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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1939
Page
7
Noted fisherman and writer and other clues reference terms from fishing and anatomy. The puzzle lists horizontal and vertical entries including items such as compass terms, prepositions, and measurements, with a highlighted figure connecting angling literature.
Joan Johnson and Dan Webber share a moonlit hayride as Keith Rhodes assigns Dan to escort Joan. Dan opens up about his life and career plans at Acme Pottery near Pittsburgh, while Joan resolves to prove her own purpose and pull her own focus together.
Hollywood production climbs with a record number of new pictures, box office rising, while European studios close or cut back. The war reshapes the industry with budgets reduced, staff cuts, and adjustments. stars like Marlene Dietrich draw crowds on set as U S films press ahead with planned releases.
From a puzzle listing five names Reichstag Bosporus Saare Aland Croydon match to German city Berlin Baltic islands with Russia claim Turkish straits and a Baltic island base. Also notes Bulgaria trims car fuel mix and Hitler's Mein Kampf selling poorly in Glasgow.
A collage of industry notes about actors and directors. Wayne Morris endures a long arc of slot amusements and a peanut machine misfire while Erika Mann’s education of Nazis story draws bids from major studios. John Monk Saunders sells Bat talion of Death in Paris for 25000. Universal rereleases The Road Back. Howard Hill arrows Sol Gorss for payoffs in Robin Hood and a back-arrow scene. Campus Wives rolls with Jean Cagney and Barbara Denny among others. Chaplin has Vallejo Kiddie for Paulette Goddard. Marquee: Bank Night It Stole a Million and Good Girls Go to Paris with Melvin Douglas and Walter Connolly.
Diseases from animals to humans include undulant fever or brucellosis with three types. The cow type Bangs disease links to raw milk and cattle contact. Hog type brucella suis affects meat workers. pasteurization and herd inspection protect people from infection.
A three part nitrate of silver with gum arabic and water ink recipe is given. Dissolve gum arabic in two thirds of the water and nitrate of silver in the remaining third, then mix and add coloring. Also included are tips for cleaning felt hats with flour and gasoline paste and for preventing sausages from shriveling by preboiling.
Lesson presents daily vocabulary focus Fortitude defined as patient and constant courage facing danger adversity or difficulties with firmness. Includes usage notes on misused words mispronunciations and common spellings. Encourages expanding vocabulary by mastering one word daily.
Edison’s three famous inventions are the incandescent bulb motion pictures and phonograph. The art preservative of all arts is printing. An isosceles triangle has two equal sides. The largest state east of the Mississippi is Georgia. The first white man to smoke tobacco is Sir Walter Raleigh.
Police hunted two men and a woman for two Spartanburg hold ups and a Greenville theft. The trio forced a taxi driver to drive them, leaving the driver gagged and tied north of the city. The case then extended to Greenville with a later $40 theft. The report also notes Nobel Prize winners from 1901 to 1934, highlighting Madame Curie’s physics and chemistry prizes.
In 1937 Canadian refiners reported a refined sugar output totaling 996,689.9009 pounds. The figure highlights annual production by the industry within that year.
A rapid montage notes wartime spending and production across nations. Britain spends 16 000 dollars per minute in its first year, Germany wartime losses exceed 2000 dollars each minute, England taxes raise 500 dollars per minute, Sweden produces 100 pounds of matches per minute, Switzerland ships 30 wristwatches and loses 15 dollars per minute to a crisis tax.
In August 1939 the United States shipped foreign bound exports valued at 14,893 dollars for automobiles parts and accessories, up from 12,299,236 dollars in August 1938. The report highlights notable growth in auto related shipments abroad.
A Q and A on being good natured for popularity. It notes that inner kindness can overshadow flaws and that moving plates signals dissatisfaction. It also condemns scribbling names on walls as ignorant behavior.
The article outlines Norway’s geography and population, its Viking era kings, the union with Denmark and Sweden, and its peaceful 1905 independence. It notes fishing as a major industry, large forests, a strong merchant marine, and wartime submarine losses totaling 831 vessels. It ends by offering a free illustrated leaflet "Cities of Europe."
McKenney explains a complex double squeeze from a tournament hand. South ruffs the spade king, cashes hearts, and a queen discard setup is disrupted by East. The final position shows a squeeze by South, with West unable to guard both suits.
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