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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1917
Page
4
New York police report a flood of unsigned letters alleging Germans everywhere spy on all daily life. German speakers, pinochle players, or beer drinkers are labeled as plots and dynamiters. A detective even shadowed a pinochle game to test claims but found little evidence of actual plots.
New Yorkers read of Uncle Sam’s tea tasters who convene yearly to pass on or reject teas for the coming year. A seven-member board samples hundreds of brews, tests aromas, and weighs each cup with the weight of a silver half dime to set the U S standard. The result is a golden brown, potent beverage meant to keep readers awake.
St Louis plans a city wide cleanup and paint up before the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World meet next June. Louis Blumenstock leads a designs committee proposing vacant lots become playgrounds gardens or tennis courts and urging mayoral proclamation to mobilize owners and agents in a beautification drive.
Miss Relke of Fairfax Minnesota won the girls nail driving contest at the Minnesota School of Agriculture indoor field meet. She drove 12 ten penny spikes into a plank in 1 minute 14% seconds despite a thumb wound, with classmates cheering.
A South driven by war and weather faces rising food prices and potential famine. Farmers urged to plant record grain and livestock, grow vegetables and dairies, and expand home food production this spring and summer. Business leaders and governments should press for a crop boom to keep prices fair and avoid reliance on imports.
A Brooklyn Navy recruitment office scene shows a smiling applicant during medical checks as enlistment interest grows. A mail from a seafaring son mentions gifts for his mother including a striped Japanese kimono, prompting a humorous misinterpretation from the mother who asks how to feed it and where to keep it.
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