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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1917
Page
2
The High Point Merchants Association will hold a special meeting at 7.45 pm at the Peoples House Furnishing Company on South Main Street. President Gilbert W. Cla issued the call, and the session will cover important business and a get-together for all members.
Frederickton opens as lieutenant Governor presides with a large military staff. Prohibition act enforcement and war related financial and military issues are expected to fill most of the session. Quintin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's youngest son, has joined the signal officers reserve corps.
Melbourne reports German plans to seize Australia as part of a wider drive for Persian Gulf control and Suez route dominance. An intercepted 1914 report by Rev Joseph Bis choff, a German missionary in Broome, details Northwestern Australia, its towns and maps, suggesting German espionage aims. The defense department notes the questions sought photographs and maps to aid a potential German settlement. The Bischoff report was released by Australian authorities.
Mexico City reports the department of commerce and industry has ordered a halt to all negotiations on denunciation of mining lands held by foreigners who have not renounced treaty rights. The suspension lasts until the organic law regulating mineral and oil lands is approved by Congress under the new constitution.
Dr Lydai M De Witt of the University of Chicago reported at a tuberculosis meeting that salts of gold failed to cure tuberculosis in guinea pigs and caused earlier deaths in treated subjects. She urged caution before human trials pending safer methods. Dr Alfred F Hess urged protective care for infants of tuberculous mothers and recommended early removal from infection sources and expansion of care facilities.
In a May 10 notice, egg shippers in Kansas Nebraska Oklahoma and the Panhandle Texas were summoned to appear before the U S Bureau of Chemistry to show cause why they are not guilty of violating the Food and Drugs Act by shipping adulterated eggs in interstate commerce. The action follows 1916 investigations in Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo and Trinidad Colorado.
New York May 10 An drew D Meloy testified in the trial of Capt Franz Rintelen and seven others accused of conspiring to foment strikes in munitions factories in 1915. Meloy said he told Rintelen his plans were folly and would fail after meeting him in June 1915.
The transverse testing machine in Dodge Brothers Works Detroit measures strength of cast iron bars from each heat. It records resistance with a fine needle and also checks hardness, chill depth and shrinkage before chemical analysis. This quality control is part of the many tests in making Dodge Brothers motor cars.
Franklin K Lane Jr son of the interior secretary is listed as a student at the United States Army Aviation School in Newport News presenting a notable government family connection from the period.
Worcester May 10 The Eastern baseball league formed last year from the Eastern and New England leagues begins its title chase. After a reorganization the circuit is reduced from ten to eight clubs with opening games set for Portland at Lawrence Hartford at New London Bridgeport at New Haven and Springfield at Worcester.
Music lovers from out of town attended the Norfolk festival opening in Norfolk Virginia on May 10. The program spans three days with concerts by a symphony orchestra the large festival chorus and soloists Julia Culp Frances Alda and Giovanni Martinelli.
Knudt Lee of Wannaska Minnesota reports his daughter suffered a lasting chronic cough. After using Foley's Honey and Tar relief came in a few days and the cough disappeared permanently. The remedy contains no opiates and is recommended for children. Mann Drug Co. is mentioned as a distributer.
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