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The Enterprise is delivered in the city by carrier at ten cents per week. Subscribers who fail to get their paper on time are asked to notify the circulation department.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1917
Page
11
The Enterprise is delivered in the city by carrier at ten cents per week. Subscribers who fail to get their paper on time are asked to notify the circulation department.
A wartime column mocks a drafted soldier who married by telephone and deserted, while other items note a Texas town offering a two thousand dollar reward for Kaiser delivery, cheap cigarettes, and local civic concerns in Bartlesville and Greensboro.
Editorial notes the High Point council denial of permits for push cart fruit and ice cream vendors as wise and healthy. It favors peanuts on streets, cites disease concerns, and urges sanitary handling of foods in proper facilities over dusty street sales.
The piece argues that pan German aims failed in Latin America as Uruguay and other nations distance from Germany. It notes Argentina Brazil Chile and Haiti turning toward the United States in a fight against autocracy, while rural health debates and city child examinations highlight urban rural contrasts in education and health.
A Saturday morning fire on Railroad street in Littleton gutted a house occupied by Professor Hornaday and another large home on an adjoining lot. Mrs. Akte Pugh Lack dies after a lingering illness in North Carolina. The fire damaged a garage wood and coal house and caused partial insurance on two dwellings.
Dr. Francis B. Boyer state director of the American Red Cross will address Fayetteville Red Cross chapter at its annual meeting Wednesday night in the Fayetteville high school auditorium at 8 30. The rally will feature Boyer who served on the battlefields of France and is expected to provide an engaging talk. The gathering also includes the election of chapter officers for the coming year.
Paris reports the capture of St. Jean de Mangelare and Veldhoek with multiple block houses. The French advance reached to the southern outskirts of Houtholst wood and extended over a front of more than a mile and a half.
Lieut Hamp ton Beck and Sergt Robert L Knott of the Forsyth Riflemen returned to Camp Sevier Greenville with one AWOL member Isaac D Reavis. Two others Wilton Balth and Gray Grubbs could not be located. Desertion carries at least one year in prison or guard-house sentence. Deputy Collector C H Haynes and S R Jones inspect tobacco stocks in Forsyth for wartime revenue taxes. over 300 inventories will take six weeks.
New York reports a 14.46 percent rise in total revenues to 51,388,325 with net operating income of 24,331,453 and a corporate income balance of 12,360,161. The road's property investment stands at 407,688,151 with traffic increasing across all classes aside from perishables. Government supply transport boosted volumes. next year’s outlook remains positive.
Calotabs replaces calomel as a purified home remedy for biliousness constipation and indigestion. One tasteless tablet at bedtime with water promises a clean liver and improved appetite by morning. Sold in sealed twenty dose packages for thirty five cents with a refund guarantee from druggists.
A Reading Pennsylvania man testimonial says Foley Kidney Pills relieved months of backache rheumatic pains swollen joints and sore muscles enabling him to resume work. The sponsor Mann Drug Co. presents the endorsement from B H Stone 840 N 2d St Reading Pa.
Snow flurried across Roanoke Virginia on Tuesday with brief flurries. Reports from southwest Virginia and West Virginia indicate a general seasonal fall in the region.
Muscokee Oklahoma October 10 The first freezing temperature of the fall was recorded early today as the mercury fell to 31 degrees above zero. A quarter inch of frost formed on exposed surfaces.
The United States elevates Tasker H Bliss to general with precedence over John J Pershing, both rising from modest ranks to top positions. The move creates two full generals for the American expeditionary forces in Europe and reflects a short list of U S generals historic names in Washington.
Records of examining physicians show more men from rural areas rejected for physical defects than urban draftees, challenging prior assumptions about the draft. The finding highlights regional health disparities as the draft era continues.
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