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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1938
Page
6
The Sheloff Ice and Coal Company urges buyers to value heat content over price per ton. They warn that coal at $7 may cost more than a $9 option, emphasize low ash for easier disposal, and highlight smokeless dust treated coal reducing furnace cleaning and soot.
Aside from convenience and comfort, double saving is achieved by Pocahontas smokeless treated coal. The coal is marketed for reduced ash and cleaner heating, aiming to lower maintenance costs and improve stove efficiency.
Complete Esso service is rendered by Pointer Service Station at the corner of English and Elm streets. The station offers lubrication waxing polishing and washing with Atlas batteries tires and Esso products. It reports unusually good business and provides courteous prompt efficient service and ample parking for customers.
Police rushed to Edmund V. Bucher Jr's watch repair shop after his mother reported a telephoned threat from a young woman. The man denied saying he would kill himself and explained he was winding watches to check accuracy while leaving the remark about winding up everything.
Rushville Indiana resident Gerald Voyles reported his house ransacked and telephone ripped from the wall while burglaries also struck Wilbur Nahin’s home where drawers were rifled and a second floor fire started. The culprit is described as rattlebrained and prone to pranks such as turning on water faucets but not stealing items.
Justine Johnstone, famed Ziegfeld showgirl and actress, files for divorce from Walter Wanger alleging cruelty. Wanger, a celebrated Hollywood producer, had been married to Johnstone for 18 years and has recent rumors linking him to Joan Bennett.
W. E. Linthicum and Son, with 45 years in contracting, secured a sub-contract from R. K. Stewart and Son to drive piles for a new freight station. The firm specializes in general hauling, heavy unloading, coal handling, and operates a fleet of trucks, steam shovel, and related equipment for the project and grade crossing elimination work.
Ken Watson’s Esso Service Station at 812 North Main Street High Point announces a modern repair shop with specialists in minor motor work, generators, carburetors and starters. The station offers a call for and deliver service and sells Atlas tires tubes batteries and Esso products exclusively. R W Watson and Frank Watson, brothers of the proprietor, assist in the business.
Sports Peerless Pride, defending champion owned by Louis M. Bobbitt, heads entries in the national amateur quail championship in Waynesboro Georgia. The setter will run in the seconds brace with Shane Mhhree, owned and handled by Richard F. Dodd. Bobbitt plans to handle Sports Peerless Pride, winner of both the quail and pheasant titles last year. The tournament, sponsored by the Amateur Field Trial Clubs of America, is expected to finish Thursday.
In San Diego California Paul Christen ate twenty hard boiled eggs in one minute to win the egg eating championship.
J R Boone owner of Boone Coal Co in this city warns warm spell may not last and predicts severe winter. He urges customers to stock coal now as fuel bins run low during mild periods and orders flood in. Boonespace recommends Mayflower stokers furnaces and coal brands. offices on Ashe road Mallory street available by telephone.
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