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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1922
Page
4
A humorous piece lauds traffic cops as guardians guiding pedestrians and drivers. It mixes playful rhymes about obeying signals with snippets on war medals, anecdotes, and assorted oddities from daily life and history.
The Department of Labor notes a gradual fall in retail food prices from February 15 to March 15 across ten cities. Year to date shows a 13 percent drop by March 15, 1922, with city by city declines ranging from 9 to 12 percent, though prices remain well above 1913 levels.
Jobless soldiers from 4 606 000 volunteers or selections face more than 800 400 unemployed as Legion posts provide meals and lodging. Colonel Arthur Woods urges the nation to help ex‑soldiers find work, to ensure economic recovery and family stability.
An essay argues films once leaning toward suggestiveness reflect societal decay and a move toward wholesome, virile cinema. It cites Chicago's 4500 child audience trial, noting children favor wholesome fun and animals, and highlights the circus as equally thrilling to urban residents with large-scale spectacle and many performers.
Prohibition officials warn a revived coast guard mission as liquor smugglers skirt U S shores. The article traces coast guard origins in 1790, cites bootleg runs along the Bahamas and Florida rivers, and notes patrols from New York to Puget Sound against Canadian imports defying national prohibition.
Hapgood recalls a visit to Mark Sabre in Penny Green where Sabre and his wife Mabel live apart, each in separate rooms. The wife’s remark about maids named High Jinks and Low Jinks triggers Sabre’s amusement, revealing a evolving rift in their marriage as Sabre plans to convert his bedroom into a study while maintaining their separation.
The narrative sketches Mabel two years younger than Sabre at marriage and her lively habit of sudden laughter. It introduces Fortune, Twyning, and Sabre in Tidborough’s Precincts, a church and school oriented firm run from the first floor, with Fortune portrayed as a portly, whale-like figure whose presence forebodes disaster.
New York March 28 Princess Fatima of Kabul remains at the Fourth avenue hotel as British counsel will not accept responsibility for her $3,000 heirloom diamond. The hotel blocks her departure until the guarantee the diamond will be redeemed is secured. The piece mentions a thousand-year lease sold on Maiden Lane and a theatre heroine, Sydney Shields, in a palace intrigue.
Marguerite J Huddle a young soprano from Austin Texas sang on a radio concert and felt the war thrill as her mother in San Antonio listened to Bedloe Island’s great station. The mother traveled from Austin to San Antonio hoping the broadcast would reach her daughter.
Miss Ethel Wallace showcases textile painting using dyed wax on satin and velvet to create portraits. The process coats fabric with wax and dips surrounding areas in dye, producing an infinite complexity of color and design. Wallace advocates textile painting as a modern artistic expression.
A reporter notes rapid slang changes after five months in Europe and reviews Walker Whiteside’s new play The Hindoo at the Comedy theater. The piece highlights atmosphere intrigue and tense mood, deeming it an excellent example of its type.
A playful verse collection showcases simple rural life scenes with imagery of a frosty night, stars, a possum, hounds, April winds, a street urchin, a kite, and everyday chores. Neighbors, fishing, and a rolling pin at Maggie's door punctuate the light verse.
Dr. R H Bishop advises limiting daily candy for children and adults. He recommends rare candy days with slow consumption of pure candies and favors hard candies over soft varieties to ease digestion and protect the bowels.
J. T. Ryan secretary of the Southern Traffic league attends a Greensboro conference with officials from the state corporation commission and North Carolina shippers. They discuss the impending interstate commerce commission class rate investigation slated for the southern states.
Atlantic City reports Mayor Alvin Berkmann often sends a $25 check to the community church pastor after missing services. The pastor notes the mayor rarely misses and would prefer attendance over payment, though a recent absence still prompted the donation.
A London scheme trains maids to turn away unwelcome visitors and perform skills from cooking and cleaning to sewing and emergency plumbing. They follow a set waking hour and aim to improve domestic service standards.
An advertisement claims a one dollar bottle of Mayer’s Wonderful Remedy cures stomach and intestinal ailments after costly medical treatment failed. The dramatis personae include Mann Drug Co in High Point NC and Randleman Drug Co in Randleman NC selling the preparation nationwide with a money back guarantee.
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