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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1917
Page
3
A column warns state papers about potato planting tips sourced from a Maine grower who claims 200 bushels per acre. It covers seed selection, cutting, healing lime, hilling soil, and general timing, noting North Carolina potatoes’ higher starch content and their value as a food.
Troy March 29 A glare of light from the Erie Canal showcases the Watervliet Arsenal busy night and day as it produces the nation s largest and most powerful guns. The plant employs hundreds more workers and operates at full capacity marking its centennial as a government foundry with a history dating to the War of 1812 and a major gun factory built after 1887. The first eight inch gun was completed late in 1889 and the twelve inch gun in February 1891.
The Boston Young Men’s Christian Association will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its technical and professional schools, now the Northeastern college, with an educational program and the installation of Dr. Frank P. Speare as president. The college includes liberal arts, commerce and finance, and engineering, all as night schools, plus a day school in cooperative engineering. Over 40,000 students have been educated in 20 years, and there are about 1,700 students currently enrolled, mainly evening students who also work during the day.
Annapolis Md March 29 172 additional officers became available to meet naval shortages as the first class at the United States Naval Academy graduated earlier than usual. The second class will graduate next September and the ceremony had none of the usual social splendor. Captain E W Eberle presented diplomas to the graduates led by honor man Frederick W Haeberle and class president Clarence O Ward who rose from enlisted navy ranks.
An Indiana man from Paoli, Enos Halbert, narrates a severe fall cough that kept him coughing and awake. After trying several remedies, Foley's Honey and Tar relieved him with a full cure. He urges others to get the genuine product from Mann Drug Co.
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