Census Reveals High Point Population by Sex Race and Age
The 1950 census shows High Point with 39 973 residents: 19 026 males and 20 947 females. Whites number 31 699, Negroes 8 264, and 10 of other races. Median age 28.8. 4.9 percent aged 65 plus. Under-5 count 4 222. 25 747 over 21. Married status totals 10 077 of 14 021 males and 10 479 of 15 987 females. There are 9 400 married couples, with 8 545 in their own homes and 855 in other households. Total households 11 173, average 3.48 persons. Beef’s rise in the American diet noted by National Geographic Society.
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High Point
Bureau of the Census
The hepatica known as liverleaf and liverwort
The hepatica, a wildflower from Florida to Nova Scotia, is named from the Greek hepar meaning liver. It was once believed to cure liver diseases and is also called liverleaf and liverwort. Winds at 1000 miles up have little effect on an object reaching that height because the air is so thin.
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Florida
Nova Scotia
Ex Presidents, Roosevelt, and Dutch Delaware origins
The piece honors Teddy Roosevelt with praise for his public life and flamboyant adventures, notes on the fate of ex presidents and a proposal for lifetime Senate memberships, and briefly contrasts the Delaware River naming by early Dutch settlers with the Hudson River. It also mentions the Butter and Eggs flower and its relation to the snapdragon.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Africa
Europe
Herbert Hoover
Senate
White House
What
The
United States
Delaware
South River
Hudson
North River
Bearded Brothers and Swish Sisters Clash in Thomasville Prank War
In Thomasville a playful feud unfolds between the Dubious Brush Brothers and the Swish Sisters as both groups organize community acts. The men boast fast-growing membership and plan parades and public events while the women unveil their own cheeky permits and initiation tricks.
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Thomasville
C. L. White, Jr
Harold Harrison
Sisterhood
Brush men weigh Sisters versus Brothers in army triumphs
The piece notes mixed expectations about women's performance compared with men in military roles, while recalling General Washington's 2 400 troops at the Delaware crossing on Christmas night 1776.
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Washington
Delaware
Churches and Indians in New Mexico in 1626
The record notes 43 Christian churches were in New Mexico in 1626 and 34 000 Christian Indians lived in the area.
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New Mexico
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National Geographic Society
Redwine
Cliff Koontz
Mgr
Kenneth Hoyle
Jack Beasley
Jeff Hartman
Tom
Leonard
Fred Kaney
Police
Civil Service Examinations
Poundmaster
City Hall
North Wrenn Street
Joseph F. Snider
Winchell
TEL
Greensboro
Newton
Kernersville
Bearded
Raymond Russell
Russell
Brush ‘Justice Department
Brush
Cecil
Guilford Furniture CO
N. Main ST
Searing Harris Pharmacy
Spoyie Mem
Prescott
Zenith
S. Main ST. Ext
Brotherhood
Guilford! Optical
Dillon’s
Dillon
Sock Shop
S. Wrenn ST
H. Kress Wrenn
Alexander
Fabric Sale
Sheers
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