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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1917
Page
4
Brief credit statement lists Associated Press authors and local correspondents C. M. Brown and JP. Rawley with attribution notes for republication and local content.
A damaged OCR fragment shows scattered timing terms including one year five months three months and one week with repeated letters and uncertain context. The readable bits suggest a duration schedule but no clear events or entities are identifiable.
The Enterprise invites readers to submit brief letters on topics of current interest. Writers may include their names, though use is optional if the writer prefers anonymity.
The Enterprise is delivered in the city by carrier at 10 cents per week. Subscribers who fail to receive their paper on time should notify the circulation department to help rectify the issue.
A wartime appeal urges citizens to buy Liberty Bonds to fund the war effort. It describes marching soldiers, veterans, and families along with dramatic scenes in Cleveland and Paris, arguing that financial sacrifice is essential to support American troops and the nation.
The article contrasts German contempt for the British and American forces with American wartime gains. It notes 10,000,000 men registered for drafts, tripling the regular army, doubling volunteers, a strong aircraft program, weapon orders, vast training camps, and specialized forces already deployed in Europe.
State department releases reiterate disclosures regarding Count von Bernstorff former German ambassador to the United States. The Washington Post described his claims to the Kaiser that Wilson was a pacifist while Germany pressed on with its military program. Bernstorff now holds a diminished post in Turkey as punishment for overestimating U.S. restraint.
Three U S aviators formerly with the LaFayette escadrille reach an Atlantic port aboard a French steamship Archibald Johnston of Pittsburgh James R Doolittle of Chicago and Mark Leslie Hult are the trio Johnston earned two French citations for bravery with a companion downing a German photographer over the lines Doolittle silenced a shelling battery and was decorated by Britain Hull survived a fall that cost him a leg and plans an artificial limb to return to duty
Liberty Loan managers plan a nationwide aerial campaign on October 20 with 455 aviators and eight balloonists dropping red white and blue paper bombs. The items will carry powerful appeals to purchase Liberty bonds rather than explosives as they circulate over towns, cities and training camps coast to coast.
The City of High Point invites bids until October 6 at noon for one 750 gallon Triple Combination Motor Pumping Fire Engine and 1,000 feet of fire hose. Bids must indicate delivery time. The city may reject all bids by order of the City Council. City Manager T. J. Murphy issued the notice on September 26, 1917.
There is more catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases combined and it was long thought incurable. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co claims a constitutional internal cure via the blood, with a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure.
Dayton faces a decisive fall election for three city commissioners under the city manager plan. Nonpartisan forces brace for a pivotal battle to defeat the Socialist slate nominated on a partisan platform. A socialist win could enable immediate execution of the 1913 pledge to overthrow the city charter.
Ambassadors and ministers from 15 nations at war with Germany will attend the Southern Commercial congress in New York for its ninth annual convention. On Tuesday the mayor's committee on national defense will welcome the diplomats who will represent France Great Britain Italy Japan Russia Portugal Cuba China Panama Serbia Belgium and Greece.
Reading man reports Foley Kidney Pills relieved backache rheumatic pains and swollen joints after months of inability to work. He says the pills were worth their weight in gold to him. Mann Drug Co.
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