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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1916
Page
4
A brief item notes telephone connections and North States Phone Call No 12 under Bell Telephone guidance. The fragment references period telephony services and network notes without broader context or events.
The item surveys white paper shortages affecting 51,000 U.S. printers, notes 2,580 daily papers with about 30 million readers, and details circulation shifts from 1909 to the census period. It also reports on local moves, including J. W. Simms joining The Times of Tampa, a High Point road fund shortfall, and political commentary ahead of November elections with references to Woodrow Wilson, Hughes, and Roosevelt.
The writer argues World War I fits biblical prophecy from Hosea and Genesis, claiming a divine judgment era began in 1914. He compares modern carnage to Noah’s flood, cites vast western and eastern front lines, and notes enormous losses at Verdun as proof of the titanic scale.
New York on September 1 opened the cotton market with renewed buying and sharp gains led by a surge in Liverpool. Prices jumped to new highs as October traded near 16.25 and January near 16.35, with futures opening steady across contracts from October to May.
Chicago on September 1 saw wheat prices swing with openings down up to 3 percent as September and December contracts moved around 1.43 to 1.47 with a later substantial rise as strike fears eased.
In municipal court six defendants faced charges of allowing dogs to run at large. One was discharged for lack of proof, others admitted lax control or blamed unleashed pets. Judge Dalton warned of possible fines and authorized killing upon request. one case involved a biting incident by Ida Lee Barnhart’s dog, with suspended judgment and a request to kill the animal. The others were convicted or had costs assigned.
Building permits for August totaled 17 720 with Giant Furniture additions valued at about 6 000 likely higher in reality. Several residences and repairs appear on the list including Snow Shiplett Harris Bros Shampgan Hill Cecil Hicks Jones and others, showing a month dominated by small repairs and modest residential work. Chief Ingram issued the permits reflecting a sluggish month despite notable Giant Furniture activity.
London reports a revolution in Macedonia beginning, according to a Reuters dispatch filed yesterday from Salonika, noting rapid developments in the region.
National guard units on routine coast artillery routes are mobilized to guard railways amid a looming general railway strike. Officials say most troops remain near bases with about 30 000 under orders to move if needed while some trains are delayed as guardsmen deter potential disruptions.
A short notice announces Frances Gordon as the daughter of Mr and Mrs R O Lindsay.
Prof. Rudolph H. Kunfalin of Budapest state higher gymnasium and Princeton 95 proposes an exchange professorship linking Hungary and the United States. He has reintroduced the idea after World War I delays and discussed it with Frederic Courtland Penfield, the American ambassador in Vienna, who regards it favorably but doubt remains on postwar realization.
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