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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1916
Page
2
U.S. Commissioner WG Brown of High Point recounts giving Tanlac to his nervous, nail biting daughter Helen after hospital attempts failed. He says five bottles cured her, allowing her to return to school and normal activity. He joins many locals calling Tanlac effective for stomach, liver, kidney and nervous ailments.
Berlin reports a shift as leather shoe scarcity drives German schoolchildren to wooden footwear. Authorities in Berlin and Lichterfelde offer premiums for four weeks of wooden shoes, while families of soldiers acquire low cost pairs. The Pantine history is noted and a new paper shortage decree urges maximizing space in textbooks to cut waste.
A Guilford County effort to erect a tuberculosis hospital gains momentum with Cesar Cone of Greensboro offering 10 600 toward a 50 000 fund and Kings Daughters pledging real estate valued at 4 500 Additional donations bring the total to 15 750. Cone urges local officials to seek enabling legislation to authorize building equipment and maintenance of a sanitarium with at least 100 acres and capacity for 30 patients.
Statesville May 6 late Wednesday night Charles Sigmon of Conover was brought to the hospital in a precarious condition after slashing his wrists and throat with a razor during a violent episode. He then stabbed himself nine times with a pocket knife above the heart the knife penetrating a lung. Sigmon aged 56 is married with three children and had recently been released from a hospital for the insane in Morganton.
The grand jury told Judge Cline in the Superior court that the Andrews convict camp should be investigated due to reported cruel treatment, while endorsing a reform school for youthful Negro criminals to prevent hardened crime. It urged proper institutions to help youth become productive.
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