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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1916
Page
4
The readable fragment lists W. N. KFENER as editor and J. RAWLEY as business manager with note indicating one week of publication.
The piece argues Senate delay on Louis Brandeis Supreme Court nomination is political maneuvering. It cites ideological clashes, corporate wealth fears, and partisan pressures, noting support from New York World and opposition from Leslie's Weekly. It laments campaign-year politics hurting judicial progress.
Paris May 11 reports about 600 Americans in the foreign legion amid a rising interest in joining the flying corps. The first marching regiment blends nobles with Swedes Italians and cowboys from the wild west as diverse volunteers from 25,400 total legionnaires are listed from many nations including Britons Luxembourgers Spaniards Greeks Belgians and Russians.
Paris May: though academy elections are adjourned until after the war, candidates discussed include Jules Camlon former ambassador to Washington and Berlin, Joseph Reinach, Arthur Choquet, Charles Chenu, Leon Bourgeois, Emile Picard, Edmond Perrier, Henri Robert, Pierre Mille and Rene Vallory Radet. The idea of admitting another general is also mentioned.
Berlin May 11. Lt von der Linde and four men with Sergeant Utecht of the Thirty-ninth Infantry trap a French captain in a Verdun area bomb proof and force his company to surrender. Utecht holds captives and loads the whole unit back to the battalion. He earns the Iron Cross first class.
Madison Wisconsin resident M D Reynolds calls a product a good investment claiming it relieved his rheumatism after using three boxes, suggesting personal benefit from the remedy.
Advertises rheumatism powders and replacement for crutches with claims of affordability. Sold exclusively by J A Hart Drug Co at 50 cents or 1 dollar.
The cotton market opened firm with a 7 to 12 point advance but soon showed fluctuating activity. July contracts traded between 18.01 and 12.99, October moved from 13.20 to 13.29, against last night’s Paes 12.15 close. Futures listed: July 12.01, October 13.25, December 13.44, January 15.49.
New York stocks recovered from mood lows at the opening with moderate trading. Sipping shares led gains with United Fruit and Mercantile Marine preferred up about a point or more. Mexican Petroleum American Sugar and Woolworth rose while Wellis Overland spurts continued. United States Steel strengthened among leading issues. Union Pacific and Reading rose. Rhode Island eased after a setback.
Chicago May 11 reports expectant showers in Kansas causing a price setback for wheat. July futures opened down and then rallied briefly before sinking below early levels as market activity cooled.
Mortgagee Josephine M Barber will sell at public auction on Saturday June 17 1916 at 2 PM on the premises in High Point Township for cash the lot No 20 Block Bs measuring 150 by 150 feet as shown on the Burns subdivision plat recorded in Guilford County This sale follows default on a mortgage from J H Paschal and Della Paschal to Josephine M Barber recorded November 9 1907 in Book 264 Page 116.
State of Ohio Toledo Lucas County affidavit swears F J Cheney senior partner of F J Cheney Co will pay one hundred dollars for each catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason signed December 6, 1886. Cure claimed to act through the blood. ads note testimonials and 75 cent price. mentions Hall, Family Pills for constipation.
London reports the life of Harold Ellis an 18 year old Australian trooper who travels from the Dardanelles to England for treatment and discovers British kin. His family history traces to a London musician grandfather and a voyage father lost at sea years earlier. Ellis now stays with his uncle John C. Ellis in Eastbourne while pursuing a connection to England.
A fire alarm from Box 49 reported a small fire in Nelson Greer’s barn at the corner of Park and Mallory streets. Firemen arrived quickly and extinguished the flames with insignificant damage noted.
A brief excerpt notes Burns on seeking the Lord aright, reflecting literary religious contemplation.
O. E. Kearns serves as president with J. H. Adams and A. M. Rankin as vice presidents. H. A.Millis is cashier and G. A. Pollock, Jr. is assistant cashier in the bank’s leadership lineup.
A Guilford County physician announces for coroner subject to the Democratic primary. He has practiced medicine there 23 years and lived in Greensboro 13 years. He has consistently voted the straight Democratic ticket for 30 years regardless of location.
A dramatic health fad touts drinking hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to “flush” the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. Proponents claim it prevents toxins from entering the blood and curing daily ailments while warning against internal impurities and chronic illness.
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