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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1943
Page
2
A vintage newspaper item invites readers to solve a word diamond centered on Liberty. Clues lead to a series of words including a fruit a threadlike fiber and a beam of light. The page teases four signers of the Declaration of Independence in a beheaded word puzzle.
Puzzle answers and clues listed in a compact reader item. Mentions S-tray and 8-h-are with entries Hancock Jefferson Adams Paine and a variant Fi(r)at. Appears as a short editorial puzzle note or puzzle solution snippet from a newspaper page.
Captain Forthridge commands the Independence sailing near Sumatra with Chinese fireworks aboard. Pirates attack. Forthridge uses rockets and blasting boxes to deter them, setting enemy proas ablaze and forcing a retreat as the ship escapes.
Riddle set presented with four items. Item one explains why a letter B follows another letter. Item two describes a locomotive operating by a backward switch activation and power, noting both engines run. Item four asserts both are infirm and includes the phrase in beth with a larger pop than you possess.
A reader asks for new riddles to be submitted to the Riddle Man via the paper. If genuinely different and new, the editor will print them with the contributor’s name.
A reader in Salisbury Maryland sends a recipe for seafood cocktail sauce following Alberta Phillips’s directions. The note mentions sending one dollar in War Stamps to Alberta at 1406 Russell Avenue for the recipe and includes ingredients and steps to mix and serve ice cold over shrimp oysters lobster or crab meat with a 15 minute stand and a dash of tabasco and horseradish.
A Fourth of July riddle feature invites readers under 18 to send their best kitchen related wordplay to Aunt Pegey The Kitchenette for a chance to win one dollar If printed the solution earns the author a prize and the paper notes several example riddles by named contributors.
A 1930s style hobby to make Lawn Baseball using a large board a few hinges and old tennis balls. Players throw from ten paces to score through marked bases and squares with Home Run and Out spaces. Rules grant extra throws for Fouls and allow retries if a miss occurs.
The piece discusses the fine line between playful deception and lying. It warns that habitual untruths can erode reliability and trust, potentially killing the fun of kidding. The Editor signs off with a caution to watch one’s step and avoid entering the lying habit.
A six year old Freddie tells his teacher he had nothing to give his brother this year but recalls giving him the measles last Christmas. The anecdote reflects a humorous but cautionary wart on childhood mishaps and seasonal gifts.
A cartoonish exchange shows a child mispronouncing anthracite as aunthethite during a family gathering. The caption plays on lisp and humorous mispronunciation without graphic detail. The year 1943 signals a vintage newspaper humor strip style.
Gramp and Gramma Ennis guard a museum bequeathed to the Historical Society while imposters dispute the will. Bill Xenia and Chuck search for a missing deed as a carved chest vanishes and Chuck steals a perilous look into Burdock's Woods. The trap yields a violent crash and a possible death. the mystery continues next week.
Bill and Xenia probe a hidden dungeon beneath a century old mansion, noting muddy footprints and a trap door in the stables area. They plot to trap an intruder while the Widow Clifton's vanished deeds and the professor's odd appearances fuel their suspicions. Officer Pete provides a tongue in cheek lawn statue project.
A call to readers to contribute letters for the War Work page titled Your War Work. The paper offers a dollar in War Stamps if a reader’s letter is selected for publication, encouraging all to support wartime effort with personal pledges and messages.
Luther Burbank rose from a Massachusetts boy studying undersized potatoes to a famed plant breeder. He selected seeds to create a better potato and later crossbred fruits, flowers, and crops including the plum cot and Shasta daisy, drawing followers to his California home to learn his hybridization methods.
The Potomac empties into the Chesapeake Bay. The emperor Nero is said to have fiddled as Rome burned. Socrates died by poisoning the hemlock. Ohio is known as The Buckeye State. Bicuspids are the two rear teeth surrounding the canines. Coral is of animal origin. Jaguars are found in the Americas and parts of Central and South America. Odin is the chief god in Norse myth.
The list touches diverse topics from Chesapeake Bay to Nero and Socrates, noting Odins role as god of war in Norse mythology. It mentions Ohio and a dental detail of animals, and a journey from Texas to Paraguay.
A vintage style guide proposes a red white and blue Fourth of July party with white and blue decor, colored lighting, and waiter service. It suggests festive food creations using frankfurters for cannons wheels and rockets, plus fruit drinks and berry desserts to fit the holiday mood.
A camp dishwashing guide lists practical tricks. It suggests rubbing metalware with fresh potato and wood ashes to remove stains, using soft moss and cloth to wipe grease, and jabbing knives into earth to clean them. It also notes lye from wood ashes aids cleaning when soap is scarce.
Jerry Ledington, a boy from Pawhuska, delivers War Stamps weekly without charge. He collects stamps from subscribers and uses proceeds from iron and other items to buy more stamps. This effort supports the War Bond drive and local liberty loan programs.
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