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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1916
Page
6
Dixieland witnesses the arrival of the 3400 r p m Chalmers as southern industries surge with cotton steel textiles and munitions. The ad touts a compact high speed engine delivering fuel efficiency heat management and strong pickup urging readers to order now for quick delivery.
A Bedfordshire private recounts a tense encounter near the trenches. A German officer sidles up for talk, then bombs strike as both sides exchange blows. The private crawls back, wins a brutal hand to hand, and flings a German over the parapet as machine gun fire bursts forth.
Berlin reports a broader 1915 home gardening push with seed sellers swelling orders since January. A new Imperial bureau in Berlin will promote vegetable production, convert urban lands for crops, and coordinate manure and waste for volunteer gardens, aiming to boost canning and storage.
St. Louis reports a dye shortage may force a flag redesign. Experts say red analine dye is exhausted and blue dye may soon fade from the field, with a year more of war seen as likely to erase the flag’s red stripes and blue background.
D S Coltrane of Jamestown won the Hill declarers medal awarded yearly by President D H Hill to the best declaimer in the two literary societies at the A and M college. Debating and oratory at the college have grown, aided by Dr George Summey Jr of the English department. Saturday night marked the third inter-society contest of the year.
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