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Newspaper

High Point Enterprise

Location

High Point, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

May 18, 1917

Page

4

Newspaper Delivery Terms At Ten Seats Weekly

The Enterprise is delivered in the city by carrier at the subscription rate of 10 seats per week. Subscribers who fail to get their paper on time will confer favor by notifying the circulation department.

Random Observations From A 1910s Newspaper Column

A collage of witty asides references to politics and culture. Mentions von Bernstorff and Kitchin, civic life in July, and humorous quips about bicycles, cyclones, and Joffre. Satirical tone reflects light social commentary and current events.

Pay As We Go War Tax Plan Urged In 1916 Debates

An advocate argues the United States should finance wartime costs as they occur through a progressive income tax and excess profits levy. He cites 1913–1916 corporate gains from Armour, Bethlehem Steel, DuPont, and U S Steel to show surpluses funding the war. He warns bond issuance burdens the poor and favors universal sacrifice. He references German resolve and Bethmann Hollweg’s Reichstag remarks to illustrate parallels.

High Point Seeks Local Red Cross Society

The women of High Point plan to form a Red Cross society to support the army. They cite international Red Cross work behind lines and insist on supplying bands, clothing, and various items at no cost to the government.

High Point Red Cross Society Red Cross

Up with the Flag in France Poem by A

A patriotic verse urges American troops to advance in France with the flag. It emphasizes dawn oversea and calls for courage, unity, and duty for freedom and the world's defense. The poem frames the Allied cause as a continuation of fathers fighting for truth and right.

Marion Couthony Smith France

Three Homes Burned in Danville Fire on Main Street

A morning blaze on West Main Street Danville Va destroyed three handsome homes owned by prominent local businessmen James T Catlin W Dodson and Townes Wimbish. The fire believed started from a defective chimney spread rapidly before the department arrived causing about 40000 in damage with insurers covering about half. Captain Abram Wimbish was rescued from the flames along with a paralyzed elderly man who survived by being carried to safety.

Danville West Main Street James T. Catlin Dodson Abram Wimbish Robert Benton Albert Perkinson

Suspicious Character Held by Wilson Officers

A detained man in Wilson tells shifting stories about his origin and purpose in the area. He claimed ties to New York then Providence, later sailing from Providence to Norfolk aboard the schooner St. Joe Queen. Found with maps and a sailor’s clasp knife, he is identified as Norwegian, prompting a search with Norfolk customs for ship registration.

Substituting War Crops Shift Cotton Land in Laguna

Planters in the Laguna district near Terreon Mexico replace cotton with corn and wheat. Faced with expected high prices for staple foods, landowners plow cotton fields to grow food crops in this central Mexican cotton belt.

Terreon Mex Laguna Mexico

Venerable Couple Wed in Mecklenburg Marriage

J. F. Hipp aged 87 and Mrs. Margaret Berry aged 57, both of Mecklenburg County, were married in Charlotte yesterday. Hipp holds the pennant as the oldest man ever married in the county.

Charlotte J. F. Hipp Margaret Berry

Honduras Breaks Off Ties With Hohenzollern Empire

Honduras severs diplomatic relations with Germany following Guatemala's lead, signaling a shift amid rising tensions. The report also notes U.S. debate over war tax amendments with a near party line vote and unrelated local college and dramatic notes.

Honduras Hohenzollern Washington Germany Guatemala

Germany's chancellor asserts firm grip on war aims

Neutral observers note a growing desire for peace in Germany as von Bethmann-Hollweg addresses the Reichstag. His confident stance hinges on submarine warfare, with neutrals seeing only a continued resolve to press the struggle against Allied powers. The speech is watched for its implications for American policy.

Germany

Royal Navy air service photographer praised by Lady Sybil Grant

Lady Sybil Grant, daughter of Earl Rosebery, is noted as the official photographer for the Royal Naval Air Service. She commonly wears a cap in her father’s racing colors primrose and rose hoops during ascents.

Royal Naval Air Service Sybil Grant Lord Rosebery Sybil

Steeplejack Lucy Doody Repaints Jersey City Structures

Mrs Lucy Doody long known as a steeplejack undertakes painting and repair work on some of Jersey Citys tallest spires and chimneys following her husbands occupation.

Jersey City Lucy Doody

Foley Sample Pack Offer From Foley Co

A promotional insert invites readers to cut out a slip and mail it to Foley & Co. at 2835 Sheffield Ave Chicago Illinois with name and address to receive a trial package including Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets for coughs colds and croup

Foley & Co Sheffield Ave Chicago Ill Foley

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