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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1940
Page
6
In a farmhouse living room Keith and cousin Jack hear legends of the Ghost Swamp. They recall a railroad disaster and the Duncan brothers whose greed led to a deadly, unseen force in the swamp. The tale ends with a threat of danger and a cliffhanger.
Five readers contribute daily riddles with a mix of wordplay and logic. Lois Nelson John De Messe Theresa Mae Kuriger Frances Highstreet and Darlene Truman present questions ranging from city time weight to door entry and letter puzzles.
Riddles appear as a reader submission page titled Answers to Riddles. Solutions include Dayton for question 1, adder for question 2, a man running around a house for question 3, the door being open for question 4, and a wordplay implying a young lad for question 5. The notice invites readers to submit their own riddles to the Riddle Man care of this newspaper.
A Dallas author explains a clever card guessing routine called the Three Card Force. Borrowed deck is shuffled, bottom card is noted, then audience picks cards while the magician pretends they selected. the bottom card is revealed as the chosen card, delivering a magic prize.
Craft article describes making bracelets from corks and beads. Gather corks of various sizes, vaseline, bright beads, and a sharp knife. Coat the knife with vaseline to ease cutting. Cut ten to twenty identical cork circles for the first bracelet style, then use an ice pick for shaping.
Instructions describe making two bracelets using circular pieces, elastic, cork, and beads for the first design. The second bracelet uses two circle layers with holes, silk cord, and bows, with optional substitutions like raffia or leather.
A classroom exchange features a Science Teacher asking for a liquid that won’t freeze and a student replying with hot water. The prompt captures a humorous misanswer about freezing points.
A vintage note describes a birdhouse village project for Wrenville. It outlines mill parts including solid wooden vestibules and gables, a shaped board tower, and a pine propeller blade. Readers are told to expect an airport structure to be featured next.
The piece urges being punctual to earn respect in friendships and work. It notes that tardiness has ruined relationships, jobs, and partnerships and insists that arriving on time, such as at nine for school or six for dinner, starts a steady habit leading to lifelong success.
A 13 year old Cyril Mehling of Fremont Ohio washes cars after school and on Saturdays in winter and daily in summer earning 4 to 8 cars weekly at 50 cents each. He saved money for a Boy Scout camp bicycle and banked 25 dollars. A Brooklyn youth Maurice Doughten letters neat cards for a clerk and earns two dollars per job. Readers are invited to send their money making ideas for publication with a $1 payment.
In a playful line, Mike asks about a foul smell in the library and Ike quips that it is the dead silence they always keep there. The exchange captures a lighthearted moment amid study spaces.
Answers cover well known works: Red Queen appears in Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Gunga Din written by Rudyard Kipling. a famous nineteenth century Christmas tale by Charles Dickens. Tom Sawyer's boon companion is Huckleberry Finn. the tiny people adventure features Gulliver in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Robinson Crusoe authored by Daniel Defoe. Crusoe's servant is Friday. Tom Sawyer's love interest is Becky Thatcher.
Weather humor notes heavy precipitation as Tim and Jim banter about commuting woes with rain and hail impacting taxis and buses. The exchange amusingly frames practical travel disruption during a downpour.
Dwight V Swain suggests ghost town hunting as a hobby. Start with current and old county maps to spot abandoned towns. Verify with librarians old timers and postal guides then plan hikes to locate ruins and traces of once thriving communities.
Two readers win prizes for submitted recipes. Eleanor Palm of Hadley Pennsylvania earns the first prize, while Lillian Zalaski of Terryville Connecticut receives one dollar for a luscious dessert recipe.
A reader recipe for popcorn and molasses yields a sweet coated corn dish. The dessert combines cake peaches whipped cream and maraschino cherries with a decorative serving on plates. A weekly prize of 1.00 is offered for under 18 submissions.
A compact set of literary prompts lists names and titles including Alice in Wonderland and characters such as Becky Thatcher and Friday. It groups figures from Kipling Dickens Defoe and Swift era without explicit narrative framing.
A party trick guides readers to place a thin ruled sheet over a white sheet with a short line of text. Moving the sheet back and forth makes the letters legible, turning ordinary handwriting into a readable sentence.
A fragment from a humorous dialogue questions centipede anatomy and the point at which losing legs would cause a limp. The exchange presents a light, ironic inquiry into worry and physical traits without resolving the joke.
The PAZZLE EDITOR introduces a first puzzle using the word diamond as the diamond word. The instruction hints at April Fool's Day and emphasizes careful handling to avoid confusion in the word diamond task.
A playful message hints that the second word is false the third word means to flash briefly the fifth word means broad and the sixth means to end. It ends with a nudge about what to wear first.
A collage of word riddles and chains puzzles asking to identify synonyms and letter changes. It includes crosswords like reasoning about simple fellows, three and four letter word swaps, and instructions to transform WEED to PULL and SEED to HOES within a set number of steps.
A lighthearted quip defines an iceberg as a permanent wave, playing on hair styling terms in a playful exchange.
Crossword list of solutions with words including Ate aster eat east ease eater erase ear eta era rat rate rest reset ret sat see sea sate seer get sear seat seater stare star steer tree tar tare tease tea terse tear teaser tee and other entries.
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