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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1940
Page
6
Thomasville May 22 James E Lambeth Jr local furniture maker and developer of Erwin Heights reports FHA eligibility for loan financing. Local banks will back construction and city officials approve a six inch water main and fire protection plan with per alarm fees. Road construction to begin soon.
A compact excerpt offering guidance on proper phrasing pronunciation and spelling. It features examples for clarity, notes on mispronunciations and common misspellings, and a daily vocabulary goal centered on the word paradox with a quotation by Colton.
Uncle Rays Corner describes Java with its rice centered diet and diverse produce. It notes coconuts pine apples bananas mangos and cas tars as fruits tea cocoa coffee and famous Java coffee. Batavia grows rapidly and Java is the Dutch jewel.
A modern etiquette note explains that a college girl wearing a fraternity pin should return it if she plans to date others, until she grasps the meaning of engagement. It also endorses teaching boys to seat their mothers at table and uses bon soir as the French good evening phrase.
Answers cover Loyalists as Tories, top forest resources ranks Russia United States and Canada, insects have six legs, Miles Standish wooed Priscilla Mullens, and Edam is famed for Edam cheese.
Fairgrove Methodist Church will hold a memorial service on Sunday May 26 starting at 9 45 am with a brief devotional by the church school in memory of deceased members A memorial sermon by Rev Van B Harrison follows at 11 00 am After services the congregation will process to the cemetery for closing prayers The committee asks relatives to come early with flowers The North State quartet will provide music for the occasion
McKenney relates a hands on the Southern Appalachian Tournament in Asheville with Mrs. L. G. Crawford at Battery Park Hotel August 23 to 25. He notes stars planning to play and recounts a hand where Crawford doubled, led hearts and diamonds, and misread East’s signal, risking the contract.
A light quiz asks about Pepys daily music practice naming a violin or other instrument, Jericho walls destroyed by trumpet, defines a whern, Coleridge-Taylor's birthplace England, and which instrument came first saxophone or trombone with answers on Want Ad Page.
Mrs. Crawford ruffed with her heart four and led a spade to the queen in dummy. She returned the spade ten ruffing with the heart seven. She then led the jack of hearts to force West to win with the queen and lead into declarer's ace.
A reader provides simple home tips for stain removal and odor control. Press clean blotting paper with a hot iron to lift candle wax from table linens, replace blotting material as it absorbs wax. To prevent oven smoke from pie juice, sprinkle salt on the spill to absorb odor and smoke. For lace, soak in black tea and repeat as needed to revive color.
An early 20th century advertisement touts Carter's Little Liver Pills promising to stimulate bile flow and aid digestion. It claims two pints of bile daily improve mood and health, urging readers to ask for the product by name and noting prices of 10 and 26 cents.
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