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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1922
Page
16
An old stone wall at South Main and Commerce streets, a longtime loitering spot, was broken up for a new eight story commercial monument. Foundation work for the Commercial National Bank building moves quickly with many workers on site.
Paris March 31 The government of Premier Poincare secured a vote of confidence in the chamber of deputies by 405 to 157 on the army service question. Deputies rejected the eight months military service bill proposed by Paul Boncour the moderate socialist.
In Washington on March 31 the Interstate Commerce Commission refused a $75,000 loan request for the Ocilla Southern railroad of Georgia. The commission found the funds not absolutely needed for public service and that the carrier lacked sufficient earning power or guarantees for a government advance.
The first steel railroad car brought south was repurposed by General William T. Sherman as an ammunition wagon during the 1864 march toward Atlanta, illustrating Civil War logistics and mobility.
A busy subway climb ends with a cheerful exchange about a borrowed umbrella. The dialogue shifts to a humorous argument where a lawyer questions a man named Rastus about theft while Rastus pitches his quirky barter of a mule chickens and a hog as your alleged misdeed.
A teacher explains subtraction by matching units, saying you cannot take three peaches from four peaches nor three quarts from four cows. Silas asks if three quarts of milk can come from four cows, highlighting a misunderstanding of unit consistency.
A terse father rebukes his son for asking questions and laments his own unanswered inquiries. The boy retorts that perhaps the father could have answered more of his questions in his youth, prompting a moment of mutual reconsideration.
Mrs Newcoin asks for language instruction for her son. The language teacher lists Polish Jugoslavonian Armenian Czechoslovakian and Arabic. Mrs Newcoin asks which is the most foreign. A suburbanite complains about a fragile crate of chickens delivered and misdelivered. City friends whisper that they only sent it.
In the Western District of North Carolina the Furniture City Mfg Co of High Point Guilford county was adjudicated bankrupt on March 4 1922. The first meeting of creditors will be held April 4 1922 at 11 a m in Greensboro at the referee office to prove claims elect a trustee and review affairs of the bankrupt. Clifford Frazier referee in bankruptcy presiding.
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