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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1927
Page
4
An excerpt features lines from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, contrasting two souls standing upright as fire and wings. The poem contemplates earthly life, longing for lasting silent communion, and the balance of earthly presence with transcendent aspiration.
The Ford estate reportedly turned down three separate cash offers of one billion dollars for the automobile business. Henry Ford and his son may view future earnings, tax implications, and civic duty as reasons for holding out.
Rev C B Way Methodist Protestant minister wins court order to sell Shelby church to recover 328 dollars in unpaid salary for a year of service. Court notes show firm determination and precedent for church debt collection despite the risk of auctioning the building.
An English court hears a defamation case as Captain Peter Wright accuses Lord Gladstone of hypocrisy and libertinism. Gladstone’s son, aged 73, defends his father’s name amid a broader critique of biographers exposing past faults. The piece contrasts living criticism with posthumous reputation and notes a satirical dispatch about royal buttonholes and dictators.
A church must settle a payment after public disagreements surface. The outcome shows the institution facing financial obligation to address the dispute and restore standing within the community.
The governor backs stronger pistol restrictions, with bills proposing minimum fines of 200 dollars, up to 500, longer jail terms, and tighter control on selling revolvers. Proposals would ban carrying revolvers in cars and treat possession as prima facie evidence of concealment. The editorial questions if enforcement should be so severe amid debates on arms and liberty. Europe’s hostile stance toward the US is noted, with warnings about war risks and a view that old sentimental ties with Europe are fading. Yale Law School shifts to selective admission, raising standards to curb idling and promote real work.
Edgar W. Knight praised the minority report of the state educational commission for backing neglected rural children. He criticized the majority report as verbose and cautious, urging decisive action and a longer school term, while championing rural education and rapid support for public schools.
A backwoodsman returns to his cabin and finds his wife fighting a grizzly bear. He calmly watches, then quips Go it wife Go it bear. The vignette mirrors a growing European mood as nations adopt a similar stance.
Reader proposes new terms gnashologist for a dentist and gwashologist for car scrubbers, sparking light discussion on language creation and playful branding.
Harvard accuses Princeton players of biting the Crimson and Cambridge avoids Hollywood glamour as tensions flare in a cross country college football scene.
A Boston job ad seeks an experienced stenographer skilled in shorthand. The notice highlights precision and speed requirements, appealing to professionals in the historic city.
Aimee has received a vaudeville offer but is not considering it. She probably prefers to manage her own show.
A Pittsburgh professor asserts that people who enjoy the average motion picture have a mental age around 12 years. The claim frames film taste as a reflection of psychological development and could spark debate among scholars and critics.
In the longer days of early spring a shopper notes rising optimism and a chance to inquire about the winter overcoat seen last fall. The piece hints at a public mood shift and practical buying, with an eye toward a seasonal price check.
Gaston County claims the lead in cotton spindles among Southern counties with 1,151,513 spindles, surpassing Spartanburg 8 S C and Greenville County, and ranking third in America behind Bristol Massachusetts and Providence Rhode Island.
Otto Reiselt of Philadelphia shares the lead with Augie Kieckheifer and Art Thurnblad of Chicago after two wins and no defeats in the three cushion billiards national title tournament. Allen Hall of St Louis dropped a 50 to 49 decision to Gus Copulos of Detroit as Camponioni suffered his third defeat. champions noted for speed in Reiselt’s win over the Cuban visitor. The field rests idle today.
A mother writes to publish a tribute to her deceased son Elsie and a baptismal tale linking his life to Excalibur. She recalls her year of fearless endurance and frames her son’s memory as noble, asking readers to understand a mother’s love beyond grief.
Representative J Will Taylor Republican Tennessee denied signing a letter to Joseph Morrow former Mount Pleasant postmaster that solicited 100 to cover a campaign funds deficit.
Fire at the Cello Film company site near Universal Studios Fort Lee New Jersey destroyed two buildings after an explosion in the plant. Loss surpassed $200000 with six persons slightly burned and injured. The Cello plant reclaims old film.
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