State Employment Service Returns to North Carolina
Henry E. B. Kendall reports the North Carolina state employment service division is returned to the unemployment compensation commission effective November 16, joining as a coordinate division. Ernest C. McCracken becomes state director with Robert M. Du Bruyne as assistant plus about 50 state staff and 400 local workers across 78 offices. The service resumes peacetime operations after wartime war manpower work, emphasizing veterans placements and expanded services.
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Henry EB. Kendall
Unemployment Compensation Commission of
Raleigh
Roosevelt
U. S. Employment Service
War Manpower Commission
Employment Service
Num
Ber
North Carolina
Agricultural Extension Service
Tive
UCC
McCracken
R. Fuller Martin
Lake Titicaca rises as world’s highest navigable lake
Lake Titicaca sits on the Peru Bolivia border as the highest navigable lake, about two and a half miles above sea level. It stretches roughly 139 miles in length with depths and water levels varying across its range.
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Lake Titicaca
Peru
Bolivia
High Point's Growth Traced Through 1888 Enterprise Issue
Casual Commenter recalls The High Point Enterprise from September and October 1888, noting E D Steele as founder and editor. Excerpts highlight Dr Talmage sermons, Edison dinner clock, river rapids feats, and local civic activity as High Point evolved from village to industrial city with notable local figures and advertisements.
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Rt. 6
High Point
High Point Enterprise
Enterprise
E. D. Steele
Steele
Greensboro
Albemarle
T. DeWitt Talmage
Brooklyn
N. Y
Thomas A. Edison
Blair
Committee On
Education
Senate
Charles A. Percy
Niagara
Jerusalem
Palestine
America
Europe
Snow
Dalton
J. H. Millis
Moore County
L. J. Ingram
Lexington
Fowle
Dockery
Washington, N. C
Troy
Montgomery County
First Printed 1311 Treatise on Wine as Medicine
A medieval treatise from 1311, believed to be the first printed work, discusses wine strictly as a medical substance and remedy. It treats wine's therapeutic uses, curative properties, and appropriate dosages within a medical framework of the period.
Carrier-of-the-Month: Jimmy Underwood Honored
Jimmy Harold Underwood of 510 Willowbrook received the Carrier-of-the-Month prize from the Enterprise, the second such award in a carrier-promotion program. At 13, he is an eighth grade student and part time carrier earning about ten dollars weekly to fund school and clothes.
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Jimmy Harold Underwood
Willowbrook
Jimmy
J. M. Underwood
Burning Facts New Brunswick Fire Waste Outstrips Historic Expenditures
The article states that national fire waste in 1945 will exceed in any year from 1789 to 1906 the U S government expenditures, except Civil War years, and will surpass postal revenues from 1789 to 1923 and army and navy expenses in all years except World War I, with Alaska alone larger than the three biggest states combined.
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New Brunswick
INS
U.S
Florida
New Jersey
Special Camp for Young Offenders Is Advocated
Charlies L. Coggin, 15th district solicitor, proposes using prison camps to confine first offender youths ages 16 to 21. He argues separate facilities could reduce juvenile crime by focusing on reform and work behavior, avoiding interaction with hardened criminals. Coggin says indefinite sentences tied to good behavior could replace fixed terms, with camp placement at officials’ discretion. A later note recalls the 1896 sale of a truck to a department store, marked as a first in U.S. history.
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Sone
F. Lucas Salisbury
North Carolina State Highway and Public Works Commission
Charlies L
Coggin
North Carolina
Owever
Rowan
Caseep Sodenka
Gomery
Bly Ee Requi
United States
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Regent
Pete Otte
By Jimmy Hatlo
Haroomph
Shadow
City
Tharoomph
MR. Hoping
Anoter Horerui
Phanvalo
Wesity
Madison
Wisconsin
W. A. Bivins
Talmage
Trinity College
Randolph County
John H. Tate
A. E. Tate
Tate
N. C
J. T. Hoover
Ane
FEMI
Jarrell's
Brown and Matton
College Street
North State
Santa Claus
Young Underwood
The
Underwood
Jimmy Underwood
Alaska
Texas
California
Montana
Flarlee
AAA
Wagger
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