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High Point Enterprise

Location

High Point, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Oct 12, 1941

Page

5

Skyscraper Grass Bamboo holds vast uses and fame

Bamboo, the versatile grass, spans food, furniture, pipes, and musical instruments. Its rapid growth inspires U S experiments in Georgia California and Florida and traces its use from Angklung to pipe organs in the Philippines. Bamboo roots in history and industry illuminate a future of wide applications and abundant supply.

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Johnny and Mom Converse Over Worth and Coats

A brief dialogue portrays Johnny asking his mother his value and her warm reply claiming at least a million dollars. He then inquires about getting him sweaty coats, reflecting a light humorous family moment.

Johnny

Walking Stick Camera Support by Bob Corrigan

A home made walking-stick tripod guides stable photographs by attaching a camera to a broomstick with two bores and a stove bolt. It locks the camera firmly, reduces vibration, and improves sharpness on soft ground in walking, riding, or climbing.

Bob Corrigan

Riddles for School Readers from The Riddle Man

A reader asks how to test others with riddles and shares four questions from Elaine Kollinger June Wills Bob Strayer Paty Saldo Johnny Albright. The item presents playful wordplay about ink color court casers police stars game laws robins and potatoes, showing a classroom puzzle feature.

Elaine Kollinger June Wills Bob Strayer Paty Saldo Hells iJohnny Albright

Suit of steel and bean soup misprint ends in garbled humor

A foreign waiter serves bean soup to an English diner in a cheap restaurant. He questions the dish and the waiter answers with a mix of lines about suit and iron. The exchange devolves into a sequence of odd, misread remarks about gravy and wear.

Wings for Youth by LA Hegel GCE A BROAD BACKGROUND FIRST

A column discusses preparing girls for aviation careers with early math physics and drawing study. It cites US Office of Education aviation outlines for schools and stresses fundamentals like aerodynamics meteorology navigation and aircraft history. It notes fiction titles for aviation themes and invites readers to request lists of new works.

Wings Hegel Gce Lora Waddad Aviezona Ranedum Carol Patricia Y Ars Dixie Willson Elisabeth Hubbard Weael

Money Makers Of Our Readers Hobby Horses

Marie Jordan turns a toy horse craft into a neighborhood money making venture selling them for 25 cents each. She describes materials and steps from sewing buttons for eyes to attaching a sock mane and a painted wooden pole. Readers urged to mail their ideas to the Boys and Girls Page for a chance at a $1 prize.

Marie Jordan Shed Marie Theo T Nore

Donald's windy warning spurs cheeky face joke

Donald teases his sister with wind face tale while their father recalls his own warning from boyhood. The exchange blends humor and a family cue about faces that might stick if the wind altered them.

Donald

Gridiron Gamble Hints of Schoolyard Betting Plot

Two teens plot to catch a classmate cheating on exams by spying and staging a nighttime break in at their high school. They tail Devlin to a back window, wrestle with temptation, and plan to confront him during a PTA meeting before deciding the risky stunt could still go wrong.

Jet Mike PTA Selva

Desperate Football Heist Ends With Lockeroom Clues

A tense scene unfolds as a group of students chase Jack and attempt to recover test questions and keys. After a rough skirmish, Devlin escapes with gloves, while George, Lee, and others plan to seize keys from lockers as Coach Richards urges focus on Friday’s game. The locker-room break-in ends with a locked combination and looming conclusions next week.

Jack Lee Devlin Dogrimb Coach Richards Mr. Marlowe Lee Answarez Covlin Thelin Richards Fle Tech Porky Byl Rogers Tasker Lark Devlin

Time for nonfootball peers to shine in school season

In large schools most students on campus are not football players as only 11 can start and squads hold around 32. December brings football heroes back to class leadership, studies, and other sports, so nonplayers can excel in other activities now and outshine during the off season.

Tesaniwlimnes Otheys

Cheese Souffle Recipe From Aunt Pegey Column

Margaret Giles from Archdale North Carolina shares a cheese souffle recipe. The item lists cheese butter flour milk and spices, with instructions to beat egg whites fold them in bake until firm and brown. The column notes a one dollar payment per recipe and invites readers under eighteen to participate with caution.

Margaret Giles Margaret Archdale North Carolina

Harvest Puzzle Carvings And Clues In A Quirky Editor

The DAZZLE EDITOR presents a harvest themed word puzzle with clues across across and down. Answers include a flying rodent a road side hotel an Egyptian sun god and more. The riddle hints at pumpkin harvesting with a hidden second word container third meaning arrives a kind of toy and a sister nickname.

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Word Square Riddles and School Jokes From the Harvest Time

The page presents a playful word square themed on harvest produce with clues for a four word sequence. A string of light humor follows about school marks and a punny exchange on elephants trunks, reflecting old newspaper humor.

Answers to Last Week's Wulzzles Puzzle

The brief lists last week’s puzzle answers including crossword solution hints and scattered word fragments such as nie Pinta pest strap poster Sina item Nero Amos, indicating a mixed set of clues and partial entries.

Nie Pinta Sina Item Nero Amos

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