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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1925
Page
6
The football rules committee will discuss two major scoring reforms at its next sessions. A tie game remedy and changes to the extra point after touchdown are under debate amid many ties and contests decided by the extra point. Critics say the structure overemphasizes one touchdown and fails to break deadlocks.
Corinne Griffith appears in First National's The Marriage Whirl shown at the American today and tomorrow with Kenneth Harlan Harrison Ford and Nita Naldi. The film sets New York and Paris as its backdrop and portrays an American couple drawn into Parisian nightlife with Griffith battling to save her husband before turning to a loyal friend for help.
Prof. George Le Fevre argues that hundreds of innocent prisoners die yearly by capital punishment, citing Russia Germany France and England. He contends modern science and philosophy demand humane courts and harsher justice reform. He discusses the Broadway show Capital Punishment touring November 2 and 32.
MGM selected Victor Seastrom to direct Confessions of a Queen as it comes to the American theatre tomorrow. The Swedish director’s background in courtly milieu promises vivid sets and a lavish production to suit the royal tale.
The piece notes Alice Terry selected for the Queen in a kingdom on screen and describes her regal yet warm persona. It then shifts to the New York cotton market opening barely steady with declines driven by lower Liverpool cables and near month selling, as December weakness narrows with later months dragged down.
Kenneth Crowley 18, star end at Spring Brook school in Alcoa, Tennessee, is in critical condition after his neck was broken in a practice game. Paralysis began to subside today, and doctors said there is some hope for recovery.
Greensboro officials from the North Carolina Automotive Trade association and the Carolina Automotive Service association will meet Friday to decide on proposals to close local service stations and garages all day Sunday. Currently stations close 10 a m to 1 30 p m on Sundays.
Representative Bacharach of New Jersey, a Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, backs combining normal and surtax rates into a single graduated scale to ease tax returns. The committee begins drafting a new revenue measure as public hearings on tax revision proceed.
Icy winds swept the South driving temperatures down to 31 degrees and bringing the season’s first killing frost. Fair weather prevailed overall, with scattered rain foreseen in Southern Florida and reports of rain from St. Petersburg. Nashville logged a low unofficial reading during the night.
Early morning readings show 31 degrees at 1 o clock. Miami Florida records a high of 80 degrees with fair weather. Asheville Nashville and Knoxville report cloudy skies with possible rain indications.
Police search for a thief who took a pair of shoes from a sidewalk display last night and left his old pair behind. The new shoes fit well, and the quick departure yielded no further clues.
Chicago wheat opened with a sharp drop on forecasts of rain in Australia easing drought fears. Prices recovered later as buying reestablished after the initial slide. Corn moved higher on expectations of heavy hog and cattle feeding earlier than usual due to low temperatures.
Market news notes oats steady to 1 8 cents lower before a light advance then firming as corn gains lift the oats. Provisions follow corn strength with firmer price levels across the board.
Advert reads that Pape's Cold Compound cures a cold quickly with two or three doses every three hours. The first dose provides relief, the second and third break up the cold. It claims safety and no quinine or opiates, widely used with a 35 cent price and druggist guarantee.
Readers report long term remedies failed until Hamadala Tablets relieved piles. H. P. Seaman of Abingdon Massachusetts and Eugene F. Diener of Dunnville Ontario credit the product for relief after decades of suffering. Sold by Mann Drug Co. and Green Drug Co. with a one dollar price and mail order availability.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a candy like laxative that softly stimulates the liver and bowels. It claims relief from headache biliousness and constipation and presents Cascarets as harmless quick acting with a rosy skin result and broad consumer appeal.
A 15 cent package promises easy dyeing for all fabrics. It explains wool or silk dyes and whether the material is linen, cotton or mixed, guiding women to tint delicate shades or dye rich colors in lingerie, silks, ribbons, dresses, and more.
A vintage ad promoting Rheuma as a non narcotic remedy for rheumatism with a money back guarantee. It claims to dissolve poisons causing rheumatism and to relieve joint and muscle pain. Randall's Pharm offers a no cure no pay plan and free refunds if relief is not achieved.
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