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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1929
Page
5
New York April 27. The spring demand for finished cotton goods seems to have passed though steady small lot business remains and movement stays large. Production near year highs, some subsidence due to strikes. prints, tire fabrics, and many specialties sold ahead through July with broad orders into summer and into September for some items.
Construction of a Curtiss Flying Service airport began three miles south of Raleigh on a 500 acre tract with E H Threadgill as manager. Plans include aircraft transport aerial photography aviator training and possible Wilmington to Asheville passenger service. Raleigh’s location and a large local student population aided site selection.
A single peony flower may generate about 3 500 00 grains of pollen according to a horticulture note. The estimate highlights pollen quantity in large blooms and could impact pollination research discussions.
Public auction to the highest cash bidder at 2:00 P M on May 28 1929 on the premises in High Point Township Guilford County North Carolina. One half undivided interest in Lots 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 39 42 43 44 45 46 of the V A Idol subdivision as per map by June A Johnson 1924 recorded in Guilford County Book 1 Page 15.
The market regained its poise today with gains across industrials and related sectors. New Haven crossed 104, aided by special buying, while United Aircraft, Case Threshing, Murray Corp and Hayes Body hit new year highs as pool operations narrowed to earnings-positive issues. Total volume around 1.5 million shares.
Cotton opened steady with July at 18.85 and December 19.04 as weekend covering lifted prices before a quiet session. By midmorning July slipped to 18.77 and December to 19.01 amid liquidation and selling, while Liverpool cables showed some buying but Manchester remained unsettled. Futures closed 4 to 9 points higher as spot trading stayed quiet.
New Orleans April 28 The cotton market opened firm aided by stronger Liverpool cables and forecasts of weekend showers. Early trades gained 10 to 16 points before easing on long liquidation with July slipping to 18.75 and October to 18.74. By hour’s end futures steadied with a net 7 to 9 point advance. Closings showed mixed but overall firmer tones across active months.
Chicago grain markets showed wheat sliding to more than 1381/2 cents a bushel from recent highs, with recoveries in late trading. Corn moved from 4 to 7 cents up, oats declined, and provisions varied. The piece also notes an ancient almanac dated 1200 B C printed on papyrus in Ramses the Great era.
Spot quiet with prices down across grades. American good middling 11.91, middling 10.21, low middling 9.66, the week’s sales reached 3 000 bales, including 2 000 American. Futures closed steady with May 106.00 and other contracts near 10.00.
A discussion on taste in modern design and the future of American art. It argues that durable heirlooms emerge from current work, not past antiques, and urges connoisseurs to patronize contemporary American craft to create tomorrow's antiques.
Captain Charles D. Farmer and nine lieutenants return from a Pennsylvania training school. The force will start with 27 patrolmen and 3 patrolmen per district, all on motorcycles. Applicants undergo a strict selection and a 30 day training period at the state fair grounds.
The North Carolina Firemen's association will sponsor a three day fire college and drill school in Asheville next Tuesday through Thursday. Nationally noted speakers include Ross B. Davis of Philadelphia, John M. Evans of New Orleans, T. Alfred Fleming, Col. Walker Taylor of Wilmington, and others from fire departments and insurance boards.
Trinity high school defeated Jamestown high school 5 to 0 in a Thursday afternoon baseball game. Loflin pitched a no hit no run affair with two runners reaching base on walks and an error. Trinity collected five hits led by Hassell, Reddick, Leskey, Hughes, and Andrews. Jamestown could muster two singles and a few outfielders reached for baserunners.
Officers in Lexington seek clues to a break in at W. W. Brinkley’s Welcome store on Highway 66 where thieves stole over 400 dollars in tires cigarets shirts underwear and candy. Entry was gained by prying open the rear door after an unsuccessful front door attempt. Detectives follow meagre clues left by the robbers.
Old folk lore on rain predicting rheumatic pain gains cautious scientific support. Studies show blood and tissue changes correlate with rising or falling humidity and barometric pressure, though forecasts still rely on meteorologists.
Katharine Mayo defends her book Salves of the Gods amid attacks over Mother India while readers note sensational crime cases and the Mary Ware Dennett obscenity trial. The piece also covers University of Missouri sex debate and the National Woman's Party relocating to a historic Washington house built in 1772.
Raymond Brown son of Mr and Mrs W Q Brown 610 Willowbrook Street was injured this afternoon when run down by an automobile in front of the Grimes Street elementary school. He sustained head cuts and body scrapes and was taken by ambulance to Guilford General Hospital where he remained a patient. The driver Mr Carmichael stopped and visited the boy at the hospital saying the child darted from behind another vehicle.
Naval Stores in Savannah on April 27 shows a turpentine firm with 381 receipts 2 044 shipments and 10 856 stock while a rosin firm reports 1 438 receipts 7 393 shipments and 60 617 stock. Market quotes list several grades and prices such as Ff 7.48 and WW 8.75.
Raleigh April 27 Joe Stone the man who flipped the switch for Leo McCurry the state’s electric chair says he has served as a paid executioner since April 1925 but cannot recall the total number of condemned men he has sent to eternity. W E Thomas of Louisburg also serves as a paid executioner for the prison and Stone is a member of the penitentiary guard.
Raleigh April 27 A forum on the honor system opened a two day convention of the Southern Federation of College Students at State College yesterday. Dr E C Brooks president of State College was to speak on The Scope and Influence of Student Government. Judge N A Townsend executive counsel to Governor Gardner would deliver the closing banquet speech tonight.
Spartanburg South Carolina April 27 two men Py Ray Coleman and Paul Johnson were convicted of murder in the December payroll robbery attempt and sentenced to die in the electric chair June 7 by Judge M M Mann. Johnson confessed being the driver and Coleman firing the fatal shot during the holdup of Belue and A T Greene carrying $6000.
Raleigh April 26. The first North Carolina Industrial exposition will run May 13 at the fair grounds with daily concerts broadcast by WPTF. UNC, State College, Duke bands, Wild West show band, Washington Orchestra, and Junior Guild dances will be aired. Manufacturer space limited to North Carolina products.
A pair of frogs linked in behavior were found near Baden PA hopping together as if joined. The unusual sight described as Siamese twin frogs drew curious locals to observe their synchronized movement and proximity.
North Carolina filing shows assets liabilities and premiums for 1928. U.S. manager C. M. Berger, Raleigh official Dan C. Boney confirms the abstract as true and correct as of December 31, 1928.
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