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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1936
Page
8
In Edenton on August 22 authorities stationed a policeman to curb dogs that bark all night and disturb sleep. Residents say the canines also ransack garbage cans, upsetting sidewalks and rattling receptacles as they roam after dark.
A reader asks how to dismiss a date without offense after a taxi ride and learns etiquette on returning home. The column offers brief rules, including promptly bidding good night, and clarifies housemaid duties and when to omit an address on monogrammed stationery.
The Associated Press index of industrial activity rose to 95.7 signaling renewed momentum after a hesitant spell. Steel output climbed to 72.2 percent of capacity on rising orders, Ford aided auto production, and rail and power sectors showed gains despite heat and drought concerns in parts of the country.
Reynolds children and their attorneys met in Winston-Salem to establish the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc using shares from the late brothers inheritance. The fund, estimated at about ten million dollars, aims to support charitable work in North Carolina with all siblings, including Dick Reynolds and Mary Reynolds Babcock, involved.
North Carolina State College officials predict a record fall enrollment with 2000 plus freshmen registrations, transfers more than doubling last year. Dormitory rooms are fully booked with 300 to 400 additional room applications, but registrar Mayer says all entering students can be accommodated.
The article notes cave men were not physically superior to modern humans. It describes them as shorter with stooping postures, reaching heights from four feet eight inches to five feet three inches.
The Navy Department reports a perfect score in the standard marine pistol marksmanship test at Parris Island South Carolina. Major William P. Richards of Spokane Washington and Naval Academy class of 1917 achieved the feat the first time in service history. General John H. Russell sent congratulations. The test comprises 45 shots including slow and rapid fire and a bobbing target.
In Mendon Missouri Dr William B Lucas reports a six birth two weeks prior with one living girl weighing about ten pounds born a week premature and five others dead in embryonic development totaling less than a pound. The mother Adeline Speichinger 36 was severely ill but recovering.
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