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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1916
Page
4
Incomplete OCR fragment shows editor and business manager names W N Keener and J P Rawley with partial line of publication boilerplate. Lacks article content and context to determine a news item or event.
The piece marks the official straw hat day and jokes about its fashion quirks and wind disasters. It notes Wake Forest versus A and M athletic results speculation, election hopes for Dr W L Poteat, and a quip on Roosevelt in a Greensboro speech. A light closing line mentions gardeners relishing light rain.
A national poster contest offers a thousand dollars to any artist in the United States who submits a design simplifying America's electrical preparedness for war. The winning emblem earns 1000, with runner up prizes up to 1500. Submissions due by June 1 to the Society of Electrical Development in New York.
Six High Point veterans traveled by special train to Birmingham for the Confederate reunion opening Tuesday. The group, chosen at a Saturday meeting, included Commander Tom Wood and multiple color guards. Fare was 10.50 with half subsidized by county commissioners. other supporters also joined the trip amid a boyish excitement.
An early commentary notes the word probability appearing in place of possibility in reference to Charles Evans Hughes as a Republican presidential candidate. The piece discusses implications for party prospects and public perception.
The cotton market opened up today in New York with July at 13.08, October 18.19, December 13.33 as cables stayed firm. Prices soon eased five to six points from the best while May, July, October, December and January futures stood steady after initial gains.
New York May 15 over the weekend developments gave further strength to the stock list with substantial yet variable gains at the opening. Two new maximums appeared as Reading rose to 9144 and Willis Overland climbed to 272. Studebaker advanced to 144 with others like Maxwell, shipping shares, Westinghouse, New York Air Brake and United States Rubber gaining. Canadian Pacific and New Haven rails remained steady.
Chicago May 15 Wheat fluctuated amid mixed signals from good southwest rains and a Kansas pest infestation report. Opening quotes showed declines and advances, with July at 1 17 at 1 1754 and September around 1 17 1 2, followed by a general rise and then a notable setback.
Chicago boy millionaires John Borden Norris H Bokum Charles K Knickerbocker and Rochester B Slaughter depart on a whaling and big game hunt in the Bering Sea and Asiatic Siberia aboard The Big Bear schooner fully equipped for hunting and whaling.
Des Moines reports seven million black bass that lounged near the surface all spring vanished to deep water when the fishing season opened. Anglers made their first strikes as the lid was lifted, and the bass reacted by diving to the mossy depths.
The mortgagee will sell at public auction on May 18, 1916 at 2 30 PM on the premises in High Point township Guilford County adjoining J Williams to satisfy that mortgage deed dated March 18 1915 and recorded in Guilford County Book 271 Page 528 The lot contains about one acre described by bounds along the High Point Jamestown road McAdam road and adjacent posts The sale is conducted by J Parkins as Executor of the estate of D W Nichols
J E Erwin of Winston Salem North Carolina, long troubled by stomach disorders, credits Mayrs Wonderful Remedy with saving his life after trying various treatments. He reports lasting relief and endorses the product with a promise of a money back guarantee if not satisfied. Hart Drug Co. ad.
In Cooperstown on May 15 a expedition led by Professor Warren W. Moorhead of Phillips Andover academy left to study Mohican history along Lake Oswego shores and the Susquehanna basin. Alanson Skinner of New York and the George Hay Museum joins, planning skiff travel and river exploration to uncover new Indian lore and historical facts.
In St Paul on May 15 the Boy Scouts begin Kindness to Animals week. They will crush old tin cans to prevent cats from getting their heads stuck inside. The National Humane Society of Albany sponsors the idea and directs scouts to patrol back yards and alleys and crush cans they locate.
London reports via Copenhagen dispatch that another Zeppelin has been destroyed off the west coast of Norway. Three British destroyers pursued the airship after its destruction.
Voters are urged to cast their white Hart Drug Company voting certificates today as these certificates expire at end of the day and will not be counted afterward. The replacement colored certificates will be issued in their place.
Voters must register to vote in the June primary for Guilford County. Registration opens April 27 and closes May 20. Registrars operate Saturdays 9 a.m. to sunset at listed precinct locations and homes. additional times by appointment.
One street sprinkler road machine four wheel scrapers and a concrete mixer listed. Two steam drills a hammer drill a 10 hp oil engine a steam boiler and engine. One No 92 Acme crusher screen and elevator. Five vacant Burton place lots one Thurston street lot and a house with corner Lindsay and Thurston streets outlined.
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