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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1932
Page
3
Washington dispatch reports N'gi the six year old gorilla at the National Zoo has recovered from pneumonia or influenza after three days in an oxygen chamber. He is eating, embracing his keeper, and showing interest in life while doctors guard against reinfection. A medical note says his palm cooled from hot and dry to cool and moist.
Ellen endures a tense evening with Lana and Larry as Ellen is excluded and demeaned. Lana needles Ellen with condescension while Bob attempts to mediate. Exhausted and distressed, Ellen leaves vowing she hates Larry.
Ellen pines for Larry as he entrances her with a clandestine upstairs meeting and rain soaked kiss on the balcony. The next day she awaits news of a possible meeting with his mother, while her store duties and fashion notes frame a whirlwind romance.
A wartime civic movement led by the American Legion and allied groups promotes United Action to fight unemployment. The article urges citizens to join committees and mobilize locally, noting national and state employment gains attributed to United Action.
The High Point Y. W. C. A. basketball team hosts Greensboro Y. W. C. A. sextet at the local Y. M. C. A. floor at 8 o'clock. Both teams have strong records this season and the game is expected to be one of the hardest for the locals. The folk dancing class led by Miss Saress Ellerbe meets at 7 30 instead of 8.
A tax as high as 1500 dollars per day for a performance draws fire as Tennessee is set to be passed over by circuses this year. The measure threatens major acts and prompts industry debate on venue bookings and financial viability.
The Montana highway commission reports spending nearly ten million dollars on improvements to the state's principal road system during the year 1931, outlining substantial investment in public infrastructure.
Ellen Rossiter keeps working nights at Barclay’s while in love with Larry Harrowgate, who is engaged to Elizabeth Bowds. Larry asks her to pose for a portrait. Ellen plans a cold, final note ending their liaison and returns to Brooklyn after a long, miserable subway ride. She vows not to see Larry again, but fate brings them together at Dreamland where Ellen’s emotional turmoil deepens amid dances and a shifting circle of admirers.
She seized the envelope, tore it open, read a few lines and sentences, felt the paper crack in her hands as the wall of the room seemed to withdraw. The text ends with a To Be Continued hint.
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