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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1930
Page
4
A Bible verse from First Kings 1 33 presents Bathsheba bowing and praying for David to live forever. An accompanying quote from Trollope urges humility before higher powers, reflecting on status and reverence.
Major Charles M. Stedman’s retirement opens the Fifth District contest with four announced candidates Sam M. Gattis Frank Hancock John H. Folger and A Fuller Sams. Guilford County, largest in the district, may yet supply or influence contenders as strategists forecast a battle to June 7 with Democratic and Republican interests at stake. The piece notes past voting shifts and the challenge of securing a primary edge across ten counties.
A chair of public speaking was dedicated to Chauncey M. Depew at George Washington University. The late Depew was regarded as the world’s champion dinner speaker.
The piece argues that the many Americans indebted to Mr. Depew should fund a memorial chair in his name. It praises his 15 000 speeches yet notes he avoided many dinner talks. The author urges public honor with a comfortable over stuffed chair for his relaxed neck and spine in memory.
A reflective piece notes racial clashes in California where whites attack Filipinos and other Asians. It argues Western myths of tolerance hide prejudice and laments the inability of outsiders to judge local riots while stressing the need for real experience with racial tension.
This week reports center on the Simmons Bailey Senate race. Washington asserted Simmons must honor his primary pledge. Former Governor Cameron Morrison endorsed Bailey in Wilmington signaling a major boost for Bailey and a clear split from Simmons.
Dr John Dewey predicts two future classes in New York by 1980 aristo crats living above ground in tall skyscrapers and groundlings dwelling in tunnels below ground. He links sun worship to the sky dwellers and Hades to the underground, while noting H G Wells anticipated the idea in The Time Machine. Critics call the notion a gaudy pipe dream.
A columnist argues cities fail to satisfy the average person despite rapid skyscraper growth. Suburbs expand as travel advances enable living far from work, while safety and planning concerns grow. There is critique of droughty warrants and a warning about automobile fatalities rising 13 percent in 1929. The piece calls for drastic action now to curb auto deaths and improve urban life.
Albert M. Stewart awaiting execution in the Folsom death house has asked to drop his appeal and be hanged immediately. Five associates have already been executed, and he has heard the trap springs. He prefers immediate death to prolonged suspense and doubt.
The remark lampoons a researcher who claims vast sources of irritation while hinting at a humorous link to relatives and parrot disease with vaudeville origin jokes.
Dr. Olga Stastny urges women to rest their feet on desks to improve ankle health. The remark draws humor as she jokes a posture for heads would be needed.
A movie producer hunts for a haughty princess character while overlooking a theater ticket seller. The buyer is told that the most authentic aristocratic bearing may be found in the person selling audience seats, suggesting a candid source for casting.
A doctor says the stress of modern life is causing people to be more absent minded. The message suggests telling a partner you are late home as a coping tip.
The rule bars children under fourteen from bullfight events. At large public gatherings, minors accompany their parents to assist with family duties and supervision during celebrations.
UNC Chapel Hill shifts Alumni Day to Monday and expands commencement to June 7 through June 10. Memorial Hall is unsafe so open air exercises in Kenan Stadium likely. Ten classes reunite including Baby class 1929 and 1905 quarter century class. Dix plan groups four class generations for the event.
Italian officials demand naval parity with continental powers as France resists unless conditions are attached. Andre Tardieu and Dino Grandi pursue a direct talks path with Morrow and Stimson while optimism remains that a method for settlement will emerge among the five power naval conference participants in London.
Lexington reports a revival in illegal moonshine activity as warm weather boosts the corn juice market in Davidson County. Deputies found three distilling outfits in one day with two beer operations and one filled with beer. all outfits were destroyed and stands cut.
Four certificates of incorporation were filed in Raleigh. Golden Belt Oil Company of Henderson seeks $15,000 authorized capital with $3,000 subscribed, backed by A. L. Wester W. B. Daniel Jr. C. L. Mackey and others. Avenue Cash Grocery Inc of Roanoke Rapids plans a $15,000 authorized capital with $300 subscribed by M. D. Collier J. W. Taylor and Lou B. Collier. Carolina Growers Inc of Wilmington aims to promote fruit and vegetable business with $505 authorized capital by W. C. Montgomery L. N. Johnston M. S. Emmart and others. Adamson Cadillac Company of Greensboro to operate a garage with $100,000 authorized capital and $300 subscribed by E. B. Adamson Inez B. Adamson and Norman A. Boren.
Guilford Superior Court hears closing arguments in the first degree murder case against John Lee Black of High Point. Prosecutors say Black shot R. T. Ritchie during a dispute over a woman named Roxie Fitzgerald, then fled to Mississippi. The defense claims self defense as jurors begin deliberations.
In Noblesville Indiana Wal ter Trietsche aged 45 was gored in the chest by a cow. The family dog heard the trouble and rushed to the field seizing the animal by the nose and holding it long enough for Trietsche to escape. The dog then aided its master home.
Thousands of New Yorkers gathered at the Astor Hotel for the Beaux Arts ball reenacting fifteenth century Italy. Dressed in period costumes, guests paraded through three ballrooms as courtiers, artists, and nobles mingled amid reconstructions of Il Palazzo and Il Mercato.
Washington January 25 A presidential decree blocks all parrot imports into the United States and territories amid an psittacosis outbreak. Health officials, led by Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming, expect containment soon as the embargo remains in effect indefinitely. Parrot fever, resembling typhoid with pneumonia, is not known to spread person to person.
STETTIN Germany Jan 25 Three persons were killed and 24 injured when a street car descending a hill jumped the rails and crashed into a house. Seventeen of the injured were in serious condition. Many women passengers were on board and among the hurt.
A note suggests using caraway seed to add a pleasant tang to vegetable salads. It also mentions caraway seeds as a good addition to breakfast rolls, though the exact amount is unclear due to text cut off.
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