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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1914
Page
7
A collection of wry sayings on fashion, liberty, wealth, and society. Observations range from fashion and Wall Street to gender roles, the aging world, and playful captions about Germans, bachelors, and hog cholera funding.
A letter from A. de la Torre Jr formerly U S Inspector of Immigration Port of San Francisco at 1111 Powell Street praises Peruna catarrh remedy. He says it has improved his health and that he will advocate it to friends as the best cure for catarrh he has used.
Washington dinner spotlights Dixie progress as Southern women and economic roles expand. Secretary Daniels urges chivalry to aid working women, noting laws improving female employment and a push toward night-work limits. Brunswick land deal signals large scale development by a mixed capital group.
Wilmington Swift & Company Fertilizer Works reports a record single shipment to a customer. A special 28car Atlantic Coast Line train conveyed the fertilizer to Oxford to aid local farmers promptly.
Mount Airy will get a modern granite two story hospital with 20 rooms as ground work and contracts advance. Financing comes from Mrs. B. A. Irvin, a retired milliner, and her friends who purchased the site over a year ago.
In Rocky Mount the contract for the city graded school high school building was awarded for $32,805 excluding heating and plumbing. Additional contracts are planned to total about $4,000 and the building must be completed within five and a half months to be ready for the fall opening.
Josephus Daniels and Champ Clark headlined a Cuya hoga County Democracy dinner in Cleveland praising democracy and Thomas Jefferson. Speakers included Governor Cox Senator Pomrene and Representatives Bulkeley Crosser and Gordon with Daniels noting naval wartime roles and ties to Wilson Bryan and Johnson.
Adjutant General Young of the North Carolina National Guard reports war department delivery of a field hospital company at Asheville including eight field wagons 32 harness sets two water fitters 10 field tents four men tents and four officer nail tents plus other equipage He says infantry and cavalry gear 58 wagons 12 ambulances and three ambulance wagons for a Canton corps will arrive soon enabling rapid deployment for the Mexican situation.
A forest fire lit by a careless hunter has burned around Southern Pines and Manly for several days. Pines, vineyards and orchards suffered considerable damage where the blaze swept through grass and timber. Buncombe County highway work moves toward completion as state convicts near the county line, with support from local clubs and associations.
Washington notice lists Sixth District postmasters including Cooper Daniel A. Mathews Hope Mills John T Bynum Wade Miss Sallie W Mc Neill Manchester Miss Kate Wad dell Orrum Albert C McCullen Lumber Bridge Charles P McGoug an Rennett Charles W Watson Marietta William McD Oliver Sup ply Mrs Lizzie Galloway Town Creek Mrs Nellie B Walker Castle Haynes Edward R Jones New Berlin Mrs Little E Applewhite Bolton Miss Sallie F Troy with locations provided.
A vintage ad style promotes Stella Vitae as a health tonic for women with fatigue, menstrual issues, indigestion, and weakness. Testimony from Mrs. Willie Moore claims renewed vigor after trying the remedy, with a money back guarantee and bulk purchase offer. Also includes unrelated humor and other patent medicine references.
George, the sexton’s youngest, recounts his grandfather’s prowess to Herbert in a rector’s circle. The rector asks which side of the family, and George replies that his grandfather sticks up for both sides, a playful boast captured in Harper’s Monthly.
Dr Chauncey M Depew in New Ya argues for repeal of a free canal tolls grant to Am coastwise shipping as a coastwise shipper scoffs at optimism The exchange features a witty remark about what an optimist is and the fear of things happening as hoped.
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