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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1942
Page
3
An instructional piece describes making toy war devices from simple materials. It covers a rubber band torpedo, propeller construction, and magnetic toy battles using aluminum pans and iron pieces. It suggests safe, imaginative play tied to current events and wartime sentiment.
Billy Richards helps soldiers with candy and pop then profits, earning $3.76 in one day and winning a War Stamps prize. In rivalry at Vinton High, Larry Willis uncovers a smear campaign by the Torchers claiming three tons of scrap metal, leading to clues about a stolen Hastings estate fence. The plot thickens as Larry meets junk dealer George Wheatley seeking proof for a possible election scandal. To Be Concluded Next Week
Grace Stevenson, rated best flying instructor in the Middle West, volunteers for ferry service with the W A A F in England. She trains in English methods, remarks on navigation differences, and proves women can fly warcraft in this emergency. Readers are invited to write J R Hegel with stamped envelopes.
Experts urge preserving coffee by avoiding heat and storing it in the refrigerator. Do not leave coffee behind stoves or near heat as it dries out and flavors degrade. A child solemnly asks why hot coffee harms his face, underscoring the concern.
A physician’s method mirrors detective work as clues in symptoms guide diagnosis. Dr Joseph Bell, famed mentor of Arthur Conan Doyle, illustrated keen observation and calm judgment, inspiring Holmes and showing medicine’s deductive roots in a London clinic tale.
The editor discusses how youths juggle the adult world and their own peer world. It asks if they are the same person to both groups and notes that while standards differ, core virtues that lead to success remain similar across both worlds.
Creative gift ideas for smokers include decorating round tin cans and deep cake tins with cigarette and pipe smoking ads from magazines. Make a cigarette holder and ash tray by mounting a covered can on a cake tin, varnish the pieces, and add enamel colors.
A caption leads readers to a deflecting clue about a dangerous action affecting national defense. The page directs readers to locate the responsible practice and its risks depicted in the accompanying photo.
A light exchange unfolds as Marys beau asks if she is the oldest sister and the kid brother confirms with humor that he and two other men come after her in the line of suitors.
Verna Houk, 15, of 44 West 26th Street, Indianapolis, wins a weekly War Stamps prize after selling cigarettes she rolls with a machine. She bought tobacco two packages for ten cents, rolls about three packs, sells at ten cents each, earning about thirty cents per ten-cent investment and paying back her father.
A cluttered page presents crossword clues for across and down entries with partial phrases about weather, animals, and objects, plus a scrambled gift list ending with ERITNCE AROZA CTOCABO TEPIRUC. It invites solving many items starting with shared letters and notes a few partial definitions like snow storm and ice.
The fragment hints at a crossword puzzle solution with scattered odd terms and names. No clear event or person stands out, leaving a partial reading of a puzzle segment or verses. Further readable content is needed to extract a concrete item or outcome.
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