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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1924
Page
2
A collage of brief quips and notices from the High Point Enterprise dated September 2 1924. Includes humor lines from editors and brief items on world events and local curiosities, with marginal notes on ongoing public issues and seasonal topics.
Hal Cochran notes yearly straw hat fatigue as summer ends. Readers face the practical hat switch from straw lids to felts amid warming to cold weather. A New York preacher sparks controversy by linking evolution to staged religious discourse with a monkey in his pulpit.
The article argues the South already voted, has minimal impact on national campaigns, and remains a focal point in party strategy. It notes Dixie’s political caution, potential for reform within the Republican fold, and reluctance of speakers to tour below the Mason-Dixon line.
The piece argues for outlawing war and maintaining national strength for defense, citing Josephus Daniels at Lake Junaluska and contrasting with Governor Bryan. It notes high homicide rates in urban centers, supports international policing, and compares pacifist visions with practical readiness, including speedway incidents at Charlotte and Altoona.
Three events ran at the Altona Pennsylvania speedway with two fatal accidents. One man died in the opening race of 1923 and another perished in yesterday's event, marking a grim day in local auto racing.
The prince travels through Philadelphia asleep in his car while a large, eager crowd of young women waits hours at the station. He endures constant scrutiny and annoyance from the public, who treat him more as a spectacle than a person, a behavior linked to this country's crowding for a ring side view of a celebrity.
An outdoor event at Welborns Grove tonight offers ice cream cake and red lemonade for Springfield church funds. Organizers expect large attendance and extend invitations to all.
Firmness in Liverpool cables and frost in the Canadian northwest pushed wheat up early in Chicago trading today before a broad slight setback. Corn rose across deliveries and oats hovered around unchanged to up, while provisions stayed firm amid general market strength. Major listed stocks included Pan American Petroleum 53% and United States Steel at 109% with varied moves across the day.
Wall Street opened with strength as Dawes plan progress and improving business conditions supported stocks. Large blocks traded including 4000 Chile Copper at 35 and several railroads and industrials hit new highs in early dealings. A late surge in low priced rails paused the rise while main issues gradually firmed with Dela ware and Hudson, Tobacco products, Manhattan, Sears Roebuck and Ibm advancing 2 to 4 points.
New York September cotton opened steady then fell 18 to 25 points as long liquidation and southern selling dominated. December eased to 24.10 while some buying emerged on crop deterioration reports. A private crop report pegged the condition at 62.6 and the indicated crop at 12,407,000 bales.
The New Orleans cotton market opened steady as Liverpool rebounded after a holiday. Initial trades showed gains before selling pressure after a holiday backlog pushed October to 25.65 and December and January lower. Futures closed with a net decline of 26 to 31 points, while early quotes listed October 23.98, December 23.94, January 24.06, and March 24.38 bid.
A fragmented list of stock prices and percentages for numerous companies including American Tobacco American Woolen Anaconda Copper Atchison Atlantic Coast Line Baldwin Locomotive Baltimore & Ohio Bethlehem Steel California Petroleum Canadian Pacific Chicago R I & Pacific Chile Copper Coca Cola Colorado Fuel & Iron Congoleum Consolidated Gas Corn Products Colden Oil Crucible Steel Cuba Cane Sugar Davison Chemical Du Pont Famous Players Lasky General Electric General Motors Great Northern Gulf States Steel Houston Oil Illinois Central International Harvester Int Mer Marine pfd Int Tel Tel Invincible Oil Kelly Springfield Kennecott Louisville and Nashville Mack Truck Marland Oil Maxwell Motors Middle States Oil Missouri Kan Tex Allied Chemical Dye American Locomotives Cerro de Pasco Chicago Mil St Paul pfd Missouri Pacific pfd N Y N H and H American Can American Car Foundry American International American Smelting Refng American Sugar American Tel Tel Central Leather Chandler Motors Chesapeake Ohio Chicago Northwestern National Lead New Orleans Tex Mex New York Central Norfolk Western Northern Pacific Racing …
W L Jackson moves from Southern Railway to become chief rate clerk for the High Point Thomasville and Denton Railroad company. He arrives from Indian Yards Ga and Atlanta Ga, bringing anticipated improved attention to rate matters. Denton Railroad expands solicitation and adds package cars, with daily merchandise car shipments planned to Roanoke Florence Hagerstown Norfolk and other points. A shipment of machinery from England is en route to a new High Point industry, and the railroad reports strong growth and good train performance under A Kirkman.
James Osborne a 12 year old delivery boy died when his bicycle collided with the car of S F Huffine fingerprint expert Greensboro police at North Elm Street and Bellemeade Avenue Eyewitnesses said the boy rode one way while looking elsewhere A crippled news boy Mike Causey was hit by a car a few blocks away and taken to a hospital.
J P Laffoon learns his father W J Laffoon has improved from a critical illness in Vizalia California after a paralytic stroke. He had been in ill health for four or five months before the stroke occurred.
Dr. S. S. Coe, city physician, warns only a few days remain for parents to vaccinate their children before school opens. He says sore arms require days to heal and advises prompt treatment with a family physician.
Hopped off from Tickle Labrador at 10 25 Eastern standard time this morning marking the first leg in the United States army planes world flight. The crews aboard left with high hopes as the squadron begins the historic nonstop journey.
High Point prepares for an early start with 25 candidates under Coach Jack Boylin. Two daily practices run toward a possible eight-game run before state championships, with three teams planned if feasible. Recruitment aims to face top North Carolina opponents like Greensboro and Winston-Salem.
D R York local postmaster arrived back from Washington D C where he spent Saturday and Sunday He traveled Friday night to the capitol on post office business He says visits to Washington are pleasant and profitable He is tallying last month’s post office receipts and expects them to exceed the prior month.
The many friends of H L Chandler regret to learn he is ill at his Ward Street home with a heart ailment. His condition is reported as serious and hospitals are not mentioned. Local readers are urged to send prayers and best wishes.
A Texas express car story claims telepathy saved Bill Baker aged 18 from thirst after a premonitory mind feel led a messenger to search a large box between Toyah and Pecos. The piece mocks telepathy as radio thought and cites similar silent mind connections among close friends spouses and partners.
Police in Chicago test the eyesight of traffic violators, finding many cannot see 20 feet ahead. The piece argues all car owners should have vision and sanity checks before license issuance, claiming semi blind or nervous drivers are as dangerous as a reckless felon with a loaded pistol.
The text notes rising alcoholism deaths, with medical statistics showing about twice as many deaths from liquor as in 1920. It suggests chronic alcoholism remains a killer and attributes some deaths to green whisky and high ether content before medicines age in casks.
The writer condemns auto drivers who fail to brake with care, leaving pedestrians to "look out for themselves." Some drivers swerve or mock pedestrians, acting as if safe from punishment, and the piece labels such behavior as murderously reckless and dangerous to those on foot.
Uncle Sam’s rum sleuths arrest liquor law violators at about 50 000 per year out of a population around 112 million. Convicting 35 of 41. How many escape entirely after hundreds of thousands or millions? The nets still are spread too much for minnows, not enough for whales.
A fragment cautions that nervous or malicious autonomous drivers threaten pedestrians who must dodge other cars daily. It urges shared responsibility, noting drivers and pedestrians alike must act with care. The text compares the driver’s lack of responsibility to a hunter’s danger and mentions a hunting rifle as a tool of harm.
The piece notes that the average American makes calls nine times as often as the average English person, pleasing utilities as proof of reader interest in progress and convenience. It asserts national tendencies toward chatter and dismisses the idea that talking too much exists only for billious critics.
At Forest Hills New York on September 2 1925 the famed rivals Bill Tilden and Bill Johnston prepare for a national title match on the West Side Tennis Club courts. They have met in four of the last five finals with Tilden winning four times in duels that intrigue the tennis world.
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