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The note lists departments: Advertising Department and News Department with Society and Circulation mentions. It reflects a newspaper’s internal structural header signaling sections and staff areas.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1922
Page
4
The note lists departments: Advertising Department and News Department with Society and Circulation mentions. It reflects a newspaper’s internal structural header signaling sections and staff areas.
A collage of verses and quips celebrates a commonplace song that lifts tired crowds. It contrasts a light doggerel tune with the idea of romance in daily work and notes figures like Berton Braley. The passage also weighs social roles and remarks on Will Hays and industry control.
A garbled OCR style snippet lists varied items including a cruelty to a rat case, a Boston undertaker convicted for selling poison booze, a New Orleans spaghetti eating challenge, crawfish questions, and miscellaneous political and personal asides. The text is fragmentary with many misspellings and disjointed phrases.
The article surveys a brisk industrial revival centered on rail freight. It cites September week figures: cars loaded total 1,919,210 versus prior years and notes a per‑car movement ratio near 191 to 199. Despite car shortages in some areas, activity signals strong demand and job creation, with hesitation about grape shipments due to car shortages.
Editorial laments American indifference to forest waste after a European tour. It cites bundled twigs sold for firewood abroad and contrasts urgent calls by experts like Gifford Pinchot and Enos Mills with brief American crusades that fade within a day.
Greensboro and state health boards seek a dentist to serve Guilford County school children, but the High Point board refuses citing 25 000 children to be served. Cost estimates split across cities and county totaling 12 50 per day for three months.
High Point police chief issues a harsh warning against driving without a license. The piece mocks licensing as a test of “good moral character” and predicts escalating police penalties, including warrants and courtroom costs, for violators.
Miss A Lincoln, the young hiker who walked from Jacksonville to New York, stopped in High Point while on her return journey. She travels on foot despite injuries from a Washington DC crash and aims to secure a recital engagement along the route.
Overseas Girls in the Womens Overseas Service League will meet male veterans at the American Legion annual convention in New Orleans. The group includes canteen workers searchers hospital workers entertainers and librarians who served in France though not eligible for Legion membership due to civilian status. About 2 000 former overseas women in 30 cities are enrolled. the league seeks government recognition and has a bill before the Senate judiciary committee.
A con artist posing as Loray Mills superintendent J L Curtis duped a Gastonia minister of 40 dollars and nearly 65 more with a Charlotte Bank check signed by E J Mellon. The man, who claimed church knowledge, fled after cashing at Concord National Bank via St Cloud hotel and hotel manager, leaving the minister with a counterfeit check.
Hopkinsville report says J H Caudle, 32, farmer, died at home near Hopkinsville yesterday shortly after being stung over the heart by a yellow jacket.
Mr and Mrs J Edwood Cox returned from New York where Mr Cox attended the annual convention of the American Bankers Association. He serves on the association's executive board.
Trinity College in Durham adopts an honor system for student conduct in class and campus life after a mass meeting in Craven Memorial hall. Six sophomores face charges. freshmen regulations include broad rules on attendance at games, chapel behavior, and grass avoidance. Officials and council members elected include J. L. Jackson, Mike Bradshaw Jr, J. D. Secrest, Tom Bradley, T. B. Eshey, J. B. Harris, Carl King, and G. B. Caldwell Jr. A separate note reports a thief stole a famous Scotch comedian's golf clothes, with doctors predicting recovery.
Miss Annabel Vanderburg and Letha Thompson are in a local hospital with injuries after two cars wrecked on the Goldsboro Smithfield road Sunday. The Hudson owned by Malcolm N Sutherland and a Buick from Selma were totaled. the Hudson reportedly overturned three times.
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