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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1920
Page
2
The piece surveys Greek politics, wartime memory, and labor figures, noting Venizelos ballots, souvenir hunters, and debates over coal prices. It cites Taft on unemployment, regional unemployment trends, and calls for immediate labor legislation amid a prewar normalcy echo.
A report notes recent heavy rains did not damage highway surface work as Guilford County plans new roads. Eddie Cicotte the former White Sox pitcher is set to receive immunity for confessing to involvement in the 1919 World Series fix. The statement mentions spilling secrets for the kids.
The Irish home rule bill, designed to prevent religious war, would grant separate parliaments to Protestants in the north and Catholics in the south and west. It avoids forcing a united parliament now, warns against anarchy, and notes limited powers, with Dominion precedents cited. Also described are Oklahoma cotton farmers forming a cooperative to market directly to large buyers, reducing middlemen profits.
A humorous reflection on the phrase Job's turkey noting its improbable origin in the Book of Job. The piece imagines Thanksgiving scenes with a thin, cadaverous turkey and contrasts ideal feasts with the idea that some families endure poor meals before joining relatives for blessing and dinner.
A speaker at the American Cotton association meeting in Little Rock Arkansas said a bale of cotton passes through an average of nine hands from farm to mill. Cotton likely passes through more hands and yields more profit than any other crop in America.
A Greensboro area column analyzes a proposed 32 million bond issue for Guilford County roads. Based on W C Boren figures a $5 000 property owner would pay about 39.65 over 20 years, with interest rising as bonds are sold and assessed values grow.
The document outlines a 1926 bond plan costing $500,000 with annual payments of about $80,000 plus interest. It predicts peak tax rates in 1926, a gradual decline in rates as assessed values rise, and long term effects over 20 to 30 years. It includes a sample owner’s taxes and a discussion of interest rates and bond sale conditions.
Columbus report says G W Wycoff claims to have invented an evergreen strawberry that bears fruit year round. He is shown eating the fruit to prove the claim as he taunts Burbank to note the breakthrough.
Frank J. Cheney attests as senior partner of F J Cheney & Co in Toledo Ohio to pay one hundred dollars for an incurable catarrh case. The notice claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts through the blood on mucous surfaces. Druggists offer testimonials free.
A reader describes a tired man and woman in poor health from iron deficiency. After trying Ziron, they report improved strength and appetite, and renewed energy in the morning. The account presents Ziron as a remedy the writer decided to try.
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