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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1934
Page
9
Mrs Estelle Leo complains her cat was kidnapped and seeks charges of grand larceny against the unknown captor. Assistant district attorney Hubert L Shattuck says he will contact the accused catnaper. The case highlights a local dispute over a missing pet.
A chaotic mash of local thefts and oddities includes a 22 inch lawn mower stolen from a public museum and a resident bathing first after city water began powering a new boom town. Police hunt Dillinger era fugitives while a sneak thief steals a fur coat and the baby’s dime bank. In Pottstown Lutheran conference bans instrumental music in evening services.
City traffic engineer J. W. A. Bollong labels bicycles a menace to riders motorists and pedestrians. He cites rising bicycle use and urges a city ordinance to license cyclists.
RALEIGH May 2. Hubert Gavins serving a 30 year sentence for second degree murder escaped from the McDowell highway prison camp while driving a dump truck. He fled on foot after leaping from the vehicle. The escape of two other convicts was reported today. Ernest Cannon is serving seven to ten years for store breaking and lar-ismissed.
An old advertisement urges readers to diagnose kidney trouble symptoms such as backache nervousness and nocturnal urination. It promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a 35 cent remedy that starts working the first day and claims 50 years of use.
Wood Cowan drew the Newfangles for this newspaper and caught the smallest fish ever hooked with the largest tackle in Sarasota Florida. He posed with the fish, tackle, and silver trophy. In North Carolina two convicts, cony from Columbus county and Toy Williams from Union county, fled after leaping from a truck near the Duplin highway camp as guards fired, missing.
Deep River adult class met Wednesday with Mr and Mrs W F Wheeler. Plans discussed but committees for the new year were postponed due to several absentees. Mrs Eva Thornton has flu and is confined to bed. A G Foster and sister Nora Floyd of High Point Route 4 visited Saturday. Miss Lois Skeen spent Monday in Salisbury with Ruth Lowe of High Point. Mr and Mrs B J White entertained Sunday guests Mr and Mrs M A Wood and Mr and Mrs Rufus Smith. Zulene Rocket and children of Asheville are visiting Mrs Alice Williams. Miss Faye Jones visited last Wednesday with her sister.
Mrs J L Skeen visited her father David Farlows at Guilford College Wednesday night and returned with Mrs Emma Pope of Trinity Rt 1. Eugene Ward and family moved to Jamestown area. Miss Florence White and Ruth Wood visited friends at Friendship. H C Briggs and family of High Point and Miss Claudia Thornton guests of Mr and Mrs Ralph Thornton. Mrs Rufus Smith and Mrs R T Jordan shopped in High Point Thursday. Mrs Theodore Smith, recently hospitalised, is back home.
The document outlines Britain purchasing from Russia and Soviet payments in Britain linked to United Kingdom proceeds. It specifies yearly ratios through 1937, with future balance targets near 1 to 1.1. The figures show large bilateral sums and staged payment terms for the mid-1930s.
The Andrew Jackson post No. 87 American Legion drum and bugle corps will meet tonight at 7 30 at Wrights Barber shop Mechanicsville. All members urged to attend.
The new trade agreement between Russia and Great Britain does not cover specific commodities nor guarantee loans. The report notes Russia’s purchases in Britain last year amounted to a substantial figure, emphasizing the pact’s broad, nonsectoral scope.
Following a successful run in Australia the Better Farming Train will resume regular journeys. The 18 car exhibit toured with two cars for talks, featuring animals and birds, farming experts, prize cattle, sheep, and pigs, and demonstrations on feeding housing disease prevention fertilization and use of implements. Girls received lessons in housekeeping and needlework.
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