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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1938
Page
9
Local Logan home furnishing shops promote a “Begins at Home” Christmas sale featuring gifts for every family member. The displays spotlight glassware, chrome and electrical appliances, linens, lamps, rugs, and early American and Old English furnishings to enhance home entertaining.
North Carolina shipping points report wholesale vegetable and fruit activity. Listings cover lettuce cabbage potatoes sweet potatoes strawberries lima beans peas snap beans tomatoes squash okra and cucumbers with prices fob and delivered for various regions including Rochester Salinas New York Philadelphia and Boston. Notable items include Iceberg lettuce 2.25 to 2.50 per 6 dozen, potatoes 1.03 to 1.10 per 100 pounds, Jersey type sweet potatoes 1.65 to 2.00 per basket, and Florida Lima beans 4.00 to 4.35 per bushel hampers.
Members attended a sun rise service at High Point on Thanksgiving morning and later delivered fruit baskets to the neighborhood sick and shut-in. Attendees listed include Florence White Magdalene Crumpler Doris Marie Wilson Dorothy Thornton Norma Williard Merle Briggs Ruby Briggs Carl Yow Lawrence Crumpler and David Neaves.
F S Matthews an elderly filling station operator lay in a Wilmington hospital in critical condition. Edward Lee Mattoicks Kaiser 20 was charged with attacking and robbing Matthews and was taken to the Raleigh state penitentiary for safekeeping. Deputy Jack Taylor said Mattoicks struck Matthews with an axe Tuesday night, robbed his store, and fled.
A Monticello high school student spent the holidays with her mother, Dora M. Horney, visiting family and friends.
Charles Phillips of the Woman's College of UNC Greensboro spoke to the Thomasville Rotary Club on The Community and Youth. He urged recreational facilities to reduce juvenile crime and criticized lack of funding for such amenities versus courthouses. Guests included Claude Teague and Jesse Friedman.
A Vienna exhibit displays photographs and machines to illustrate common accident causes as a museum of carelessness.
Santa Claus declares a turning point as he refuses to be streamlined and promotes a good old fashioned Christmas for everybody. He rides his reindeer float in his iconic red suit and tells reporters the event is the most important moment of his life.
The famous artist Rosa Bonheur wore men's clothes while painting animals at fairs and stockyards, challenging gender norms and gaining acclaim for her equine and bovine portraits.
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