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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1918
Page
3
A scene from Part Two of A Story in Two Parts shows Landry pressed by Sybil about joining a base hospital in France. Hedler proposes the surgical lead. Landry weighs leaving family, wealth, and Ruth Hopkins, while Sybil urges caution and frames Randolph as a concern.
Landry tells Sybil they must separate over incompatible lives and his work. He refuses to claim Randolph and leaves the parenting to Sybil while hoping for occasional visits with Randolph. He warns the separation will be hard at first but life may improve in a different atmosphere.
Paris reports a German long distance shell hitting a dormitory hospital, killing two mothers and one baby and wounding many. The blast caused mass confusion as mothers could not identify their babies after the room was destroyed and tags detached.
Raleigh North Carolina May 16 district agent J M Gray reports county agents on the Agricultural Extension Service are actively selling war savings stamps and thrift stamps. W H Grags of Macon County suggests Franklin Agricultural club place a 2 thin stamp on each member assigned to the program to encourage thrift among children. Gray expects the effort to grow stronger as clubs statewide multiply.
Amsterdam April 15. Professor Haber head of Berlin's chemical research institute receives the Bunsen medal for a lecture on the relationship of the exact sciences to militaries. He argues for close science and military cooperation as long as wars endure and discusses the development of gas warfare and protective discipline.
New York May 16 The Prussian budget for 1418 is reported to show a deficit of several hundred million marks according to Minister of Finance Hertz speaking in the Prussian House of Deputies. He warned of costly railroad restoration and canal projects running into billions and rejected suggested tax rates of 50 percent as absurd while noting 20 to 25 percent as more realistic.
A salvage operation in a district hit by an air raid uncovered a debris box containing 700 sovereigns. An advertisement invites readers to mail five cents for a trial package of Foley medicines from Mann Drug Co.
W. R. Bolden of Greensboro reports a dramatic recovery after four bottles of the herb medicine Dreco. He says urine settlement and odor disappeared, fever and nighttime trips ceased, and back pain lessened, enabling him to plan government service work. Dreco is promoted as a cure for kidney disease and other ailments.
The Hague reports about 100000 Belgian refugees and a mix of 2559 military prisoners among Dutch internments. Premier van Linden says internees and refugees share Dutch rations and rejects expulsion measures or forced aid demands on Belgians or Germans.
A South Norwalk Conn advertisement touts Cream of Mustard as a powerful external remedy surpassing mustard plasters and liniments. It claims quick relief for congestion pain sore throat and rheumatic aches and urges households to keep a jar, with 25c 60c and hospital size 2.50 options.
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