24 Dec 1914
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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1914
Page
1
Advertisement urges residents to buy Red Cross stamps to support relief efforts in High Point. It notes the town has 25 000 stamps on hand while smaller towns sold 50 000 and Winston 100 000, urging citizens to fulfill their humane duty by placing stamps on packages and letters.
The city council plans to reconvene January 4 after a Friday closure. Leonard-Beavans-Stamey Co. promotes gold offers for trades. J C Motsinger fatally injured three hogs weighing 1154 pounds total. Rev J C Rowe visited his son Dr G T Rowe in Charlotte. Delos Hammer returns from Montgomery County to spend holidays at home. Mrs E H Davis and daughters Mabel and Alberta of Rockingham visit Mrs A J Dedamead. High Point residents are urged to donate to the fire department. An East Court Street shop is repurposed into a first class tin shop for cornice and roofing work. Gold given away Thursday night.
A poetic reflection on Christmas spanning diverse lands and peoples. It praises the Christ Child as master of all, calls for universal compassion, and envisions a world illuminated by Christ’s love and hope for the weak and weary. The verse invites hearts to celebrate Christmas within and abroad tonight.
The piece celebrates the Chicago Heralds Christmas Ship plan begun September 5, 1914, noting nationwide editorials and newspaper support. It describes crowds contributing money, toys, clothing, and food for Belgian French and German war orphans, with seventy papers promoting the effort as the ship sails with aid.
Misses Bessie and Virginia Wood son will spend Christmas in Richmond. A joint city charter meeting Wednesday night outlined proposed changes. Xmas presents promoted at H. A. Moffitt and Xmas goods urged at Leonard-Beavans-Stamey Co. Brown Grocery advertises Xmas fruits and specials. J. W. Kidd and Alice Kennedy marry at the Reformed Church with Rev. A. Peeler officiating.
The High Point women coordinating Christmas stockings report over two hundred pledges. Stockings will be left at the Bank of Commerce on Wednesday. All city women are invited to join this charity drive to bring joy to needy children this season.
The Review lists holiday goodwill and community notices including Christmas prices, calendars, and local business promos. It notes office closings between Christmas and New Year, a poem by W. H. Dugdale, a state lottery giveaway at Leonard Beavans Statey Co, and local marriage announcements in Mechanicsville.
The article tours a rural cemetery noting a string of grim fates and cautionary epitaphs. It links a series of sensational deaths to hazards from firearms trains fires and dangerous work in a moralizing urban voice.
Mr. Mebane Wrightenberg was struck by a rock while on No 35 near a railroad camp beyond Brown Summit and suffered two scratches and a brief unconscious spell. Witness E W Mellichampe observed the incident, with speculation that a camp laborer tossed the rock in anger at the railroad company.
High Point on Saturday and today hosts farmers and country folk shopping for Christmas presents. Bargains include boys gloves raincoats ladies and children's coats silk scarfs collars shirtwaists and more at H A Moffit's store.
Poetic excerpt recalls Christmas carols blending voices and radiance of crowns on brows. The speaker imagines hearing past choirs in current glow, noting sorrowless singing under starlight with bells across the snow.
The Review will pause publication for a holiday week with no issue forthcoming. Christmas week is the annual print shop rest period, allowing employees a break and stocktake, after which weekly visits resume in January for another year.
A festive message extends friendship to readers and all people hoping for gratitude and better days. It reflects on the old year with mixed incidents and urges a hopeful, charitable outlook for the coming year for all mankind.
The Review invites readers who visit the office before Thursday at 5 PM to receive a value item. No children may apply.
The Rev Leslie P Howard pastor of Memorial Methodist Church Durham was found dead on Lakeshore railroad three miles from Kingston NY. The body was mangled. Judge Newman rules there is no probable cause for appeal in Leo Frank case. Supreme Court affirms New York extradition rights for Harry K Thaw from New Hampshire. Battles in Poland and Galicia continue in snow and ice with no clear advantage. Germans retreat across the Prussian border near Miarsa.
Secretary C N McIlvaine of the South Dakota State Fair lauds newspapers as a vital education for farmers. He praises Peter Radford's pieces, especially the article on Political Preachers, urging every farmer and farmer's wife to read them.
Mrs W C Idol and her child are visiting Winston. An item from the local scene notes their presence in the city and highlights the community business spirit.
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