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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1922
Page
4
A bond issue of 250000 to fund immediate expansion of the city school system and extension of city limits. Plans include a municipal building and auditorium, a library, parks and playgrounds, a new passenger station, city planning, more homes, paved streets, sewer and water extensions, hard surfaced roads, and an improved garbage disposal system for a 20000 population after expansion.
Feature on resilience of Mrs Emma Bunnell of Hammond who, bedridden with a broken spine for 29 years, built a million dollar business through grit and planning. Emphasizes perseverance, education, and not quitting despite chronic pain and disability. Includes miscellany lines and jokes.
A North Carolina editorial notes High Point lags in school funding compared with 13 cities, citing Asheville Raleigh and Gastonia. It urges a June 6 bond election to raise 250000 to modernize schools and align with state peers, urging registration and voting.
The piece urges the governor to create public markets in major towns as part of a Live-at-Home program. It cites Greensborough's $350,000 market project and Lexington Kentucky's market as models with refrigeration, built in scales, and amenities. It notes North Carolina's highway expansion and federal funds for new projects.
The text presents a playful saying about rings and shining, with no concrete events people places or organizations to anchor a news summary. No persons or groups are named, and no dates or locations are available for a factual card.
This article explains catarrh as a general term from early medical practice and describes its various forms including head throat stomach and bowels. It notes causes such as dust smoke alcohol and constipation and suggests remedies like fresh air climate changes diet and supervised treatments.
In Evanston Justice Williams fined three golfers $2 each for playing on Sunday. The incident arose after a greenhouse owner accused them of breaking windows and trampling flowers while searching for lost golf balls near his property in Chicago.
London May 9 appointed R K E Harwood as deputy treasurer to the king to implement measures reducing royal household costs by 10 000 pounds a year.
Mrs. John Sloan dazzles at a fancy dress ball with a hand painted costume while Ida Ben fey Judd advances the Bible on vaudeville stages for a Blind Babies benefit. Susan Glaspell’s Chains of Dew explores poetic ambition and family revolt as whippet racing gains appeal at Belmont Park with Canadian entrants.
A modern business surge is visible in Babyviow Long Island and in New York City with a proposed thirty story bachelor apartment hotel on Lexington Avenue and Forty eighth Street featuring luxury amenities. Zara Desare Josephson sues Lillian Krause Allen for 5000 claiming she was hired to help start an operatic career then steered to marriage by a Philadelphia merchant named George Allen.
A sixteen year old named Lewis Francesca was charged with truancy after 22 days absent from school. He was found to be married and supporting a wife, and the magistrate dismissed the charge, noting one cannot attend to too many things.
De R. G. Cabell Jr., aged 74, longtime superintendent of the Richmond City Home and father of James Branch Cabell, died at his home in Richmond. A Virginia military cadet at New Market, he graduated from the academy and the Medical College of Virginia.
Louis Ignatius Masones, a Peruvian painter, was led from the court by carbineers as illness weakened him. After weeks on trial for the murder of his wife Bice, the judge ordered he remain in jail, with the proceedings continuing in his absence.
Rockwell State High School ends a strong season with events through May 13 including debates recitations and declamations, a school play, graduating exercises and a literary address by Stahle Linn of Salisbury.
The Salisbury Greenhouses, run by J. W. and John W. Hanford, started sixteen years ago with a small outfit and have grown large. They are now erecting six new greenhouses, each measuring 28 by 142 feet.
Lucinda Cruce, New York society matron, and her husband Belamy drift apart as he pursues Amelie Severn and Lucinda hints at taking a lover if bored. Richard Daubeney’s return stirs old feelings, while a planned luncheon with Fanny Lontaine unfolds in a web of jealousy and manipulation.
High Point North Carolina city invites sealed proposals for construction plumbing heating electrical and cell equipment of a new municipal building. Bids due noon June 1 1922 with a certified check at least two percent of bid. Drawings from Harry Barton Greensboro. City reserves right to reject any bids. May 2 1922. Mayor M O Hedrick.
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