Empty Stocking Fund Helps 1500 Families in Need
The Empty Stocking Fund served about 1,500 families in need through Christmas as local volunteers stretch limited funds. Chairman Mrs. M. J. Wrenn and committee members oversaw purchases, with less than twenty five dollars remaining to balance the bill. The group praised for turning a small budget into meaningful aid and for faith in High Point’s generosity. The final report and list of contributors will appear tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
M. J. Wrenn
Ray Smith
Joe F. Hoffman
H. Rhodes
Herman H. Smith
L Paul Ingle
N. L. Garner
H. A. Cecil
Kiwanis Gift Provides Free Tonsil and Adenoid Removal
The Kiwanis club funded and arranged free surgery to remove diseased tonsils and adenoids for 18 underprivileged children. The act is praised as a lasting, self-reliant form of charity that improves health and offers ongoing benefit beyond a single holiday gesture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
Frank Page builder of roads and modern NC highway system
Obituary honors Frank Page a Raleigh banker and former Wachovia executive vice president. As state highway chairman 1919 to 1929 he oversaw a century project of a national leading road network. The piece also reflects on lynching, urging education to curb mob violence and defend justice.
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Edison
North Carolina
Frank Page
Page
Raleigh
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
State Highway Commission
Aberdeen
Police Assigned to Ease Traffic Congestion in Business District
Police added to handle heavy seasonal traffic have kept cars moving and reduced delays. Traffic flow has improved aside from occasional train crossings, earning community praise for effective management of a difficult situation.
A Good Idea Lives On
The piece celebrates W F Pleming for inspiring a Christmas toy repair program by local firemen. Though not personally sponsoring this year due to health, his idea persists with support from firemen, relief workers and others who carry on the tradition founded to bring joy to hundreds of children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Pleming
Mr. Pleming
Smoke and Stench Over Shelbyville
A Shelbyville Tennessee mob violence outbreak leaves four men dead and the county courthouse burned. The piece links brutality to primitive instincts and frontier life, suggesting such acts could occur elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelbyville
Tennessee
America
Broadly Speaking by Tom Alderman Sykes on Christmas spirit
The column reflects on a tough year and the 1934 Christmas season. It urges humility, unity, and social cooperation, noting gifts are not only material. Readings from Dickens’s A Christmas Carol are recommended to foster true Christmas spirit and communal warmth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickens
Lord Jeffery
Random Thoughts From a Rambler's Note Book
A reflective Christmas column notes kindness in public and private life, the seasonal mood, and hope for the new year. It contrasts market chatter with faith and quotes biblical imagery to urge peace and light during Christmastide. It also cites farm value data for Carolina, California, and Texas with 1934 totals.
Five Deaths Mark Shelbyville Turmoil
The piece notes five deaths in Shelbyville Tennessee from violent conflict, describes a burned courthouse, widows and orphans, soldiers in the streets, and ongoing threats to peace, urging goodwill as the solution to wars and strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelbyville
Tenn
North Carolina Leads Nation in Farm Wealth for 1934
Washington figures show North Carolina became the richest agricultural area in America in 1934, outranking California and Texas in value per square mile and per capita. The state ranked third in total crop value, highlighting its agricultural wealth and promising a brighter Christmas for its people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ovut
News and Observer
Washington
North Carolina
America
California
Texas
Sing On America and Christmas Reflections
A late 19th or early 20th century style column blends patriotic verse with personal holiday musings. It contrasts Christmas themes with social concerns, comments on lynching and justice, reviews several books including Musa Dagh, Murder at the Opera House, and Castaway, and closes with hopes for a merry Christmas.
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High Point Enterprise
J. P. Rawley Pu
Blisher
R. B. Terry
HH. A. A
Geo. F. Edwards
Walter P. Hester
Ot McPherson
Mebane ‘City
Associated Press
Pea Ee
Point
N. C
National Advertising
B. Katz Special Adv. Agency
New York
Boas
Philadelphia
Pacrete
Kansas
Atlanta
San Francisco
Cal
Dallas
Tom Alderman
Rambler’s Note
Santa Claus
ORTH
Carolina
Solomon
Victor PP
Hammer
Vol
Oeed
Jack Field
Bill Lambeth
Enterprise
Faith
Hope
Christ
Santy
Foster
Lynch
By John Mebane
Franz Werfel
the Viking Press
Franz, Werfel
Musa
Gabriel Bagradian
Musa Dagh
Moses
Bagradian
Juliette
Iskah
Stephan
Hewis
Metropolitan Opera Company
Consuelo Elvado
Nedda
Opera House
Consenlo
Lucia Bianco
Perino
Guidi
Carey van Horn
James Gould Cozzens
Random House
R. Cozzens
Robinson Crusoe
Mr. Lecky
David Whitelaw
Claude Kendall
England
Scotland Yard
Tabor & Tabor
Stephen Broon
Mr. Tabor
Broon
Wynd Marches
Great Horton
Stephen Droon
Mrs. Lemaire
Westering
Thomas Hornsby Ferris
New Haven
Yale University Press
James Agee
Mr. Ferris
West
Robert Frost
Fort Vasquez
Daniel Boone
John Colter
Muntains
Agee
Yale
Arthur Wrage
Walter Russell Bowie
the Abingdon Press
R. Bowie
Grace Church
New York City
Liberia
James, Young
Doubleday, Doran
R. Young
Harvey 8
Firestone
Libberia
Repub
Africa
Mr. Young
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