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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1921
Page
5
Seth Tanner regards a big thing as trifling while Wenford McGee takes boxing lessons and plans to teach country school next winter. The note sketches small town ambitions and practical hopes in a casual locals' column.
The text questions the idea of housewives striking for shorter hours and critiques prioritizing biological judgments. It also reflects on declining royal power and urges women to conceal sun faded rug spots, signaling social anxieties about gender roles.
As cinema grows, a city boy without a home struggles to find a stable life and misses the true joys of living amid the film boom.
Fans and critics note that the celebrated Mr. Roman’s latest routine falls flat for both rival pitchers and crowds. The act draws skepticism from opponents who expected sharper jokes and brighter punchlines.
The forecasted unsettled weather threatens a Rotary versus Kiwanis charity baseball game with organizers bracing for postponement while hoping for clear skies to entertain fans and raise funds.
The report suggests ongoing negotiations over installment payments from Germany with the potential for repeated bargaining as each due date approaches. The phrasing indicates a tense, iterative negotiation cycle without final agreement.
Congress enacted the selective service act on May 18, 1917, establishing a national draft to raise U S forces. The measure authorized military conscription and set the framework for manpower mobilization during World War I.
The chautauqua proceeds smoothly as attendees note strong attendance and performances, even though no one has yet recited Gunga Din. Organizers report good reception of other acts and keener interest in upcoming program dates.
One reason for the current freight car shortage's absence is the lack of sugar profiteers using box cars as warehouses. The note points to a market dynamic where sugar traders previously tied up rolling stock, now absent.
A note mentions Mr. Stillman sailing for Europe aboard his yacht Modesty. A satirical tip to Charles Chaplin suggests buying a new yacht named Tragedy and christening it accordingly.
Rumor has it that boxing legends Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier played a round of golf together prompting chatter among fans. The note echoes past showdowns between the two famed rivals and adds a curious postring to their storied careers.
A brief sports note describes the Pointers gaining morale after defeating the Raleighites. The report mentions player Bill and calls the win a healthy wallop to lift team spirit.
The user recalls a bygone era when cinema houses used sidewalk phonograph horns to advertise films like Bedelia and The Shade of the Old Apple Tree, capturing a vivid memory of early 20th century moviegoing ambiance.
A professor comments that time is not the same across distant parts of the universe. The remark hints at the daily shifts of daylight saving and the awkward timing of train arrivals.
William Colfax Arvyant Barlow Bee Beauregard Johnson and Robert Ed ward Lee Humphreys are plaintiffs in a court action centered in Greenville D C The passage suggests a trial outcome depends on a single name carrying the case to a verdict.
An article notes how luck and science unexpectedly cooperate in manufacturing. It describes an automatic nailer for soap boxes that relies on chance to align nails, and a bead threading method where beads race onto a needle due to a spinning wheel, producing rapid assembly without deliberate practice.
A new two reel motion picture by the U S Department of Agriculture with Alabama Polytechnic Institute and Tuskegee Institute portrays Rube Collins a typical negro farmer learning extension methods to combat boll weevil damage. It covers yellowing crops, the rise of negro extension workers and a movable school delivering on farm and home instruction with a family scene ending to Suwannee River.
In Indianapolis on May 10 a Chicago led plan aims to plant 6 000 to 7 000 maple trees along the Lincoln highway in northern Indiana to honor every U S soldier sailor and marine with markers for each service member and special markers for the dead backed by the American Legion and civic groups with President Harding approving and the forestry bureau offering aid.
The attorney general ruled the government will not send lists of men who evaded service. The War Department will forward draft deserter lists to state American Legion departments which will pass them to posts to screen before newspaper publication to prevent unjust branding of women as deserters or evaders.
The American Legion and its Women's Auxiliary units will join with the U S Public Health Service to observe May 12 as National Hospital Day. Hospitals will hold open houses, entertainment, convalescent visits to theaters and ball parks, public inspections, and similar events to boost public interest and aid disabled veterans.
A fragment notes a man named Bartlett who sailed the seven seas and is tied to De. William B. Barton in a Martens Cheldren scene, implying an old maritime context and a long voyage.
A long narrative sketch describes Bartlett a trader in Alaska who marries an Eskimo woman and raises four children who speak their mother tongue. He learns little Eskimo, communicates in few syllables, and grows attached to the children he cannot teach. A geologist later notes Bartlett’s loneliness as the children mature, realizing they cannot share his language. The piece ends with a local note on Miss Mary Sherwood’s formal adoption by Henry C. Webb after decades in their home.
In New York May 10 The piece notes Louis McCarthy a steeple jack training his 15 month old son for the family trade while praising the craft. It also highlights Columbia University registration by mail due to record summer demand and mentions a Life-Saving suit at beaches and wireless troop drill at Van Courtland Park.
Washington, May 10. Administration pressure to intervene in wage readjustment will fail says a cabinet member. The issue must be settled by capital and labor themselves without government influence. A anti administration GOP group forms in the Senate as senators argue the White House tries to dictate Senate actions and speech.
Government railway experts say the New York New Haven and Hartford line will indicate overall railroad endurance. If the New Haven can survive three months, railroads generally will recover. failure could trigger widespread receiverships and shake the entire railway structure.
Afternoon visitors may sip tea while hosted at the White House but Mrs Harding herself drinks coffee. The first lady loathes tea and favors coffee instead, noting a distinct preference for Java over the afternoon brew.
Tariff revisionists struggle as wartime shifts erase old benchmarks. The text warns that too high tariffs choke imports and creditors’ payments, while low or no tariffs may flood the market with cheap foreign goods and close domestic factories.
President Harding states belief in economy in national expenditures in a short quotation. The remark underscores fiscal restraint as a priority for the administration.
A quote attributed to Lord Northcliffe asks if the United States and American sympathizers fully understood Ireland as generous terms were proposed. The note suggests Ireland urging agreement and reveals cross Atlantic interest in Ireland’s choices.
A compact quotation from W P G Harding former governor of the Federal Reserve Board. The line emphasizes that prosperity depends on production and ongoing purchasing.
A. J. Volstead, key proponent of prohibition, is cited arguing there is no real necessity for beer as medicine, reflecting his stance on alcohol regulation during the movement.
The issue between Great Britain and Ireland will never be settled until it is settled on the basis of right. Eamonn de Valera, Irish president.
Samuel M. Vauchain, president of Baldwin Locomotive Works, says there are many benefits to being out of work as it teaches the value of a dollar.
Mrs Wilorentine Kurpiewka of Brooklyn had her forearm bones replaced with two shinbone segments after a year of failure to heal. Doctors at St Marys hospital Long Island City grafted shin sections into the forearm using kangaroo tendons. X rays showed the bones knit together perfectly yesterday.
May 9 report says twelve men armed with sawed off shotguns robbed a Detroit United railway collector, fleeing with about $20,000 in cash from an early afternoon hold up in Detroit.
In Halle Germany the Security Police report daily citizen surveillance amid communist clashes. An Associated Press correspondent was repeatedly detained and inspected to reveal movements, communications, and potential anti government intent. Refugee camps report typhus and influenza, with 1000+ deaths. 15000 more refugees expected to Greece as relief funds run dry.
Greek Red Cross head Queen Sophie leads cabinet to act for 20000 refugees from the Caucasus now in barracks near Saloniki. Funds of 1,000,000 drachmae and 125 physicians are dispatched with American help to care for orphans and the sick.
Archibald Barr of Glasgow University described a British invention enabling blind persons to read a newspaper by a telephone receiver that converts letters into musical notes. The system uses hearing rather than sight, though current costs are high, with hopes for wider availability for the visually impaired.
Paris authorities clamp down on stage attire as Justice Ministry orders end to lax dress and looseness of speech in theaters and music halls. Officials warn prosecutions for artists and directors if standards aren’t raised, while press supports the reform push.
Funeral services were held for Call Officer George S Burroughs of Greenville police who died from wounds suffered from William Thompson a negro who shot him. Six police officers served as pallbearers and the force acted as honorary pallbearers. Thompson was captured after a large posse. He may be tried at the May term of court. The storm started this morning.
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