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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1931
Page
13
A group of six Benedictine monks near Buckfast in Devonshire undertakes a 26 year effort to rebuild the Buckfast Abbey from its 8th century foundations. They rely on Providence and work unaided, installing electric lighting and becoming skilled masons and carpenters. consecrated next August.
Officials report four thousand White Russian taxi drivers in Paris attending a newly opened school at the Russian Y M C A on the Left Bank. Courses cover mechanical electrical and civil engineering taught at night to aid in repair and driving skills.
Alabama reports that 18 curb markets sold farm products in August for a total of 43492 dollars and 22 cents. This reflects activity across multiple markets and highlights the scale of local farm commerce during the month.
Divers salvage gold from the sunken S S Egypt after months of dangerous work, and the Laurentic off Ireland nears completion of its own recovery with ingots valued at millions. The 1917 sinking killed many and left a war tale of hazard, courage, and treasure.
Washington AP reports a proposed 1 percent federal tax on all land would add roughly 1 billion dollars to agriculture’s tax burden, drawing strong opposition from farm leaders and the American Farm Bureau federation. Farm groups urge tax reform focusing on earning power and local government cost cuts as counties and townships face consolidation ideas.
In Baltimore Mildred Hamilton attended a color ed jamboree that turned riotous. Police intervened as Patrolman Edward Eben tried to separate her bite to his thumb, leading to a struggle and several blows with a nightstick before she released.
Edward S. Levy, 82, claims to be the only survivor of the historic 1870 side-wheel Robert E. Lee vs Natchez race from New Orleans to St. Louis. Levy was a passenger on the Robert E. Lee, the trip then lasting three days, 18 hours and 40 minutes.
After World War I salvage efforts recovered $25,000,000 of gold from the sunken Laurentic in 120 feet of water. The Malet Salvage Syndicate took over, discovering ingots amid wreckage, each weighing 28 pounds and valued around $8,500, with officials hopeful to recover nearly all remaining bullion.
In Dublin six months after a political crisis Ireland uses a public safety bill enabling military tribunals and death sentences for government offenses. President Cosgrave cites terrorism plots and Moscow-trained Irishmen as threats while noting rising unemployment and halted emigration fueling unrest.
South Dakota has 175 farms of 5,000 acres or more and 83,154 farms in the state average 439 acres each, detailing farm distribution and moyenne landholdings across the state.
Three Roundup men Louis Hartmouth Dr J H Johnson and F C Montgomery uncovered an almost complete plesiosaurus skeleton about 18 miles west of Roundup near Pole Creek. The 15 to 16 foot fossil lay five to six feet underground in Bear Paw shale. A vertebrae fragment from ammonite family was also found.
A 50 ton rock from Reading railroad Ambler station will be moved to White Marsh Memorial Park to be carved into a sculpture forming the largest fountain in the United States.
A new device described as a mechanical eye is claimed to see two miles through ordinary fog. The invention is presented as a aiding optical vision in poor weather, with potential applications in navigation and surveillance.
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