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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1932
Page
5
The Welfare department via the Junior Service League appeals for clothing for a Guilford Sanitorium patient. Urgent items include a size 38 4 bathrobe, three pairs of size 38 4 pajamas, size six bedroom slippers, plus men shoes shirts and dresses for women and children. Call Mrs. John Walker Jr at 2783 to donate.
A middle aged man in London went to Chester Royal Infirmary with stomach pains. X rays revealed 146 nails 23 pins and needles 67 rivets and springs 2 holo nails and 7 other metal articles. Surgeons operated and the patient is convalescing on a digestible diet.
Mrs Nellie Wassener kept a poker in the fire and used it to repulse an intruder trying to break into her Denver home. The hot poker branded him across the face, ending the attempted burglary.
The article notes that certain shrubs, including azaleas and rhododendrons, require acidic soil to thrive, outlining their specialized growing needs.
Mrs. Nancy Hoyt Curtis, also Miss Hoyt, prominent writer from New York and Philadelphia, visits Reno to escape scandal and domestic life. She plans divorce from her Boston husband while praising Reno for calm nights, cooking at home, and hints at future publishing aims and even rival newspaper schemes. She is sister to Morton Hoyt andTimeless Bankhead Hoyt Butt Lee Smith White references.
Cleveland news reports that Mrs. Clara Quinn has perfected a radio tube with the filament on the outside and a replaceable heating element, making it nearly eternal. The article also notes a man who bought a coffin after believing he would die fifteen years ago. He spends time reading the Bible and sleeping in the coffin.
A former Greek admiral plans to exploit heat from Santorini crater interiors and from the hot springs at Aedipso and Thermopylae for commercial energy use.
London reports 75 year old Thomas Thompson, a Derwent Valley hermit, chose a cabin life after a quarrel with his wife and family. He has lived alone for 35 years preferring to sleep in his coffin rather than a bed.
A Yugoslavian miner unable to write had a workmen’s compensation check honored in Denver. Signed with his fingerprint after an on-site mine injury, the print’s authenticity was vouched for by several local witnesses before the check was forwarded to him in Yugoslavia.
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