High Point Enterprise Staff Notes and masthead
The High Point Enterprise masthead lists editors and department contacts including City Editor Adv Mar and various staffers. It notes Associated Press rights and post office classification, with national advertising reps in New York Chicago and Bruns wick.
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National Advertising
Ferst, Landis and Kohn
Bruns- Wick
Fifth Ave
New York
Peppies Gas
Michigan Boulevard
Chicago
Enterprise's Platform for a Greater High Point
The platform lists a $250,000 bond for expanding the city school system and plans for extending city limits, building a municipal auditorium and library, developing parks playgrounds, a new passenger station, elevated tracks, a city planning system and more homes. It calls for paved streets, sewer water extension, hard surfaced roads and a projected population of 20,600 with expanded city limits.
Believe in the thing you want and fight for it
Poem by Berton Braley urges readers to relentlessly pursue their heart’s desires. It emphasizes belief in worth, energy to act, and tenacity to overcome doubt. The piece, dated 1922, echoes motivational verse urging persistent effort to achieve success.
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Berton Braley
Elise
NEA
Random Odds and Ends From a Turbulent Era
A string of quips and brief notices spans social mores politics and curiosities from mid century America. Topics include domestic authority jokes about married life attitudes toward liberal thought policing limits weather and travel quips about trains and calendars and hints of elections and public figures scattered through the year’s observations.
High Point Voters Urged To Register Before May 27
Tomorrow is the final day for High Point residents to register to vote in the June 6 school bond election. The notice urges all supporters of the school system to register to ensure the measure passes and warns that disqualification could cost the election.
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High Point
Friends of the Movement
National Memorial Day Observance Unified Across States
The nation marks May 30 as a national memorial day to honor fallen service members from the great war. The American Legion and other groups plan joint observances with local posts preparing fitting events next Sunday. Citizens are urged to support ex service men and uphold the day’s spirit.
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American Legion
Legion
Ruth Heated by Fans After Dust Throw Incident
The article condemns Babe Ruth for throwing dust at an umpire during a New York game and argues that fame and wealth must not grant privileges. It urges Ruth to maintain sportsmanship to keep public support and his lucrative position in baseball.
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Babe Ruth
New York
Ruth
Rud
Lower Freight Rates Boost High Point Economy
High Point greets interstate commerce commission action lowering freight rates effective July 1 with optimism. The change could save local shippers about 200000 dollars annually and revive manufacturing by lowering shipping costs and increasing traffic volumes.
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High Point
South
Interstate Commerce Commission
World belongs to youth in crime tale from Hoboken
New York dispatch reports Cornelius Fitzpatrick of Hoboken declares youth control over life and law. His 18 year old daughter Margaret resisted parental wrath by reacting to a suitor with a telephone call the moment her father interrupted.
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New York
Cornelius Fitzpatrick
Hoboken
Margaret
Cornelius Arrested for Unwarranted Disturbance of Peace
Police arrested Cornelius for disturbing the peace unjustifiably and jailed him. Margaret returned to the parlor and spoke calmly with her young man.
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Cornelius
Margaret
Henry Street seeks end to boys' gangs in New York
The Henry Street settlement leads a broad campaign to curb the 1932 crime wave in New York. Miss Lillian Wald notes youth gangs are formed by schoolboys who idolize gunmen and bandits, reflecting the era's urban unrest.
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New York
Henry Street
Lillian Wald
Families Back Students Pursuing Art in New York Center
A discussion at the Institute of Musical Art reveals families relocate to New York to support talented youths. Students and parents treat artistic study as a serious lifelong commitment, with three to four years of devoted effort and shared household sacrifice.
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The
Institute of Musical Art
New York
Europe
First World War gun fired in city parade drill
A battery from the First division assembled as the centerpiece of a mounted artillery parade through city streets. The unit that fired the first shot led the march and helped launch the enrollment drive for the Plattsburg Citizens Military Training Camp.
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Ivisional Sixth Field Artillery
Plattsburg
Editorial Viewpoint on a Press Purchasable Liberty
A Greensboro Record reader argues the press is purchasable and liberty is lost to politics and monopoly. The letter asserts newspapers shape public opinion and asks why the author can only air views via the press. He proposes liberty lovers buy presses to ensure a fair hearing and laments the notion of a venal paper.
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Greensboro Record
Raleigh Times
Deputies Cited as High Point Tax Office Seeks Change
J A Gray is named to succeed Mr Wagner as deputy sheriff in High Point where officials push establishing a tax collector post and an all day office with direct access to Greensboro. County leaders urge practical steps to ease taxpayers, with executives set to decide next Friday after executive session.
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J. A. Gray
MR. Wagner
J. Elwood Cox
High Point
Greensboro
W. C. Jones
Board of Commissioners
J. J. Farriss
Donnell
McLendon Bares Past in Sermon at Kannapolis
Rev. Baxter McLendon spoke to about seven to eight thousand in Kannapolis, recounting his early life of sin and temptation and his path to preaching. He previewed a future sermon on Sin and What it is Doing for the World and teased a critique of evolutionists.
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Kannapolis
Kannapo
Baxter F.mcllendon
McLendon
Call for Clear Handling of Daugherty Charges
The piece argues President Harding should promptly resolve the Daugherty matter. It states the Arkansas senator’s charges go beyond politics and strike at honesty and integrity. A thorough inquiry is needed to clear the atmosphere, with swift action if proven.
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Daugherty
United States
Harding
Caraway
Arkansas
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