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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1929
Page
2
Asheboro schools carry out Fire Prevention Week programs under NC Governor R. J. Hilton with a chapel talk by Fire Chief Clarence Rush. Rush reviews past year fire losses totaling 155000, notes months on the honor roll, and urges student cooperation in prevention.
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Mr Rush and Mayor Crawford led a post chapel inspection of the school building noting an excellent furnace room and nearly fire proof arrangement. Teachers have been instructed on fire drill procedures set to start this week.
Rev. Thomas A. Sykes of High Point spoke at Guilford College chapel on October 10 urging students to seize opportunity and become public opinion creators. He urged study of four arts, defended Bible relevance, and cited Roger Babson on Christianity’s business impact amid noting Americans spend over a million dollars weekly on chewing gum.
A platinum wire has been drawn to a minute diameter so thin that 3 900 000 of them side by side would not occupy more than one inch.
Thursday notes show the Senate continuing tariff debate as the agriculture committee weighs farm board nominations. The Caraway panel discusses plans for a senate lobby investigation and some ag committee members seek to defer farm board confirmations. Wednesday saw a rejected amendment granting independence to the Philippines. Senator Sackett of Kentucky announces a renomination bid. The Foreign Relations Committee approves Harry Guggenheim as ambassador to Cuba. Grundy, tariff league leader, named as likely first witness in the lobby inquiry.
In Red Wing Minnesota a once romantic clam fisher faces obsolescence as machinery replaces old water dogs who hunted clams for shells and hoped for a pearl strike. Pearls once found locally could fetch from 100 to 500 dollars with a notable 18 year old pearl selling for 6000 dollars.
Miss Kate Grisham of 544 Maple Street, Poplar Bluff, says Cardus improved her weakness, nervousness, and constant fatigue. She reports renewed strength, weight gain, and the ability to work after starting the herbal reconstructive tonic.
Texas railroads agreed curves and grades are too expensive and plan to spend about 75 million dollars to straighten tracks. Where possible steep grades will be eliminated and winding road beds replaced with straight tracks. The St. Louis and Southwestern railway already has spent about
A new certificate of incorporation is granted by the secretary of state for Duke Cab Company Incorporated of Durham to own and operate automobiles buses trucks and other vehicles for transportation. Authorized capital stock is 10000 with subscribed 300 by S P Alexander E M O Neal and W J L Totten all of Durham Raleigh October 191?
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