Unique Silk Mills Thrive at High Point Industry
Stehli silk mills operate two High Point plants supplying 30 000 spindles and 150 looms. A payroll of about 6000 dollars biweekly supports 350 workers, mostly women, with 58 hours pay for 60, plus in-house laundry serving over 500 people weekly. Air pumped water and health measures emphasize employee welfare.
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High Point
Patterson
N. J
Lancaster
Stehli
No.1
No. 2
Japan
China
No. 1
Liberal offer on dictionary with subscription payments
A newspaper advert urges readers to act quickly for a two dollar dictionary included with every hundred dollar subscription and an extra nineteen cents. It promises you are paid to pay now and warns that delaying will force payment without any offer, citing laws about newspapers published elsewhere.
President to address Congress on canal toll repeal
President Wilson will personally address a joint session of Congress on Thursday to advocate repeal of the Panama Canal Act clause that exempts American coastwise shipping from tolls.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Goethals Receives National Geographic Special Medal
Washington March 3 The National Geographic Society banquet honors Col George Washington Goethals builder of the Panama Canal. President Wilson presents a special gold medal recognizing his distinguished service to the world, with an inscription praising his patriotism and the canal’s construction.
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Washington
Col
George Washington Goethals
Panama Canal
National Geographic Society
Colonel Goethals
Wilson
Goethals
United States
Geo. Washington Goethals
Beaufort County Man Digs Up Small Fortune
Jarvis Kinon digging a post hole on a Beaufort County farm near Sidney found a buried box said to hold a small fortune. Report lists Kinon's wealth at about 3006 dollars with earlier finds of coins in the area dating to 1906. No claimant has appeared and mystery surrounds the discoveries. Mr Jones of Mooresville has joined Mann Drug Co.
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Jarvis Kinon
Sidney
Beaufort County
Kinon
Mr. Jones
Mooresville
The
Mann Drug Co
Scarcity of Labor Looms for Next Year’s Building Surge
A local contractor forecasts labor shortages as housing demand rises beyond last year’s pace. The report notes larger building forecasts, plus related civic and social items including a Marion death, Knights of Macabees travel, and various city notices.
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Dennis H Hall
J. J. Garland
Hall
Col
P. J. Sinclair
Marion
Carson Sinclair
Knights of Maccabees
Greensboro
Supreme Commander
County Court House
No. 1031 Sacrifices Skin for a Fellow Inmate
Inmates of the Washington State Reformatory at Monroe publish The Index and praise No. 1031 hospital attendant who offered up skin for a graft to treat No. 931 who cut his right foot. The note lauds selfless motive and urges readers to imitate such duty and sacrifice in the face of prison life.
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Washington State Reformatory
Monroe
Stockwell
Reformatory
May Chinese boy attend white public school
The Greensboro Patriot reports a High Point controversy over Lem Leong a ten year old Chinese boy enrolling in a white public school. Officials a council members and patriotic groups debate legality race and American status with the attorney general and state superintendent to rule. The piece notes community protest and administration plans plus local building news.
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Greensboro Patriot
W. P.ragan
W. H. Ragan
Patriot
North Carolina
High Point
Sofi
Celestial Empire
Lem Leong
Cation
Order of United American Mechanics
Patriotic Order of America
Board of Trustees
Bf G W. Prim
O. F. Lewis
J. Apple
Patriotic Sons of America
Daughters of Liberty
Attorney General
State Superintendent of Education
G. W. Prim
Raleigh
Mr. Lewis
City approves purchase of six cylinder Segraves fire truck
The City Council last night approved a six cylinder Segraves motor truck for the fire department. A social at Oak Hill school house Saturday night at 8 o'clock features “Kentucky Belle” with admission 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. Public invited.
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Segraves
Oak Hill
Kentucky
Oak Hill School House
Not McIntire Arrest Suspect Misidentification in Georgia
The man arrested in Marietta Georgia last week identified as Ed McIntire was not the suspect sought on two serious charges. Photographs were distributed after the state police discovered the error.
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Marietta
Ed McIntire
Georgi
Woodmen member dies from electric shock in Burlington
R. B. Warner, a member of the local Woodmen of the World camp, was killed Tuesday in Burlington by an electric shock. He had previously worked for North State Telephone Co. in this city. Several Woodmen from here attended his funeral in Burlington.
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H. W. McCain
Philadelphia
Salvation Army
Bird S Coler
New York City
New York
Fred N. Tate
J. Friend Cox
R. R. Ragan
J. W. Harris
R. B. Warner
Burlington
North State Telephone Co
Sleeping Beauty on Ice: Cedar Grove Teacher Walks in Sleep
Miss Jessie Crompton a Cedar Grove township teacher awakened barefoot in night attire and walked about half a mile to an ice pond. She sat on the ice for six hours before rescue and is now recovering though she cannot recall the strange episode. Her parents found her missing clothes in her room that Saturday morning. The pond belonged to John T. Hughes.
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Durham
Jessie Crompton
Cedar Grove Township
Orange County
Miss Crompton
Andrew Crompton
John T. Hughes
Just Between Ourselves and The Lamppost
Persuasive advice to advertisers urging business men to craft strong selling stories for home audiences. Emphasizes arousing interest before purchases and detailing every feature to win over the buying public. Encourage adding punch and vital facts to messaging and offering help to improve copy.
Young Folk Party for William P. Ragans Anniversary
Master William P. Ragan hosted 75 juvenile guests at his parents home on High Street to celebrate his seventh birthday with games music and refreshments. The event inspired warm wishes for his long life and prosperity. A Sunday night gale caused damage across the region.
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William P. Ragan
W. P. Ragan
Elizabeth Heights
High Street
Jack Horner
High Point
Mr. Ragan
William Jr
Tenth Anniversary of Baltimore Fire Observed in City
Baltimore flags marked the tenth anniversary of the 1904 great Baltimore fire and the city’s post disaster rebuilding. The blaze began February 7 and burned for two days destroying 75 city blocks, 2,500 buildings, across 140 acres with an estimated property loss over 100 million dollars.
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Baltimore
Local Ads Highlight Spring Suits and Shoes
Leonard Beavans-Stamey Co advertises spring suits and McCall Patterns. Matton Drug Co promotes garden seeds of W Lina. Thacker's Shoe Store highlights charming footwear. The Bank of Commerce runs a Christmas Ready Money Club on the second page.
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Leonard Beavans-Stamey Co
Matton Drug Co
W Lina
Aurious
McCall
Thacker’s Shoe Store
the Bank of Commerce
Heavy blast at Southern Aluminum Co works shocks several towns
A large dynamite blast at the Narrows works near Yadkin Tuesday night shook Troy Hamlet Rockingham Wadesboro and nearby areas. Explosives fired caused debris and minor secondary charges with no injuries reported. Cleanup costs around 1500 dollars.
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Southern Aluminum Co
Yadkin
Troy
Hamlet
Rockingham
Wadesboro
Montgomerian
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Eonard- Tamey
Beavans
J. W. Austin, M. D
South Main St
High Point, N. C
Bur Jackson
Bradner & Pearsall
Commerce Street N Ear
Postoffice
Washington City
FistPont
Matton's
Alfred
Recorder’s Court
D. A. Montgomery
Violet White
A. M Hardy
Gertrude Young
Ruth Phoenix
Eleanor Gwynn
Frances Mann
T. F. Wrenn
Southland
McIntire
Woodman
G. T. Shelton
Grover Ferguson
Charlie Joyce
High Point Steam Bakery
G. T. Shelton, Charlie Joyce
Brown Grocery Company
North Main
St. High Point, N.C
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