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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1913
Page
6
A Lighthearted column from High Point North Carolina surveys social quirks and current curiosities. It riffs on suffrage jokes, tariff talk, new dances, air police plans, open air schools, and oddities from fashion to crate-posted bricks.
The United States Census Bureau released the 1912 cotton crop estimate at 14,076,430 bales, down from 16,109,349 in 1911 and up from 11,965,862 in 1910. Linters surge to 605,704 bales, with Texas near five million bales and Oklahoma at one million. West of the Mississippi shows large yields while eastern declines dampen linters. The average bale weight is 507.8 pounds, and some cotton remains unginned in the totals.
A massive Omaha tornado Four to six blocks wide and eight miles long caused hundreds of deaths and widespread destruction. Rail lines and bridges were destroyed. Suburbs Benson Dundee and Florence were obliterated. Fort Omaha soldiers quelled looting as emergency rooms filled and telegraph service failed.
A fierce storm across central western southern and eastern states leaves well over a hundred dead and hundreds injured. Alabama reports around sixty deaths with others unconfirmed. Thomasville and Lower Peach Tree are nearly wiped out with widespread property losses running into millions. Reports also mention fatalities in Indiana Tennessee Ohio New York Michigan and Louisiana.
Washington William F. McCombs, Democratic National Committee chairman, announced he will not become ambassador to France. He said he cannot leave his legal career and will focus on personal affairs while aiding the Democratic administration and party as possible.
Karl Hoopes, recently arrived from Amsterdam, traveled to New York hoping to invest and grow wealthy. An affable stranger promised quick profits and persuaded him to buy the Brooklyn Bridge for $500, after arriving with $2,000.
Creditors of Antonio Musica and his son Philip, hair importers held in New Orleans, say $100000 of human hair was located in a hidden Brooklyn stable sub cellar during a writ of attachment search. Deputies found 217 bags of hair.
Washington reports that Uncle Sam's express service will expand after July 1 as parcel post use soars. February handled 50 million parcels, up 25 percent from January. Postmaster General Burleson aims to mark his tenure by making the post office department most useful to the public.
Dispatches report floods submerging Greenville Alabama and nearby towns Bolling Chapman Garland with losses up to 200000 dollars. Garland alone loses about 75000 dollars as L and N depot and telegraph lines are swamped and 500 residents face hunger. In Hamburg Germany a southwesterly hurricane sinks eighty ships and leaves up to fifty dead.
The Georgia Bankers Association will stress agriculture at its annual meeting in Macon during May. President Andrew M. Soule of the Georgia State College of Agriculture has been chosen to direct the agriculture discussion.
New Orleans police arrested Antonio Musica, three sons George Arthur and Philip, and two daughters Louise and Grace on a steamer Heredia for defrauding banks in the US and Europe of about one million dollars through invoicing fraud. Fifty thousand dollars was found on Arthur and eighty thousand from the family. investigators expect more funds and papers.
An Atlanta booklet from the Southern Railway Live Stock Department shows farmers how to build a 55 ton silo for 65 dollars using ordinary tools. It cites a Tennessee farmer’s 20 year old silo as proof of long term value and links silo use to improved winter feed efficiency as part of regional livestock optimization.
An Indian camp is set on the roof of a fashionable New York hotel. Chief Three Bears aged 80 leads the group including Long Time Sleep White Calf Lazy Hoy Big Top Medicine Owl and Medicine Owls Squaw plus a 10 year old girl as they pitch tepees above the caves to overlook the city’s artificial peaks and canyons.
Soldiers of Huerta trapped around Naco Arizona by federal Ojeda forces pressed by state troops. Railways southward destroyed to hinder Cabral’s insurgent group. Ojeda’s men held by U S troops numbered 216. Ojeda led fewer than 500 when defeating state troops. Antonio Rojas, ex-Orozco general, with about 400 men near Cumpas.
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