Vanity Quotes End Year With Ecclesiastes Reflections
A December 31, 1929 item reflects on vanity with biblical and secular lines. It notes vanity transcends gender and offers a quiet closing thought for readers ending the year.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1929
Page
4
Hope for better conditions for cotton farmers in North Carolina
The $30,000,000 cotton marketing cooperative may form within a month to lift growers from poverty. Tobacco follows a similar pattern. the North Carolina governor urges farmers to grow food at home and market crops intelligently to retain wealth locally and raise prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotton Cooperative Marketing Association
Washington
United States
North Carolina
Striking at the Faith of the Gullible
The piece notes bootleggers prey on gullible patrons who trust island price lists and charges under the British flag. It describes vendors detailing transportation and protection costs to sales, making deceit seem plausible. Police reveal how fake “bottled in bond” tricks work, unsettling many in society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bond
Bend
Announcement on Senatorial Race Rumors in Raleigh
The decision by Justice Brogden on a 1930 United States Senate candidacy is expected today. Raleigh newspaper predicted his entry in the race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Brogden
United States Senate
Raleigh
Bailey or Brogden Face Prospects in Simmons Seat Fight
Indications push that Bailey or Brogden may oppose Senator Simmons. If Justice Brogden relinquishes his government niche, the move signals a serious party fight. Bailey would run despite likely defeat, while others warn harmony claims are futile as Simmons may step aside or run, risking a split.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brogden
Commonwealth
Bailey
Supreme Court
Simmons
Plan to Preserve the Forests of America
The report by Gifford Pinchot and George P Ahern to the Society of American Foresters in Des Moines warns forests are in grave danger. It cites 1928 fire losses and argues federal control of lumbering and conservative forestry to prevent further devastation and water loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
George P. Ahern
Society of American Foresters
Des Moines
Iowa
Pinchot
George Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
North Carolina
United States
Capper
Police Court Parade and Shifts in Attention Across News
A Chicago police court case exposes a fakery by a vagrant who claimed to be Dan Murphy, drawing charity before the hoax was revealed. The piece notes public indifference to real down-and-out lives and calls for greater awareness of societal failures. It also covers an Navy inquiry into General Butler’s Haiti speech and punditry on Senator Grundy’s Washington ascent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dan Murphy
Philadelphia Athletics
East
Navy Department
Smedley Butler
Pittsburgh
Doughty Marine
Haiti
General Butler
Navy
Joseph Grundy
Pennsylvania
United States Senate
Senator Grundy
Washington
Senate
New Civitan Club Officers Installed At High Point
The High Point Civitan Club installed new officers led by Dr. S. Coe as president at a Sheraton luncheon. New directors include Harry Brockman Wade Marsh Lewis Teague and others. Forrest Shuford announced continued support for training program pupil Joe Hoffman and guests included C. M. Warnick editor of The High Point Enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Civitan Club
Horace S. Haworth
Sheraton Hotel
S. Coe
W. B. Hall
Joe Hoffman
W. F F. Bailey
L. R. Johnston
Edgar Hatcher, Jr
Harry L. Brockman
Wade Marsh
Lewis E. Teague
W. F. Bailey
David T. Yow
C. M. Warnick
High Point Enterprise
Midnight Nightfall Reflections Then a Child Awakens
A narrator recalls midnight prompts and a mother’s promise to wake the sleeper. Night skies loom beyond barred window curtains as a divine page turns, echoing fate and memory.
Stars Light Up a Funeral in Thomasville Church
Violet Alleyn Storey, quoted from Good Housekeeping, attended a service at Heidelberg Reformed Church in Thomasville, with burial in Thomasville cemetery. Active pallbearers were church elders K L Long W G Hinkle G S Long Lee Black H E Black and E C Leonard. numerous honorary pallbearers followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Violet Alleyn Storey
Good Housekeeping
Heidelberg Reformed
Thomasville
K. L. Long
W. G. Hinkle
G.S. Long
Lee Black
H. E. Black
E. C. Leonard
The
Reformed Church
W. E. Fouts
Everett Black
Arthur Everhart
N. S. Hunt
W. R. Hinkle
T. E. Jennings
G. M. Hoover
C. M. Hoover
J. Q. Miller
F. E. Sigman
R. L. Pope
C. L. Harris
Jim Jones
W. L. Long
CC. M. Tomlinson
H. L. Fouts
Homer Ragan
E. H. Davis
C. M. Bodenheimer
Gary Long
S. A. Myers
A. L. Stone
Lloyd Murphy
D. H. Sechrest
Funeral services for Randall P. Murphy held in Thomasville
Funeral services for Randall P. Murphy, a well known Thomasville citizen, were conducted today following his death late Sunday in a local hospital. The service honored his long community involvement and local ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphy
Randall P. Murphy
Thomasville
Sheraton Manager Returns To City
Ralph C. Erskine, manager of the Sheraton Hotel, returned last night from Kansas City Missouri where he had been ten days visiting friends and relatives for the Christmas holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph C. Erskine
Sheraton Hotel
Kansas City
Cadet Charles J Humber Elected Army Captain
Cadet Charles J Polly Humber of Eatonton Georgia named captain of next year’s Army football team after lettermen meeting aboard the train en route to West Point from Palo Alto where Army fell to Stanford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humber
Barston
Calif
Charles J
Polly) Humber
Eatonton
Army
West Point
Palo Alto
Stanford
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By Bruce Catton
MR. Grundy
Civitan Club
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