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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1947
Page
5
In Ybor City Tampa the cigar trade shifts as wartime demand fades. Machines now outpace hand rollers while older workers face unemployment and declining earnings. Factories expand and hire more women as handwork declines due to aging labor and changing careers.
Washington authorities opened a statewide inquiry into the death of Lois Hope a 16 year old girl whose battered nude body was found dumped over a roadbank in Cannonsburg Pa She was the youngest of eight children and had left home to stay with a friend police said she was not initially deemed a crime victim by medical examiners and movements before the discovery could not be confirmed.
An article promotes PASTEETH a denture powder that hardens and stabilizes upper and lower plates for a firmer fit. It claims no gritty taste or souring feel, reduces denture odor and breath, and can be purchased at any drug store.
The University of North Carolina Men's Glee Club directed by Prof. Paul Young will present a concert in Hill Hall on Tuesday evening April 1 at 8 30. The 160-voice group will perform solos and a varied program including Mozart Bach Palestrina Brahms and other works plus a coronation scene from Boris Godounov to close. Several accompanists will assist and the choir has appeared in Raleigh Winston-Salem Greensboro and other North Carolina towns this season.
Raleigh March 31 Legislators race to meet an April 5 adjournment deadline by pushing a record number of bills through both houses and pursuing numerous ratifications. The session features a Monday house meeting and a heavy senate committee schedule as liquor and referendum measures surge amid tight deadlines and political maneuvers.
Members of the southern creditors committee for High Point Seating Company Inc. will meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Lyon Furniture Mercantile agency on West Green street. The meeting will include a Siminoff Pyser and Citron representative and Philip Masters, the custodian managing operator for Judge Matthew Abruzzo in Brooklyn.
AUBURN Alabama report notes no difference in food value between brown and white eggs. Brown eggs priced lower offer a bargain for shoppers seeking savings.
Coroner W. N. Dalton reports Mrs. Lucy Esther Beard aged 40 killed herself by turning on kitchen gas jets. Husband Charles E. Beard works for Western Electric. The couple moved from Columbus, Ohio last year and the body will be shipped for burial Monday.
A United Airlines DC-6 flown with 38 passengers completed a nonstop west to east transcontinental flight from Long Beach California to New York in six hours 47 minutes 13 seconds setting a new record for commercial craft.
Fifty years ago Will B. Diwell offered free seed corn to farm youth around Carlinville Illinois. This act led to the birth of the first 4 H club and set the foundation for a movement that grew into millions in value.
The excerpt discusses the value of extended education for a child and the accompanying financial sacrifices parents must make, noting the importance of college and postgraduate training for future professional careers.
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