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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1936
Page
7
Classified notice listing a middle aged white woman seeking employment as a caregiver for children. Requests references and instructs to write "Elizabeth." Published in Enterprise on September 26, 2023.
G E Hutchens reports the State Board of Health confirmed a dog that bit two of his dogs last Thursday had rabies. The dog attacked a Negro servant at the Hutchens home on Lexington Avenue and was killed. The dog’s head was sent to Raleigh for rabies tests and the two bitten dogs were killed.
Camden county officers hunted for two inmates Herman Lee Weifett and Lee Robinson who sawed from the county jail and seized Jailer H A Morrisette’s car. They threatened the jailer with iron pipes at breakfast and fled, later charged with robbery at a roadside inn.
Stock prices moved higher as traders found bullish support in France plans to devalue the franc and in a currency equilibrium pact among Britain France and the United States. Many issues gained fractions to three points with leaders near record highs as transfers reached about 900000 shares.
GOLDSBORO Sept. 26. Robert Howell 27 and Miss Ruby Rowe about 25 were killed when their car overturned on a curve four miles north of here. Miss Myrtle Rowe, Ruby’s sister, escaped with minor injuries.
Greensboro Guilford Superior court judge Thomas d Shaw charges the jury in a state libel suit to keep the Lone Star Barbecue Stand on High Point roads closed for a long period citing public nuisance. Defendants include Irvin Davis Roy Hicks and Clyde Smith owners J C Watkins and wife. Davis and Hicks absent. The Vending Machine Company and Universal Credit Company join as claimants overnight. Other padlocked properties and related actions noted.
Firemen from company three responded at 11:21 last night to 2108 English Street to extinguish a garage fire. The structure was totally destroyed. one of two automobiles was almost a total loss and the other was only slightly damaged.
Fire at the corner of Park and Kearns streets was extinguished by Company No. Six at 9 14 this morning. No damage occurred, according to firemen who were unable to determine the cause.
Charleston, S C Sept 26 Benjamin Rivers 45 year old Negro convicted of killing Detective Purse A Wansley was sentenced today to be electro cuted January 14 five months to the day from the date of the crime Judge Martin M Mann denied a defense motion for a new trial and conceded the prosecution request that the time for Rivers to die be set sufficiently far off to permit his use as a witness against Isaac Brown co defendant who is to be tried at the next term of court The Negroes are alleged to have killed Wansley when he attempted to arrest them.
Wilson report says thieves took an American flag from the War Mothers Memorial at the fairgrounds. The district American Legion commander condemned the act as an act of Communism and treason in peacetime, urging swift punishment.
A large quantity of gold is valued at about 600000 dollars in the latest assessment. The report notes the substantial value and potential implications for taxation and markets.
A writer argues that all bears are not vicious and that the American black bear poses no greater danger to a hunter than a hog of equal size, suggesting comparable risk levels in hunting scenarios.
Julio Alvarez del Vayo told the League of Nations that the bloodstained soil of Spain is the battlefield of word war and that future conflicts will be between democracy and oppression. He labeled outside aid to the insurgents as direct intervention and condemned non intervention enforcement.
Public auction at 2:00 P M October 19 1936 at the East Door Guilford County Court House Greensboro to sell land in High Point North Carolina described as 306 Centennial Avenue listed under a deed of trust dated May 16 1927 with Wachovia Bank as original mortgagee and Insured Mortgage Bond Corporation of North Carolina as substituted trustee.
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