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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1930
Page
2
Judith Knight faces December anxieties as she nears New York after a stormy sea voyage. She dresses carefully for a return home while inner dread about settling into the Knight household grows, even as Arthur greets the city with hopeful plans and their children.
Judith travels with Arthur Knight to a large colonial brick house in Long Island. Bert the chauffeur drives through light traffic to a welcoming doorway as Judith senses a new home and life, then nearly faints before Arthur saves her with a quick grab of her arm.
On January 11 1757 Alexander Hamilton was born at Charlestown Nevis later educated in the colonies. He served as Washington’s secretary and became the first U S secretary of the treasury in 1789. Also noting the Continental Congress convening in New York in 1785 and Michigan Territory separating from Indian land in 1805.
The note lists errors in a bowling score sheet, cites an impossible 234 ninth frame score, and corrects throwing stance, grip, and hole counts in balls. It also mentions a misprint about a four hole ball and decodes the scrambled word BALLY HOO.
Greensboro: John S Funk former federal prohibition agent and A S Dowdy of Dowdy town Virginia were convicted of conspiracy to violate national prohibition laws. Judge J Hayes sentenced Funk to 18 months and Dowdy to 15 months at Atlanta federal penitentiary. Both appealed after guilty verdicts in the December term.
A description notes the reindeer is about four feet tall and closely related to the caribou. The passage emphasizes its compact size and kinship within the deer family.
Reports from Baltimore indicate Mrs. Louise Schaffle died from psittacosis with city officials awaiting bacteriological autopsy results. Germany records new psittacosis cases in Oberarsel Duisburg Bochum and Lübeck with several deaths. In Toledo Percy Williams shows slight improvement while his wife who contracted the disease has died.
The six day blizzard and cold wave stretch across the southwest and Rocky Mountains with worsening Texas and Rio Grande Valley conditions. Temperatures fell, fruit losses feared, livestock damaged, and 13 deaths reported in the Southwest. Snow to come in Colorado while most areas east of the Rockies remain unsettled.
Kansas City showed a mild temperature of 12 above with similar readings in Oklahoma. Air schedules remained disrupted. Amelia Earhart, holder of the women's airplane speed record, turned back to Albuquerque after an attempt to fly to Dodge City on the Los Angeles to New York route.
North Carolina farmers must join cooperative marketing associations to receive direct help from the federal Farm Board. Dean O Schaub of State College urged co op formation at the state farm and home agents meeting final session. The extension department will assist in forming marketing associations as the Farm Board, with 6500 million dollars, funds its relief work through coop groups.
The American Walker Cup Golf team for 1930 was announced today with Bobby Jones of Atlanta as Captain. Other members include Harrison R. Johnson of St Paul, George Von Elm of Detroit, Francis Ouimet of Boston, George Voigt of New York, Dr. O F Willing of Portland Oregon, Jess W Sweetser of New York, and Donald K Moe of Portland Oregon. Alternates are Roland Mackenzie of Washington and Maurice McCarthy Jr of New York.
Chief Justice Taft, hospitalized in Washington for bladder trouble, was found materially improved. He plans to travel Tuesday to Asheville, North Carolina for rest, and is allowed to sit up briefly each day. He is reading extensively but not engaging in judicial duties.
A grain of rice bore a nine word blessing May God bless a long happy and prose perous life and was sent from Delhi museum to an English official.
The human heart, in an average lifetime, beats over two million times and performs about 150000 foot pounds of work each day. This energy equals lifting a one ton weight to a height of roughly 75 feet.
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