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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1938
Page
8
A list of cryptic crossword clues with numbered across and down entries including references to World War history and military terms. Several clues point to common words like eagle's nest unoccupied and dogma while others hint at tools and anatomy such as shoulder blade and seed covering.
An article explains bull snakes and king snakes as large harmless serpents. Bull snakes guard eggs with a hissing defense, reach eight or nine feet, and feed on rodents and other snakes. King snakes resist venom, fight rattlers, and kill by constriction.
A humor panel presents five questions with provided answers. Topics include Bible chapters, the Hippocratic oath, Neville Chamberlain, U.S. farms, and Scotland as the national flower country. Answers list Isaiah 137 and II Kings 19, medical oath, Prime Minister of Great Britain, 6 812 350 farms, and Scotland.
W L Cordons column shares a vocabulary note on prism and misused words as a brief. A short nature item recounts Mr Ditmar witnessing a king snake and moccasin fight in a cage ending with both snakes alive after officials separate them.
George F. Allum, head of a New York and Chicago brokerage under fire by Blue Sky investigators, reveals his firm planned to sell guns for the war in China to recoup a shortage of 400000 dollars.
Five statements test geography and people: A passepled is claimed as an elongated plant worm. A cartel is described as a play in a French card game. Liberia is labeled a territory in northern Russia. Cuba is said to be north of Jamaica. Lynn Fontanne is identified as the wife of Alfred Lunt.
A reader asks how to clean a white window shade. The answer: spread a sheet on the floor, unroll the shade on it, scrub with magnesia and water using a soft cloth, flip to clean the reverse side, then allow thorough drying on the sheet.
A column on polite closing phrases for formal notes, how a guest should address an engaged couple, and etiquette for guests choosing tea over coffee, advising to defer to the hostess and avoid asserting preferences.
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