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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1936
Page
11
The reader seeks tips from Anne Ashley on stain removal and keeping whipped egg whites stiff. Answers suggest rubbing with lemon and salt, adding cream of tartar to whipped whites, and noting adenoids symptoms in children such as mouth breathing and coughs.
The article advises using week end party or a few days for invitations and suggests mothers should host invitations for underage girls. It also explains apple eating etiquette with a small knife, cutting into quarters, then eating with fingers.
A compact guide teaching common misuses. It urges precise phrases such as I intended to go last week and explains pronunciation tips for chiffon and o as in on. The piece lists correct spellings and notes synonyms while sharing a daily word habit with a Cowper quote about past indiscretion.
Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, longtime leading actress on the American stage, died at age 91 in Montvale Virginia after a year of ill health. The family said she retired a decade ago to the Blue Ridge mountains and the body is to be cremated in Washington with ashes sent to England. Survived by daughter Peggy and son Thomas.
Robert Lee, 28, of near Goldsboro, split his foot during a Thanksgiving Day hunt. Doctors think amputation may be required.
Elijah Braxton, 51, died in a Greenville hospital from injuries sustained in a Sunday traffic accident.
B C Harmon administrator notifies all claimants to present claims against the estate of D F Staley deceased in Guilford County to his High Point office by October 11 1937 or risk loss. Debtors urged to settle promptly. Notice dated October 27 1936.
Under order of the Guilford Superior Court the commissioner will sell lots 1 2 3 4 and 27 28 29 30 in the Hardiman Dillon Subdivision on Prospect Street extension High Point Township for cash starting at 485.00. Bids will be taken in separate parcels and then as a whole with court confirmation. Sale conducted November 28 1936 by T W Albertson commissioner.
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