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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1926
Page
4
Short biblical verse and commentary focusing on blindness to truth. Includes Matthew 5 24 and Matthew Henry reflection. No news event or person identified.
Beaumont muses on mortality and the vanity of royal power as Westminster Abbey tombs reveal bones of kings and births. He notes the earth holds vast seeds of ruin and that even great rulers, though gods to some, die like others. The poem contemplates humility before death.
Rev George Wood of Kinston was found not guilty after an 18 hour jury deliberation. The defendant served as minister and deputy sheriff in the case involving J B Vickers, who surrendered but was shot during a pursuit. The verdict reflected reasonable doubt about intent and circumstances.
The article argues that oil will remain available for years due to new sources and future substitutes. It notes nine billion barrels produced, with a third refined in five years, and cites estimates that Sands work could yield up to 26 billion barrels. It urges prudent use, foreign oil acquisition, and continued scientific progress.
The Sunday Enterprise announced an approaching visit of Rev Ben R Lacy to First Presbyterian church in High Point for Wednesday evening. Lacy, a North Carolina native and son of the state treasurer, recently became president of Union Theological Seminary at Richmond and served as a war chaplain.
In 1887 Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward sparked utopian debate about progress. The essay notes how shorter hours, higher wages, and advancing media shape society toward a dreamlike 2000 A D. It cites Emma Goldman and Emm a Pankhurst as examples of shifting radical views.
The article extols apples' cultural and historic stature from myth to science. Wilkes county’s famed apples are highlighted for winning world fair prizes, urging Americans to embrace apples amid cotton prices and winter hardship.
The text notes Dr Lacy will visit the Central Presbyterian church of Atlanta at the invitation of local Presbyterians. He will not preach Wednesday night but speak briefly and attend an informal reception with church members during the congregation’s new church construction period.
A discussion notes how plays banned two decades ago now seem puritanical. Critics argue world laxity grows with easier acceptance of people and situations once deemed immoral, suggesting morality standards are slipping.
Bruce Catton argues Mussolini is both a symbol of power and a fallible human. The piece notes the dictator’s iron control and isolation, yet highlights his universal needs for affection, loneliness, and fear. It suggests the fame exacts a strange price.
A reader notes anti smoking broadside from temperance groups misstates women smoking. cites federal data. A Colorado twin sisters’ deaths two hours apart spark musings on family ties and jealousy. Retirement of Anna Obinger after 25 years scrubbing office buildings nets $25,000 from investments. Queen Marie and King Ferdinand rumor fuels talk of romance and It in society, with doctors’ opinions on motherhood and beauty.
A 1926 Observer reader questions why ready made women's garments incur alteration charges while men's are refitted free. The writer suggests big business favors fairness but notes persistent charges, comparing wage scales and tailoring effort, and asks for a clear explanation.
A Georgian traveler, W. D. Silver of Atlanta, lost $782 in High Point. A stranger, G Valentine of 1108 English Street, found the money and returned it, prompting the Georgian to praise the honesty displayed.
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