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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1941
Page
4
A collection of quotes contrasts jealousy and anger with attachment to objects. It cites Deuteronomy 32 16 and quotes George Eliot on love and loss, reflecting on divine provocation and human emotion.
The Huey Long statue unveiled in Statuary Hall marks his enduring praise in Washington. Senators lauded the late leader as supporters recall his impact. In Louisiana courts still tackle crimes involving his proteges, reflecting a divided legacy.
Governor Broughton released the new slate for the expanded Conservation Board. R Bruce Etheridge of Roanoke Island is kept as director. J J Stone of Greensboro is dropped, while J L Horne of Rocky Mount and Santford Martin of Winston-Salem join the revised roster.
Immigrant August Hecksher died at 92 in his Lake Wales estate after arriving in the United States from Germany with $500. He left a large estate and spent his life promoting better housing and cultural advancement in Florida, with burial planned in New York. His efforts aimed to elevate living standards and culture in the local county through his philanthropy and projects.
North Carolina saw an eccentric entrepreneur attempt to drain Lake Mattamuskeet in Hyde County. Mr Hecksher bought the project, installed pumps to remove water, and hoped for rich bottom lands. The effort failed to deliver expected riches and was abandoned when the owner surrendered the site to the surrounding waters.
The President likens Charles A Lindbergh to Copperheads, arguing Lindbergh’s faith in the German cause rests on stronger grounds than Copperhead hopes. North boasted vast manpower and naval power, yet the South’s smaller armaments and 600,000 conscripts, against 2.8 million Union troops, framed a seeming mismatch in the Civil War.
A reflective essay on prayer as soul's longing, Jesus example, and practical reasons to pray. It urges persistent, secret prayer for guidance, strength, and hope amid crisis, arguing God answers those who seek with faith and perseverance.
A sermon discusses Jesus parables on persistent prayer from Luke, comparing the widow before the judge and the neighbor seeking bread. It links the persistence of petitions to divine justice and daily need, defining worshipful prayer as a spiritual act tied to human longing.
A Scots regiment officer boosts pay for prisoners in Bengali dispute, paying 2s 6d per hundred and later £1 for 800 Italians. Scotsman claims success by buying them from Australians for a bab a hundred. Witty quotes from Morley, Marshall, and Hitler mingle with jokes and tax jabs.
Walter Winchell critiques Lindberghs New York meeting and America First rally. He accuses attendees of ties to Nazi and fascist groups, notes inflated ticketing and intimidation, and questions police response under Commissioner Valentine.
The article condemns police neglect of pickets and sympathies with ism groups at Yorkville events. It cites Lindbergh era bodyguards and links to Jerk MecNazi meetings, urging readers to consider Major Alexander de Seversky’s critique in American Mercury.
A discussion of Irish origins for The Girl I Left Behind Me and the later choral staple The Lost Chord by Sir Arthur Sullivan. It notes dates, harpists, regimental use, and a biographer’s account of the creation inspired by Adelaide Proctor.
This piece marks the 119th anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant born April 27 1822 at Point Pleasant Ohio and highlights his early schooling West Point career and service in Mexico and the Civil War. It notes his hardships bar life resignation marriage to Julia Dent and later return to leadership and memoirs as a second chance tale.
A 1929 UNC graduate Charles Barnette Wood from Person County writes the novel First the Fields about Hugh Winton, a North Carolina tobacco farmer who loses his land to debt and a failed cooperative. The story follows his WWI service, fade of crops, and the strain on his marriage, with authentic depictions of farm life in the Old Belt and the tobacco warehouses.
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