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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1936
Page
4
A biblical verse condemns building with unrighteousness and denying wages to workers. It warns against a society where one class prospers while another suffers, highlighting hypocrisy between a smiling facade and a pinched reality.
High Point firemen attend the North Carolina State Firemen's association convention in Raleigh. The piece argues conventions provide worthwhile instruction and refreshment, though not all meetings are equally valuable. It emphasizes benefits of increased knowledge and renewed energy for duty, noting the clergy-like duty to absorb lectures and improve firefighting.
A fragment notes that effective communities see themselves as valuable when they understand their roles and can account for the services they provide. It emphasizes knowledge of job duties enhancing accountability and performance.
The Gigant collective farm, once a 2000-strong state unit with a 2,500,000 ruble deficit, has been split into 11 independent sections. It now uses fewer workers, raises grain output, adds cattle breeding, and reports a profit while providing apartments to worker families. The move signals a pragmatic shift toward profitability within the Five-Year context.
Buncombe officials prepare for the Helen Clevenger murder trial with a jury list that includes Black names as potential jurors following a Supreme Court ruling. Despite competency, precedent may exclude Negro jurors from seating in the Staten Island slay case, shaping courtroom outcomes.
The story recalls Charles Van Millar's will offering 500000 to Toronto mothers with the most children in ten years after his death. Three mothers each have ten births. Mrs. Gus Graziano seeks twins or more to join the lead. The Grasianos have relied on relief for years, adding a somber note.
The Aug 15 entry lists Ziegfeld amid debt and scent, meeting Valentino in a St. Louis office, Wilton Lackaye winning a witty duel, Chaplin at a Ned McLean Hollywood party, Doris Kenyon at sundown, Dreiser denouncing the social order, and a parade of luminaries. It notes Paul Whiteman at Palais Royal, Mrs Belmont in state, Irvin Cobb in a study column, and Will Hays under fire, with poker, Broadway lore, Obregon in Mexico City, Will Rogers, Marc Connolly, Bob and Pat Brinkerhoff, and Ray Long hosting feasts and headlines.
Lunching at the White House with the Hoovers two days before he left for Palo Alto, Charles M. Schwab beside his invalid wife at their Golden Wedding anniversary. Gershwin and Caesar visit, Tunney discusses Dempsey bout, Nicholson chats, and Winnie Sheehan shows a Fox studio bath office.
Don Byrne sends a Dublin note praising a Cosmopolitan piece while Sinclair Lewis drops by the Ritz to meet publisher Alfred Harcourt with the finished manuscript of Dodsworth and questions its quality.
Exiled king Alfonso surveys Europa in Southampton and pats a Boston terrier. Paderewski collides with a hatless celebrity in a leafy deli. Doorn inn hosts lunch awaiting the Kaiser’s return from Haar lem. Vernon Castle cruises Broadway in an open Rolls with a pink silk shirt. Gilda Gray makes an introduction at a social gathering.
The note describes dancing with Irene Castle and a spartan trip beginning at midnight with Arthur and Ethel Roche, meals at dawn, and a great open fire. It recalls W. R. Hearst listening to Roosevelt on radio, a Florida gag 10 foot alligator from H. T. Webster, misty Normandy fields on a Paris boat train, and Henry Sell’s line about belief in a Higher Power.
Twenty years ago a third post office substation at Dowdy's store near Pickett Cotton Mills will open on September 16 serving several hundred patrons. Uncle Joe Cannon speaks of his North Carolina trip. Rumor says Lake Toxaway may not be rebuilt. A Charlotte boy Dr Hammer Irwin to aid allies in France as part of Harvard Units of Surgery. Melvin Horne received a life sentence from Governor Craig after proposed death sentences.
The fragment notes Rube Goldberg’s odd statuary in a late 1930s home near Schwab’s with Ring Lardner uneasy beside a barber shop quartet. Frank Ward O Malley laments on Park Row about orange juice in the Bronx tailing him on a blue Monday.
Lt H B Hiatt at Camp Glenn expresses support for High Point voters deciding the street bonds. He wires that his heart is with them and wishes he could vote in person.
Two college students were arraigned before a magistrate charged with hurting the low spots in the road in their motor car. The magistrate asked if they had a lawyer. They replied they would not have one, stating they have decided to tell the truth.
Miss Evelyn Smith of Monroe is guest of the Misses Henley on North Main Street. Mrs. Harvey J. Holt of Atlanta arrived last night to visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hoffman on Cox Street.
On the eastern front Emperor William faces hard push from Russian attacks as German lines withstand the onslaught. Infantile paralysis worsens in New York with 168 new cases and 39 deaths reported. Railroads accept eight hour day principle amid looming strike.
Little Misses Rebecca Rothrock and Nina Sullivan of Thomasville are guests of Miss Altah Cecil this week, enjoying a social visit and local events.
J W Chandler departed today for a business trip to Hopewell Virginia accompanied to Greensboro by Mrs Chandler and their baby and Miss Florence Baxter who will visit with Miss Lara Hendrix in Greensboro until his return.
Charles Scarrat of Charlotte was a week end guest to his family who are staying with Capt. and Mrs. A. M. Rankin on North Main street.
At the home of Mrs. W. G. Mat ton the Gamma Zeta club met yesterday to elect officers for the ensuing year.
A fragment sketching a simile compares boredom to a Siamese twin on her sister's honeymoon, implying a tired, tedious mood without narrative detail or context.
A Raleigh reader questions murders court procedure habeas corpus and the role of psychiatrists. The dialogue covers sheriff versus chief, jury composition, presence at the scene, and definitions of rape and confession with legal basics and civil liberty principles.
A collection of remarks from Dr Boyd H Bode George Tallman Al Smith Opie Read and Dorothy Arzner. They touch on American politics artistic merit education and women's roles in film and industry.
Bruce Catton argues that local government struggles with relief and finances. He notes 175000 local, state, and federal units and that taxes absorb most revenue. Many counties still use outdated systems, often without budgets, signaling a need for wholesale reorganization to balance budgets.
A reflection on experience as a non taxable resource and the ache of hardships that never materialize, suggesting that unseen losses test patience and resilience.
In a subdued tone Italian newspapers sidestep direct references to the Duce’s age while noting growing concerns about aging leadership. Analysts suggest a quiet shift as commentators speculate on future health and succession implications.
The gossip claims Louie was injected with a hypodermic before his bout. many attributed his condition to Schmeling's alleged ether.
The U S athletic scene reports a setback with Mrs Jarrett disqualified and high hurdler Representative Zioncheck retiring from the race in Seattle.
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