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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1942
Page
8
Tarboro March 19 fire ruined the Edgecombe Bonded Warehouse causing about 260000 dollars in damage. The blaze consumed 2600 bales of cotton stored there. A note on transport capacity cites current U S highway hauling capability as roughly fifty times greater than in 1917.
A homemaker shares ways to use ham leftovers from a whole ham purchase. She broils center slices, bakes the butt-end, and saves the shank for later. She notes Wilsons Certified Smoked Ham is mild enough to fry or bake and cites simmering with potatoes, beans, and carrots.
In Santa Fe New Mexico artificial shamrocks were scarce as dealers note. Canada reported a tobacco crop around 31,094,000 pounds in a brief update.
In Charlotte area a three way collision killed Herschel Andrews 25 Leland Andrews 35 and their brother in law El Og Alewine 40 all of Cramerton. Injured were D O Bennett of Cramerton Miss Margaret Padgett route 5 Charlotte and Sylvester Crowder a Negro truck driver from Concord. Also notes two Andrews brothers previously died in separate accidents.
In a New York bridge club weekly duplicate, East noted boards 1 and 2 showed near identical hands. Despite one card difference, the East hand in Board 2 matched Board 1’s shape closely, prompting a shuffle and rerun to confirm. The rarity of near identical hands across consecutive boards highlights an amazing coincidence.
Gary Davis of a local radio station addressed High Point Exchange Club members on the war effort. President Clayton Glasgow presided as Bil Robinette presented the speaker. Davis urged cautious optimism and stressed United Nations strength, warning the war could be lengthy without maximum effort. New members Sam Best and Nile Hunt joined, and Frank Lee won the attendance prize. Representatives will attend a mid year NC State Exchange Clubs meeting in Wilmington.
A garbled London scene shows a lemon and an onion on a velvet cushion presented to owners of a hobby-horse race in a swank hotel as bottles of whampag were offered, though the text is fragmentary and contains many errors.
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