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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1917
Page
2
A historic advertisement extols California Syrup of Figs as a harmless remedy for child constipation and related stomach and bowel complaints. It urges mothers to buy 2 bottles of the laxative and notes full directions printed on the bottle. The piece also includes brief humorous clippings and a note on eye care products.
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic promoted as a general tonic with quinine and iron and noted for liver action malaria relief blood enrichment and whole system build up. The ad ends with a quotation from Sir Arthur Helps criticizing the pursuit of happiness and overlooking quiet daily pleasures.
Dialogue style snippets show a range of conversations from a three year old boy praised for intelligence to a dying mother and a dyehouse inheritance. The humor hinges on misinterpretations and wordplay about travel, reporters, and military dispatches.
A brief, reflective saying notes that doing one’s duty does not deserve praise and adds a contrasting idea about judging value by price rather than quality. The text presents two aphorisms attributed to St. Augustine and a proverb on dinner value.
A simple reminder to start the school day with a hot drink for youngsters. Provides no further details beyond the basic suggestion.
The Weeks law expansion adds 23 700 acres to National Forest Reserves in the East and South, bringing total additions to 1 373 131 acres. The largest purchase is 8 000 acres on Mount Mitchell NC with tracts in Burke Caldwell Buncombe Henderson Macon Jackson counties and others. Additional tracts extend into Virginia Georgia Tennessee and New Hampshire.
New Orleans Daniel T. Gray of Raleigh was re elected secretary of the Association of Southern Agricultural Workers at the closing session. W R Dodson of Louisiana was elected president and Montgomery was chosen as the 1913 meeting place.
General Funston announced mustering out stations for National Guard units in a recent war department order. The First North Carolina Infantry from Asheville redistributed to Shelby for several companies, with others sent to Charlotte, Rutherfordton, Hickory, Gastonia, Winston-Salem, Statesville, Asheville, Waynesville, Mount Airy, Concord, and High Point.
Governor Bickett grants first clemency to Nathaniel Best a 19-year-old Black man from Catawba County serving a year for larceny. Health officials say imprisonment hinders recovery due to confinement and diet needs. Judge Lane Hickory mayor and officials backed the pardon.
Raleigh Attorney General Manning issues opinion for State Auditor Wood upholding the legislature's act increasing Governor Bickett's salary as constitutional. The document argues a simultaneous construction of five Constitution sections and aligns with multiple state rulings. It covers term lengths, election timing, and successor qualification.
At Greensboro the North Carolina League directors confirmed plans for a 1917 season with four clubs officially represented and two via proxies. The class C rule is dropped enabling full rosters to include higher class players within a salary cap. Roster limit set to 12 managers included.
North Carolina National Guard headquarters announced promotions for guardsmen now serving on the Mexican border. Second Lieutenant W H Peschau of Wilmington becomes first lieutenant of Company A Engineers. Walter Clark named captain of Company B Raleigh. C F Lumsden promoted to first lieutenant and brigade adjutant. W C Holder promoted to first lieutenant. F B Parrish advanced to second lieutenant. Also Raleigh obituary notes Lemon Shaw 108, possibly state’s oldest colored man, who died at Garner after life in Wake county with a war era stay in the Dismal Swamp. Shaw formerly faced a six-year-ago murder trial for David Hall but was acquitted due to age.
A special legislative committee of the North Carolina National Guard Association has completed a bill to align state laws with new Federalized National Guard regulations. The measure will be introduced in both chambers soon and is expected to pass with little opposition.
Governor Bickett urged to attend U S Good Roads meeting in Birmingham April 17 to 21. J A Taylor foreman on Badin dam killed when work train ran over him last week. A modern ferry planned at Bluett Malls. A film company to stage and re fight the battle of Kings Mountain. Irish potatoes in Craven county expected to be the largest harvest yet. First North Carolina Infantry expected home by February 10. Wilson to have a 39000 dollar opera house. Railroads ordered to build a union station in Kinston. Catawba River bridge project awarded to Virginia Bridge Iron Co for 43000.
A Boston reporter visits Cohasset to meet Prince a Great Dane living on a 15 room estate. The dog has a Japanese valet and a daily meat allowance around two and a half pounds with meals costing high prices. Prince wakes bathes eats breakfast and roams the woods under valet care.
In Nyack a Park Row cook Adam Brede left Dolan's Beef and Beans for a rare day off after four decades of work. He recalls serving notable figures from Big Tim Sullivan to Henry Ward Beecher Theodore Roosevelt Jay Gould. Brede boasts a fortune and farms, crediting Edison and Croker for life lessons.
Lena Kehl, born in Germany and living in Indianapolis for 17 years, arrived in Baltimore unaware of the European conflict. She sought the North German Lloyd docks at Union Station, learning ships were idle due to the war. The German consul declared her no longer a German citizen and warned against attempting a return home.
Henry Torborg a 73 year old conductor on the Blue Island line for four decades died of pneumonia. He amassed an estimated half million dollars from city salary savings and real estate and railway stock. He left Indiana at 14 and earned wealth through frugal living and investments. He is survived by two sons Milo and Arthur and a sister Mrs Tillie Sanderson.
Mr Yoshida appointed to study Manchurian commercial conditions reports transporter times from Osaka to Harbin about a month by passenger train. He lists hosiery undershoe soles cotton textiles medicine isinglass and insulated electric as main Japanese goods moving from Harbin to Europe and Russia. Since mid August customs have taxed host Carian duties. Trade in Nu Manchuria shows growth due to population rise and cultural development with Harbin seen as business hub.
Gertrude Swashby wed a gala affair described as a great success. Society stars exhausted their stock of adjectives to describe the event while Swashby’s credit was stretched to host it. A witty line questions why Wall Street is called so, hinting at the phrase’s punchline.
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