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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1917
Page
4
A wry wartime column mocks recruitment gaps and public mood while noting American ships suffer torpedo hits. It jokes about trench digging and front-line plans and jokes at readers’ poetry fatigue as the Kaiser looms over a drawn out conflict.
The piece argues the German submarine campaign threatens global shipping and urges the United States to focus on supplying food to the Allies. It highlights Hoover's claim of two years of German food and calls for diverting merchant ships to transport provisions. It also compares English agricultural limits and argues for Britain to rely on imports from the Americas and other regions.
Ambassador Gerard stresses the German menace and argues for a long, costly war. He urges universal military training, vast conscription, full ally support, and readiness to mobilize American resources, men and money, beyond neutrality.
The piece notes World attention on Britain's food problem and argues intensified farming could enable self sufficiency. It cites government plans to expand cropland and suggests converting parks, lawns, marshes and heath to food crops, recalling historical declines in UK agricultural output before the war.
A desolate critique of public exposure around the trial of Professor Charles Vawter for the murder of Stock ton Heid Jr. The author argues such lurid details reveal only human depths and urge separation of private lives from public sensationalism.
An evening party scene ends with the hostess accusing Mr. Jenkins of hiding his singing talent. She approaches him smiling and implies she now believes he can sing. The fragment suggests a light, social punchline about his claimed inability to sing.
A Dutch fortification was first built at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in 1614, marking the early defense and settlement presence in the New York area.
A local booster endorses C F Tomlinson in High Point North Carolina praising his business experience and promise of economical administration. He stresses the need for a capable manager to oversee about 500 000 in city spending over the next two years and says voters will elect the nonpolitician for the city’s benefit.
A reader from Rocky Mount North Carolina credits Foley Kidney Pills with significant health benefits after kidney strain from constant housework. The letter from Mrs A G Wells says overwork ages one and praises the product from Mann Drug Co.
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