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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1934
Page
4
Rates listed for twelve months six months three months and one month in Ah Point and nearby towns. The text is garbled but indicates pricing per period and carrier delivery options.
A reflective prayer asking for mercy and cleansing for hidden sins and careless thoughts. The speaker seeks forgiveness, purification, and guidance to overcome evil with good, cultivate moral awareness, and keep close fellowship with Christ. Amen.
O O McIntyre in Manhattan near the British Pavilion at Rockefeller Center runs a barber shop with a London atmosphere. Patrons include Noel Coward and P G Wodehouse. signage and chatter imitate The Strand. Producer Galen Bogue quarrels with critics and plans a Retreat for Dramatic Critics to shield them from reality.
A biblical verse from Deuteronomy urges fair judgment to justify the righteous and condemn the wicked. A separate adage credits great rulers with wiser judgment than the wisest individual.
The Post Office Department under Postmaster General James A. Farley seeks self sufficiency but faces staffing cuts and delayed deliveries. Critics warn that reduced manning risks service and public reliance, urging balance between budgets and prompt mail nationwide.
The piece warns that furniture orders, placed in good faith and backed by raw material cover, may become non cancellable as buyers seek later market advantages. It cautions manufacturers to guard against a repeat of last summer’s frenzy when buyers rushed to place orders for everything.
The text notes how plants store made-up merchandise creating a burdensome stock and potential collapse of prices. It suggests furniture code authority consider non-cancelable contracts to protect both manufacturers and buyers from unstable prices and supply cancellations.
Congress eyes an inquiry into Dr. William A. Wirt's claim that Roosevelt advisors plotted a communist takeover. Lawmakers, bearing a grudge from 1933, seek to expose the brain trust and its influence on the New Deal as election-year tactics.
In Kansas City a political day erupted in violence with four dead and several injured after the Little Tammany organization defeated a citizens fusion ticket. Sheriff Bush calls the crimes the most dastardly and vows to pursue those responsible, urging justice and an end to racketeering in politics.
Edited by Tom Alderman Sykes, this piece argues that Jesus' approach to life and death marked a new path. Calvary stands as the sole answer to challengers of His way, contrasting the refusal of their choice with a final, cruciform resolution.
Bruce Catton argues the Norris amendment to the Home Owners' Loan Corporation bill exposes a clash between politics and public needs. He warns that lawmakers may favor party gain by awarding jobs, risking efficiency and value if personnel are political hacks. The piece calls for accountable spending on aviation and public programs.
Christopher Morley muses on the whereabouts of Jo Davidson's Walt Whitman statue once perched at a Central Park peak. The open road portrait shows the poet with hat off vest open beard blowing a foot and light hearted in tone, now unlocated.
The narrative highlights Al Bert Payson Terhune of the Terhune writing family. He stands over six feet tall with broad shoulders and a booming voice, likened to a leviathan looming on the horizon. He spends much time at his Pompton Lakes estate with his collies and occasionally visits Manhattan, where strangers pause to stare.
A brief English lesson by W L Gordon explains common usage errors and pronunciation. Focuses on misused phrases, mispronunciations, and spelling tips. The day highlights the word contingency defined as a possible but not certain event with an example sentence.
Answers to a trivia column list several questions and responses. It cites 1787 in Strassburg Alsace with Blanchard as the parachute jumper, defines claustrophobia, names ants as the oldest insect community, estimates 500000 matches struck per minute in the U S, and notes Washington as the farthest west United States extent.
A grid of clues lists names and terms for a crossword style puzzle. References include canal building, various verbs, body parts, metals, gods, and directional regions. The entry seeks the identity of the American canal builder shown, with multiple vertical and horizontal hints across numbers 10 to 57.
The article profiles Lowell Thomas as a highly demanded speaker and media figure who delivers two to three lectures daily and travels between his Waldorf apartment and Pawling home. His wife unexpectedly meets him during one of these rapid city visits, greeting him with recognition.
A reader asks for a healing salve recipe using vaseline white pine tar and carbolic acid with directions to warm and mix. Other tips advise using thin needles to avoid holes when patterning silk and dipping eggs in boiling water for about a minute to keep them fresh.
One Eye Connelly, famed gate crasher, reportedly purchased a single ticket for the President's ball held last January. The note frames this as the sole ticket he ever bought.
A collection of quick notes names Tom Shipp opening a home named Shipp's Landing opposite Mt Vernon across the Potomac. It mentions various figures including Joe Elwell Anthony Abbott Carolyn Wells S Van Dihe James Joyce Viscountess Nancy Astor Marlene Dietrich Bing Crosby and Paul Whiteman with brief celebrity snippets and a joke about a fugue.
Roberta Lee answers common etiquette questions. Do not talk loudly sing or whistle in hotel corridors as it annoys guests. Hold forks firmly but not tightly like a baseball bat. For a dance three instruments are needed a piano and two stringed instruments.
John E. Stringer a 62 year old veteran visiting from near Milan Missouri travels to Raleigh after learning news of Charles Greer an old army buddy last seen in 1925 Stringer served in the regular army and in the Philippines He recalls High Point Missouri as a hometown memory during his journey
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