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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1934
Page
4
The notice lists GEO. F. EDWARDS as Business Manager and National Advertising Manager, WALTER F. HESTER as Local Advertising, and GO. M. WAYNICK as Editor, with A. A. CACIL titled as Business Manager in the organizational slate.
The midsummer Southern Furniture Market in High Point opens with optimism for one of the history’s best markets. Industry leaders aim to stabilize prices amid prior volatility while buyers from across the nation attend this major event to spark late summer and fall business.
Editorial argues taxi drivers to blame for reckless speeding while praising cooperation to cut accidents. Calls for stricter enforcement of speed limits and shared responsibility between cab companies and police to improve public safety.
Knoxville officials weigh a regional FERA proposal to use city name in a trust-like arrangement to reopen a bankrupt furniture plant with RFC funds. The plan would employ about 400 workers, borrow $100,000, and restart production, raising questions whether government aid will boost demand or merely divert work from private mills already struggling to operate under wage and hour codes.
The piece argues that speeding endangers pedestrians and motorists and praises local taxi operators as capable. It cautions that saving seconds by reckless driving is poor business and will eventually lead to accidents, urging safer conduct on streets.
The piece urges workers and employers to seek peaceful settlement amid strikes, arguing public opinion is the ultimate force. It condemns violence and calls for transparency on who blocks settlement, warning that any group indifferent to public welfare deserves to be smashed. It also comments on opposition to government intrusion in furniture manufacturing and its impact on the industry.
Sharp essay argues strikes harm all sides and can erode gains. It cites San Francisco dock scene and compares historic strikes in London and Danzig to warn that escalation and intransigence drive trade away, leaving ports decimated.
President Roosevelt urges motorists to accept responsibility for public safety amid high highway death and injury tolls. He calls for stricter traffic supervision and asks each driver to act responsibly to reduce accidents.
Sing Sing warden Lawes asserts college educated men adapt well to prison life. The remark prompts readers to consider whether sending their son to college is wise, suggesting discipline and reform through higher education.
Mae West’s film is titled It Ain’t No Sin while critics note alternative phrasing I t s a Sin and a Shame would be incorrect due to stylization and punctuation conventions of the era.
A wall of so called forea rays by Dr Nikola Tesla could repel foreign invaders unless munitions companies protest to the NRA. The claim ties Tesla’s invention to national defense and ARP era debates about weaponization.
In a public vote Mississippi lawmakers approve continuing prohibition enabling residents to obtain liquor under the current system. The measure maintains existing restrictions and local control over sales and distribution.
The article notes General Johnson leaving the NRA and beginning a speaking tour lasting a full month, prompting reactions from supporters and critics alike.
A collage of humorous observations and anecdotes about public figures and entertainers. Jokes touch on sleep, monogamy, warning eyes, social gossip, and quirks of actors and hotel elites, with brief jabs at Menjou, Gibbons, Dempsey, and others.
A columnist argues that leaving hobbies for work will lift spirits as people return to their professions, restoring purpose and productivity. The piece asserts renewed focus on vocation will improve mood nationwide and curb leisure burnout.
A compact reflection contrasts social visibility with town life and the idea of life as an open book. It notes that being noticed for a week can signal popularity or a small-town setting and questions the appetite for reading between lines.
The saying notes that most concerns never come to pass yet the small remaining share plus the worry itself harms us, urging focus on actual threats over imagined ones.
A diary entry details a New York morning with gifts from Fred K. Detwiler including an Arno etching and a Will Rogers photo. The writer and wife visit Lisle Bell, Major Bowes at Osgini, dine with Amelia Earhart and George Palmer Putnam, ride a new three wheeled car to see The Drunkard, and chat with the Waterburys before bedtime.
Since the Gon dort brothers era, the wire tapping scheme known as the wire resurges amid high costs and staged settings. Crooks now prey on rich elderly widows seeking easy money with kidnapping threats suppressing complaints.
Repeal has swamped New York with an over supply of bars, with hundreds opening daily but little business. In midtown venues competed in extravagant decor, some spending $75,000. Initial rush faded and several expensive bars already closed.
The passage profiles Professor R. G. Tugwell known as the Casino impresario in the park. A 126 pound dandy with flashing eyes and en brosse hair, he is flippant and dapper and always brims with bravado. Even detractors note his cosmopolitan style and daily grooming.
Gossiping neighbors claim a family around the corner have changed homes nine times in a year. Local tales say Charlie Russell recalled a family that moved so often the chickens roasted on the wagon tongue to avoid being left behind.
Paper wheels were invented by Richard Allen in 1869 and tested on the Central Vermont railroad. Made from many sheets of paper coated with flour paste and compressed under high pressure to form a durable wheel.
Fragmentary reader questions mix topics from U S home ownership debt to state intelligence, with references to Simeon D Fess and a fast swimming bird. Some lines touch on a fermented liquor from milk and a U S Senator from Ohio.
When a man is listed as at home and cannot call in the afternoon he may call on the evening of the receiving day. If two people are to be introduced and a name is forgotten one should briefly apologize for the lapse to avoid an embarrassing blunder. After dinner one should not push back into place.
A compact note on common English errors and a daily vocabulary nudge. It highlights misused phrases mispronunciations misspellings and synonym choices and ends with a reader friendly definition of the word trite.
A reader asks how to moisten hanging baskets without dripping. The answer suggests placing a porous cup from a discarded wet battery cell in the basket center and filling it with water so the moisture seeps through.
Dr. Benjamin J. Clawson of the University of Minnesota medical school announced a vaccine developed for the treatment of rheumatism.
Raleigh July 16. Sixty six persons were killed and 450 injured in 285 accidents on highways and streets of North Carolina during June, with fewer fatalities than May and December 1933 figures. The report lists causes, days of week, and types of collisions and emphasizes intoxicated driving and reckless speed as major factors.
Authorities lament a rise in hit and run incidents with three deaths and twenty jury trials. Two drunken pedestrians were killed in June and one injured.
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