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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1937
Page
4
At the Judiciary Committee hearing on a state wide liquor control vote the sole voice against the bill came from Pitt County Commissioner Chairman Cox. The piece notes Pitt County's past ties to liquor sales and local tax funding for schools after prohibition and questions whether revenue concerns should drive control policy.
The text is a standard Associated Press disclaimer about exclusive rights to AP dispatches and republication in the paper. It notes the material is credited to AP and that the publication is a second class matter at the High Point, North Carolina post office under the 1872 Congress act.
The text urges readers to seek virtue and grow daily toward right conduct. It compares moral effort to digging from a rock and hole, emphasizing personal cultivation as the foundational condition for all humans.
In January 1937 High Point endured two fatal accidents within a week at a railroad grade crossing. The piece notes a grim irony as work on a safety project had just begun and argues those opposing transportation safety measures must have a strong reason given the recurring fatalities.
The local Rotary club launches a program to aid crippled children, with 42 identified in need. Through the North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital at Gastonia, efforts aim to provide treatment and appliances. President Roosevelt notes rehabilitation yields long term civic and economic gains.
A Lexington Dispatch review discusses Rev. J. A. Baldwin’s book The Bishop and His Boss, a controversial memoir from a minister turned insurer. It notes fictitious names, a conversational style, and potential for serious reflection despite questions about its factual basis.
Opinion piece notes pastors facing apathy, a New York protest Bible burning, and broad questions about church attendance across the country. It contrasts clergy tactics with spiritual grace and cites Bruce Catton on the Moscow trial and the Mdivani connection in a separate panel.
A Macow defendant claims Budu Mdi vani, bearing Georgian royal titles, conspired to kill Communists and establish an independent Georgia state. The testimony casts the trial as even more unreal than its already strange beginning.
A reflective critique traces the Liberty League from its rise to power to its fall. It argues the league caricatured property rights, framed conservatism as blind reaction, and pressured the Supreme Court, contributing to public disillusionment with the era and leaving a lasting, controversial mark on 1930s politics.
The text contrasts heroic acts during a shipwreck with looting in the Ohio Mississippi Valley flood. It notes some masked by disguise and greed, while many work to rescue flood refugees, exposing stark contrasts in human behavior.
A district conversation features Richard L. Dinley defending gun shipment licensure for Spain and liberal roots within Republican ranks under Harding or Hoover. The item also notes U S Representative Hamilton Finch and includes Charles K B McCandless poetry about verse rejection and a Pegasus poem mood, reflecting cultural politics and literary wit.
Rodney Dutcher reports on John L. Lewis pressing President Roosevelt for help in the General Motors strike. The piece weighs leadership risk, labor strategy, and White House reactions as union tensions affect the U S labor movement and GM plants with about 135000 workers at stake.
A nostalgic reminiscence recalls Aunt Annie Adams age 82 and her annual Florida journey. The narrator describes family memories from childhood, Daily life in New York, and cross city vignettes from Cincinnati, Berlin, London, and New York, ending with a vivid band night procession.
Charles Gentry the dapper town tailor his Stanhope wheeled high. Billy Taylor the livery man with Myrt the sorrel horse. Alfred Henking and his wife the banking couple with Rezette the carriage. Newsome the town belle returns from Atlantic City with new tastes in lawn tennis. Joe the boy with logorrhea jabbers thoughts about citizens, amusing and embarrassing.
Public square night shows a village’s quiet nobility after sunset. The scene hints at dim undercurrents as shanty boat girls and buxom lasses appear, foreshadowing later jailhouse silhouettes and eroded virtue in a county.
Twenty years ago in January 1917 the Enterprise Man recalls Tex Rickard born January 1872 in Kansas City who earned the nickname Tex. The piece outlines his rise from cattle herder and Klondike traveler to mining magnate and prize fight promoter noted for Dempsey-Tunney bouts, with Promoter Jacobs carrying on after Rickard’s death.
The town of Gallipolis, meaning City of Gauls, grew from a band of artists and dreamers known as the French Five Hundred. Architecture and brick walled gardens define the streets as residents recall band nights in the square.
Miss Lise and Col with a Paisley throw join Mrs Emily Vance at Cruezet corner Lafayette as the Silvermans set the best table in town, a scene capturing local social charm.
A fragment cites odd phrases about a mahogany finish and a vowed avoidance of the sheriff. The text appears as dialogue or slang notes with garbled surrounding context, offering no clear event, date, or identifiable persons.
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