boxes, revolving gas ovens, and a sanitary, dust free operation stamped Daytime on every loaf.
London reports a campaign against stiff high collars after several deaths from suffocation. The latest victim, William Howes, a farmer, choked by his collar when he fell. The coroner ruled death from misadventure.
Chicago report details Dr. Charles H. Frazie r of Philadelphia noting neuralgia used to obtain spiritus frumenti. He cites a patient who relieves neuralgia with two quarts of whiskey in four days. The address urged neuralgic men to take action.
Trustee Alfred S. Wyllie executes a sale of all business machinery stock fixtures and bottles for the Pepsi Cola Bottling Works in High Point North Carolina. Territory includes High Point plus Asheboro Jamestown Wallburg Denton with cash terms and viewings by appointment at 2064? Building Greensboro. The sale occurs Monday at noon. The notice also mentions trial use of mini throwers on New York snow drifts.
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