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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1913
Page
6
The High Point Review returns with a jumble of witty observations and unserious items. It surveys evolving bills, fashion oddities, social quirks, and oddities from New York to Copenhagen, noting humorous contrasts and light social commentary. It references topics from dueling abolitions to fashionable gowns, coalitions and colonial jokes, with a playful newsroom voice.
President Wilson outlined foreign policy toward Central and South America emphasizing cooperation through lawful government, mutual respect, and harmony. He warned against disorder and personal ambition, pledging to foster peaceful, rule-based relations while expanding trade and shared interests between the Americas.
Washington reports Democrats gain a working majority in the Senate with 49 seats and elect James M. Baker as Secretary, Charles B. Higgins as Sergeant at Arms, Forest J. Prettyman as Chaplain, and Thomas W. Keller as Assistant Doorkeeper. Senator James P. Clarke is chosen President pro tempore amid GOP resistance over Loeffler Lorimer papers. In New Hampshire, Henry F. Hollis wins the U S Senate after 43 ballots. 371 votes cast.
The Ohio House passed a bill to abrogate the Cincinnati Traction Company's fifty year franchise. The franchise will be held indefinitely by the company until the city takes it over or another agreement is reached. The grant was made sixteen years ago after the Legislature authorized such franchises at ex-Senator Foraker's urging.
County Judge Owens ordered the Progressive party to the first ballot column for the April 1 election, pushing Republicans to third place behind Democrats. The judge cited Progressive vote totals from the November election as the basis for his ruling.
Richmond banker John Skelton Williams, former Seaboard Air Line president, is appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He relinquishes a $25,000 yearly salary to take the post at $5,000 annually following past financial reverses in the Seaboard dispute with Thomas F. Ryan.
Middletown New York Joseph Schultz a cattle dealer of Slate Hill near Middletown slit his throat with a razor in the sanitarium dying at about forty. He had prior federal trouble and had learned of a new indictment about two weeks earlier.
A sweeping cyclone devastates regions from the Great Lakes to the Gulf and from the Appalachians to the Rockies. Tornadoes and cyclones cause wide destruction in the South with reports of extensive property damage and casualties.
A massive electrical tornado swept a large swath from the Middle West to the South and Southwest killing dozens, injuring hundreds, and causing millions in property loss. Georgia bore the heaviest toll with ninety dead and a million dollars in damage. Tennessee Alabama and other states reported further fatalities and street flooding. Communications outages hindered full casualty tallies as wreckage and storm damage spread from Georgia to Nebraska and Wisconsin with trains derailed, churches toppled, and towns flooded.
President Wilson stated he would accept none of any invitations away from Washington during his first year in office. He announced this in a letter declining to attend the Mecklenburg Declaration celebration in Charlotte North Carolina on May 20 marking the 137th anniversary of the document.
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