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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1919
Page
4
A local column observes High Point street cars with faulty wheels and noisy octagonal spokes. It jokes the steel strike harms transport but mocks the jazzlike noise of wheels and laments the need for wheel replacement to restore quiet, civilized crossing conversations.
The Enterprise urges selecting a decisive manager for the Furniture Makers as High Point moves into the Piedmont league. It warns directors to grant full authority to a proven leader to avoid dissension and ensure a winning team. Public support and steady funding are essential.
High Point plans its third annual Red Cross roll call on Armistice Day November 11. The goal is 5 000 members in the city with half the funds staying locally to expand home service work and the rest sent to national headquarters. Each dollar is spent on Red Cross duty and not on salaries. Encourage every family member to join.
The nationwide raid on anarchists launched by government officials in New York yesterday is a move long overdue. Many radicals are described as fugitives and ungrateful for liberty, with deportations expected as a next step. The piece calls for docking seized ships for their cargoes of refuse and fumigation.
Racing continues the fall meet of the Maryland Jockey Club at Pimlico. The National Beagle Club of America holds its annual show at Aldie Virginia. The Junior National Cross Country Championship is at Van Cortlandt Park New York with Harvard Yale and a Dartmouth Pennsylvania Columbia cross country race at New Haven and New York respectively.
A compact note of notable dates including Henry E. Burnham born 1844 and Charles Francis Hall 1871. the first Montreal to Vancouver through train 1885. the 1901 Isthmian Canal Treaty. Theodore Roosevelt’s 1904 election. 1914 Vistula front. 1915 Bucharest neutrality report. 1916 Romania border gains. 1917 Kerensky flight and provisional government arrests.
The state of Montana marks thirty years today with nationwide events as the Czech University in Bruin prepares for inauguration with President Masaryk in attendance. Oklahoma holds a special election in the Fifth district to fill the Thompson vacancy. A U S district court in Indianapolis holds a hearing on government injunctions against United Mine Workers strike activity. Sir Edward Cooper to be sworn Lord Mayor of London today with a parade to follow Monday. Delegates from allied and neutral nations arrive in Pittsburgh for the World Christian Citizen congress under the National Reform association.
Gen Clarence of Williams born in Nacooches Valley Ga fifty years ago today. Lawrence Sherman senior United States senator from Illinois born in Miami county Ohio sixty one years ago today. Rene Viviani French statesman born in Algiers fifty eight years ago today. William Wise Rear Admiral USN retired born Lewisburg Virginia seventy seven years ago today. Henry Apple longtime Franklin and Marshall College president born Mercersburg Pennsylvania fifty years ago today. Ethel Clayton motion picture star born Champaign Hill forty nine? actually twenty nine years ago today.
One year ago today events included the first meeting of Marshal Foch with the German truce envoys, Emperor William’s rejection of a socialist bid to abdicate, and Munich uprising leading to the Bavarian republic proclaimed.
Reverend Samuel L. Haworth pastor of the Friends church will return tomorrow from a conference of leaders in the Inter church World Movement in Atlantic City. He will occupy the pulpit at the Friends church Sunday morning.
Gladwell of Watoga West Virginia testifies how Cardui eased severe headaches backaches and weakness from age fifteen. She used three bottles and says her health improved. now married with three children and never needing a doctor for female trouble. The ad urges nervous or weak women to try Cardui noted as used for over 40 years and recommended by physicians.
The railroad publishes arrival and departure times for passenger trains at High Point as information. Schedules are not guaranteed.
Schedule notes departures and arrivals for multiple legs of the Southern Railway system, listing times between Washington Birmingham New York Washington Charlotte Danville Richmond and Asheboro with notes on conditional stops and Sunday service exceptions. Includes depot office contact and administration stamp.
Federal judge Albert B. Anderson of the Indiana district, presiding today in injunction hearings to restrain United Mine Workers strike activity, is a native of Boone County born in 1857. He graduated Wabash College in 1879, practiced law in Crawfordsville, served as county prosecuting attorney, and has been on the federal bench since 1902. He gained national prominence in the 1912 dynamite conspiracy trial.
A brief note identifies Laplanders as the world's shortest people and Patagonians as the tallest, highlighting extreme human height variation.
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