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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1933
Page
7
In late December 1939 report Raymond Crowley notes New York's New Year festivities shifting toward upscale crowds. Vendors emphasize cash value as clubs and hotels offer $10 packages with dancing entertainment and a 4 AM breakfast, while some venues lower prices to attract crowds and manage crowds with reinforced measures.
Historic notes describe $5 plates for B C relief products and Broadway venues charging $12.50 to $6.25 for performances with piano by Helen Morgan. Wines and liquors priced a la carte and corriage charges at resorts to deter outside champagne. Liquor shops report brisk sales and department stores see high weekly receipts.
NEA Service correspondent Dan Thomas selects the ten best American films of 1933, led by Walt Disney’s Three Little Pigs for sheer entertainment. He ranks Berkeley Square high, with Leslie Howard starring and Frank Lloyd directing, noting public reaction is still forming.
Dewey Hunt, condemned for slayings including a Dallas streetcar motorman, died in the electric chair at Huntsville early today. Moments later Carl Stewart, 23, executed for killing a Austin man, and Clarence Booker, 25, who killed and robbed a Cameron storekeeper, followed.
The Bank of Wilkes closed in May 1927 after a funds shortage. Common depositors receive 103190.06 from deposits of 255464.22. Clem Wrenn, its president, served a prison sentence over the shortage. Liquidation also settles 12960.63 in preferred claims and 44500 bills payable.
Carlisle Crosland has arrived in Columbia to supervise the census effort in the area after traveling from Washington. He comes to oversee local operations and coordinate the field work for the count.
A 1935 NEA beauty feature describes choosing foundations from vanishing to liquid types and applying them with cotton. It advises cleansing skin first, letting liquid foundation dry, then layering powder with blotting, and finishing with a baby brush to remove excess powder. It notes a government census scheduled for January 2.
Critic Ann Page surveys top 1932 films including Smilin Through Cavalcade Footlight Parade White Sister and Only Yesterday praising performances by Clark Gable Mae West Katharine Hepburn and James Cagney while also offering holiday food advice. The article also discusses seasonal produce like spinach green beans cabbage squash and citrus along with general shopping tips and weather-ready roads data.
A brief 19th century style remedy note touts a salve for nose and cheeks with claimed quick relief. It promises headaches or neuralgia relief in 50 minutes and markets itself as a speedy laxative and tonic.
On November 18, 1933 the average national retail price of gasoline without taxes was 14.17 cents per gallon compared with 10.78 cents on June 1. The total motor sales tax bill for 1932 was $1,052,625.
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