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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1917
Page
2
A High Point test shows a single dollar spent at home yielded 22 dollars of merchandise in ten days. The effort, run by the Commercial club, traced the dollar through multiple local businesses on Main Street, supporting local economy and jobs.
J B Latham company of Greensbor o warns North Carolina cotton farmers not to expand cotton acreage amid looming war. The letter favors diversification toward livestock, notes uncertain cotton value, and urges avoiding overcropping while war demands labor and resources.
Mrs Louise Chase of Birmingham Alabama living in High Point was injured in an auto collision on Spring Garden street extension. She drove a roadster into a Pomona Cotton Mills truck, Mr W K Bergman the truck driver unhurt. Both vehicles were damaged and Mrs Chase was taken to her hotel. her injuries were not serious.
A Kansas City Times piece details a quiet night at home with routine rituals and small annoyances. The piece traces the dinner, gas worries, film night, reading, and the habitual, intimate sounds of a domestic evening ending in fatigue and silence.
Taft will urge national defense readiness and a postwar league to enforce peace during a tour of southern and southwestern cities. The sequence begins tonight in Richmond with a Greensboro stop tomorrow, then Atlanta Birmingham Nashville Memphis Little Rock Dallas and Oklahoma City. State league conventions to enforce peace will run alongside the visits.
Berne March 2 today marked the 500th anniversary of Niklaus von der Flue birth. The day spurred patriotic celebrations across Switzerland venerating the sage reformer who aided harmony during civil strife and lived in solitude, subsisting on the Eucharistic elements.
Wisconsin political leaders report strong interest in uniting farmers into an independent state league modeled on North Dakota’s Farmers Non Partisan league. Officials say a Marshfield conference will decide the plan to fund, organize, and influence state elections and platforms if needed.
The first interscholastic basketball tournament at Ann Arbor Michigan will open tomorrow under the University of Michigan. Due to many teams entered the event will run through the week with the winner declared state champions.
The United States furnishes about two thirds of the annual world crop of cotton, indicating its dominant role in supplying the global textile market and supporting domestic farm economies through substantial cotton production.
Probate court opens a major hearing before Judge Hopkins on the Sylvia Ann Howland estate valued at about 1.25 million dollars. Spreading among Gideon Howland’s many descendants, trustees propose 45 shares with objections from New York and New Jersey heirs seeking an eleven share per Gideon child plan. a second hearing follows for disputed claims. About 500 to 650 potential heirs are expected in the final distribution.
A Panola Texas Watchman column argues national opinion shifted toward universal military service. It asserts rural youth in the area show strong patriotic unity and would eagerly serve six months in a training camp when required, with no shirking or hesitation.
Mrs. R. M. Raney of Stanford Kentucky reports her child suffered frequent croup until Foley's Honey and Tar was given. She notes the medicine stopped coughing that night and the cold disappeared by the next day. The testimonial cautions readers about cough and cold relief.
Coroner D L Sides investigated in Rockwell at Salisbury on March 21 over a newborn found dead in a young white girl's home. Post mortem found no foul play. verdict: child born dead. Neighborhood attention followed the case.
A doctor attends an elderly Scottish woman who has a severe cold. She quips that her teeth were lying on the table when asked if they chattered, delivering a light regional twist in a period tone.
Railroad timetable printed with arrival and departure times for stations on the Carolina and Yadkin River line. The schedule notes times are not guaranteed and reflect expected service rather than fixed arrivals or departures.
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears as senior partner that his firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The notice, sworn December 6, 1886, cites internal medicine and blood action, with testimonials and a 75 cent price from Hall's for sale by druggists.
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