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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1942
Page
3
Alicia Hart notes sachets as ideal small gifts for Christmas. A white satin sachet with a black-eyed horse design and a golden perfume flask symbolizes original gift craft. Suitable as a light present under the tree or for casual guests, it blends charm with practical luxury.
We the women with husbands overseas can stop worrying by filling days with real, satisfying work and active social life. Stay busy, sleep well, and keep letters positive. Mrs Jimmy Doolittle embodies the resolve to keep a strong chin up for home and country.
The article details a range of Christmas gift boxes from a perfumery, including a compact useful box with powder sachet for wrists and neck and lingerie sachet, toilet water, and seaf. It notes larger mirror boxes for dressing tables with roses and spice toilet water, atomizer, sachets, talcum, soap, and a glass box set of three sachets. The messages describe decorative acetate boxes with floral embroidery and blue ribbons.
Turkeys totaling 100 pounds were shipped on Wednesday the 10th to the Odd Fellows Home for Orphans and Old Folks in Goldsboro by members of Repilon Lodge IOOF this city. The shipment follows a Christmas season custom spanning 250 years. Also noted is that during the first nine months of 1941 coffee consumption in the United States reached nearly 18 pounds per person.
Advertisement notes pattern 4278 in two versions for women sizes 36 through 50 with specific fabric yardage for size 36. Order details require name address size number and cents. Also mentions The High Point Enterprise pattern book and fall winter fashion and salvage specials.
Fourth of a series of outstanding rubber bridge hands from 1942 shared by Harry J. Fishbein of the Mayfair Bridge Club in New York. North's overambitious bids are noted as the hand unfolds with spades and hearts, a potential slam evaluation, and strategy on the spade finesse and lead choices.
Snow depth across North Carolina reached up to five inches in places with Raleigh at five inches and Durham Kinston Winston-Salem reporting four inches. Greensboro had about an inch and a half, while Charlotte Wilmington saw brisk falls. Temperatures fell quickly after precipitation. Mrs. Percy Wood, 62, of Garner, died in a Raleigh area car crash during the snowfall. Wilmington reported many homes lacking heat due to fuel oil shortages. Limited
Eleven Burke County road houses and service stations were padlocked last night by county officers under a Superior Court order by Judge Zeb V. Nettles. A Jan 1 hearing before Judge J. Will Press Jr. will decide if closures become permanent as public nuisances amid local crime probes. Former Sheriff Paul M. Dale and ex-police officer Wilburn Wilson face charges and $2300 bond, with Don Jones also named in a related conspiracy. Also noted is a National Roster project registering technicians to aid brainpower supply.
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