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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1939
Page
2
A curious look at early Chinese money from wax coin stamps to tool shaped money. It notes the crescent mark from Empress Wenteck’s thumb nail on 620 CE coins, cowry and turtle shells as early currency, tool money with holes for stringing, and paper or skin currency like pi pi used by Emperor Wu Ti.
A reader requests joining the 1939 Uncle Ray Scrapbook Club via The High Point Enterprise. The letter asks for a Membership Certificate, a leaflet on making a Corner Scrapbook, and a printed cover design, with self-addressed stamped return.
Horizontal clues list various body parts and terms from organ to palm digits and platform. Vertical clues include imbecile spikenard perish and related words with cross references to body parts and language roots.
In Greensboro North Carolina on January 28 Avery Lester Jarvis a 45 year old textile worker and brother of Police Chief L L B Jarvis was killed by a long bladed pocket knife. A Negro man named Joe Noble was arrested near the scene and confessed to the stabbing according to Coroner Wallace G Freeman.
A concise account defines the crack up as the moment life’s growing complications outrun mental capacity. It portrays the breakdown as a response to accumulating pressures and personal disarray.
In Wen dell near here a fire set by a brooder used for eight baby chicks burned the Morgan home. James Henry Morgan, 12, son of a Negro storekeeper, died from burns while his parents and sister escaped unharmed.
Mecklenburg County could become a district by itself and still join the 14th district with Gaston under a pyramiding plan. The judiciary commission recommends four court systems including magistrates, municipal, general county, and superior courts with a new optional general county court handling civil and criminal cases and appeals to the superior court on legal matters only.
An estimate places United States road expenditure at 238 billion dollars annually, reflecting the scale of federal state and local funding for highways and related infrastructure.
In a detailed bridge analysis, McKenney notes East feared a double could ease defense. The sequence features dummy ruffs, club returns, and a diamond cashing run that leaves East with no trump tricks, securing the contract. The write up also recalls Kirkup in Cleveland Open pair, with North initiating a heart ruff and spade over.
In the six club contract South seeks to place West in a position where one misdefensive choice by West damages declarer. The hand distribution and opening lead give South a route to establish two sources of trick taking while maintaining tempo and preventing West from signaling safely. Proper ruffing and position play maximize the odds that West's single mistake costs the defense the contract.
John W. Parrish, 65, father of Mrs. Howard Davenport of High Point, died suddenly at his Asheboro area home. A farmer and saw mill man, he had been ill. Funeral at Farmer M E church Sunday at 2 pm with interment in the church cemetery. Survived by widow Chloe Voncannon, five sons John Charles Dan Fritz of Asheboro Craig of Randleman, three daughters J R Hammond of Farmer Mrs. Kelly Hancock of Asheboro and Mrs Davenport, one sister Mrs K T Plummer of Lexington route two.
Dr. David B. Leinman of New York City said in Raleigh that bridge engineering has made greater progress in the last fifty years than in all prior centuries, during North Carolina State College's engineers' week observance.
Funeral services were held for Ira Everett Jones, 37, Erwin textile worker, fatally injured when his bicycle collided with an automobile on Thursday night.
The lesson centers on John 14 15 and John 21 11 19 about loving Christ and keeping commandments Peter’s call to tend lambs and feed sheep shows the meaning of following Jesus. The preacher urges personal commitment to Christ over others opinions and to serve in the kingdom through faithful action.
The lesson recounts Peter’s post denial journey and the risen Christ appearing by the Lake. Jesus invites the disciples to dine after a fruitless night of fishing and emphasizes fellowship, blessing, and a renewed call to love. Peter’s restoration and the question Simon, lovest thou me arise as central themes.
Carl V. Reynolds state health official said work on the new factory of hygiene is to begin Monday on Caswell Square Raleigh. The project must be completed by July 8 according to officials.
An article notes average motor vehicle license fees in England around 53 dollars per year compared with about 8.50 dollars in the United States. It discusses the disparity in fees and hints at broader cost of living differences.
A gallon of American gasoline shipped into Italy is subject to a per gallon tax of 36 cents in many cases.
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