High Point Market Strains Local Telephone Service
High Point hosts a furniture market drawing 10 000 temporary residents as a surge in calls tests the city telephone system. The article details premarket planning installing about 275 phones in the Southern Furniture Exposition Building, the directory process, and the heavy long distance and local call volume that peaks during market week.
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Glenda Holder
Ple
High Point
Canada
South America
Hawaiian Islands
New York
Heap Of Southernisms Color the Vocabularies
Stoney Point, N C AP notes a lively collection of Southern colloquialisms shaping English in the region. The article lists terms like yall slang and pecker wood, traces them to Elizabethan roots, and explains child terminology, kitchen terms, and health phrases reflecting rural life and speech patterns.
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J. Michael Rouse
Stoney Point
N.C
Bill
Bob
J. H. Norton
South
Peckerwood
Tiny box gives this man new grip on life
Slim Wright a 73 year old Fort Worth oil man survived repeated heart seizures after an external pacemaker failed to sustain him. A Houston surgeon implanted a miniature internal pacemaker inside his chest preserving life with low voltage signals.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Slim Wright
Wright
Jesse J. Wright
John A. OY
George
Marvie
Jesse Wright
Harris Hospital
Stokes-Adamas
Jesse J
Slim
Claudia Crooks
Precinct 8
Texas
Stokes
Adams
Harris
Nila Barton
Bennett
United States
Houston
Carter Field
Dallas
Finnally
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