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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1923
Page
3
Berlin women of gentle birth organize a relief fair to trade second hand finery for fuel and food as pensions falter and prices soar. Elderly vendors, many cripples, sit behind tables while hope fades for widows and daughters already stripped of every salable asset.
TALUAHASSDE May 10 The joint legislative committee probing alleged brutal treatment at Senator Knabb’s private lease camp recessed but met again to decide if more witnesses will be called. Surprise surfaced as the panel weighed halting the inquiry, urged to pursue the case as thoroughly as Martin Tabert’s. Jannat Amend New York May 11 The appellate division denied Geraldine Farrar permission to strike from divorce records amid references to Miss Farrar and co respondents including Stella Larrimore 18.
Asheboro society notes a Mrs Hal Phillips wedding reception and a village tea hosted by Mrs J W McGrimm drawing over 40 guests for 3:30 to 6 pm. The day featured receptions, a musical program, bridge and book club gatherings, a birthday party for Miss Elizabeth Ross, and a season finale meeting of the Friday afternoon club with plans for a new study course.
Paris reports reveal that Egyptian royal mummies were sent to the Louvre by Champollion and were buried in the Gardens of the Louvre in 1830 after failed museum display. The burial occurred amid July unrest following King Charles X’s ordinances, with a skull misidentified as a Bartholomew Massacre victim uncovered during the exhumation.
A health ad-style piece urges drinking plenty of water and taking Jad Salts to flush and stimulate kidneys. It claims the effervescent lithia drink cleans clogged kidneys, neutralizes system acids, and relieves bladder weakness. Recommend physician kidney exams twice yearly.
Mains of victims buried in the royal gardens were exhumed and placed beneath a new column at Place de la Bastille. The bones of dead Pharaohs were transferred with those of Parisians who had risen to defend rights, still lying beneath the monument in a busy Paris square.
Atlanta May 11 figures from the Southern railway safety department show 17,680,605 passengers carried in 1922 with zero passenger deaths from train accidents or railway negligence. The report notes total passenger traffic and safety outcomes across the system.
A Southern Safety Department statement notes average passenger distance at 62.17 miles with one passenger nearly circling the earth if summed. Four riders were killed by self-inflicted acts defying safety rules, including two from falls, one attempting to board a moving train, and another leaping from a coach window. A Detroit woman driver struck a building, possibly due to wrong side driving.
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