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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1927
Page
7
The Agriculture commissioner said August or September may pass before all rules and equipment for the new weights and measures law are ready. Until then the old law stays in force and local keepers continue under it while enforcement regulations are drawn up.
Our entire stock of sheet music 10c a copy. We are discontinuing our music department three for $1.00. Stamey’s Music Department.
R W Smith of the Bureau of Standards visited Raleigh to review a new weights and measures law. Commissioner Graham outlined required regulations and the need to bring state standards and equipment up to U S standards. The project will take months and require funding, with enforcement to be handled by the Agriculture Department until fees support a separate weights and measures division.
Ke S. Perry, a retired New York banker, died at a local Albemarle hotel after a several week illness. He had spent most of the last two winters there and the family said the body would be taken to Auburn for burial.
From his labs Thomas A Edison outlines his fifty year effort to perfect Re Creation of music. He argues mass production cannot match handcrafted tone and urges dealers to allow home comparisons to living artists. The New Edison should be a medium for music, not a tone of its own.
The obituary notes Mr. Perry who spent years in North Carolina and Virginia, with a Winston-Salem home and a Wytheville summer residence. At death he was near family including sister Mrs. Howell and N. R. Perry of Florida. Funeral services and burial will be held in New York.
London plans fourteen new moving picture theaters each with capacity of 2,500 or more. The project totals about 15 million dollars. In other notes a circus uses tent tops lighter than a man's coat pocket lining. Australia to open its first aircraft manufacturing plant in Melbourne.
Oatmeal produced in the United States is consumed in more than ninety countries, expanding export reach and culinary influence across continents.
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