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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1937
Page
8
A humor strip note describes a boarding house scene where Major Hoople remains fixed in a corner position, highlighting the quirky household dynamic and ongoing banter. The scene emphasizes stubborn character and comic tension within the familiar setting.
A historical crossword list features clues and solutions centered on Canadian poetry, World War I references, and related terms. The grid includes entries for poets, military terms, and common crossword vocabulary, reflecting wartime themes and national figures.
A mother fox and three cubs near their den are observed as the cubs play and learn to hunt. The third cub captures a frog while the father returns with a rabbit and signals the others to retreat underground. A woodcutter’s distant footsteps are heard as the scene ends.
Vocabulary segment teaches usage errors and pronunciation. It defines eliciting talents as adversity draws forth abilities, citing Horace. The piece includes tips on misused phrases mispronunciations and spelling, plus a daily word goal.
A reader asks about bright eyes from tea leaf compresses and spiced blackberry canning. The guide suggests tea leaf pads on eyelids, using brown sugar vinegar and mixed spices for canning, and butter milk soaking followed by sun to remove mildew.
An etiquette column covers who should be named on wedding invitations when parents are deceased, the minimum post meal stay for guests, and whether a train passenger should wipe the washbasin area. The guidance emphasizes using a close relative or elder when parents are absent, half an hour as the customary visit window, and routine cleanliness after using wash facilities.
A quiz titled Look and Learn by A G Gordon presents five questions with concise answers: 1st answers stupidity for the ass symbol, Atlas for the mythic bearer, yes the Supreme Court justices are federal employees, the largest city of India is Calcutta, and defines a bay as a sea inlet smaller than a gulf.
Jerome Baer reported an intruder set a doorway curtain ablaze to distract while he entered a rear room and stole two purses. A second resident reported a burglary during a blaze started beneath his car as he rushed to extinguish it.
Allentown resident Clarence Schuff fished for trout when a blue heron swallowed his minnow and became snagged on his line. The bird struggled in the air before Schuff captured it and freed the hooked animal.
Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton reports foxes cleanse fleas by diving in streams until only the snout and a mouthful leaf stay above water. A Stokertown man, Peter Kachline, observed a fox spend nearly five minutes submerged and leave a pine bark piece covered with fleas.
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