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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1936
Page
7
The article narrates Christopher Columbus sailing from Canary Islands toward Cipango, passing the Sargarso Sea weed plain and spotting land on Oct. 12 at San Salvador, Bahamas, depicted on the one cent stamp of the 1893 U S Columbian series.
A mixed list of clues and answers forms a crossword style puzzle about baseball terms and common nouns. Entries span definitions from parts of fat to musical notes and ancient time references, inviting solution of across and down hints.
A traveler met a 33 year old chemistry professor and his identical twin brother on a Europe trip. The brothers both played football in college with one as quarterback and the other as end. Birth records show about five in every 400 births are twins, sometimes boy and girl.
A reader’s General Interest note discusses Black-Draught as a vegetable remedy for constipation, then shifts to a compact history of twins including the Biddenden Maids Mary and Eliza Chalkhurst and the Siamese twins Eng and Chang, noting their lifespans and remarkable lives.
NEW BERN November 23 A mass of unfinished business faced the 100th annual North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South as it planned to extend into the afternoon The agenda included a proposed benefits system for superannuates and numerous other matters reading of conference appointments was not expected until the afternoon Sunday was devoted to worship ordination and the annual sermon by Bishop Paul V Kern
Preliminary reports indicate North Carolina recorded a small week end death total, perhaps the lowest in weeks. Two Charlotte men Andrew Johnson and Clyde Childers died in a wreck near Albemarle while Ralph Flynn was killed when his motorcycle failed to take a curve near Morganton. The article also mentions a Brazilan plant known as the cat's claw creeper spreading by grappling hooks.
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