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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1919
Page
4
A reflective verse adapts to sorrow yet persists in optimism. The speaker notes sorrow weighing down today but predicts happiness by tomorrow and asserts a universal urge to remain cheerful despite gloom.
An old column notes anglers at a Moore County camp near Pinehurst chase catchable fish despite reports bass and perch biting poorly while jacks are being caught. It mentions John Skelton Williams resigning part of his role and various political tidbits from New York liquor bills to global politics and postwar reflections.
The poultry department at Cornell University reports that electrically lit coops extend laying periods for hens. Over 48 weeks hens under light produced about a dozen extra eggs per year, with no extra feed while eating times shift to reduce exhaustion. Lights at night keep hens producing in fall and winter.
The article notes the wartime insurance bureau holds 4 900 600 insured soldiers and sailors, premiums totaling 200 million dollars, and liabilities of 960 million for death and disability, a net loss of 700 million, while defending the system as a prompt, nonprofit substitute for pensions. It also covers poison bait methods in Kansas and the decommissioning of the Borodino canteen ship with anecdotes of fleet morale and a U boat sinking incident.
Washington reports 787 retraining approvals by the federal board for vocational education. Of these 165 pursue commercial colleges for office work, while 137 enter agriculture courses including agronomy, animal husbandry, farming, poultry, and truck gardening. Most students are farm boys returning home to apply scientific agriculture and management.
Two months after discharge Sindig Sweeper begins growing a mustache and plans to surprise his fiancée Fandanga. At her door his effort backfires as she questions his shell shock and he storms away, ending their relationship.
During February’s first 21 days soldiers and sailors passing through Pittsburgh drank about 1000 gallons of coffee daily. The Red Cross canteen service records show 33 491 entrants to the city and distributions of 38249 sandwiches 21000 gallons of coffee over 7500 doughnuts and other items for the fighting men.
Edwin B McDowell of Arlington Tennessee praises Foley's Honey and Tar as the best cough medicine. He says his son recovered from a severe influenza cough in two days after using Foley's Honey and Tar. Mann Drug Co endorses the product.
The army list for today records nine North Carolina men among the Americas expeditionary forces. Names include John L. Croom Kinston. Roy A. Summey Dallas. Jesse Tillery route one Halifax. Rogers Williams Wade. Carl L. Garriss Charlotte. Raymond L. Halsclaw Lenoir. Robert K. Blackwell route two Hurdles Mill. Raymond L. Goff route three Fountain. Willie Eugene McDonald Hasty. James Reaves Sanford.
Former Private Siegfritz Spirals awakens after seventeen months and, with his brother Bieg fritz nearby, switches on a light to confront a glint between the covers. He worries of ghosts and murders as the breath catches and relief follows when he sees Great plato ns.
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