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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1931
Page
9
City Shoe Shop at 117 West Commerce Street Balt advertises shoe work with guaranteed quality. Soles and heels replaced for one hundred dollars. Delivery service offered. phone listed as 20 percent, 0-6-0. No tipping encouraged.
A dealer advertises numerous High Point properties not in first class condition to be remodeled and painted. It touts low prices and easy terms with 10 percent down and deferred payments. Emerywood offers an eight room brick home with tile bath priced well below cost and other painted homes with new garages from a finance company.
After Clifford Sutter, a nationally known tennis star from New Orleans, finished an exhibition in Memphis, nine year old Larry McCormack borrowed a racket and played him. Sutter praised the young Memphis talent as a natural player with surprising knowledge of the game's technique.
Trading notes show limited activity as cotton futures finish near unchanged or slightly lower for July, October, and December contracts. Prices display small declines and firm bids around key levels, with investors awaiting fresh cues from supply data and market demand signals.
William E. Guess and Cecil Crosby face trial in Ardmore for the 1931 slayings of Emilio Cortes Rubio and Manuel Gomez. Fifteen witnesses subpoenaed. Sheriff Elmer Boyd disqualified. Rev. John S S Price named special sheriff. Mexican government and officials attend the state counsel table.
New York June 23. Markets calmed after a bullish run on foreign debt relief hopes. Copper shares extended gains as trading moderated. optimism persisted despite French delay. Investors foresee a narrow range ahead before quarterly dividends and earnings, with several major dividend meetings this week including Westinghouse Electric, B and O, Delaware and Hudson, and Pennsylvania Railroad.
Western North Carolina’s rhododendron festival will open tomorrow with Miss Katherine Jones and Reuben Robertson Jr. reigning as king and queen. Young sponsors from 10 southern states include Mary Evelyn Petree and Elizabeth Baxter among others. The event runs through Friday with mountain tours, a flower history pageant, parades, speed boat races, and a terrapin derby.
Post and Gatty sponsored by Oklahoma oil magnate F C Hall seek to beat Graf Zeppelin 22 day circumnavigation with Winnie Mae, a 150 mph Wasp powered aeroplane. They plan Croydon London via Berlin Moscow Nome Seattle Chicago New York, loading 340 gallons fuel at Harbor Grace, refueling and resuming.
The Prince of Wales turned 37 as telegrams and felicitation poured in at York House from King George, Queen Mary, and family. He marked the day quietly, then attended the investiture at Buckingham Palace and joined public displays of jubilation across Britain with flags and visitors signing York House. The Daily Express notes the lack of a princess as a missing element in the celebrations.
Upwards of 4000 persons entered a newspaper contest to name a plane for the Cincinnati Memphis Fort Worth air mail line. Mrs J E B Foley a mother of two won with her suggestion Cotton States Mail.
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