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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1917
Page
4
Berlin papers print a Brussels dispatch describing Brussels under Prussian rule. Nightlife is shut by order, cafes and concert halls close at eight, and only German restaurants may stay open late. The city is described as a tomb with patrols and sporadic gunfire, yet Brusseleurs adapt with afternoon entertainment and reading.
Anaconda Montana resident P B Christian captured a golden eagle in Chateau on August 19 and released it with a tag. A report from Luis Felipe Rulda in Colombia said the eagle traveled about 3700 miles to the plains north of Bogota and was killed on October 29.
Chicago report shows 95 percent of 1916 cases in the court of domestic relations stemmed from drink. Other women caused 3 percent, interference by mother in law 1 percent, and other causes 1 percent.
A new school linked with the Teachers' College at Columbia University New York will open next fall. It aims to replace standard elementary and secondary education with practical subjects and minimal formal discipline. Otis W. Caldwell of the University of Chicago will direct the Modern School funded by the General Education Board with 35 million dollars.
A Times field report recounts a Canadian raid near Calonne on January 17 with careful staff coordination and efficient execution. The Canadians used aircraft photos to judge trenches, cut wire, and capture 100 prisoners, while suffering light casualties and destroying two ammunition dumps.
Nez Perces Idaho resident Mrs W H Baringer uses gasoline lamps to extend hens working day. She lights at six in the morning during winter and keeps lamps on until 8 30 p m to boost egg output. She claims hens cannot scratch for food before 8 am or after 3 30 pm, leaving little work time.
A blaze gutted the Little Boys’ building at the Methodist Orphanage in Raleigh with 47 boys evacuated from the first floor and ten sleepers on the second floor. All personal effects and the two story brick structure were lost. $6,000 to $7,000 damage. Fire originated in the ladies sitting room. response by fire crews kept others safe. Trustees authorize immediate rebuilding. boys housed temporarily in the sewing room over the laundry.
North Carolina brief reports the steel bridge over the Catawba near Morganton linking Morganton and Lenoir now open to traffic. It notes weather damaged most of the state grain crops and a 13 year old boy killed by a falling tree near Mount Ulla.
The New York assay office cannot safeguard about seven hundred million dollars in gold, prompting transfer to the Philadelphia mint under Assistant Secretary Vogel. The mint already houses over 470 million in gold bricks. the shift would bring totals to about one billion. A single brick is worth eight thousand dollars.
Staten Island residents urge autonomous status or union with New Jersey citing failure of city services. They protest the discontinued contagious disease ambulance service, delays in water supply, a proposed garbage plant, and looming sterilization and fumigation facilities. District Attorney Fach to review public ferry transport of contagious patients.
New Yorkers face a shortage of street letter boxes with only 3047 boxes citywide. Postmaster Edward M. Morgan blames the Municipal Art Society for delaying new curb boxes after an approved design, and no delivery date is set for the new boxes.
A Bronx Zoo cook, Rudolph Bell, explains his parlor of roles as butcher baker and chef. He feeds 3000 animals daily from 6 am to 4 pm, handing out a long list of foods to nourish diverse species behind the service building guarded by a No Visitors Allowed sign. He keeps the animals well fed and the staff curious.
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