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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1936
Page
8
A cryptic horizontal and vertical crossword with clues ranging from a former ruler to items like social insects, street, eggs of fishes, crucifix, and various numeric entries. Includes entries for animals, body parts, and common nouns, suggesting a themed puzzle with multiple intersecting word answers.
Story covers Columbus 1498 mutiny and imprisonment, Isabella's tears, and restoration. Also explains Julian to Gregorian calendar reform, leap year rules, and a 1938 scrapbook club invitation from Uncle Ray.
The article reviews ancient calendars from Egypt Greece and Rome. It notes the 12 month system and leap year issues in Egypt and describes Greek moon based calendars and varied new year start dates across regions. It mentions Romans giving month names including January named for Janus.
Lee Earl Bridges, the lone survivor of a quadruplet birth in a Missouri log cabin on November 2, died in a Memphis hospital. The infant, who had survived initial odds, passed away in the hospital as reported by United Press.
State Senator W. P. Holt, who suffered a fractured skull in an automobile accident three weeks ago, has left the hospital but remains confined to his home.
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