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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1915
Page
3
A promotional note from the High Point Milling Company extols their white frost and luxury flour as the best for bread cakes and pastry made from premium wheat and suitable for all baking needs. The message signs off with Company endorsement.
Train timetable effective October 14 1914 notes schedules for Southbound No 34 and Northbound No 22 with stations High Point Thomasville Gordonton Denton High Rock showing approximate arrival and departure times with changes possible. The timetable cautions that times are not guaranteed and subject to change without notice.
A digest of World War I events from a year prior noting German gains and setbacks across Europe. Battles near Yser Dixmude and Ypres, Russian advances on Vistula and Warsaw, Austro German actions near Przemyl, naval losses including Audacious and Chitose, and political shifts such as Prince Louis of Battenberg stepping down and Fisher becoming first sea lord.
A Louisville Courier-Journal cartoon snippet features a health worried man noting more medicines each year and a playful line about vegetables being praised and swelled heads on cabbages. The exchange humorously hints at medical progress and public gullibility.
Washington special agents open an investigation into alleged price fixing by cotton buyers in North and South Carolina and Georgia. Commissioner Harris prompted the probe, which could trigger anti trust action if proven, with economic and legal divisions conducting the inquiry into territory divisions and regional price disparities.
Thirty thousand women lined Fifth Avenue for four hours in New York to press for voting rights on November 2. Participants from every state and 20 foreign countries joined leaders from business, professional and civic life. About 5 000 men also pledged to join. The march stretched from Washington Square to Central Park and ended after dark. Washington observed plans to manage export trade through a trust company to avoid cargo interference. In New Orleans, James A Farrell urged attendance at the National Foreign Trade Convention January 27 29 to advance American commercial readiness after the war.
President Wilson designates November 25 as Thanksgiving Day praising a year of peace amid widespread war in Europe. He notes America’s rights and duties, crop prosperity, strong finances, and unity in serving mankind while the world suffers. The proclamation invites national prayer and gratitude.
The Tages Zeitung reports a violent Loos battle where British losses rose to about 100 men per second in dense eight man sections. The Overseas News Agency notes the spectacle mirrored Napoleonic warfare before long range guns and cannons.
Mrs Thomson of Philadelphia recounts relief from six years of menopausal pains after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She praises the remedy and urges others to use it while noting the company offers confidential, woman-staffed advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
A coastwise vessel between Savannah and Baltimore experienced panic when a naked passenger fled his room and asked if we had been torpedoed. The captain replied that life preservers were useless and that passengers must look out for themselves now that they have tied up at the dock.
A mother writes about improved health in several children after shifting from heavy potatoes and meat to fruit Grape-Nuts with cream and Postum. She notes a teething baby with stomach and bowel troubles improved after Grape-Nuts softened in milk. The letter promotes Postum and Grape-Nuts as beneficial foods.
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