Books From High Point Public Library Offer Broad Reading
The High Point Public Library curates titles across drawing and art theory to boxing training and amateur art study. Notable works include How To Draw Cartoons by Briggs The Cartoonist's Art by Cory Boxing Simplified by Kennedy Art For Amateurs and Students by Cox The Essentials of Lettering by French and Meiklejohn Journey's End by Sheriff and Bartlett Freckles Comes Home by Jeannette Stratton Porter.
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Cory
Kennedy
Cox
Meiklejohn
Sheriff
Bartlett
Vernon Bartlett
Freckles
Jeannette Stratton Porter
Steps in Primary Elections Given
Raleigh March 29. State Board of Elections provides a calendar of steps for this year’s primary. Dates cover candidate filings, voter registration, polling-place actions, and canvassing timelines across counties and districts. The note ends with a speculative line about colonization ending in about 200 years.
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Mar
State Board of Elections
County Boards of Elections
House of Representatives
County Board of Elections
Secretary of State
Superior Court
Review of the Quarter's Christian Lesson Themes
The article surveys the International Uniform Sunday School Lesson for March 30, reflecting on John 8 1 7 and the year’s quarters. It discusses Jesus teachings beati tudes the Kingdom of God and the Golden Rule. It highlights Christian life as blessedness and love, and the role of Christian propagation and social transformation. It notes the Way Upward through Jesus parables and practical living.
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Jesus
Bethlehem
Nazareth
Christ
Gasoline Share of Vehicle Running Costs Described
The article notes that fuel costs account for about 22 percent of per mile expense for a light car and about 15 percent for a heavy car.
Jacquard of Tyons Faces Backlash Over Loom
It was Jacquard of Tyons France who invented the loom. His neighbors mobbed him because they feared it would throw them out of jobs.
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Jacquard
Tyons
France
Oldest Railway at Swansea England 1807 Opening
The oldest railway in the world is said to be in Swansea England opened in 1807. For 75 years horse drawn trains ran on its five mile track.
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Swansea
England
State Officials To Be Speakers At Forestry Meeting
North Carolina will be represented at the twelfth Southern Forest Congress in Memphis April 10-12. Commissioner of Revenue Allen J. Maxwell will discuss Forest Taxation and a proposed constitutional amendment on land classification for tax purposes. State forester J. S. Holmes will cover the Needs of State Forests. Former NC officials W. C. McCormick and Harry Lee Baker are also on the program.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Southern Forest
Memphis
Tenn
Commissioner of Revenue
Alten J. Maxwell
General Assembly
Maxwell
J. S. Holmes
W. C. McCormick
American Forestry Association
Southern Forestry
Harry Lee Baker
Florida
Origin of the word clumsy linked to cold numb hands
The term clumsy once described numb with cold hands. As numb hands hinder delicate work, clumsy evolved to mean awkward and unhandy.
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