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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1938
Page
9
The Associated Press notes the market up about one point at midmorning with an overall gain of 3.6 points for the week. Motors, steels, and specialties led gains as Chrysler plans 55,000 new hires and Ford adds 25,000, while December shipments show a sharp rise aiding steel and copper shares amid rearmament talk.
Fen G Hammer longtime Point resident died Saturday in Gibsonville after an illness. He was born November 8 1889 to J and B E Hammer and lived on North Main Street. Survived by widow four children and three siblings. Funeral Monday at 2 PM at Gibsonville Methodist Church with interment in Guilford Memorial Cemetery.
The narrator recounts a Virginia journey from Chase City to Richmond and Lynchburg visiting old newspaper friends. He recalls encounters with John Wood of The Halifax Gazette and J R Middleton of The Chase City Progress, reflects on car trouble in Lynchburg, and ends with musings on travel and public notices of the Panay sinking.
The writer notes Virginia's capital Richmond with wide streets and a population over 250000, observing few police confrontations and no bumper mishaps. A hotel room overlooked George Washington atop a charging horse in the capitol grounds, but sleep came only between Ninth Street streetcars.
A traveler recalls a lonely drive from Richmond to Lynchburg via routes 60 24 and 460. He notes the sparsely populated landscape, the lone town of Appomattox and the famed Last Shot Was Fired site, then hints at further reflections.
Across Britain towns install automatic machines dispensing two penny pieces for ice cream bricks. The text notes birch trees endure minor bark removal yet perish when wounds are large or girdle the trunk.
Raleigh NC January 8 election year in North Carolina shows rising political activity five months before the first primary. Senate race in Reynolds seat draws early attention with Hancock Johnson and others. all 11 congressional seats and state utilities commissioner seats are at stake. Supreme and superior court judgeships, solicitors and 170 legislative seats are open. Filed candidates to March 26 for congressional and state offices and April 23 for county and legislative seats.
An old forestry anecdote describes the measuring worm lifting its body and resembling a tiny twig when startled, a ruse that makes birds overlook it as a harmless plant part.
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