This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 12 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1942
Page
7
A practical guide by Charles F. Thomason explains a simple height measuring method using a ruler and arm reach. Readers learn to convert feet to inches and apply a formula to estimate object height from a distance, with an example using 100 feet distance and 6 inch ruler.
Wally, Edgemore High’s star back, debates with the new coach Haven who has just begun duties midseason. Haven praises fundamentals but dismisses Wally’s beloved Number 22 deceptive play as too risky. Fans fear change after Tommy Grove’s departure. story to continue next week.
A simple indoor croquet style game uses a target box with pigeon holed compartments marked 35 10 25 50 100. Players roll three croquet balls from 15 feet to score by which compartments the balls enter over ten turns. High total wins.
Odd paper wrapped packages drift near piers prompting quick checks. Saboteurs may conceal sodium in bulky wrappings and discard them into the water. When water enters the paper the metal reacts violently, potentially igniting.
Sharane Gordon of 6818 Delaware street Hammond Indiana earns a dollar in War Stamps for active war effort. She helps wind yarn for Pearl Harbor Knitters carries messages for her father the black captain and helps save metal scrap and old papers with her brother.
The article urges readers, especially youth, to pursue exploration through science and medicine. It notes Columbus and other explorers inspired courage, but many places remain to be explored. Modern pioneers can find thrilling discoveries in research, medicine, and other fields through curiosity and learning.
In Akron on June 24, 36 Boy Scouts in blue uniforms stood at attention at the Armory to receive the first charter of the Air Scout Squadron. The movement, part of the Boy Scouts of America, aims to prepare youth for flight training through camping and aviation studies.
The article asks what action depicted in the image could endanger national defense but refers readers to another page for the answer, signaling a cautionary or investigative angle and inviting further reading beyond the visible snippet.
The Kitchenette features an economical raisin pie recipe with ingredients and steps. A prize of $1.00 in War Stamps is awarded to Chris tene Siders, 13, of Calion Arkansas, for submitting it. The recipe uses raisins, water, brown sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, salt, vinegar, and butter in a double crust pie baked twenty five minutes.
The article presents a selection of riddles submitted by girls and boys. It lists four riddle samples with attributions to H7 R Manning Jack Frost Roslynx Faulkner and F S Stilwell and a safety note about a music teacher locked in a room and how she escaped.
The item list unfolds riddle style with four numbered answers. 1 points to a wheel. 2 hints at intrusion by a meddler and a nasal products maker. 3 resolves to the fare. 4 notes mutual enjoyment of a full crop. The verse suggests a playful puzzle with a final L640 line.
A fragmented crosswords puzzle themed on Columbus and a globe metaphor appears, with clues about words, names, and phrases. The garbled text mixes puzzle hints, city fragments, and stray phrases, including a derailed diamond word formation and stray quotes.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.