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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1960
Page
30
Dick Bickerton recalls Anna Jarvis and the origin of Mother's Day, tracing its Greek roots, church ties, and commercialization. The piece notes Jarvis's lifelong struggle with the holiday's excesses and the cultural ambivalence toward mother figures, linking poetry and satire across eras.
Robert Marks reviews Ovid Williams Pierce's novel On a Lonesome Porch set in Warren North Carolina in June 1865. The story follows Miss Ellen Lucy and Garrett at Gray Plantation as slaves depart, new labor systems form, and old hierarchies strain. The old slave Enoch embodies dignity amid a fragile postwar order.
A school bus driver swatted a wasp and the bus crashed into a utility pole on a narrow road 15 miles northeast of Charleroi Pennsylvania. Flames engulfed the bus within minutes but all 36 children escaped safely with a few minor bruises reported. Driver Eugene Pritis credited the emergency door for the kids' quick exit.
The page lists top fiction and nonfic titles with authors including Michener Drury Davenport Hawley O Hara King Jarvis Kennedy Parkinson Catton and others. The readership is shown a mix of classics and contemporary works in a monthly or seasonal catalog.
Elizabetta Partibon lies dying as this long novel opens and returns us to her death chamber. Elena Giorgio and Ruggero Tava grow up amid love betrayal and a fast changing Italy. World War II looms as Fascism rises and the Partibons fortunes crumble in a sweeping social drama.
Rochester police investigate a petty theft after a thief broke in and stole 35 dollars and a pack of cigarettes. The culprit also smeared beans in the bed, clogged the sink with rubber cement, scattered green herbs, and placed five marbles in an ashtray, leaving Abbott perplexed.
A compact appraisal by Capt. Donald Norton Macintyre of the 1940 Narvik campaign. It notes British hesitation and missteps, German ruthlessness, and the Dunkirk distraction as Churchill and Hitler maneuvered for control of Norway and Arctic convoys.
Neighbors helped C. R. Marshall move and then, upon returning to his old apartment in Newport News, found extensive damage including water from the kitchen sink, an overflowing tub, smashed utensils, seven broken windows and five punched holes in the bedroom walls. The assailants were two young children aged four and five.
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