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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1939
Page
10
A reader asks how to bridge the gap with a mother who monitors her eighteen year old daughter. The columnist notes possible causes include choosing friends unwisely or failing to notify on time, urging mutual respect and reasonable freedom.
The piece discusses how parents struggle to acknowledge a child's independence as they grow older. It notes a mother who oversteps, nagging and timing, out of care but risking embarrassment and courtesy toward the child and friends.
A mother frets at home waiting for her daughter after a delay in returning, fearing an automobile accident or mishap. The piece notes how a phone call could prevent such anxiety by confirming safe arrival.
The text argues mothers keep tabs because they rarely know their daughters friends. It suggests mothers should meet and know the friends, ensuring boys are sober and reliable, so daughters can go out reasonably often.
A parent urges a child to reduce maternal worry by informing guardians where and with whom they go out. The note counsels returning home on time and discussing plans with the mother just as with the speaker.
North Carolina shipping point information and Thursday wholesale market sales show New York dull and weaker. Bountifuls 40 to 66 cents, Norfolk and Eastern shore listings 40 to 75 cents, various Porto Ricans and Golden varieties offered across cities with steady to slightly stronger New York and Philadelphia markets. Potatoes show Presque Isle Maine stocks slow, Idaho Russets around 1.60 to 2.40, Colorado Meekllures dull, Chicago steady for top varieties, with overall mixed activity and price ranges across regions.
Wesley Memorial Church schedules Childhood and Youth Week from October 9 to 14 with home visits by teachers from the Children's and Intermediate Divisions. A play, a sermon, and daily radio programs featuring local speakers will promote the theme The Home Realizing Its Possibilities.
Dr Morris Pishbein revisits the war nerves concept noting propaganda and repeated casualty talk heighten civilian anxiety. He cites Langdon-Brown on psychoneuroses and suggests national service as antidote while warning prolonged fear harms health and fuels apathy across war-torn populations.
The North Carolina State Employment Service reports diverse applicants in its weekly listings. A 23 year old German carpenter apprentice registered in Rockingham, a seasoned horse breaker sought work in Shelby, and a former mission school manager and treasurer from Soo Chow, China, now pursuing studies at Peace College UNC and Scarrett Mission.
A Wilmington applicant displays broad versatility as a Broadway actor for four years, a partner in a chicken hatchery, and a government executive clerk. The profile highlights diverse experience across arts, agriculture, and public service.
A mathematics teacher registered in the Concord office reports experience as a conductor of summer tours to New York, New England and Canada and seeks promotional work. Raleigh registrations include a candidate with eight years as secretary to the American consul at Saltillo.
A Wilmington party reportedly journeyed to Morehead City to fish, a detail cited by the news desk in a recent briefing.
Edmund McLaurin renews the Gulf Stream dispute off North Carolina as M Neilson of Wrightsville Beach nets an eight pound dolphin at a local surf pier. The exchange ties ocean currents to fishing results along the coast.
Miss Mary Graham Croom, a new information clerk in the Capitol rotunda, finds many visitors assume her role is only to provide general information. One caller asked her to help locate her brother who has been missing for ten years.
Secretary of State Thad Eure has a major meeting in Suffolk Virginia and will stay until Saturday. Coincidentally the UNC Tar Heels face Virginia Tech in Norfolk on Saturday afternoon near Suffolk, linking Eure’s schedule to the nearby matchup.
The Enterprise advertises pattern 8558 a peplum trimmed dress inspiring crisp grandma era femininity. It details materials faille bengaline crepe wool sizes 12 to 40 with size 14 needing 4 1/2 yards of 89 inch fabric and notes a step by step sew bar and accompanying fall and winter pattern book. Send 15 cents plus name address style number and size to 106 Seventh Avenue New York.
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