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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1939
Page
7
Puzzle list of clues across horizontal and vertical entries with word lengths and definitions for a crossword style grid referencing a famous opera singer and related terms. Includes various numbers and descriptors as hints for filling entries.
Hollywood reports Leonard Schlesinger and Warner Bros push patriotic animated shorts. Porky Pig and Uncle Sam star in Old Glory with a seven minute color history segment. Schlesinger aims for shorter, high cadence cartoons to boost shorts demand.
Emily follows Alan into a tranquil hospital as he is summoned to operate. The scene shifts through the hospital floors where nurses move in silence and the maternity ward holds a radio’s faint music. Emily recalls Farrell’s grim joke about fatherhood turning suddenly real.
Emily, a nurse named Mrs. Doc, watches Angela give birth with doctors Farrell and Alan present. The baby, a girl weighing five and a quarter pounds, survives after a tense delivery. Emily experiences a near fainting spell but is credited with helping save the infant.
A column offers practical advice. Large candles can be fitted by dipping in hot water to soften wax, then pushing into the candlestick. Paint stains on woolen garments respond to a mix of turpentine and ammonia. For spinach, buy straight deep green leaves to avoid overgrowth.
The straw cat, also called pampas or grass cat, is a yellowish gray wildcat with straw colored bands across its sides and horizontal bands on its legs and chest.
A profile of animator leader Schlesinger praises his coaching style and sharp staff oversight. His 200-person unit outproduces rivals, runs a five-day week with no weekends, and grants screen credits to all key contributors.
Miss Pauline Gordon of the State College Extension Service urges increasing the 1939 farm family food production budget. She emphasizes adding eggs milk vegetables and fruits to boost household provisions.
The article stresses rheumatic fever as a major crippling disease in children, often linked to streptococcal infection and compounded by poverty. It cites prevention through housing, nutrition, ventilation, timely diagnosis, hospitalization, and rehabilitation, with a British health officer listing seven program steps.
Roberta Lee offers etiquette guidance on chair posture and seating. The Q and A explain proper foot placement, define etiquette as social formality, and advise seating two women opposite each other at a four person table. Nottingham is noted for England's smallest voting parish.
A lesson on word use notes the Jacquard loom's invention as a turning point in machine made lace fabrics. It cites Franklin on money and urges daily vocabulary growth focusing on the word prolific meaning reproducing freely.
An OCR fragment hints at a fast moving minute by minute sports or world events piece. The text mentions a new kind of reporting and a sixty second read as events unfold in real time. No clear names or places are readable.
The War Department reports fifteen letters per minute to the Army. Public Health Service seals abandoned mines to block acid runoff. Mint uses six pounds copper per minute for coins. City dwellers reportedly retain ten percent of inhaled air, adding nine million dust particles per minute. Italians produce paper from wheat at five hundred pounds per minute. One in three Egypt rural residents may have hookworm at any minute. Six thousand tons of soil wash into oceans per minute.
The article outlines Philippine geography with 7 083 islands and 13 million people mostly Moros and Malays. It details Moros as Mohammedans involved in ancient and modern raids, wedding customs with chalky white faces, stilt villages, datos leaders, and the jawing practice juramentado. It notes laws curbing priest oath makers and promos a travel leaflet and tomorrow’s segment.
The article explains how in bridge the placement of an adverse honor can determine success or failure in a game or slam. Experts note they count certain tricks first and then search for the crucial one required to complete the contract.
In the Eastern Championships in North Carolina John Rau plays a natural contract. The hand hinges on locating the spade king with North holding it. After a sequence of wins and trump entries the spade queen is cashed and the defense holds the game.
Fragmentary OCR entry notes an opener labeled Duplicate E and W val with a sequence of codes and identifiers likely from a technical table or card. The readable portion lists terms and alphanumeric references without clear narrative, leaving the event or outcome unspecified.
Answers plus historical trivia appear in this period feature. It notes two Lee brothers signed the Declaration from Virginia and lists global facts such as Russia’s vast area, April birthstone the diamond, and Alfred Nobel’s dynamite invention in 1866. It also mentions Harvard’s early rugby interest from 1874.
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