Price of progress on S Main Street
Enterprise reports the S Main Street widening imposes detours and mud on residents in the 1200 block. Three neighbors Mrs Pritchard Mrs Thacker and Mrs Hunsucker detail front yard loss gas cuts and navigation through a new wooden stairs barrier. Some fear condemnation or renovation while others plan to stay despite disruptions.
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Enterprise
S. Main Street
Progress
Emma Pritchard
Blondie Thacker
S. Main
Bessie Hunsucker
Pritchard
Don Horne
High Point Chinese Laundry Closes After 32 Years
Harry Yip owner of the city’s sole Chinese laundry on N Main Street closes after 32 years in High Point. He bought the business in 1930 after a career through Baltimore Fayetteville Greensboro and Winston Salem. The decision follows a demolition notice and illness in his wife with final pickup hours this week.
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High Point
Harry Yip
Canton
China
Yip
San Francisco
Chung Sai Yet Po
N. Main Street
Baltimore
Maryland
Fayetteville
North Carolina
Charlotte
Winston - Salem
Greensboro
America
Winston-Salem
Charley Lim
Lim
Yips
N. Main
W. Ray Street
World Traveller to Speak at High Point College Assembly
Ian Ros MacFarlane will address High Point College students in Memorial Auditorium at 10 30 a m on Wednesday The topic Black Africa Dawn of Self Rule reflects his travels in Africa and decades as a newspaperman He covered 1926 England strike 1927 Lindbergh Paris arrival and Baghdad riots and was in Cuba during the Castro revolution.
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Africa
High Point College
Ian Ross MacFarlane
Memorial Auditorium
MacFarlane
England
Charles Lindbergh
Paris
Baghdad
King Feisal
Cuba
Poison whisky believed circulating in Davidson County area
A Thom asville biased column warns that deadly white whisky is still sold and drunk around Thom asville with 42 gallons moving toward Jamestown. Local doctors link several deaths this year to poison liquor, urging residents to avoid the product and authorities to curb production and distribution.
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Thomasville
Davidson County
Wilkes County
Piedmont Indian Mound Reveals Creek Culture Past
Town Creek Indian Mound preserves a Creek Confederacy village story in reconstructed stockade grounds along the Pee Dee River. Archaeologists recount 16th century politics and ceremonials, a temple, burial pits, and a game post as work on a $40,000 museum begins after years of excavation led by Dr. Joffre Coe and Bennie C. Keel.
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MT. Gilead
Pee Dee River
General Assembly
United States
Town Creek Indian Mound
Joffre Coe
Laboratory of Anthropology
University of North Carolina
Historic Sites Division
Department of Archives and History
Bennie C. Keel
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Joe Rawhey
Mrs. Blondie Thacker
Arf Richardson
World Traveller Assembly
Jamestown
Pig Stys
Kivett Drive
Piedmont Historical Site
Stockade Tower
Black
Bonnie Moore
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