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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1919
Page
4
The column mixes crime notes and current affairs from the era. It mentions burglars stealing gems, the weather man conducting seasonal business, and discussion of the peace treaty and league covenant with various U.S. political tensions and labor actions interwoven through the day’s events.
Read about Felix Grundy born in Berkley County and John Ireland born in Kilkenny died in St. Paul. Henry H. Coston, inventor of the aerial night-signalling system, was born in Washington and died in Pensacola. Other entries note Lord Stanley opening Toronto’s exhibition and key WWI events through 1917.
Oscar Williams defends a satire about the Home Guard published in The Enterprise. He recalls guards in cotton drab uniforms patrolling streets in six cylinder cars with handsome girls, noting mirrors and uniforms while denying any insult to the guards.
A Thursday page in the News and Observer compares teacher pay with a bricklayer’s wages. Teachers advertise around 60 to 125 monthly, while a bricklayer earns 1.12 12 an hour, equating to 9 daily with six days a week, or 54 weekly. Over a six month term the bricklayer’s yearly income dwarfs the teacher’s, highlighting incentives to hire bricklayers over teachers and the impact of summer school costs on teacher earnings. The piece argues teachers face gaps for summer schooling while bricklayers face none.
General Sir Julian Byng Lord Inchcape Rt Rev Thomas J Shahan Rev Arthur Crossaerts Benton McMillan are all noted as having birthday anniversaries today. The items identify their titles origins and ages ranging from 57 to 74 years.
A prominent manufacturer argues that mutual contracts must be honored by both sides and condemns breaches by employers and workers alike. He cites Chicago union shops where upholsterers walked out on a contract dated last April, before its expiration in 1926.
Tex Westerzil, taken on by Port land in an emergency, has developed into a valuable player. His hitting has been particularly effective for the team.
The Belgian prelate Cardinal Mercier, famed for resisting German occupation, travels to the United States and Canada. Born in Belgium and educated at Louvain, he became archbishop of Malines in 1906 and cardinal in 1907, praised as a world figure beside the King. An unrelated note warns that unauthorized car rides can be costly and that some travelers now fly rather than drive.
One year ago today British forces advanced near Cambrai and St Quentin as German counter-attacks inflicted heavy losses. Bolshevik resistance was defeated east of the Ural Mountains by Czecho Slovaks and Siberian troops.
A description of infield plays where Deal covers ground in front of Hollocher for shortstop grounders, noting how the ball is hit too far for Hollocher to reach and comparing the action to Zimmerman before Fletcher for the Giants.
The big Swede Walter Johnson has defeated the Athletics this year in most of his starts by the slim score of 1 to 0.
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