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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1917
Page
2
Wilmingtons second Liberty loan bond issue gains momentum as campaigns in theaters schools and Boy Scouts push purchases. Speakers Mangum Turner Davis Weeks urge timely buys while parades and prizes motivate turnout ahead of the drive.
London report states that Professor Jackson has discovered three new kinds of optical glass. The committee for scientific and industrial research notes advances in light alloys including aluminum zinc and copper, stressing their importance for future aeronautics.
Twenty years after its creation Paw-Paw Tonic is promoted as a universal stomach digestant and nerve remedy. Ironized Paw-Paw and Nux are hailed for curing insomnia rheumatism kidney and liver troubles and catarrh. The Mann Drug Co on South Main Street hosts demonstrations of Tron Man as the trusted form.
An advertisement for IRON MAN health tonic by INTERSTATE DRUG CO INC New York claims free testing and guidance to health, offering bottles of about 15 ounces for $1. The ad emphasizes a promised path to ultimate good health.
Lexington reports that local Bankhead club members aided Thomasville boosters in forming a Bankhead association branch. The Piedmont Route contest for the Bankhead highway to Washington draws Virginia interest, with supporters backing Lynchburg Charlottesville plans for a shorter scenic link via Shenandoah Valley pike. Thomasville reportedly has about a hundred Bankhead members ready to mobilize.
Rocky Mount on October 18 will host a major patriotic gathering to launch the second liberty loan drive in Nash County. James H. Poll of Raleigh, renowned orator and political thinker, will deliver the keynote address at the Thursday night event.
Berne reports that Switzerland will devote a week each year to exhibitions of Swiss products. The aim is to familiarize consumers with home goods and foster local manufacturers. The event would be held simultaneously in Swiss towns and villages to boost domestic production.
Governor Bickett calls a thrift committee to lead a November Thrift Month campaign for North Carolina farmers. The group will promote eight saving actions, including buying Liberty Bonds, starting bank savings, paying debts, and investing in land, with a December survey to assess progress.
In Baltimore on October 11, Dr Louis T Dublin of New York reported that two percent of men aged 21 to 30 in draft examinations were active tuberculosis cases. He called the national TB campaign the greatest event in US TB history and cited 500,000 active French army cases. he added Germany reports show alarming spread in the last three years.
The Pacific coast shipyards strike was settled by an agreement of 25 000 workers at Seattle and Portland yards to return to work Monday. The workers will accept the Labor Adjustment Board decision and resume duties as ordered by the Shipping Board.
Baltimore opens two day session of the North Atlantic Conference of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis with medical representatives from the army and navy in attendance. A quoted anecdote about Confucius and a grieving widow appears in the mixed content.
Rock Mownt October 18 announces the upcoming marriage of Miss Laura Maude Bunn and Kemp Davis Battle on Tuesday October 30 at 9 pm. The ceremony will be held at the Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal.
Chicago police now include 24 women among its members, reflecting growing gender diversity in the force and signaling progress in recruitment efforts across the department.
The National Woman's Party announced a December 6 conference here with state chairmen and officials to determine whether demonstrations before the White House should continue.
Mrs. Chas Reitz of Allens Mills Pennsylvania reports using Foley's Honey and Tar for eleven years and endorses it as the genuine remedy for coughs croup whooping cough asthma hay fever. The advertisement highlights the product as a true friend for sufferers of various respiratory ailments.
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