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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1921
Page
7
In Constantinople Zora a claimed 147 year old strong man says hard work cold baths and a special diet sustain him. He weighs 200 pounds at five feet ten, has worked since youth including eighty years at the Turkish Arsenal and now rests in a Kurd khan while seeking labor.
London managers report a growing tennis boom for the season opening May 1. Stores show surging orders for jackets racquets and balls as clubs expand and seek space to house new members across London and suburbs.
Honolulu April 14. President Harding accepts the honorary presidency of the Pan Pacific Union, succeeding former President Wilson. Alexander Hume Ford, secretary director of the union in Honolulu, reports the president’s letter praising Pacific problem focus and closer cooperation among Pacific border nations.
Wesley Syco, 47, who raised 11 children at home near Sistersville West Virginia, ventured beyond his area for the first time to ride a train and street car and to attend his first circus, marking a notable life milestone after years of local duty.
Washington May 16 Miss Elizabeth Bertha Smith urges daily swimming as the path to health happiness and mental vigor. She details her diving and swimming feats including high and fancy diving and distances like 40 60 110 and 226 yards and notes titles in DC and in the Delaware Chesapeake division. She links athletics to fun personal pride and wholesome focus.
The article reports Charles W. Mead of the American Museum of Natural History arguing that jazz and the shimmy date back to ancient Peru. He cites Peruvian pottery with dance figures and lists ancient instruments and the Huancas drum made from enemies’ skins. It notes Peru’s long dance history contradicting northern legends. The piece closes by noting extensive French war literature.
Rome hosts a flood of American tourists who find Rome full and pricey hotel capacity scarce. Travelers face advance bookings, high room rates, and scalpers offering private stays, with tales of $10 nightly rooms and doubles the prewar prices.
Cheshire county farm bureau sent 500 pairs of old fashioned wool blankets to the White House as a gift to President Harding. Senator Fred O Smalley notes the 1920 wool crop was nearly all converted to blankets earning about 49 cents a pound for raw wool. Harding replies expressing gratification and thanks for the kind gesture.
Sacramento May 16 reports experiments will test California highways to improve roads for motorists. A B Fletcher chief engineer explains efforts target colloids in subsoil to reduce expansion and contraction of sub-grade and cracks in the surface by neutralizing soil properties.
Danville Virginia May 16 enormous over production by tobacco farmers in the bright belt is stressed in the annual report on local market conditions by W Crews Wooding president of the Danville growers association. Greenville South Carolina May 16 bail application for Walter Bowers 40 and son Carl 21 held by a coroner jury for the killing of Andy Wells 38 former of Travelers Rest will be made before Judge T J Mauldin Monday counsel for the defendants announced today.
In a final plea the tobacco association urges growers to reduce acreage this year. The speaker notes the normal bright tobacco crop is about 350 million pounds, while 1920 reached 675 million pounds creating a surplus of 326 million. Without a material cut, the next season could be disastrous.
In Tokio on May 14 Japanese women protest the House of Peers rejection of a bill to let Nippon women attend political meetings and form associations. Baron Fujimura denounced the measure citing biology and social welfare concerns and fears for the family system. The Society of New Women vows continued agitation.
Hawaii seeks to expand chaulmoogra tree cultivation to boost oil supply used as a leprosy treatment. About one thousand seedlings already thrive on Oahu with seeds from Burma to be planted. Dr A L Dean leads the effort as demand rises worldwide.
Chicago gains the moniker The city with the ornamental front door after the completion of the ornamental white office building spanning the new Michigan boulevard Link bridge.
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