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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1939
Page
3
North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner W Kerr Scott reports expanded soils testing and marketing services in 1939. The program aims to reduce fertilizer guesswork, improve soil analysis, and boost farmer income through standardization, packaging, branding, and better market information.
The Market News Service reports on state efforts to boost farm income through an official state label for quality farm commodities. It highlights lespedeza seed grading standards, egg labeling improvements, and new egg and hog disease control programs, plus federal centers and dairy initiatives across counties.
Macy’s salesgirls described the perfect shopper as a man. They pictured the “problem shopper” as indecisive, asks many questions, cuts lines, and stalls at crowded counters. The survey ends with the sentiment that the ideal buyer is male.
Guilford County Realty Transfers list transfers of properties in High Point, Gilmer, Morehead, Jamestown, Clay and Bruce townships. Names include Maggie King Prevatt, C M Wall, J C Wall, Florence Harriss, Elizabeth Covington, Jasper G Carson, D L Kersey, Kathleen Anthony, James Bowman, Herman Ogburn. Plats referenced on Mallory Street Cameron Avenue Ellington Street Watlington Road Brown Rag an and more.
Mrs. Paul Bedford of Wilkes-Barre created Friends of Shut-Ins four years ago after asking chronically ill residents what they wanted most. Now 280 members visit within a 20 mile radius, giving gifts and companionship with birthdays tracked and a magazine produced by the group.
A monumental statue honoring Joseph Stalin nears fifty feet tall in Moscow, signaling a bold state display as authorities unveil a towering tribute amid city celebrations and public interest.
Marcus Erwin aged 66 longtime United States attorney for the Western District of North Carolina will be buried after funeral services tomorrow in Asheville. He was found dead in his hotel room yesterday. Former state senator and attorney general in public life, he took the district attorney oath on December 1, 1933.
North Carolina and other wholesale markets report Tuesday sales for fruits vegetables. Prices cover shipper stock ranges with U S Agriculture data listing California and Atlantic coast shipments and market levels for sweet potatoes apples cabbage lettuce radishes and potatoes across New York Baltimore Cleveland and Chicago markets.
Raleigh December 20 Officials of North Carolina State College expected a visit today from Harley Branch vice chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Authority on an inspection tour of schools in the governments pilot training program. China bans two films The Ghost Goes West and The Man Who Could Work Miracles for supernatural content.
Six year old Bobby Jay Jewell, ill with lymphatic leukemia since August 1938, received a Christmas visit from Santa today. Doctors say his condition worsened steadily and his parents fear he may not survive until Christmas. If he is alive next Monday, Santa will make a second visit.
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