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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1929
Page
11
Enterprise Bureau reports the 1930 license plates sale lagging after a strong start. Speague Silver warns automobile owners to renew promptly after Christmas as no extensions are allowed and final rush could leave some without plates.
Harvey Firestone, at his Miami Beach winter estate, expects a holiday visit from his old friend Thomas A. Edison to discuss rubber experiments. Firestone notes Edison has developed a rubber percentage of five or six from golden red and expresses confidence in his future success. It is undecided who will travel to whom for the meeting.
Reports from the United States predict a Wall Street slump will curtail the number of wealthy American travelers this winter and spring. Italy’s touring department concentrates on Sicily, Tripolitania, and Naples resorts, with new hotels, extended stays, and a Tripoli to Palermo motor ship line launching January 1, 1930. The first Tripolitania fair runs February 20 to April 20 with pageants and expo events. Capri hosts a December folklore feast and Naples San Carlo Opera promises new offerings.
Raleigh on Christmas Eve sees state departments closed and employees away. Only the highway patrol operates amid rising accidents blamed on slick roads and alcohol in gasoline. Officials linger or stay home until after the holidays, with Gardner and Mull absent awaiting return.
NEA Service reports kindergarten experts at Columbia University Teachers College call for abandoning sentimental fairy tales like Humpty Dumpty and Little Red Riding Hood. Mary Duggan urges new departures in child teaching to align stories with real experiences and objects to foster serious reading later. Dr. D Walter Green of Mullis, S C, is noted for killing two deer with one shot.
The North Carolina state prison system plans a festive dinner for over 2,300 inmates across the central prison and branches. Warden H H Honeycutt says Santa will help ensure prisoners fare well this year with a menu including roast turkey, baked ham, roast pork, sweet potato pie, and cranberry sauce. Superintendent George Ross Pou orders a full Christmas spread for all inmates.
A Durham resident testifies that Sargon, a new medicine, relieved years of indigestion gas pains and back pain after ten years of suffering. The advertisement claims rapid benefits, notes the product includes Sargon Soft Mass Pills, and directs readers to Cecil's Drug Store in High Point and Mann Drug Co. for purchase and explanations.
Prisoners at the central state prison and 14 quarry and road camps will receive Christmas dinners and packages. Loomis Goodwin directs welfare work with church gifts aiding the prison services. An in-house tree and program provided gifts to all inmates.
The text notes that the day will be observed as a holiday and prisoners will be allowed to devote the day to recreation, implying a break from routine activities.
Lieut Francis Wedls a youthful millionaire subaltern and Sunny Jarman a 19 year old American actress wed quietly at Christ Church Mayfair. Francis recently resigned his guards commission in line with the unwritten rule forbidding guardsmen to marry actors.
The Kansas state budget outlines spending roughly 29.5 million dollars on highway improvements for the year 1930. Roads program focuses on expanding and rehabilitating transportation routes across the state with anticipated construction and maintenance projects.
John D. Rockefeller Sr donated 100000 to endowment funds, announced by Rev. Dr. P C. Wright. The gift raises his total contributions to 5500500. Interest supports retired or needy ministers of the Northern Baptist Ministers and Missionaries' board.
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