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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1914
Page
4
The Review reiterates it will not accept whiskey advertisements and will not run any ads harmful to High Point business interests. Existing notices remain in place until ordered out, and all notices and advertisements not contracted for a specified time may be inserted and charged accordingly.
Americans drank less whiskey in the past year while beer consumption rose and cigarette use increased. For the fiscal year, receipts fell by 854,069 dollars against the prior year largely from distilled spirits taxes. Tobacco taxes rose about 2.8 million, driven by more cigarette sales, and beer tax receipts gained roughly 860 thousand.
Atlantic City July. Dr. G Harlan Wells of Hahnemann College Philadelphia claims heart disease rises from strenuous modern life due to insufficient lying down. He notes the heart bears heavy strain and suggests a daily rest period, including an afternoon hour lying down to relieve swelling and redistribute blood.
Notices urge vigilance against a new chestnut bark disease spreading southward in Virginia and possibly reaching North Carolina. Early detection and removal of affected trees can slow the blight, which shows dead branches, brown leaves, and red brown pinhead dots on bark. Report suspected cases to the Department of Plant Diseases at the Agricultural Experiment Station in West Raleigh, North Carolina.
The Chautauqua held June 30 to July 6 at High Point proved the best of its kind here. Citizens secured tickets for a repeat event next year. Notable entries included William Jennings Bryan, Judge Lindsey, Dr. Russell Conwell, the Alpine Yodlers, Italian Band, Imperial Russian Quartet, and Frank Dixon. Lindsey urged mercy for juvenile offenders and visited a local court, while Victor’s Band and other acts captivated the audience.
The Palmerino woman Rosa Salemi claims she bore five boys to her husband in a single birth and later additional children, but gravata from Tuscany holds the record. A doctor notes the children are well formed and healthy. The sequence spans multiple years with births of girls, twins, triplets, and many single births, culminating in 62 living children.
Washington report states Comptroller A H Plant rejects claims Southern Railway will remove ticket collectors. He says collectors have been withdrawn only from trains with light traffic and will continue on main lines. no further reductions are planned at present.
Secretary of State William J Bryan has leased a summer home in Asheville where he and his family plan to spend most of the heated term. He spent Sunday in Asheville and intends to join his family there in about two weeks after duties in Washington.
Deputy Sheriff Isaac W. Skipper was shot and killed Saturday night by James To money a Black man whom the officer had begun to arrest for disorderly conduct at a Negro lodge meeting in Brunswick County.
White settlers named a Native girl Haha for her musical laugh, a bond formed with Donald McDermott as they met by a cliff above the Ohio. After his death a single laugh echoed from the cliff and Haha died months later by suicide, leaving the place a sacred trysting site in tribal memory.
Schedule in effect October 14 1913 shows southbound and northbound trains with daily departures from High Point Thomasville Gordontown and Denton to High Point and back. Times are not guaranteed and may change without notice. Price Superintendent.
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