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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1922
Page
4
A satirical column by Berton Bratey rails at melodramatic married life tales and proposes balancing side of husbands. The page scampers through jokes about taxes, office politics, police pay, political parties, and a Buffalo woman vote miscue with crisp quips.
Senate members visiting Muscle Shoals are impressed by the project’s magnitude and see Ford’s bid as favored if he agrees to necessary modifications. Ford has declined a Macon meeting in April and appears to stand firm on his original terms while the public leans toward quick disposition of the Muscle Shoals matter with Ford.
A broad survey of baseball activity nationwide predicts 1922 will be the sport’s most prosperous year. Villages and towns plan independent teams and semi professional clubs while organized baseball booms with higher salaries and extended spring training trips. Training camps stretch from Catalina Islands to Florida and Texas as owners rely on gate receipts to cover costs and profits, hoping fans will back the vast industry.
Blue Book figures show NC population near 2.56 million, manufacturing investment surpassing $669 million, and factory output rising tenfold since 1900. Notes highlight spindles, mineral and farm values, bank resources, and education spending, marking dramatic gains across 1910–1920 era.
Englishman Mark Sabre grows estranged from his wife Mabel after eight years of marriage. He seeks solace with eccentric neighbors Fargus and the Perches while an old flame Nona returns as the wife of Lord Tybar. Sabre's hope for partnership at Fortune, East and Sabre is dashed when Twyning claims the share.
Sabre faces Twyning’s rise as Jonah names him partner while Fortune grapples with the books and the cost of ambition. Sabre longs for Nona and a lunch with Mabel as he reconsiders love, work, and the deeper light religion may offer.
The figure of 3.139 billion dollars shows value rising over fivefold since 1910 and more than tenfold compared to taxable property assessed twenty years earlier.
Mary Garden from the Chicago Opera company is indisposed with a sinus infection and may perform tonight in the Juggler of Notre Dame after missing Tuesday night. The director calls it a bad cold delaying her appearance in San Francisco March 31.
A feature from Popular Science notes that ants and beetles perform feats far surpassing human strength when weight is compared. Fleas could launch a person over a church spire if scaled, and a cypress in Santa Maria del Tule boasts a 50 foot diameter trunk. The text also warns of a mysterious decay damaging European cathedral glass, possibly linked to organ vibrations or sun rays.
Carrie Chapman Catt leads a special emergency committee of fifty prominent women calling for continued funding to Near East Relief. They warn a 25 percent cut will force thousands of Armenian orphans from protection into street hunger and death. They urge women nationwide to underwrite 25,000 children at five dollars monthly.
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