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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1937
Page
6
A crossword style puzzle segment presents clues for horizontal and vertical entries. It lists items such as shellfish genus clues and sea birds, with cross references like musical fad and marsupial hints. The format suggests a word fill challenge with multiple intersecting definitions.
The reader is shown a brief quiz across topics including card games, biblical figures, ham curing time, terminology, and geography. Answers given: 1926, Lamech, 46 to 18 days depending on weight, Terminology, Ohio.
The narrator visits Tunbridge Wells by train from Southampton, describing English rail layouts. Each coach holds nine to fourteen compartments seating eight to twelve, with doors about twice the compartments. Tickets are surrendered on arrival rather than checked en route, and coal cars are small at about fifteen feet.
Q and A from Anne Ashley advise mending worn blanket bindings with a sateen edging before tears develop. It also covers bringing out the luster of patent leather shoes with turpentine and boosting cream soup flavor by adding a pinch of mace.
A column by Roberta Lee discusses etiquette questions. It says a man should not gift a car to his fianc e before marriage, a hostess seldom provides corsage bouquets for a luncheon, and a personal invitation card does not require formal acknowledgment.
Mr Gordon outlines common errors and word usage in English. He explains adjectives vs adverbs with examples such as feel bad versus feel badly and describes mispronunciations and misspellings. The page promotes expanding vocabulary by mastering one word daily, featuring sedative as today's example.
A jumble of quiz humor and travel notes unfolds with Cranium Crackers questions on initials and arithmetic, a local Want Ad page, and a travelogue describing English rail speed, private house names, and Mr. Frank C. Pape’s illustration work for children and adults.
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