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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1940
Page
7
A cryptic grid lists clues across vertical and horizontal entries. The puzzle references a religious leader once linked to Berlin, with related terms spanning salt to monastery themes and world geography hints.
The article advises dressing for cold weather to protect health as temperatures swing between indoors and outdoors. It notes that exposure alone does not cause illness but periodic stress on body tissues can raise infection risk. It contrasts athletes’ acclimatization with average workers and shoppers, urging moderation to avoid overheating indoors. Middlesbrough records the highest birth rate in England and Wales at 20.3 per 1000 population.
Mary Carroll agrees to marry Dr. Gilbert Lenox before his front departure. He gives her his name and funds, and she vows to endure as she wrestles love for Vincent Gregg. Gilbert prepares for a base hospital posting while Mary faces an unsure future and a new social status as Mrs. Lenox.
A short history recounts Peter the Great planning a Baltic port city on Gulf of Finland islands. Forty thousand workers endure illness and hardship as St. Petersburg rises, becomes capital, later known as Leningrad, and finally remains Moscow’s rival. Uncle Ray signs off with an offer for a stamp leaflet.
A quiz asks readers to match famous streets to their best known American city. Market Street Pennsylvania Avenue Michigan Boulevard Wall Street Broad Street with options. Answers appear on the Want Ad Page.
English tips emphasize correct phrases such as recurrence of winter and dialogue pronunciation. Daily vocabulary focus includes transcendent meaning surpassing others in excellence, with example of hills and river presenting transcendent beauty.
A Q A piece explains true politeness via Chesterfield saying treat others as you wish to be treated. It states a guest pays hotel bills for out of town weddings and overnight stays. It lists closings for letters to a close friend as Affectionately yours Devotedly yours Lovingly yours.
Hollywood gossip notes Gabby Hayes and a producer clash over pay while night life resurges with renewed management at the Trocadero and remodels along the Sunset Strip. Irene Dunne celebrates a birthday on set as Garbo and Stokowski rumors spark romance chatter with gifts and long distance calls.
A brisk, quirky reel notes global pegs such as Jean Arthur meeting her leading man on a first Hollywood picture and the Soviet collective farms turning two hundred dollars per minute. It also cites Germany’s crop losses, castor oil for insecticides, menthol from Japan, and radium salts shipped to America at several dollars per minute.
The Vance and Marlowe flour mill in Kernersville is purchased by the Shore Brothers, owners of Shore Laundry and Home-Made Bug Company. Personnel remain, D. A. Marlowe continues as manager, and the mill is renamed Farmers Flour Mill.
Answers to a quiz include 113 years 10 months 19 days for prohibition. Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to Congress in 1916 from Montana. The smallest English bronze coin is the farthing. The Centigrade freezing point is zero. The states named after kings are Georgia and Louisiana.
The guide advises making strong suds with white castile soap. Dissolve a teaspoon of borax in half a pint of hot water and add this to a quart of suds then use cold water to finish.
In Pittsburgh at the national tournament, Mrs. R C Young of Philadelphia defends her world No 1 title by winning the women's team of four and the national open team of four. The report highlights her defense and opening lead decisions on a pivotal hand.
A 19th or early 20th century Q and A offers tips for keeping hands warm with gloves and washing, drying, and softening them, plus low tech warmth tips like making shoe insoles from felt. It also suggests sweetening soured cream with a pinch of baking soda.
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