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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1919
Page
4
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The Enterprise invites concise letters on current topics and requires the writer's name for publication. Writers may withhold their names if they prefer, but the option to sign remains available to readers.
The poem rails at high prices and profiteers as workers struggle to save a nickel. It imagines Uncle Sam punishing plunderers, with satirical lines about hoarding, tea costs, and clothing, ending with a pledge that reform will come through firm action.
Washington reports from the southern army division describe a planned assault on an American airplane 16 miles from Laredo as the latest in a series of Mexican outrages. Captain McNabb was wounded in the head and says the attack was well organized. Officials in San Antonio call it a very serious matter.
President Wilson begins a 10000 mile tour through over 30 cities to gauge public support for the peace treaty and the league of nations. Proponents and critics fear the reception could sway senators on ratification and reservations.
In Tokio reports the Yorodzu notes prices for food clothing and rent rising sharply since 1887 while wages lag. Rice costs climb from 36 to 56 yen per koku amid a growing middle class squeeze and warnings of hunger and social unrest.
A speaker questions U S troop deployment and the League of Nations urging U S focus on protecting citizens at home. The speaker lambastes Washington for inaction amid American deaths and criticizes Mexico policy and anti immigrant rhetoric.
The card recalls 1859 birth of Brig. Gen. Charles A. Doyn UMC first Navy Distinguished Service Medal recipient born in Concord New Hampshire died at Quantico Virginia 1918. It notes 1891 Germany lifts pork import ban 1894 Cuba US reciprocity treaty canceled 1902 Roosevelt narrowly escaped being struck by a trolley 1912 Ohio women’s suffrage amendment rejected 1914 Russians seize Lemberg 1915 Romanian embargo on gold and cereals 1916 German Bulgarian troops cross into Roumania 1917 German forces take Riga port Latvia.
A year ago today the United States formally recognized zecho-Slovaks as a co-belligerent nation. Police roundups in New York City resulted in about thirty thousand arrests during the crackdown. The American steamer Frank H. Buck was torpedoed in the mid Atlantic by gunfire.
In New Bedford Massachusetts on September 3 a 306 pound lump of ambergris was hidden in a bank safe. It came from a sick whale caught off the Hatteras capes and brought by Capt H A Mandly of the whaling ship John R Manta. A cable to a Paris chemist asks for the value of the find and the note mentions ancient real estate mortgages in Babylon.
Olga Semenova Petomtzeva, 22, captured by Canadian troops at Urosozero on the Murmansk railway front, served as a cook for a Canadian mess. She wore a Red Guard uniform and carried a scrapbook with baby pictures, crying when asked about her own dead child. Her husband fought with a Finnish regiment. he escaped, she remained a prisoner.
The piece lists St Bartholomew festival obligations and anniversaries across San Antonio Westfield and Cambridge. It notes a Missouri senator addressing Cambridge Republicans, and a joint London opening by Oriental societies. It also covers Georgia women voting in Atlanta, criminology discussions in New York, and bar association meetings in Boston. It notes Lord Halsbury’s rise to Lord Chancellor and earlier roles as a famed advocate.
SAUGUS MASS Sept 3 John Hobbs a 19 year old seized a mackerel shark three feet nine inches long by tying a handkerchief around its tail He dragged it ashore after his sister heard splashing near Riverside cemetery and reported the animal stranded as the tide turned
Daily figures show 110000 pedestrians cross London Bridge and 22 boats pass beneath as part of routine river traffic and commuter flow.
An old health column warns that fatty urine and bladder irritation signal overworked kidneys. It advises drinking lots of water and taking four ounces of Jad Salts in water before breakfast to flush wastes and restore kidney function, noting Jad Salts are inexpensive and widely sold by pharmacists.
Lord Halsbury today marks his ninety fifth birthday, the oldest peer in Britain. A former Lord High Chancellor, he remains vigorous and mentally sharp. Born into a legal family, he began at the bar in 1850 and later rose to prominence.
Tight list marks the anniversaries of several prominent individuals. Hon Sir George Foster, Canadian minister of trade and commerce, born in New Brunswick. Dr Charles Frederick Wishart, new Wooster University president, born Mansfield Ohio. Rear Admiral Alfred Reynolds USN, born Virginia. Edward J Kenetchy, Brooklyn Dodgers first baseman, born La Crosse Wisconsin.
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