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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1913
Page
4
The Review states it will not accept whiskey advertisements and will not run ads detrimental to local business interests. The note appears in the July 3 1913 issue alongside subscription rates and distribution details.
President Tate leads the Freight Rate Association with strong North Carolina support while Greensboro remains neutral on baseball. High Point ministers discuss forming a law enforcement league to enforce liquor laws. Painters beautify the city, and readers are urged to keep ice boxes clean and discard spoiled foods to prevent ptomaine poisoning.
Census shows over ten percent of native white American voters in seven states cannot read their ballots. The National Child Labor Committee notes that a decade ago nearly one third of native white working boys under 16 in those states were illiterate. The piece warns vacationers about flies and water supply at resorts and cautions about poorly screened accommodations and nearby shallow wells.
The public will judge health work by results not praise. A vital statistics law will show if death rates decline and a morbidity law will reveal progress in reducing preventable sickness. This enables citizens to hold city county and state health officers accountable.
Southern Railway Live Stock Department issues booklet to boost hog farming in the South. F. L. Ward, Atlanta live stock agent, will supply copies on request. Booklet offers practical information on profitable hog raising and conditions for success.
The passage notes hog care, breed choice, disease treatment, and meat curing with expert chapters. It highlights the South's pork consumption and low production as a grand economic barrier, and promotes a long open season and diverse crops as profit boosters for Southern hog raisers. The Live Stock Department of the Southern Railway offers free expert services to farmers in livestock.
Three new physicians join the State Board of Health: Dr. Edward J. Wood of Wilmington, Dr. A. A. Kent of Lenoir, and Dr. Cyrus Thompson of Jacksonville. They replace Dr. Edward C. Register, Dr. J. E. Ashcraft, and Dr. David T. Tayloe as terms expire. Dr. Richard H. Lewis is reappointed as secretary.
A college-educated traveler tests waiter slang in a New York cheap restaurant scene where orders are humorously translated into unusual phrases such as two eggs scrambled on toast becoming Adam and live on a att wreck em. Waiters shout to cooks through a window and use colorful terms for dishes and drinks, revealing a rich, humorous vocabulary.
Vague excerpt recalls a new waiter who must handle meat and vegetables with fingers and a customer sarcastically orders eggs coconuts and tea. A waitress at a social function hides her identity while a young man hears about aristocratic family ties and a jokey line about ham and drawing one in the dark. Life.
Effective July 1 1913 the Raleigh Charlotte and Southern Railway announces a new connecting link between Varina NC on the Raleigh and Southport Division and Colon NC on the Durham and Charlotte Division. New stations include Duncan Rosser Corinth Colon and more. Through passenger service will run between Raleigh and Aberdeen Hallison Asheboro Carthage Candor Ellerbe Troy Mt Gilead Star Biscoe Pinehurst. Apply to agents for schedules.
Capt Noah Walker of Arlington proposes a flour based sting along Park Heights avenue to mark speeders. With input from Justice Charles Foster and Patrolman Daniel Hoffman he plans to station officers in secluded spots while flour is sprinkled on offenders if wind allows. He doubts some drivers may resist the scheme.
By decree of the Superior Court of Guilford County Julia Robinson et al authorize a public auction in High Point on July 21 1913 at 3 69 o clock PM for three parcels of Sallie Nailor real estate excluding the homestead The tracts total about 24500 square feet with specific street boundaries and payments split half cash day of sale and balance in three months at 6 percent interest secured by purchaser bond Terms set June 20 1913.
Cautionary note warns against catarrh remedies containing mercury and rules out internal use. Claims such products derange the system when absorbed through mucous surfaces. Advises obtaining only prescriptive treatments from reputable physicians and mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
For sale 20 acres just north of High Point near the city limits. Prospective buyers may contact J Mat Gordon Route 4 High Point North Carolina for further particulars and details.
A High Point resident, F M York of Shelton Street, testifies that kidney pain and backaches disappeared after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He endorses the remedy and notes no recurrence. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo is sole U S agents. Remember the name Dean's and take no other.
An advertisement for Odont O Zone methods at Gardner's Drug Store Greensboro announces pain free tooth filing and extraction services. Contact phone 1710 for details and proof.
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