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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1915
Page
4
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge argues the United States must demand reparations for the Lusitania disaster. He says American citizens abroad or aboard belligerent ships deserve protection, and condemns the killing of non combatants as unprovoked warfare. He adds a call to safeguard Americans in Mexico and urge respect for human lives.
A Chicago couple, Mr and Mrs Hyman Drain, after 20 years of marriage, sign an agreement April 15 1915 to keep apart due to drinking and temper. The document, filed with a police judge, lets them go after disorderly conduct charges. The item links marital abuse to a legal parchment and notes broader social commentary.
Today in New York cotton opened fairly steady amid an initial decline of one to six points. Active months showed gains from 12 to 16 points before selling pressure eased, with July at 9.71, October 10.44, December 10.22, and January 10.20 as early quotes.
Normal conditions prevailed at the market open in New York with the under stone steady and narrow price changes. War specials Bethlehem Steel Westinghouse and related issues advanced one to nearly two points as trading remained light and evidently professional.
Danbury reports increased drinking after the new law. The Danbury Reporter notes ribald revelry among white and Black men, with nightly gatherings and Sunday departures. Smuggling and regular contraband imports are occurring locally.
The Danbury Reporter notes freight costs drop to ten cents per 100 pounds with new roads, down from 20 to 25 cents, and two horses now haul 3,000 pounds where half that was once considered a full load, benefiting consumers.
The Mt. Airy Times Leader says Alleghany County’s 1994 per capita wealth appears strong due to census data. It argues tax assessor figures would yield different results and cautions readers not to overstate prosperity.
Clinton News-Dispatch reports Editor Saunders of the Elizabeth City Independent deriding Gov. Craig for naming Gibbs, a brother in law of Senator Simmons, as Irish commissioner. Saunders calls Gibbs an inconsequential lawyer of Oriental and a loafer, citing political nepotism and bungling.
The Ashboro Courier notes that Governor Jarvis is critically ill at his Greenville home, worrying friends about his recovery. It recalls his key role in Reconstruction and links to the state’s postwar debt settlement, urging preservation of his long public service for future understanding.
The article reports on a committee presenting diary extracts from German dead and officers, confirming by hundreds of depositions that initial doubts faded as consistent testimonies accumulated, establishing the broad facts as true and the evidence as cumulative.
In Mexico City on May 12 the peso’s value fell to 11 cents gold, down from 50, triggering higher prices and public unrest. An incendiary speech blamed Wall Street and European financiers for the money’s decline, while a convention president urged adherence to supply and demand laws.
The High Point Normal and Industrial Institute announces its twenty first annual commencement in High Point North Carolina for May 14 to May 20 1915. Programs include concerts sermons inspections readings lectures and alumni reunion with addresses by Dr George Clement Rev William Burton and Rev Lewis W McFarland. Principal Alfred J Griffin invites all to attend.
Vienna May 12 scissors are in high demand as bread tickets require cutting coupons. Waiters must have scissors and at least ten thousand pairs were bought for them. Bakers also need them amid disputes over coupon detachment. private citizens carry their own scissors.
The United States demands explanations from Germany on its past and future conduct toward neutrals and asserts that warning notices do not render unlawful acts lawful. The note, reviewed by the State Department, will be cabled to Berlin and made public only when delivered there.
From Rome to the front, Italian leaders split as to joining the war. A prominent statesman favors remaining neutral while honoring treaties with the central empires. He argues Austria must cede Italian‑inhabited territories, especially Trieste, to justify action.
H. A. Moffitt and his High Point cabbage are ready for market as early as Monday showing potential for local trucking to move produce quickly.
The Venus of Milo is used as a playful comparison as a New York Sun columnist notes a wife using a market basket tale to describe household shopping by phone. The piece blends whimsy with domestic life observations.
Nashville Banner notes Governor Whitman of New York has fallen in public esteem and is now described as a vice presidential impossibility signaling a weakened political standing.
Houston West recalls a time when child labor laws did not protect boys from cutting cord wood or whitewashing 95 panels of fence on Saturdays. The piece notes simple pleasures despite hard work and rough conditions on days with good fishing.
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In Toronto The School notes that the Normal school band will wear a cap and coat initially with trousers possibly added later. Swedish women are drilling for war if needed.
A Harrisburg Patriot item notes that a polite man rarely speaks beyond saying thank you while a longer talk requires rudeness. The piece observes that dark eyes are more common in women than in men.
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