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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1922
Page
13
Akron reports on Barney Oldfield’s 20th anniversary of his first race at Grosse Point near Detroit in 1904. The piece notes the car named Cooner Social later known as the 899 and Henry Ford’s role in building the winning car.
An article fragment discusses Moone's Emerald Oil as a remedy for enlarged veins and other conditions with a money back promise. It shifts to reminiscences about Oldfield and early motor car racing, including Ford, Cooper, and a Dayton race with humorous self-taught driving anecdotes and quotes from Oldfield.
Fordney McCumber tariff aside, Oldfield recalls racing milestones from 1902 to 1904. He describes attempting a mile a minute on hard tracks, near-fatal spins, a staged pool offer for his life, and a 60 second lap in New York and Indianapolis. He later built tire business and hinted at unlikely return to racing abroad.
A former athlete muses about someday touring exhibitions and recalling Detroit rivals who have yet to collect on a 1962 life insurance policy.
The Commonwealth statistician reports mortality for Australian soldiers abroad averaged seven and three quarters percent per year, far higher than normal conditions. Excluding post discharge deaths, 58,850 deaths occurred over 761,000 exposure years, rate 77.3 per thousand annually, with historical comparisons to Boer War and Crimean War British troops.
The Pass-A-Grille hotel, a winter resort on an island near St. Petersburg, was destroyed by fire today causing an estimated $150,000 loss, partially covered by insurance.
Cash prizes totalling 1180 are offered to students in the United States and Canada for essays on The World Movement Against Alcohol ism. The Intercollegiate Prohibition association runs the contest from July 1 to November 1 with a Toronto conference set for November 24 to 29 for prize awards.
New York resident Miss Virginia Cook praises Royal Guaranteed Roach Powder as the best roach killer she has used saying it rid her home quickly. Ad promotes purchases at Basketeria and Mann Drug Co with 10 or 25 cent cans and guarantees destruction of roaches.
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