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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1927
Page
5
New York November 6 AP. The stock market demonstrated strength in a brief session with heavy trading above 1,000,000 shares. An opening irregularity giving way to a surge in investment railroad shares lifted general prices while foreign exchange was irregular.
Fordham announces it will resume athletic relations with Washington and Jefferson next year after failing to meet in the current season. The two programs plan to renew gridiron competition, continuing a historic series between the schools.
A historical note explains the cultivation and processing required to produce attar of roses, stating that forty thousand roses are needed to yield a single ounce of the fragrant extract.
The New York cotton market ended steady on Saturday with January contracts moving between 21.80 and 20.94 cents and closing at 20.84. Early gains faded as week end covering and steady cables supported modest buying amid expectations of freezing weather in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
A letter from five Raleigh printing firms asks their employer to accept a 10 percent wage reduction if they retain the state printing contract at existing prices. The move follows anticipated losses should the firms bid under current terms.
The piece recalls 1896 High Point leaders W. H. Snow J. A. Lindsay J Welch E A Snow A Burns D C Aldridge A R Hammer J P Redding and W H Ragan now living, six of whom have died. It contrasts scarce funds then with today's tax and printing disputes, noting Main Street unpaved streets and efforts to expand local printing and governance.
Emma Blair reports a Harvest program by fifth graders and younger pupils featuring songs psalms poems and a play about thrift. Activities included a skit How a Spendthrift Became a Harvester and a one act The Three Bears with student roles. The event closes with Autumn Winds song and prep for a November 11 school fair.
A watch’s balance and hairspring vibrate 18 000 times each hour, totaling over 157 000 000 ticks per year, with an equal number of ticks from the escapement, implying a 50 year lifespan for the timepiece in daily use.
The Schoenau council in Bavaria imposes a tax on bobbed hair with exemptions for those under sixteen. Tax rises with age beyond that threshold, affecting residents and salons in the region.
Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the Boston Hub origin in Autocrat of the Breakfast Table noting the statehouse as the hub of the solar system. The familiar misquote transformed over time to hub of the universe.
The text lists health, character, scholarship, vocational guidance, use of leisure, home building, and citizenship as the seven core aims guiding educational aims and planning.
Despite weekend profit taking trimming gains in key issues the bond market maintained a firm tone with new highs reached in some cases Easy money remained the main support Automated gold shipments to Brazil appeared to have little immediate impact The French plan to retire 1928 8 per cent bonds via a 75 million 5 per cent issue to the Swedish Match Company caused market surprise The New York market will indirectly back the refunding through International Match Corp purchasing 50 million of the new French issues and financing via 60 million of its own 5 per cent debentures expected early next week at par
The paper corrects an earlier dispatch naming Arndy Shorty Williams as the offender. It clarifies he is not Rev PD Williams of Graham and identifies the inmate as another Arnold Williams from Burlington or Graham.
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