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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1917
Page
5
The notice informs subscribers that the payment deadline has been extended to May 1 to cover all arrears. It urges prompt payment to avoid collection actions and assures continued regular delivery of the paper.
Beatriz Michelena notes ten years of 1908 to 1910 marked by western migration and the rise of California as a major producing center. She describes the motion picture trust, its patent battles, boycotts, and violence, and how vaudeville interests in the West sought to keep independents in business by arranging a continuous domestic market for films. The chapter previews further industry moves.
A humorous historical piece recalls horses as early cars with a sixty inch wheelbase and oats in a nosebag. It notes their lack of lights or license numbers, their four passenger capacity, and reliability, arguing the auto trade would not have advanced without horses to haul early models.
A Friday morning fire wiped out the Kinkey Bros. grocery and meat store on East Washington. The loss runs about $2,500 with partial insurance. The item also notes the death of Wm. Partridge in San Francisco, a former High Point citizen who once ran the Boston Shoe Store here. It mentions a school fund benefit play, At the End of the Rainbow, Monday night. Col. D. H. Milton returned to Raleigh after a week on business here.
Until Mc 25th a prepaid subscription to The Review is offered at $1.50 with livery paid. The magazine, worth $2.50, includes about 200 finely printed pictures per issue and is advertised as the finest illustrated magazine in America.
A Thursday night wedding took place at the home of officiating minister Rev H G Kopenhaven as Miss Maye Sink wed Algon Beeson in a small, private ceremony.
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