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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1916
Page
3
The piece humorously contrasts a London tea room experience with American expectations. It describes a pastry platter, odd beverages, and wartime rationing while detailing comical misadventures with a walking cane and fashion notes, all narrated in a lively London tone.
Odd dialogue features a recruiting officer asking about training. A figure named Billjim proclaims an oath about killing pigs. A doctor remarks on the deputy’s pleas to spare life and a wife notes a lucid but troubling exchange.
Biliousness sick headache sour stomach gas bloating constipation and dyspepsia are avoided if bowels stay open. Poley Cathartic Tablets are first aid to good health. Do not gripe. Fer sale by Mann Drug Co.
L L Jenkins a leading Asheville business man and Republican nominee for governor will address veterans at the Armory tonight. The event starts at 7 36 and organizers expect a large crowd with standing room likely at a premium.
Weather officials said no tropical storm would reach North Carolina though reports linked a southern storm south of Mobile and a tremor in Atlanta. High Point would see only a light chill, steady rain, and strong winds as forecasts shifted earlier expectations away from a northern advance.
The Argentine Rural Society celebrated its 50th anniversary with Palermo cattle show. American judges presided as Camp Hero, a short horn bull bred by Pedro Pages, won the championship but was kept for stud. Rescue champion Durham sold for 50000 and another top animal for 56000. The result signals financial stability and confidence in grazing industry.
Beranowitschi Russia October 2 The war report notes German front line units have adopted waste saving. Receptacles for paper glass clothing and food scraps are placed along trenches to recycle materials. Swine feeding scraps are used at staff headquarters behind the lines.
Miss Sue Brette asks about her sister on the stage and remarks on a speaking role. The exchange hints at a family connection and triumph in a lighthearted tone.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the High Point Perpetual Building and Loan Association will be held in the directors' room of the Commercial National Bank on Monday night October 30 1916. W A J Idol Secretary. Sept 30 1916. 10-30
A large church pageant in St Louis depicts the Protestant Episcopal Church history from apostolic times through modern America. More than 2,000 parishioners enact nine groups showing early church, English church struggles, Reformation, and American expansion including Jamestown and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Bishop Tuttle participates in a Montana scene.
In a tense exchange a man in the next flat pounds on the wall and warns he cannot sleep because of the child’s yelling. The father invites the man inside, assuring hospitality and comparing him to spring flowers.
An advertisement touts Adler-i-ka a buckthorn bark glycerine tonic that supposedly relieves constipation and can prevent appendicitis with a few doses. It promises instant action and offers the remedy for sale by Matton Drug Co.
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