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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1922
Page
8
NEA Service writer recounts Ring Lardner’s rise as a humorist during the 1914 World Series. He explains how Lardner learned to mimic reporters and players by listening at the press area, gathering phrases, mispronunciations, and a “butterfly voice” to craft vivid prose. The piece captures Lardner’s self-deprecating style and method.
Robert Cox, administrator of Walter Cox aged nineteen, files a 450000 suit in Forsyth Superior Court against American Coal Company of McCos, West Virginia, claiming death last February from a fall from a coal car in a mine owned by the defendant. A Texas man received ten years for raising dollar bills to ten spots.
A man explains to a girl that his wife does not understand him because the wife does understand him. The remark plays on perceived mutual understanding within a troubled marriage.
New Orleans Oct 12 Planters driven from farms by the Mississippi river flood are harvesting remaining crops and preparing soil for winter. Louisiana legislature distributed 56000 in seeds and plants aiding recovery as 10000 people were displaced across 13 parishes with losses over 10000000. Levee repairs cost millions while flood toll included destroyed crops and farm infrastructure. Red Cross treasury and donors funded refugees at 200000 with repairs planned on 645 miles of levees from Vicksburg to the gulf by 1923. Federal funds and local taxes boosted Louisiana relief.
J A Clinard purchased the former Wachovia Bank and Trust building on North Main Street. The structure now houses the Morris Plan Bank, High Point Insurance and Real Estate, the Postal Telegraph office and several other offices. Purchase price not disclosed. The building is described as one of the city’s best business and office properties.
Wade Leach and Tom Hendrick were found not guilty in municipal court this morning on charges of larceny of an autometer. No other cases were disposed of at the session.
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