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A compact verse vignette of romantic longing. The speaker describes a woman's embrace and private kisses as a supreme, contented deathless joy, likening it to fainting with happiness and a serene, temperate death.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1916
Page
5
A compact verse vignette of romantic longing. The speaker describes a woman's embrace and private kisses as a supreme, contented deathless joy, likening it to fainting with happiness and a serene, temperate death.
The Coe Idol wedding rehearsal was held at 8 o'clock in the Methodist Protestant church. The bridal party gathered at the Idol home on North Main Street for cake cutting. A birthday cake iced in yellow celebrated Miss Idol’s birthday with various guests named in the ceremony. Education and historical society activities followed, including talks by Miss Mildred Rutherford and arrangements for a Rutherford Historical Circle. Wedding invitations announce Sallie Gilmer Jones and Charles Kemp Boren with plans for October eighteenth at Wesley Memorial Church. The Priscilla club and Over the Tea Cups club schedule meetings on Friday at 3:30 p.m.
Miss Ruth Sechrest and many others attended the Lilac Domino in Greensboro last night. Commodore and Mrs. Harry Phelps retired, with T. M. Thompson passing through between trains. Col lege street guest Miss Phelps, en route from Asheville to Southport, left for Richmond.
Athens reports a chaotic military scene due to officers joining Anglo French allies. King Constantine I received a full staff briefing urging Greece to declare war without waiting for foreign support. Venizelos asserts his course preserves national unity and readiness to act independently if needed. Admiral Condouriotis’s departure is a major setback.
A list of names and locations appears in a regional notice or roster style item. The record names several individuals from North Carolina towns including Winston, Charlotte, Fayetteville, Clinton, Greensboro, Raleigh, Fayetteville, and others, with multiple affiliations and omissions.
Taylorsville reports a boiler explosion at White Bros saw mill in Ellendale township instantly kills Tally White, about 30, unmarried. Daniel White injured, minor head wound. Deceased, son of late James White, leaves three brothers and a sister. Funeral held at Antioch Baptist Church.
Amsterdam dated Sept 28 reports Luxemburg iron manufacturers have extended their contract with the association of German Smelting Furnaces to 1920. Initially allied with Lorraine furnaces to 1910, by 1911 part joined the German group and the remainder soon followed.
Police officers Welch and Evans spotted a possum strolling down Broad Street near Main Street at about 4 a.m. They captured the animal, boxed it up, and plan to keep it for a future cooler day.
In Rock Hill South Carolina on Tuesday night a group of white boys rode bicycles south of the city. Fifteen year old Herbert Wells of Highland Park mill village lost control on a downhill run toward a creek and struck a rock in the stomach region, dying that night.
Manila reports the insular government will set up a tobacco testing station in the Cagayan valley to improve tobacco quality. The move follows A B Powerll's U S trip to promote Philippine cigar sales and bolster local production.
Advertises Adler-ika from Matton Drug Co as a cure for appendicitis and related stomach issues. Claims a few doses of buckthorn bark glycerine and other ingredients relieve or prevent conditions like constipation and gas. Promotes a one teaspoonful dose and a simple short treatment as an easy remedy.
Durham chamber of commerce moves to form a corporation to build 100 or more four to six room houses. The new homes, equipped with modern conveniences, would rent for 12 to 20 dollars monthly to shelter the influx of unemployed seeking work.
First Regiment of the North Carolina guards, under Colonel Gardner, arrived at noon and paraded along Canal Street in a heavy downpour. The unit was praised as the nicest looking and best disciplined of the season, and crossed the Mississippi at six o clock without incident.
In municipal court this morning Tom Rush and Ed Shipp pleaded guilty to jumping on and off a moving train. They were fined $1 and costs.
Regular meeting of B P O E No 1155 is scheduled for tonight followed by a stockholders meeting of the Elks Home Company E S Wall See.
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