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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1928
Page
4
The article argues that North Carolina's growing legal business makes Supreme Court expansion likely while Superior court judges leave after short terms. It weighs resident versus circuit systems, notes Judge R L Deal’s departure, and stresses maintaining high bench quality to avoid costly errors.
The state insurance statistician Andrew Joyner reports eight North Carolina towns have surpassed 10,000 population this year: Fayetteville Concord Burlington Statesville Elizabeth City Kinston Greenville and Shelby He predicts seven more will reach the 10,000 mark by next year including Thomasville Lexington Albemarle Henderson Hendersonville Washington and Monroe The piece discusses the role of small cities in state progress and rural cooperation.
The April 30 Cotton Ball at the King Cotton Hotel aims to boost full-time mill operation. Mrs. Sandridge curates prizes, three cash prizes for costumes, A C Hall of North Carolina College will MC, with Laura Carlson Eleanor Dunn as heralds and C W Bradshaw Jr John Latham as court jesters.
The majority party favors High Point candidates for the legislature with Thomas J. Gold seeking senate and W. C. Jones aiming for the house. High Point has not claimed extra county posts and currently has no salaried county official, though two locals run for the legislature as a natural development rather than a local power grab.
The text notes Mr. Gold remains in the normal political path, while Mr. Jones is driven by a longtime county servant's readiness to relocate his service. It observes a lack of opposition reflecting the Democratic Party's acknowledgment of this situation.
The piece notes the first successful westward Atlantic hop by German and Irish aviators and argues the Irish were among the friendliest peoples toward Germany in the war. It credits Irish pilots with helping Germany regain a sportsmanlike standing, praising the flyers’ gallantry and the cross Atlantic partnership.
City editors chase an annual spring migration story noting increases in wife desertions as April prompts thoughts of freedom. The piece discusses domestic strain, destitution for families, and the paradox of seeking liberty despite social duties.
King Amanullah of Afghanistan completed visits to Paris and London. The talks touched on war debts with no new payments expected for the foreseeable future.
A Texas farmer set out to hunt rabbits and mistakenly killed a larger prey. He returned with a seven foot lioness, prompting concern and calls for caution among locals.
A quirky local note mentions gangsters using pine apples as bombs and jokes that a couple a day would keep doctors busy. Historical aside recalls Chicago as the Windy City well before Mayor Thompson’s era.
The article hints at a Ku Klux Klan activity surrounding a membership drive, noting the group has drawn increasing publicity. The piece centers on public interest and organizational outreach without detailing actions.
Poem by Ernest Samuel Yates from Danville Virginia requests publication. The piece contemplates daily labor and the moral call of work as a universal game guiding life from sunset to sunrise.
The sixteenth annual convention of the North Carolina Methodist conference women’s missionary society began in Wilmington with 250 delegates. Opening sessions featured a sermon by Rev. J. W. Smith of Trinity Methodist Church Durham and talks by Mrs. A. M. Gates and Mayor Walter H. Blair.
The American continental divide is the part of the Rocky Mountain region that separates streams draining toward opposite sides of the continent.
A sketched tale from the Fourth Ward Dafe with Gus Coulter and Harry Bransom. Harry shifts from cash to credit to cash and ends up a turtle who borrows his mother's teeth to fund a drink, underscoring how prohibition prompts odd trades.
The New York Democratic State Committee convenes to pick delegates at large and alternates for the national convention and to officially place Governor Smith as a presidential candidate. Public Service Commissioner George R. Lunn would present Smith, with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to second the nomination. draft resolution reportedly approved.
The term cereal derives from Ceres, the Roman goddess of corn and harvests, linking modern grain foods to ancient agricultural imagery and myth. This origin highlights how language reflects farming culture and seasonal cycles.
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