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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1940
Page
4
A religious quip cites I Corinthians 7 8 urging widows and unmarried people to consider marriage only for love and to cherish what is lovely, attributed to Penn authorship.
A column reflects on postwar mood in High Point and broader Britain news. It notes lingering dread of pandemic and war impact, documents cautionary quotes from British leaders, and urges resilience. It also covers North Carolina road stone specifications and a stone industry protest affecting durable quality and pricing.
Essay discusses Timothy as a youth model for conduct in speech and behavior, Paul’s guidance on leadership, and the challenges facing youth in modern America. It notes critics of youth congresses, urging balanced engagement, and highlights support from Boy Scouts, Salvation Army, and YMCAs. California telephone operators answer routine questions exists as a sign of daily life.
Walter Winchell style rural column reports feuds among Cap Patterson Reed and sheriffs, notes on federally funded keep, charges about boarding houses and fallen women, jokes about McElligott and mayor, baby news, wedding gossip, Solon remarks about Eleanor Roosevelt and Joe Kennedy, census nerves, and a February communist meeting plot against the FBI.
City officials defend the sweeping sanitary project started last September jointly with the department. Dr. Herring confirms no interference and praises full cooperation across city government including the court, noting progress in housing improvements.
A childhood friend of Trinity and High Point, Mr. Eshelman moved from Pennsylvania to Trinity then High Point, admired for kindness and loyalty. He encouraged a local teacher, pursued culture via speakers like Tolstoy, and cherished Emerson to Schiller. His birthday, April 11, aligned with the author’s father. his letter shared hopeful verses about endurance and reward.
Brett Halliday’s The Private Pro of Michael Shayne features the red headed Irish detective in mercenary crime plots with Phyllis Brighton complicating Shayne’s life. Also reviewed are Leland D. Baldwin’s The Delectable Court, Felix B. Streyckmans Toda Young Men, and other profiles of ambitious young men succeeding against odds.
Obituary and tribute to A. F. Eshelman highlighting his modest Christian demeanor and vast reading. The piece recalls conversations on literature, Shakespeare, Emerson, and the value of knowledge, ending with a poem note and a quote from Charles W. Eliot II on future geography.
The article discusses historical and futurist views of Bible prophecy, clarifies terms Seventieth Week Great Tribulation and Job’s Trouble, and outlines three prophetic periods that mark distinct biblical events affecting Israel, the church, and the end of the age.
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