New Factory Planned for High Paint Alias UAE
AlIg UAE Alphonse L. Ellison and Chas L. Berrier have bought the Ideal Lumber Co. plant near South Main street car line and Dixie Milling Co. They will begin operations at once and likely produce kitchen and dining room furniture. The idle plant will be utilized by experienced furniture makers.
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Alphonse L. Ellison
Chas. L. Berrier
Ideal Lumber Co
South Main Street
Dixie Milling Co
High Point Orchestra Seeks Benefit Entertainment
The High Point Orchestra, having offered free services to patriotic meetings, proposes a benefit program to raise funds for instruments and music. The notice urges community support to fill the auditorium and show appreciation for their efforts.
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High Point
Fine Record Made by Liberty Loan Battalion
The Liberty Loan Battalion led by Carter Dalton raised about 450000 in two weeks, surpassing High Point's 351000 quota by nearly 100000. Every company excelled under captains, with banks over quota and scouts contributing as well. Rural citizens and farmers aided in reaching a near half million by week’s end. Boy Scouts and bankers praised.
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Liberty Loan Battalion
Carter Dalton
Cause of Liberty
High Point
Liberty Loan
Summer millinery and ads from local stores
Moffitt Furnishing Co promotes new summer hats at attractive prices while Beavans announces a Saturday event. Loflin highlights spring and summer dresses, waists, and hats. Paschals offers shoe repairs at 110 West Broad. Lashmit sells shoes, oxfords, and pumps at right prices. Atlantic Store unveils further reductions in a going out of business sale. CB Mattocks Co runs a quitting business sale as winding up proceeds to serve Uncle Sam. Efird's claims to sell it for less at all times in space today.
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Moffitt Furnishing Co
Beavans
Loflin
Paschals
W. Broad
Lashmit
Atlantic Store, Inc
CB. Mattocks Co
Sam
Ad. Efird’s
New Market Shows Up Well in J C Welch Building
An inspection of the new meat market in the J C Welch building at 671 South Main Street, conducted by William C. McIntire, finds an attractive place with ideal sanitary arrangements. If this sets a pattern, McIntire expects the market to be a credit to the city and a pleasant trading place.
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J. C. Welch
South Main Street
Wm. C. McIntire
Send The Review to Your Soldier Boy
The home paper urges readers to subscribe and mail The Review to soldiers in France or training camps. It offers a shared subscription plan costing 75 cents yearly with half the price paid by the reader and covers postage to overseas destinations.
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the Review
France
Change in business as Dunbar sells store on Washington
C Dunbar sells his retail grocery on East Washington Street to E C Hutchenson and buys the Guilford Grocery Co. wholesale business next door to his VP stand. He took charge yesterday.
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C. Dunbar
E. Washington Street
E. C. Hutchenson
Mr. Dunbar
Guilford Grocery Co
Yesteray
Thieves Enter Local Stores in Monday Night Burglary
Thieves conducted a wholesale burglary Monday night at Gilmer Bros Allen Bros and Amos Furniture Co. They entered Gilmer and Amos in the second story and Allen in the third. Only 60 cents was taken at Gilmer’s. nothing was taken at the other two stores as the thieves refused pennies.
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Gilmer Bros
Allen Bros
Amos Furniture Co
Gilmer’s
Gilmers and
Amos Furniture Store
Allen's
City to condemn Jarrell hotel site for drainage nuisance
City council declares drainage on the old Jarrell hotel property a nuisance under fire laws. Steps will be taken to remedy the trouble as the building cannot be repaired and condemnation is under consideration.
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Jarrell Hotel
Peace move eyed between Austria and Italy reported
Telegraph reports a possible peace initiative between Austria and Italy with King Alphonso and the Pope as intermediaries. Allies doubt Kaiser schemes, while Austria faces pressure to make peace or take harsher action. The Pope’s sincerity is questioned and Italy is unlikely to seek a separate peace.
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Austria
Italy
Alphonso
Honor flag presented for Liberty Loan drive success
J Elwood Cox received the honor flag for going over the top in the Liberty Loan drive and will present it to High Point this week. He also carried the county flag to Greensboro yesterday where it will be unfurled, acknowledging further local effort.
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High Point
Liberty Loan Drive
J. Elwood Cox
Big Army to France Plan Aims 2.25 Million Under Arms
The plan is to send the largest army to France, with Secretary Baker presenting the measure to the House. America aims to have about 2.25 million men under arms by December. Transports can carry 100,000 troops monthly to France.
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France
Baker
America
Taft to Speak in Greensboro on War Topic
Ex-President William Howard Taft will address Greensboro tomorrow night on the war under Elks auspices. Attending will be many from High Point lodge. R H Sechrest and Major L C Sinclair of this city serve on the reception committee.
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Wm. H. Taft
Greensboro
The
Elks
High Point Lodge
R. H. Sechrest
L. C. Sinclair
High land prices noted as McAdoo hotel sale sets rate
A Greensboro property sold Thursday at 1100 dollars per front foot, illustrating land prices despite opinions of high costs in High Point. Penny Bros. praised for extracting top value from land, while Edith Haworth S resigns from Commercial Bank to join the custodian of alien property office in Washington.
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McAdoo
Greensboro
High Point
Invincible Penny Bros
Edith Haworth S
Washington
Commercial Bank
Officers and Detectives Net Big Haul Here
A German man calling himself Trzeciakiewicz was detained Sunday night at a Manga nue house by Blackwelder and Brinkle after posing as a brotherhood recruiter for $100 payments to workers. He claimed to be in danger of disrupting the Giant Furniture Co. plant and claimed German spy links. Bond set at $5000. he was taken toward Greensboro as crowds gathered. The case links to German relations at wartime and a Red Cross misrepresentation.
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Brinkle Frank Stone
Manga Nue
Trzeciakiewicz
High Point
Conti Furniture Co
Giant Furniture Co
Sab
Mano
Red. Cross
Whitch
Blackwelder
Germany
Russia
L. B. Smith
O. C. Hadden
Brown
Greensboro
International War Workers
Grogan
Went Saw and Conquered for Liberty Bonds at Oak Shade
E Mendenhall and Walter S Royals led a Liberty Bonds drive at Oak Shade Community amid bad weather. The crowd filled the site as bands provided music and the event raised about 1500 dollars, with speakers urging bond subscriptions as a patriotic investment. Citizens John Suits, Wm Col tt, J E Taylor and others praised the effort and called for more bonds before closing time.
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O Mendenhall
Walter S. Royals
Oak Shade
Liberty
Onds
Igh
John Suits
Wm. Coltt
J. E. Taylor
Rmer
Arrival of Lieutenant Matton Informs Safe Return
The parents of Lieutenant Lawrence Matton have received word that the first officer born here has arrived safely there in France. This marks a notable milestone for High Pointer families as officers reach the front and report back with updates on the progress of the war.
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Lawrence Matton
Ofr
Secod
France
Lecture and war bond notes in Guilford area
A local item list covers events from a May lecture at the auditorium to Liberty Bond drives and farm subscriptions. It notes frost, hospital clinics in Baltimore, a victory claim, Taft invitation, local deaths, and community visits. Local officials and clergy are mentioned along with bond sales and a city water station appearance.
No one believes the foreigner betrayed them in the tale
The article recounts a claim that a foreigner planned to report the others to authorities, but Smith and Hadden allegedly acted first. The piece notes that the loyalty of Smith and Hadden to the government shapes the story, and public belief remains doubtful.
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Ing
Messrs. Smith
Hadden
Dream of Paris in 1914 Foretells War and Human Cost
A 1914 dream portrays a Parisian street crowd marching in unison with flag emblems including fleur de lis, foreshadowing global war and the sorrow of European homes. The narrator recalls wartime doubts, Red Cross work, and questions about innocent suffering as mass conflict looms. A second vision shifts to a vast battlefield with soldiers, officers, and a formidable coppercolored leader, suggesting looming, intensified war.
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Paris
France
Europe
Red Cross
Man Charged in Concord Murder Case Amid Claims
Otto Schumann an interned alien enemy is charged with the murder of Mrs Maud L King in Concord The case connects Gaston B Means who was acquitted last winter to alleged German interests and a plot to kill Means by firing at him but killing Mrs King instead The accused was reportedly in Concord and followed the party by motorcycle to the night of the shooting.
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Otto Schumann
Maud L. King
Concord
Gaston B. Means
Means
Schumann
Mrs. King
German Forces Suffer Heavy Losses at Ypres
German armies suffered enormous losses around Ypres with little on the German side for four days as British and French forces regained ground. Authorities anticipate another German drive soon and the Allies have moved reserves to meet it. Also, poll tax payments by 1917 were required by last night to vote this year, some voters being disfranchised.
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Ypres
Germany
The Light From the East and a Battle Within
An eyewitness accounts a battlefield vision where a radiant man from the East defeats fear and war without weapons, followed by a Goliath moment and a call to find purpose in suffering. The narrator resolves to seek meaning in past sorrows and live consecrated today.
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Hell
David
Goliath
Goliath the Mighty
E.M. Greggs
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Philadelphia
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H. W. McCain
H.B. Hiatt
Johns Hopkins
University of Maryland
Baltimore
Henry Harris
Harry Hoffman
Frances
Camp Sevier
Yancy Gap
James M. Terry
Camp Jackson
Emery Brown
T. J. Murphy
Liberty Bonds
David Welborn
Thomasville
United States
Emma Petty
Willowbrook Street
J. A. Clarke
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