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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1938
Page
8
A compact clue card listing crosswords about an American novelist who is a Nobel laureate for literature and other items. It pairs horizontal hints like American novelist and Nobel prize winner with vertical clues such as razor, press, frostbite, and musical notes to form a themed puzzle grid.
Uncle Ray explains that mummies were made to ensure the spirit could live if the body lasted. Priests, paid well, prepared durable bodies for the rich, while commoners expected shorter afterlives. Doubles fed in tombs, taxes funded care, and temples stood beside tombs to keep priests nearby.
A set of trivia prompts asks why water does not burn and covers topics like the Tories bees tin mines in the United States and a march titled Hall to the Chief with a question about the person honored by it.
Answers include foreign meaning birth difference versus allegiance for alien, Abraham Lincoln a lawyer, hummingbird feeds on the wing, U S average rainfall about 30.20 inches, and Sault Ste. Marie claimed oldest French town in Michigan.
Reader questions on home care cover removing floor spots with rubbing alcohol and waxing, preventing cracked lips with cold cream glycerine and lettuce cream, and making brown sugar syrup by dissolving brown sugar in water and boiling.
Roberta Lee explains etiquette for dinner dance invitations two sets for dinner and dance only. She notes Your humble servant closing is obsolete, and defines a guest prize as a prize for the honored guest not won by others.
A compact English lesson notes common misuses and mispronunciations. It highlights correct phrases such as I didn’t have any sleep last night and explains Buenos Aires pronunciation. The feature urges daily vocabulary growth and defines pendent as suspended or hanging from above with an example.
Dr. A. H. Fleming of Louisburg heads the North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs with W. H. Dunn of Wilson and J. W. Robison of Hickory as vice presidents and C. S. Parnell as secretary treasurer. Governor Hoey urged a revival from the recession and an auspicious 1938.
Coroner Melvin McLean announced the death of 22 year old Duncan Darrow in western Harnett County is officially listed as death by own action. The ruling follows investigation into a fatal shooting report dated January 11.
Priests avoided wasting offerings by placing fruit and grain sketches in tombs to stand in for real food. Later, depictions of sowing, tending, reaping, and threshing near coffins kept supply for year after year, helping us learn ancient Egyptian life from three or four thousand years ago.
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