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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1940
Page
5
A 1.8 point gain cements a return to normal for the Composite Index. Auto output rises with over 110,000 cars produced, signaling a new weekly high and potential record January month. Shipping, power, textiles, and lumber show gains while freight loadings and steel offset the rise. bank debits, retail gains, and regional variations temper optimism.
U S Agriculture Marketing Service and North Carolina Department of Agriculture report a latest farm market snapshot with shipper point data and Thursday wholesale prices. Potatoes onions and vegetables across New York Chicago Boston and other markets show varied demand mild steady to dull trends with Maine Green Mountains and Idaho Russets priced per cwt or per bag as noted.
Colorado Red McClures WA 8 No 1 pale color 1.50. North Dakota Red River Valley Section 80 per cent No 1 quality Bliss Triumphs 1.35. 76 per cent No 1 quality early Ohios.
Tobacco market in Winston-Salem disposed of nearly 500000 pounds of leaf with growers paid about 10.75 dollars per hundred. Crop remnants dominated sales, with many lots ordinary and a few high quality files reaching 50 dollars per hundred.
Pictured industrialist and philanthropist. To look sullen. Dwelling. Paper mulberry. To sin. To encourage. Mitten. Married. He was a pioneer manufacturer Morass. Omnibus. Branch of learning. Wriggling. Assessment amount. Bird's home. Form of it. Revoked healthies company. He to America with a boy.
Puzzle listing with clues and solutions includes measures of area actual being candid organ of hearing long billed bird railway and more. Vertical clues span monkey model lasting right to repel one who commutes stir soaks flax and other terms across Greek letters sea eagle and World War effort teams.
A compact primer on common word mistakes with usage tips. It notes confusion between sit and set in phrases, mispronunciation of Chopin, and misspellings Cannon versus Canon. Emphasizes improving vocabulary by mastering one word daily, today ultimate meaning finally.
Winter weather chills Kentucky tobacco markets with reduced deliveries and disruptions. Mt Sterling market cancels its barley tobacco sale on the final day of the fourth week of auctions for the season.
Answers cover faux pas as a false step and a wash of initials spelling word. Columbus nationality Italian. long ton contains 2240 pounds. wealth state second to New York is Pennsylvania. Content notes a Raleigh citizen urging efficiency in North Carolina and Yale alumnus John W. Hanes named outstanding Yale man of 1939.
Raleigh reports sleet and snow blanketing the city and surrounding area for a second day as temperatures fall from 30 to 24 degrees between 7 and 9 30 this morning.
McKenny on Bridge by Fishbein and Appleyard warns that timing errors ruin contracts. A sample hand shows the opener leading king of spades and shifting to clubs. Declarer must execute a precise squeeze to win, but wrong timing allows the defense to claim two clubs and block diamonds.
In High Point North Carolina the Guilford County Public Auction proceeds in the City of High Point Municipal Court. The auction lists multiple Carrick lands including Hamilton Montlieu Parkway and surrounding tracts totaling about 90 000 square feet with various parcels described by plat books and previous deeds. Commissioner H L Baumgardner schedules sale for February 5 1940 at 11 00 A M at the east door of the Guilford County Building High Point subject to court confirmation and prior street assessments and taxes.
Reader asks how to revive wilted lettuce and remove red wine stains from linen. Guidance includes vinegar or lemon juice soak, hour rest, cold rinse, and boiling milk treatment for stains. Also advises applying paraffin to zipper sides to ease operation.
A briefing on etiquette notes states there is no fixed time to announce a secret wedding and sending announcements is optional. It also advises a hostess need not accept coats if no servant is present and to offer a place to leave wraps. For cake, use small bites rather than breaking off pieces with fingers.
Dr. Hubert M. Poteat of Wake Forest College and past grand master of the State Grand Lodge of Masons will address a Charlotte Masonic meeting tonight, bringing a notable address to local Freemasons.
The Municipal Court of High Point files suit against A E Futrelle and numerous others to enforce a 1935 tax lien on real estate. Defendants must answer within 30 days from February 3, 1940 or relief will be granted. Clerk IRVINGS S INGRAM notes dates 1 5 12 19 26.
The City of High Point adopts an ordinance under the Municipal Finance Act to issue new bonds not exceeding 3 931 000 dollars to refinance an equal amount of existing city debt. The council states findings after due investigation.
A 1940 ordinance authorizes outstanding High Point bonds totaling 3 931 000 payable over 30 years. It lists Series A funding bonds and Series 2 refunding bonds with numerous par values dates and interest rates, redeemable before maturity with notice. The measure, passed January 17 1940 and published January 19 1940, seeks no voter input.
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