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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1937
Page
9
A nostalgic column offers a black pudding recipe using molasses and flour, steamed in a mold and served with butter sugar sauce. It also shares apple based desserts including a fruit spice roll baked with ginger, butter, and fruit, baked apples stuffed with bananas, and a wonder apple Betty with cinnamon.
The excerpt blends kitchen directions for a Poor Man's Gingerbread and a topping recipe with a sensational line claiming a wife was shot for bearing a child. It lists ingredients and steps for a topping and for a gingerbread cake, including flour soda baking powder oats brown sugar butter lard molasses ginger and oven guidance.
A dated ad lists meat prices including veal chops and pork chops with multiple per pound rates and dressed and drawn vegetables. The fragmentary ad conveys a mid price range for meats and produce.
In Claremore Oklahoma a Chelsea man sued an oil company claiming its pollution ruined his pecan crop. During testimony the company’s attorney offered pecans from the land as defense evidence and jurors reportedly sampled the evidence as the trial progressed, with the defense ultimately prevailing.
The New York Mirror notes Dale Carnegie’s idea that popularity drives American consumer culture. It cites Demosthenes and Napoleon as examples of overcoming handicap to achieve greatness and highlights Carnegie’s rule to make friends: be sincere and unselfish.
Capital Short Shots reports beverage tax returns for the first 20 days of October show liquor sales in 88 eastern stores likely to beat September. October average tax through the 21st reached about 135000 dollars, up from 92000. Sales jumped from about 250000 monthly to nearly 600000 with the state audit system in place.
Major Arthur Falk of the State Highway Patrol downplays highway lighting as the key to safety while noting other factors in accident prevention. News covers a proposed test on U S Highway 1 and comments on perfect highways not preventing all crashes. The Raleigh chat also notes NC basketball, a public procurement for office and household goods, and legal notes on learner permits.
Guilford County real estate transfers listed across High Point and surrounding townships. Transfers include Helen Snow Hayes and spouse to Myers on Snow street. Z A Pinchbeck and others to Thurman Bowers and Mattie Goble on Spring Garden street. Nannie Lee Smith to Walter Lawrence Thomas on Hedgeworth street. Blanche T. Lambe executor to Townsend for Lewis street. Charles M. Clark to Nina Platt on Vance Street. Watson Lambeth to C S Lambeth on Percy street. John Cottrell to Belle Willson on adjoining W D Sutton property. R D Douglas commissioner to Barry Scariett on Horsepen creek.
In Philadelphia a hall above a liquor store hosted a "big apple" dance. Participants danced with such enthusiasm that the ceiling collapsed. No casualties were reported among the whisky bottles.
Flood waters along the Smith river in Fielddale Va flooded an area laundry network. Three million towels in a cotton mill bleachery required washing after waters receded. About 750 people die yearly from deadly monoxide fumes emitted by autos.
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