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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1920
Page
6
A Rochester firm with HQ in this city will run all operations without cash. It plans to pay payroll and all expenses using checks, travel and trade acceptances to deter payroll robberies and keep coins in banks. The move affects over 800000 customers and hundreds of salesmen.
A new elixir named Aspiron al is marketed as a medicated cold remedy. It is claimed to be endorsed by European and American army surgeons and backed by scientific remedies. Druggists nationwide are urged to refund the price if relief does not appear within two minutes at the counter.
An advertisement touts Aspironal as a premier two minute cold and cough reliever. It claims lab guaranteed efficacy and endorsements by authorities and the public, urging readers to buy a bottle for half a dollar and test it with two spoonfuls in water, with money back if no relief within two minutes.
The firm will pay petty items and one cent stamps by check and bans carrying cash by employees. To meet payroll the company offers either regular pay checks or a deposit slip showing weekly earnings deposited in a local bank. Executives without bank accounts are urged to start one.
Miss Bernice Seibel producer of Katecha Koo describes the musical comedy reading at the Y W A on East Green street. Yank Shiel will portray Katcha Koo the East Indian fakir supported by an all star cast as parts are assigned for the first rehearsal tonight amid eager anticipation and quick preparation.
The W. C. T. U. meeting was postponed indefinitely per a morning announcement by President Mrs. Walter White. Mrs. E. A. White and Mrs. Anna Williams of Guilford College spoke in High Point yesterday as guests of Mrs. White on Johnson Street.
A. S. Parker leaves for a business trip to Atlanta and will be away the rest of the week. Mrs. T. J. Gold returns to High Point from Shelby after visiting relatives. Mrs. Edward Leyton returns to Troy with her mother Mrs. H. Gordon staying several weeks. Leyton was Dora Gordon of High Point before marriage. Dr. J. Cummings comes back from Pilot Mountain and will be in Winston-Salem then High Point tonight. Harry Durland of Chicago arrives in High Point to visit his brother O. C. Durland at Park Way.
The Claremont coal mine in Haynes North Dakota near Lemmon is producing about 200 tons daily of blue lignite. Operated by the state, it ships fuel to Spearfish normal school, Sioux Falls penitentiary and schools for the blind and deaf, Hot Springs soldiers home, and other institutions. The state plans a spur railroad to Lemmon with potential tripling of output once finished.
Paris Nov 16 President Millerand, long a deputy for the Faubourg St Antoine district, will be gifted an elaborately carved desk. Workers and shopkeepers of the antique furniture area raised a fund, choosing a desk deemed the best tribute from the district to a man who served in parliament.
Laboring men in Ramadan are expected to fast from sunrise to sunset, abstaining from food drink and tobacco according to Moslem practice.
Geneva police searched all the cases when a lion tamer was missing and found him asleep in a cage with two lions. After eight hours he woke and went home to his wife and breakfast.
An advertisement promotes Pepto Mangan as a tonic to improve thin blood, increase red blood cells, and boost energy and resistance. It urges readers to choose genuine Gude's Pepto Mangan in liquid or tablet form, with the brand name clearly on the package.
Under a Guilford County Superior Court order in a special proceeding, the property of Jacob L Royals R L Welborn Catharine Ridge et al is set for public auction on Tuesday November 16 at 2 PM on South Main Street High Point N C. The tract adjoins R Welborn and others and measures about three fourths of an acre with two cottages. Sale requires cash with one third deposit on day of sale and remainder upon court confirmation and deed tender. This November 1 1929 CC C Barnhardt.
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