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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1937
Page
8
The reader fills a large cross word style puzzle with many numbered clues and definitions. Several entries refer to common terms nouns and pronouns while others name places people or objects. The page resembles a word game embedded in a historical newspaper segment.
Uncle Rays Corner explains Mercury’s extreme day night contrast and scorching surface. A side faces perpetual daylight with immense heat while the opposite side lies in frigid darkness. The article notes the planet's small size and varying apparent solar size from 28.5 to 43.4 million miles from the sun, completing a solar orbit in 88 days.
The estate of J H Millis seeks a permit to erect a gasoline service station on South Main Street near the Southern Furniture Exposition Building. A Board of Adjustments meeting will be held at 1 30 P M on Monday June 14 1937 in the Fire Department office 211 South Wrenn Street. Interested parties may attend to be heard. Jos D Cox chairman. 6 8 9 10 11 12
Transfers across Guilford and Center Grove townships show tracts sold in Emerywood East Market North Elm Haynes Park Edgedale and Brown Summit Summerfield roads. Buyers include W M Sykes Edith Weaver J G Hagins D L Donnell Annie Foushee Stafford Mary Scott and others with nominal prices listed as 10 or 1 dollars.
Maj. A. J. Fletcher North Carolina Labor Commissioner urged patient experimentation in unemployment compensation during the Carolinas hardware association meeting in Winston Salem He stressed mutual responsibility for employers employees and the public and cited the social security program as a framework for success He warned workers not to sit idle and outlined reserve fund requirements and benefits to cushion depressions
Tarboro July 9. Leroy Peterson a 25 year old Negro died Monday of pistol wounds inflicted by two Rocky Mount policemen as he attempted to grab their guns and hold them up. Officers Lem L Williams and George D Wireless were transporting Peterson to jail on a $300 bond for stealing a taxicab when Peterson grabbed Wheless weapon and ordered them to raise their hands. A bullet struck Wheless hand and Williams then shot Peterson. A coroners jury ruled the killing justifiable homicide.
WILMINGTON June 9. W T Hall reports finding a high explosive shell on Fort Fisher beach. He says the eight inch projectile was fired by a Union battleship about 74 years ago and he saved the shell along with about two quarts of live powder.
San Diego fire crews battled a grass fire and were struck by shots. After containment, Captain J K Sindherholm found a rusted burned pistol with five shells discharged.
The reader explains Mercury’s year is under three Earth months and a 12 year old on Earth would be over 48 Mercury years. It notes almost no atmosphere and that Mercury is visible only near dawn or dusk, earning its nickname the twilight planet.
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