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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1938
Page
8
A dense crossword style prompt lists horizontal and vertical clues including names like the radium co discoverer and multiple short definitions such as unoccupied enormous loom slacken and fence bar. The grid references and interconnected wordplay imply a large filler puzzle with themed biographical hints and miscellaneous terms.
On a steamer between Hongkong and Shanghai I met Sing Ling a Chinese businessman who invited me to lunch in Shanghai. We dined at Sun Ya restaurant on Nanking road with Mr Ling and Mr and Mrs Chen. The meal featured pork with bamboo shoots, minced chicken corn porridge, and broth with large mushrooms, served with porcelain spoons and chopsticks.
A reader quiz lists: 1 Philatelist, 2 Velasquez (1599 1660), 3 vocation is a career for gain while avocation is a subordinate occupation or hobby, 4 twelve jurors, 5 Saguenay River in Quebec said to be the deepest at about 1400 feet.
Adam Lucas paid $5 for duplicate ticket 73 621 missing from the box. The drawing awarded first prize to ticket 27 631. The case asks what compensation Lucas can recover for the missing entry and the misdrawn prize under local lottery statutes and corporate negligence principles.
Instructions advise soaking a cotton piece in kerosene and placing it inside the clock case to absorb dust, then removing after a few days. For painted woodwork, boil onions and use the onion water to clean and gloss the surface without soap. Parsley is prepared by finely chopping, wringing in a cloth, rinsing under cold water, and squeezing dry.
A Q and A on social proprieties covers declining invitations to unwelcome events, marrying during Lent with quiet discretion, and guests taking a second helping at dinner if offered. It notes husbands should decline hostile gatherings, Lent weddings occur quietly, and no hesitation is needed for second helpings.
A Travel section item describes a meal with chicken foot in broth then fish fried oysters and fried rice with shrimps and eggs. The narrator enjoyed the meal except for the chicken foot. A Funny note offers a Funmaker leaflet with puzzles and requests a stamped return envelope.
A compact reader notes daily usage tips often misused phrases such as price he asks is exorbitant and common mispronunciations like vehem ence. It defines synonyms for morose and urges daily vocabulary growth with the word regress meaning to go back to before.
In Tucumcari New Mexico Tiny Joe Bright performed under guard after a police officer from Sacramento California recognized the show must go on and escorted the performer away following the ex tradition to California.
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