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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1949
Page
14
Week’s hon or winner James Overcash recalls a 25 pound pig that grew to 150 pounds after Christmas purchase. He tends gardens and poultry and hunts in fall and winter with a small bore rifle in woods near his home on Franklin Street.
The Lindner-Davis Company store in Cleveland worth six and a half million dollars will be replicated in Milan Italy by La Rinascente-Upim a major European department store group. The plan followed two months of study by Dr Giorgio Brustio and Dr Carlo Pagani experts in modern American store design and architecture.
Lawrence M Proctor airman third class USN son of Mr and Mrs Tom Proctor of Thomasville is serving aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea operating in the Mediterranean area. He entered Naval service Feb 1 1948 and trained at the Naval Training Center Great Lakes Illinois. The article adds Britannica notes on the word alcohol from Arabic meaning powder for the eye brows.
Winston Churchill urged British youth to carve their own path and serve others for freedom. He spoke to a mixed group of young men and women in Wolverhampton, stressing that freedom earned abroad must be won at home as well.
The Senate approved Italy's participation in the Council of Europe amid opposition from Communist and socialist senators. The body of ten western European nations will focus on debate and recommendations on political cultural and some economic matters. The report also notes the American black bear remains in several eastern states and its diet includes roots nuts berries fruit flesh and fish.
In Tokyo Isao Kurokawa hoarded rice for two years after his landlord left town and asked him to collect his rice ration. With space running out and fear of police suspicion of black market activity he sought official help.
A fragment notes that water is a combination of two hydrogen atoms and oxygen. It mentions undetermined prices and plant toxicity tests. The piece also references Tom Thumb the first American built steam locomotive and a boiler the size of a flour barrel.
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