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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1920
Page
4
The High Point Review publishes weekly notices and advertisements from 106 North Main Street. Rates for subscriptions and paid notices are listed. letters to the editor require a signed name or may be published anonymously upon request.
High Point notes indicate Greensboro club leads the race as the big exposition building looms in Furniture City. A mix of humorous local vignettes and wartime reflections paint a bustling scene with easy payments jokes and a river misadventure ending in a housing punchline.
Federal court in Washington last week indicted 28 Syrian merchants in nine eastern North Carolina cities for multimillion-dollar frauds against Northern wholesalers. Investigators traced a long-running arson scheme used to destroy stock for insurance gains, aided by a North Carolina insurance deputy and state fire marshals.
A London Tid Bits item jokes about wrinkles and discomfort then shifts to a Red Cross note from Constantinople. It highlights high living costs with bread at 80 cents a loaf milk 90 cents a pint butter 4 dollars a pound sugar 2 dollars a pound. It mentions two army officers stopping over.
A captain honors his son with the helm despite wiser guidance from the mate. The ship runs aground as a result, illustrating the costly consequences of giving someone a job they do not understand. The verse extends the harbor tale to life and business, warning that power misapplied to unskilled hands is costly.
School board unanimously re elected W M Marr as superintendent for another year. All teacher salaries to rise 20 to 30 percent. A list of principals and special teachers named includes F M Waters C A Smith Ada Blair Emma Blair Ossie Davis Ralph Knight Sadie Wharton Genevieve Moore and H G Owens. A city wide primary supervisor position was to be created.
A Sunday automobile procession along the Greensboro road was the largest in its history with a continuous stream of vehicles both ways. The strong smell of gasoline and smoke was notably obnoxious to residents' nostrils.
High Point swept both ends of a Danville series 4 3 and 1 0 after beating Winston in one pair and splitting another. The team plans road games at Winston and Durham while Greensboro holds a comfortable lead and High Point stays in striking distance as the season heats up.
Chief of Police Welch and Officers Wood and Mungo dispersed a crowd of six in Vail Woods on Sunday morning capturing two. The remaining four fled, while a witness stated the chief had captured him as the guns barked. A suspect possessed a wood alcohol concoction mixed with bitters coca cola and bug juice.
A Westmoreland Tennessee mother Mrs John F Angiea narrates her daughter's terrible skin condition and stomach turmoil improving rapidly after starting Ziren. She urges choosing Ziren first and notes benefits for poor blood general weakness and appetite loss with iron deficiency symptoms. product sold with money back guarantee.
An old advert explains catarrh is systemic and only Hall's Catarrh Medicine taken internally can treat it. It claims the medicine purifies the blood and cures catarrhal conditions, supported by testimonials. The ad lists F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, as proprietors and adds a job notice for selling trees and plants by Brown Brothers Nurseries in Rochester.
Eli McDowell of 524 Hamilton St reports relief from back fatigue and irregular kidney function after taking Doan's Kidney Pills. He urges others with kidney trouble to try the remedy, priced 60 cents at dealers, manufactured by Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo New York.
A persuasive health notice emphasizes eyes as the primary sense and urges readers to have their eyes examined. It frames vision as essential to comfort, inspiration, and happiness and warns of the loss of sight without proper care.
Minnie Philpot of Gonsales Texas writes of five years of left side pain and weakness that left her barely able to stand. After using Cardui she began to improve by the second bottle and claims permanent restoration two years later. She urges others to try Cardui.
Executor J E Marsh of Lydia V. Johnson estate at Guilford County directs claimants to file by May 16 1921 at High Point NC or be barred. Creditors urged to make immediate payment. Also dense ad copy for Stamey's Jewelry Store and Buff Orpington eggs listed with contact Claude A. Smith High Point NC.
The editor and his family along with Mrs. H. F. Stamey spent Sunday afternoon in Greensboro with Dr. E. L. Stamey’s family. Mother's Day was observed Sunday with special sermons across churches.
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