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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1919
Page
4
The speaker reflects on aging and fear of flight while praising simple ground travel. He notes reluctance to fly despite curiosity, due to aging and dignity. He imagines youth chasing the skies, while he prefers rugged, unupholstered earth.
A Washington rumor mill links President Wilson's country tour in support of the league of nations to a possible third term bid or at least influence over the 1920 nominating convention. Analysts cite tensions with Colonel House and Lansing over Shantung and the balance of party power.
The Chicago Evening Post weighs how England might react if food surplus and U S shortages reversed. It argues an embargo on exports could be used to protect citizens, warns profiteers, and urges city officials to restore freedom so the unemployed can resume work and support dependents. It also criticizes a Winston Salem incident where High Point asks for street fundraising to aid widows and orphans, calling for city action over external aid.
The Enterprise invites readers to submit brief letters on current topics. Include your name and a contact address for verification.
Cleofonte Campanini of the Chicago Opera Association and Henri Bourassi of the French Nationalist party are noted for birthdays in Perma and Montreal respectively. Sir James Lougheed, Dominion Senate leader, is remembered born in Brampton Ont. Rear Admiral Augustus Feechteler in Norfolk is Prussian born, 62 years past. James J. Corbett, former heavyweight champion, born in San Francisco 63 years ago.
A list of historical anniversaries notes births and deaths of notable figures from John Cochran and Peter Cartwright to Edward Davenport and provincial milestones such as Alberta's inauguration in 1905 and naval and military events across 1914 1917.
Observances span labor day across the United States and Canada as the National Prohibition party marks its 50th anniversary from the 1869 Chicago convention. Notables attend Hinckley memorials for 418 fire victims, while leaders sail home from France and Ottawa hosts multiple conventions on steel, postal workers, and prohibition policy.
The record notes that only a limited number of women have been admitted to the Order of the Garter, and for about four centuries no English sovereign conferred this honor on a woman.
Sir James Longhead marks his 65th birthday and has led the Conservative contingent in the Dominion senate since Sir Mackenzie Bowell’s 1906 07 retirement. Born in Brampton Ontario he moved to Toronto and Calgary rising to legal prominence and became a queen's counsel. He joined the senate in 1882 and in 1911 joined the Dominion cabinet and attended the coronation of King George and Queen Mary.
A powerful storm battered Brittany with wreckage strewn along miles of coast near Lorient. A lifeboat and debris from an American merchant ship washed ashore though the boat's name could not be read. The storm was easing today.
One year ago today in the war Allies captured the city of Peronne while Germans began a broad retreat in Flanders. United States troops advanced several miles beyond Juvigny as the front lines shifted.
A couple plans a wedding on December 31 in Scotland to leave the old life behind and start their marriage with the new year. The choice highlights a romantic goal of tying the knot as the calendar resets, marking a fresh start for the pair.
In Freeport L I Alanson Noon of Brooklyn committed death by own action in Great South Bay. His body was found with a trunk of bricks tied to his neck near Cowd docks by Daniel Cowd. Noon feared being hunted for murder and had brothers who died similarly years ago. autopsy showed death not by drowning.
Justice of the Peace Wilbur S. Southard will hold an inquest next week into injuries described after a local incident with a body bearing several bruises.
Dawson Yukon reports the Ukon territory enacted a law last spring abolishing saloons. The measure became effective Saturday and a plebiscite will be held across the territory between now and February to decide the liquor business fate.
Police said German Owl an Indian set fire to a forest to join the firefighting payroll seeking money for work on a blaze in Sacramento California.
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