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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1941
Page
19
Authorities on home decoration say it’s the little things that count in making a house feel lived in. Flowers, books, mirrors, lamps, pictures, and tasteful color choices turn rooms from bare spaces into inviting homes.
Crosley unveils 1942 refrigerator line featuring the Super Shelvalor design for increased bottle, frozen food, meat, fish, vegetable and other food storage. The slogan Twice as Much Food to the Front highlights enhanced in-door stockpiling without reducing chamber space.
The Crosley refrigerators are sold exclusively in High Point by the Fuller Appliance Company and are on display at their store at 206 East Washington Street. The door liner is a durable one piece plastic with Dulux finish for easy cleaning and gleaming white appearance. The unit features fiber glass protecting wall and Crossite door liner for insulation and economy in electricity due to balloon type door gaskets.
Census Bureau reports show U S bakeries produce 7 218 843 060 pounds of white pan bread and 1 731 225 000 pounds of whole wheat and rye bread annually in the United States. The number of beauty parlors exceeds drug stores and barbershops outnumber clothing stores nationwide according to the Census Bureau.
Norge unveils major features in its 1941 line including an automatic defroster dubbed Night-Watch that melts frost at midnight unless switched off, plus a self-starting kitchen clock. Hollywood styling, new ventilated bins, Fast-Frezer, Hydrovolt drawer, and sliding shelves enhance freshness and usability in models sold by Paramount Furniture Company at 214 East Washington Street.
Women associate style with smartness and appliances. The 1941 Frigidaire electric range showcases modern styling with unusual cabinet lines and new functional value. Deluxe mode features large chromium handles on the warming oven and storage drawer and a wide oval handle on the oven door. Sloping switch panels enhance looks and usability, while a fluorescent lamp provides range top lighting.
A playful note from a NC town highlights public fascination with governor hopefuls. Six year old Mary Angela declares J Melville Broughton cannot be governor, saying his hair and coat are not long enough. The remark captures local humor amid political chatter about the Atlantic Coast Line trains.
Reporters at Governor Broughton press conference were stunned as he asked what the law says about the fishing season. The article notes Hud son’s death decision in his first death case and lists 34 inmates on Central Prison's death row, including 12 Negroes, one Indian, and a white man, with two Negroes facing possible execution May 2 unless reprieve intervenes. It ends by naming meteor shower types: draconids, leonids, geminids, and aquarids.
Washington DC businessman David C Butcher will conduct a revival at Gospel Tabernacle Willabrook Street starting at 11 AM and nightly at 730 PM He has built government structures in DC and the Baltimore Trust building The Berge Sisters of Baltimore will assist with gospel singing and instrumental numbers Public invited.
U S canners reports to the Census Bureau show nearly nine hundred thousand cases of vegetable puree and over eight hundred thousand cases of fruit puree canned yearly for infants.
The number of blacksmit shops decreased 3,500 from 20,325 to 16,797 over 1935 to 1939, according to the Genius. Receipts were down 3.9 percent, from 23,454,000 to 22,567,000.
F C Collins of Atlantic Coast Line, involved in a past Fayetteville gasoline truck crash, reported collecting 573.55 from the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors for lobbying during the recent session. He also testified before a House roads committee supporting a measure to raise the petroleum vehicle load limit to 1500 gallons.
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