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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1916
Page
2
The writer argues Henry was innocent of embezzlement and Porter regrets taking a steamer to Honduras instead of facing trial. Professor Smith calls the act a hasty impulse and notes he later sought amends and used prison material for his best stories.
Prof Alphonso Smith recounts O Henry's charges of embezzlement in Austin Texas, detailing his flight to South America, year of indictment, trial, sentence reduction, and release. He notes the Greensboro community and later readers believed in his innocence, while Smith highlights the author Wil liam Sydney Porter as the real man. London new army order mandates saluting by all uniformed officers below major rank in streets and on parade.
The Tokio scene shifts as electric air and motor cars push rikisha out. Once bustling with fleet rikisha runners and kuruma servants, the city now sees fewer two pass rikisha and rising prices turning them into a luxury for many.
Rotterdam reports that thirty three German and Austrian steamships once laid up in Dutch harbors since the war began have sailed to sea over seven months. Fifteen departed in September alone and several are believed to have reached home ports or been placed in German service toward Scandinavian ports. Only twelve German and three Austrian ships remain in Dutch harbors, aside from four interned German vessels.
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, October 30, 1916. W. A. JDOL, Secretary. 10-39 Sept. 20, 1916.
Notice from High Point North Carolina dated October 16 1916 calls subscribers to meet October 30 at 7 20 p m at 109 East Commerce Street Sherrod Building to elect directors and perfect the permanent organization.
A Greensboro crowd packed the Armory for a Democratic rally led by local figures. Speakers praised Wilson and Democratic gains in Guilford and High Point, with calls for mobilizing support and planning a torchlight parade before key speeches by Cam Morrison and Victor Bryant.
Mrs. Myron J. Pickard of Memphis New York describes how a winter remedy helped her two children who were then suffering from severe colds. The statement asserts the medicine proved to be the very remedy they needed and claims wide availability.
London reports a revised army regulation makes facial hair optional, ending the long honored mustache. Soldiers shift from elaborate styles like the tooth brush mustache to clean shaven upper lips, easing inspection in new fighting units.
Washington reports the census bureau summary for 1914 shows ninety four one hundred percent output of women's apparel by American factories reaching 473 million dollars. The industry employed 198,685 persons with capital of 2193,449,600 spread across 56,564 establishments.
Miss Kate Carl, American portraitist renowned for her depiction of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, has been commissioned to paint a portrait of President Li Yuanhong. She is currently receiving several sittings weekly at the presidential residence.
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