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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1917
Page
2
An editorial urges Americans to curb meat and fat waste, noting that saving even small scraps reduces enormous yearly losses. It cites the U S Department of Agriculture and state colleges for guidance on using scraps in soups stews and other dishes to avoid waste.
Newton May Provided by Catawba county food commission executive committee sets corn and sweet potatoes as the staple crops and urges farmers to increase acreage use more fertilizer and improve soil. A county mass meeting will be held next Saturday at 1 pm to plan steps for maximizing food and feed production.
A Paris dispatch from San Sebastian, Spain reports a clash between a submarine and Spanish and French trawlers. Two French vessels with small guns fought the submarine before being sunk, with two Spanish trawlers also sunk and several sailors missing.
Knudt Lee of Wannaska Minnesota says his daughter’s chronic cough vanished after using Foley’s Honey and Tar. The ad claims the remedy is safe and opiate free, suitable for children, and provided by Mann Drug Co.
New York May. Dr A P Firth of Newark told the New Jersey Osteopathy association in Newark that German atrocity claims stem from diet. He said science links meat to mental traits and noted Germans’ heavy pork sausage and beer consumption. He warned alcohol undermines moral fiber and fosters a bully mindset.
Newton May. Catawba county to undergo medical inspection of schools under the new health law. An annual $250 appropriation funds the work with 38 counties in district review. Towers examine children per instructions, send results to a designated physician who selects 12 percent for aid and instructs parents. Failure to follow rules penalties apply to teachers and parents. A jailer’s child narrowly escapes drowning in a street puddle when delivery boy Sam Yount rescues the child.
The celebrated winter palace in Petrograd is described as capable of housing six thousand people.
The season opens for multiple circuits including southern trapshooting in Roanoke and Kansas State events in Larned. Other meets span New York boxing, Hartford boxing, Albany track, Lexington race meeting, Alexandria and Norman track conferences, Wilmington kennel show, Atlantic City wrestling, and national interscholastic track meets across several states.
A morning blast in the chemical department of the federal dye and chemical plant at Kingsport Tennessee wrecked about a third of the facility. An editorial note adds that if all U S match users saved one match per day for a year the funds saved could fund several large military hospitals.
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