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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1938
Page
9
Broadhurst Theatre hosts a Wise-Cracking contest tied to the film Little Tough Guy. Readers clip scenes from The Enterprise, craft smart replies, and submit for a chance at two weeks’ passes, plus tickets to see Dead End kids in action. Winners announced in Sunday’s issue.
Uncle Ray recounts early contacts with Samoset and Squanto and the friendship with Massasoit. He notes the 1621 feast lasting three days, the welcoming treaty, and the 80 Native attendees with turkeys and venison. Also mentions the 3c leaflet offer and tomorrow’s topic Wild Turkeys.
The first traffic light in London, possibly the world, was set up on December 8, 1868 between Bridge Street and Great George Street in Westminster.
Reports indicate that every 60 seconds three people are injured in road traffic within the United States and that every 18 minutes one person dies in traffic accidents. The figures illustrate the ongoing risk on U S roads.
Brazil accelerates inland development with a vast rail and road push. Planned navigation upgrades and a government steamship overhaul aim to unlock resources across Goyaz Mato Grosso Bahia and the Amazon basin. Brazil’s area 3.285 million square miles hosts about 45 million people with 40,000 miles of navigable rivers.
A list asks which statements are true or false. Items cover a songwriter, a fez in Morocco, an actress Gretna Green, Oxford footwear, and Iowa’s nickname Buckeye State. Determine accuracy for each as a brief trivia prompt.
John R. Herman of the Soil Conservation Service urges farmers near High Point to prepare land for new pasture during winter. Contour furrows reduce runoff and erosion, retain soil moisture, and allow mowing across ridges. best built with a turning plow and disc harrow, spaced 4 to 6 feet apart, in December to February with seeding in March for good results.
The quiz answers include eleven percent for Irish share of white population and Booker T. Washington as the educator. The main artery is the aorta and rattlesnakes give birth to living young. States without capital punishment are Michigan Minnesota Wisconsin North and South Dakota Rhode Island and Maine. Also notes the Feejee mermaid hoax and a star name Alcor near Mizar.
Formal invitations should go to both husband and wife even if hostesses dislike one. A guest uses the spoon in the right hand and the fork in the left when serving. A man should always dance first with the woman he escorted to the dance.
A concise English guide listing common errors and corrections. It explains usage with examples such as Let us not tell them about it and distinguishes between bore and boar. It also covers pronunciation of water and clarifies synonyms like confident and hopeful.
The text advises checking for holes along the selvedges to gauge stretch and shrink potential in woolen fabric. It also covers remedies for choking on a fish bone and cleaning willow ware using lemon juice, egg white, or salt water scrubbing.
A daily vocabulary note explains avarice as greediness after wealth. It cites Colton on the avarice of the miser as the grand sepulcher of his other passions.
Fatal accidents within a 15 mile radius of cities with a population of 6 000 or more account for 63 percent of Michigan's fatal accidents, highlighting the concentration of deadly crashes near larger urban areas.
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