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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1924
Page
2
A fragment from a 1924 High Point publication includes light humor and quips on music, aluminum pans, teachers, weddings, and social norms. The column surveys everyday absurdities, from dancing trends to quips about Christmas, journeying through humorous observations about men, women, and life’s follies.
Hal Cochran humorously depicts a day of chores and domestic mayhem as a spouse assigns tasks around the house. The poem contrasts rest with the nonstop demands of repairs and leaks, ending with the clock striking its limit and plans to tackle them again tomorrow. Hill's cider party is deemed orderly, while a note in Wisconsin hints at widespread hiccups in Gastonia.
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The article analyzes Sam Gompers remarks in El Paso praising labor gains in congress while doubting the true victory for organized labor. It argues Gompers favors Democratic alignment over La Follette and portrays him as a practical businesslike union leader steering labor policy away from radical change.
An anti-Jewish anti-Catholic periodical criticizes a Stone Mountain memorial campaign and notes five million memorial half dollars minted by federal authority. The piece praises congressional support for the project and warns southern legislatures against funding the cause, while discussing proposed state road plans to connect Linville Gorge to promote park investment.
A. M. Kistler lead a party of men and women through Linville to promote a 23 mile highway connecting Linville Gorge with the main route to Asheville via Morganton and Marion. They seek federal support to adopt this Linville section for Appalachian development.
A survey of Carolina football shows colleges renaming squads with fierce monikers like Davidson Wild Cats and Wake Forest Demon Deacons. High schools join with High Point Black Bisons facing Greensboro Purple Whirlwind in Welchfield this afternoon.
Bailey commends McLean's course as indicated. The state highway commission faces a decision affecting the public, while Friends of the late Sam Underwood arrange to underwrite education for Sam Underwood Jr. and others connected to Trinity Park High School and Pitt County schools.
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr one of the era’s best known producers shifts focus from glorifying the American girl to promoting American music this fall. Vivienne Segal and Irving Fisher are among those involved in the new venture.
A story from Evanston recounts Hildur, bound to a wheelchair after infantile paralysis, dreaming of Paris. Mayor Harry P. Pearsons orders special sloped curbing to let her cross the street, enabling her to imagine travel and a personal world beyond her wheelchair. The mayor emphasizes a city with a heart and responsibility to all citizens.
The superintendent of Raleigh schools attended a funeral for a 14 year old named Sam Underwood and returned determined to help. Letters from friends leaked the otherwise private Cloud Samaritan story. Route 10 work advances near the new Baptist college with piling underway and a moss spur track aiding the project. President Charles E. Brawer hopes to move for a September 1925 opening, while outdoor plans and college growth continue.
By Bob Dorman Santo Domingo November 14 We dream and dreams vanish with the dawn Only to a lucky few is it given to see their dreams come true to have their castles in air Horacio Vasquez 63 year old president of Santo Domingo is one of the few lucky ones For 34 years he dreamed built castles in the air His dream a free and independent Santo Domingo his castle a Dominican government of the people by the people and for the people Now the time of realization seems at hand Santo Domingo is pacified the country is at peace The armed forces of the United States which have held sovereignty over the republic for so long have left The reins of government have been placed in the hands of Vasquez by the people in order that he may rule for them What manner of man is he whose task it is not only to give honest government to a land that has known none but to restore that friendly relationship between the United States and Santo Domingo which is so necessary to the economic welfare of both"}
A Dominican exile recounts his 1880s business success in Puerto Plata, recalls Ulysses Heureaux dictatorship, and pledges ongoing struggles for a free government. He outlines plans for constitutional reform, economic rehabilitation, road and rail building, irrigation, education, and improving living conditions while restoring U S relations.
Hildur Lima, a ten year old girl confined to a wheelchair, gains a brighter outlook as a new street nearby brings a flowering hope. A binejay nests in a house across the way and sunshine enters her life for the first time in years.
Trinity Blue Devils travel to Durham facing Wofford College after a surprising loss to Wake Forest. Coach and players expect a hard game, aiming to avenge recent defeats and close the season strong with Davidson looming on Thanksgiving.
The piece cites Dr. Frank Parsons Norbury and the Medical Journal and Record noting May and June have the highest rates of self harm and nervous disorders, with winter the calmest period. It discusses sleep, Crile's theory, astrology versus science, and suggests broad societal forces like religious waves and dances influence mental states.
We elect a president and four months elapse before service begins. Coolidge seeks a second term but the four month lag hinders business and pocketbooks. Proposals for a constitutional amendment to shorten the transition gain support as voters recall postwar tax dodges and shifting claims on taxation.
A Philadelphia steer trained as a decoy leads others to slaughter in a 12 year routine of treachery and imagined political implications. Vernon Kellogg's laboratory is described with two tarantulas one gentle and one enraged illustrating contrasts in nature and behavior.
In Chicago a ballot like a stove mat lists nearly 300 candidates fueling a national trend toward complex ballots. Voters may mark too many names or know little about merits of rivals, turning elections into a near lottery as ballots grow harder to decipher. Meanwhile a celebrity theft tale shifts to danger as two diamonds from Samuel Lefkowitz ring a crime.
Thomas Slivinght and Frank Sadowski, workers at the Peerless mounted company, were painfully injured when a furnace blast sprayed molten metal on their faces and hands. Three other employees were slightly hurt. The two severely injured stood in front of the cupola as it exploded. Beresford Boat, owner of the sash weights firm, suspected the blast resulted from explosives in waste war material being remelted.
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