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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1940
Page
3
UNCLE RAY recalls Oslo origin and 1925 return of its capital name from Christiana. He notes Oslo as Norway’s largest city with a quarter million people, historic 1624 fire, Norse longships in a museum, and cultural figures Ibsen and Grieg.
If a hostess’s dinner invitation goes unanswered, she should call to confirm receipt since he might not have received it. If he did receive it, most hostesses will not repeat the invitation. A bread and butter or postal card thank you note is not permissible. use regular social stationery.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a center and individuals with unclear names. Readable parts point to a local enterprise or event at a named center with possible personnel. Details remain ambiguous due to garbled characters and missing context.
Answers identify Whistler's painting of his mother as most displayed on Mother's Day. Sinai is the mountain where the Law was given to Moses. Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the world. The Civil War opened with the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. South American Pacific-bordering nations include Colombia Ecuador Peru and Chile.
Massachusetts presidential primaries produced an unofficial split with an unpledged Republican delegation and an almost fully Farley pledged Democratic slate. Dewey received at least two Republican votes, while 69 of 72 Democratic delegates were pledged to Farley and two broke from the official slate to support Dewey.
A Kansas City wife uses a postal card in each letter to confirm delivery. She encloses a self addressed card. when returned she knows the letter arrived. If not returned, she infers non receipt.
Alexandria notes Swan Hanson celebrated a hen egg that measured 814 inches around before the hen died. The item also mentions a third exception unpledged and Fredonia Arizona located 96 miles from the nearest railroad.
Heating soil before use and white washing the inside of window boxes help keep insects out and prevent rot. A cracked egg can be boiled safely by wrapping in wax paper. Automotive grease on garments is removed by rubbing with lard then washing in cold and warm water.
A newspaper note presents a language mini lesson on misused phrases mispronunciations and misspellings. It centers on the word perpetration defining it as a doing especially of something morally wrong with a Juvenal quote illustrating misuse.
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