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The Review in High Point, North Carolina
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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1914
Page
2
Rush to settle debts and save with dictionary offer
A reader note urges payment of owed balances by offering a two dollar dictionary for each one dollar paid. The deal highlights many claimants have already taken the offer and notes wholesale prices far higher. Also mentions rushing troops, auto fire truck by June 1, and Rev Earnhardt delivering a sermon at the Farmer commencement.
New Ads This Week Promote Local Firms Across Pages
An advertising roundup lists participating businesses and page locations. Moffitt Furnishing Co and Leonard-Beavans-Stamey Co appear on the 1st page, Ready Money Club on the 6th, The Fair on the 5th, Selz Shoes via Forrest & Cates on the 7th, Beck Plumbing Co. on the 7th, Comstock Electric on the 1st, Cannon & Fetzer Co. on the 10th, and Atlantic Coast Realty Co. on the 6th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moffitt Furnishing Co
Leonard-Beavans-Stamey Co
Ready Money Club
the Fair
Selz Shoes
Forrest & Cates
Comstock Electric Ca
Beck Plumbing Co
Cannon & Fetzer Co
Atlantic Coast Realty Co
I Must Proceed From The Toledo Times
A compact feature on meteors and meteorites noting definitions, frequent observations, and museum collections. It cites the British Museum with 566 meteoric stones and mentions Prince Peary’s Greenland find. It then quotes famous figures and stresses the daily duty implied by the phrase I must guiding action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
British Museum
British Islands
Peary
Greenland
India
Philadelphia Press
Lord Nelson
Trafalgar
Washington
Valley Forge
Lincoln
Gettysburg
Mark Twain
Toledo
Imitative Chinese Gun Imitation Fails After Feast Visit
A Chinese officer recalls the first visit of a Vickers Maxim representative to Shanghai. After the sample gun was demonstrated at the arsenal a sixty four course Chinese feast followed. Chinese mechanics carefully dismantled the gun and copied its parts while the sample was returned to the tester. China was not in the market for Maxims at that time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vickers Sons & Maxim
Shanghai
Maxim
China
Adhesive Eggs of Fishes
The article explains adhesive eggs in several fish species. Blackhead minnow and goldfish males fertilize and guard single eggs on submerged plants. Yellow perch lay eggs in glutinous ribbons. Other fishes like black bass sunfish and catfishes deposit adhesive eggs in masses on nests or submerged objects.
Beating Carpenters Record Across Four Generations
The note catalogs a carpenter whose family has long practiced the craft across generations and compares it with a Kent inn keeping lineage of four centuries. It cites Grant Duff’s diary and a Madras punkah puller’s reply to a lady, noting caste pride and ancestral labor as a lasting claim to status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lamberhurst
Kent
Grant Duff
Madras
Memsahib
Vishnu
London Chronicle
The Wearying Chase In A Hunting Adventure
The fragment shows a gazelle fleeing a hunter across cliff edges. The chase builds urgency through short phrases and vivid motion. The last line hints at imminent danger as the hunter closes in, inviting revision for sharper imagery and pacing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
Earthquakes and Their Origins Across the Globe
Earthquakes are subterranean disturbances that spread as elastic waves. The source notes that their origins are not clearly shown and that many quakes relate to volcanic action, while many occur independently of it.
Queered Himself Hat Line Sparks Banter
A brief exchange features a playful remark about a new hat. The line shows M. Bolreau complimenting Pele Mele, who responds that the hat makes him look twenty years younger. The light exchange captures a moment of rustic humor and social banter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Bolreau
Sadam
Quote on wives and husbands by a judge
The speaker contrasts unselfish women with self sacrificing traits, noting they make the best wives, while stating they also make the worst husbands. The judge asserts that such qualities define domestic roles and outcomes.
A Leaf From the Past on Fayetteville Rail and River Trade
A historical overview traces Fayetteville area transport from early river navigation attempts by the Cape Fear Navigation Company to plank roads and stage routes. It covers 18th and 19th century mail routes, post offices like Averasboro and Barclaysville, coal rushes on Deep River, and the rise of the Western Railroad later C F and Y V. It notes key figures, towns, ships, and the shift from cattle driving to plantation farming aided by slave labor. The narrative highlights challenges, delays, and eventual railroad expansion toward the Civil War era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Fear
Fayetteville
Raleigh
Barclaysville
Baltimore
Charleston
Averasboro
Logstreet
Buies
Sweat Rock Branch
Longstreet P.O
Johnsonville
John W. Cameron
Rollins Store
Broadway
R. H. Whitaker
S. E. Johnson
L. D. Cameron
Henry Morrison
Deep River
R. R
Wilmington
Mt. Airy
Sanford
Southern
Ore Hill
William Cameron
Spout Springs
Cameron
Transformation from log cabins to frame houses
A fragmentary 1800s note describes wooden screw construction replacing log cabins and the shift to frame houses. It mentions planks fastened with wooden pegs and holes bored with a gimlet, with blacksmiths shaping roofs. The text reflects a transition in building methods and dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. P. McDonald
Veterans Reunion Rail Trip From High Point to Jacksonville
Southern Railway offers round trip from High Point to Jacksonville for 10.30 dollars in connection with the Confederate Veterans Reunion. Special train departs Charlotte at 1 p.m. Monday May 4, arriving in Lenville the following morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Railway
High Point
Jacksville
Confedera Veterans
Charlotte
Lenville
Just Between Ourselves and The Lamppost
A persuasive note to business readers urges advertisers to craft compelling selling stories. It stresses arousing the mind before the pocketbook, targeting the buying class at home, and delivering full details with punch. It invites guidance to add zing to copy for stronger impact.
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Farmer
International Harvester Oil and Gas Engines
IHC
UY An ‘International Harvester Engine
Deering
International Harvester Company of America
N.C McCormick Milwaukee Osborne Plano
Beeson Hardware
N. C
International Harvester Co
North Main Street
High Point, N.C
Ford
Detroit
High Point Motor Company
The
Stage Route
Clarden
G P. McNeil
Chatham
Cumberland
Sapana
Norfolk
Cannon G& Fetzer
Schloss
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