Vision of a New Year and Davidson County Progress
The piece reflects on 1938 and salutes a hopeful 1939 with notes on optimism, gentleness, and public spirit. It highlights Henry B. Warner’s roads advocacy, Davidson County’s road and electric progress, and the rural electrification drive and local pride in Denton and Dutch heritage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry B. Warner
Warner
Davidson
North Carolina General Assembly
Davidson County
Lexington Dispatch
County Electric Cooperative
REA
P. M. Hendricks
Denton
Mr. Warner
Cooperation of private enterprise and government aids economy
The piece argues for stronger collaboration between business and government to restore employment and economic stability. It notes a shift toward reliance on normal economic forces, reform in public jobs to work with private employers, and the need to protect citizens from hunger while proving democracy can adapt to serve the people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Call for sweeping curbs on expenditures and a revival
The Enterprise and Hickory Daily Record echo Gastonia Gazette urging drastic national budget cuts. They blame liberal church leadership for failing business, promote capitalism rooted in Biblical law, and call ministers to deliver an economic gospel of well being to revive the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hickory Daily Record
Gastonia Gazette
National Congress
Record
Jesus
God
Ferrar Fenton
Walter Winchell on Broadway First Nights Glow Returns
Walter Winchell notes a Broadway revival of prestige with openings across theater and cinema. Critics from Brooks Atkinson to Noel Coward weigh in on Window Shopping Bright Rebel The Merchant of Yonkers and other debuts while audiences await British imports like The Lady Vanishes and Forbidden Music amid attention to stage versus screen success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Cla
Mr. Watts, Jr
Ruth Draper
Brooks Atkinson
John Anderson
Sun
Michael
Thornton Wilder
Arnold Sundgaard
Marc Connelly
Noel Coward
Boston
Advance Heralds
Bea Lillie
Red Coats
Ameddica
Hollywood
Best
England
Alfred Hitchcock
Woollcott
Mrs. C. Laughton
Elsa
Dawn Patrol
One Minute of Life in 1938 America
A compact snapshot shows minute by minute activity across the United States in 1938. It notes sales, life insurance payouts, beverage and food consumption, travel, agricultural exports, oil shipments, synthetic gas, air travel miles, and state and federal gasoline taxes as a minute passes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Germany
New Year Reflections on Resolve and Renewal
A thoughtful meditation on ringing out the old year and ringing in the new. The author considers past bonds, personal growth, and the value of honest self inventory as a fresh page of time opens with the spirit of Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snarler
William Sunday
Paderewski Memoirs and Other New Books Highlighted
The Paderewski Memoirs from Charles Lerner and Sons, co authored with Mary Lawton, trace Paderewski from boyhood through his rise as pianist and statesman. Also reviewed are The Country Rod and Gun Book by Arthur Wallace Peach and Collected Poems by Joseph S. Cotter Sr., plus Georgia MacSentie Stamper’s House of Hope.
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Paderewski
New York
Charles Lerner
Mary Lawton
Warsaw
Ignacz Jan Paderewski
Berlin
Conservatory
Leschetiszky
Amston Rubenstein
Pablo Sarasate
Masdame Modjeska
Hans von Bulow
Joseph Joachim
Leopold Auer
Charles Gounod
Camille Saint-Saens
Jules Massenet
Edward X. Burne-Jones
Hig
England
America
Russia
Pade
Rewski
Farrar & Rinehart
Weston, Vt
the Countryman Press
Arthur Wallace Peach
Georgia MacSentie Stamper
House of Hope
Atlanta, Ga
Banener Press
Emory University
After Thoughts Tip A New Year's Reverie
A narrator recalls a quiet New Year’s Eve vision of Aunt Dora reading a poem about youth and memory. She recounts a life of hardship from childhood abuse to war loss, saving $1,000, and eventual poverty, ending with the 1929 New Year’s dawn and cruel borderlands homelessness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dora
Mary Sykes
Aunt Dora
Resoluting and Habits on a Duke Power Bus
A humorous anecdote from a Duke Power bus ride features Charlie Peck posing a riddle about quitting bad habits. The tale shifts to Jim Snodgrass who attempts to quit chewing but ends up substituting with peanuts, apples, and gum, leading to weight gain and his wife removing gum from furniture.
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Duke Power
Charlie Peck
Charlie
Mr. Peck
Jim Snodgrass
Grassville
Brown
Jim
Main Street
Dan
Beersheba
Phrony
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High Point Enterprise
B. Terry Id
A. Rawley
J. P. Rawley
Capus
M. Waynick
High Point
Masan Aeta
Associated Press
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
N. C
of Congress
En National
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John Budd CO
Lexington Ave
New York City
I Samuel
PHE
Eel
Doughty Davidson
State General Assembly
Alfred E. Smith
John Heywood
Walter Winchell
Broadway
George Seldes
Stanley Walker
Walker
Robert Sellmer
Howard Merrill
Earth
U. S
Hawaii
Esquire Features, Inc
D. B. Carrick
Joseph Seaman Cotter
S. Coleridge-Taylor Colored School
Newark
Henry Harrison
Joseph S. Cotter
Marquis de Polignac
Robert Browning
W. A. Bivins
Europe
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