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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1943
Page
3
A school manners quiz guides students on conduct in dress, meals, dances, street behavior, and classroom etiquette. It presents multiple choice questions with an answer key and emphasizes respectful, orderly actions to boost popularity and reputation in school.
Beverly Jean Bullock aged 13 from Muncie Indiana explains a craft project Sunshine Powders, using matchbox lids and folded papers with jokes and puzzles. She sells serpentine fashioned coasters bowls and candlestick holders after varnishing, earning customer interest and a War Stamp prize.
A soldier reader presents five caps on humor and wordplay. Pvt Thaddeus J Mackiewics ponders birth trends and baseball gender roles. Patricia Ann Jones and Anita Hoeferkamp offer humor on naval ranks doughnuts and marriage. Diane Army strong asks why Ireland is richest.
A North Atlantic convoy note from a son asks for money and wishes his father well. The father replies that nothing happens there and requests another letter, marking a quiet wartime exchange between parent and child.
The items present a playful set of explanations. Each clue hints at social or political themes of gender roles, rationing, and national identity expressed through wordplay. The fifth line notes the capital Dublin doubling daily.
A reader submission from Beatrice Kelly of Newport offers a salmon loaf recipe using 1 cup cold cooked rice, salmon, bread crumbs, lemon, green pepper, milk, and egg. Bake 40 minutes in a rice-lined pan, then serve with a butter parsley sauce made from butter flour water lemon and parsley.
A terse exchange unfolds as Dusty Rhoades tells a visitor the doctor advised continuing the diet once food began to ascend, prompting a sharp reply about begging at the door. The scene centers on authority, appetite, and social friction.
A playful exchange sketches life aboard a submarine with a sailor offering a cheeky tactic to dive by “holding her nose.” The brief sea yarn captures wartime humor and discipline under deck.
Catherine Black of Tulsa asks if Civil Air Patrol Cadets are paid. The article explains CAP Cadets train in navigation meteorology and radio with military drill and first aid, all voluntary, with flying possible at 18 in the senior CAP or the Armed Forces. It urges interested girls to write for steps, including a self addressed stamped envelope.
The piece explains a traditional Indian ceremony where devil dancers and tom-tom rhythms are used to placate a toothache patient. Masks depict the ache and the devil, creating a belief that the pain is easing, though the collation ends with urging to see a dentist.
A crowd game called Head and Feet Word Tag shares play between head and feet. One player is IT, others receive letters secretly. IT tags letters to form a word, and the letter completing the word becomes IT. Players call out letters as tagged, evading IT while forming words like THE or HELP. The game combines exercise with lively word play.
This guide by Walter King explains how to set up a private weather station at a favorable rooftop or yard, including flags for forecasts, a thermometer, rain gauge, wind sock, barometer, and a log for recording readings. It notes comparing personal forecasts with official Weather Bureau data and emphasizes consistent observation to improve accuracy.
The article explains that the Earth travels through space at about 750 miles per minute around the sun, circles the sun once a year at roughly 1,000 miles per minute, and spins on its axis with equatorial points moving almost 1,000 miles per hour. It notes these motions keep even the slowest person moving quickly.
A photo on this page shows a dangerous action near a railroad station that threatens national defense. Readers are directed to find the answer elsewhere on the page.
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A cryptic prompt asks to fill four 3-letter sequences to complete words. Clues show FIN N IR, FIN E R NT, FIN LL, FINL N. Find at least fifteen gins starting with N and letters F I N to form valid words.
In this piece the editor compares vocabulary to a carpenter's tool chest and urges daily use of sharp, well kept words. It stresses expanding word knowledge, looking up new terms, and correct pronunciation and spelling to improve writing and speaking skills.
Teddy Bunyan a 14 year old from La Porte City Iowa reports earnings from paper routes farm work milk delivery and lawn mowing to raise War Bonds. He is a Boy Scout who collects scrap metal paper tin and other items and helped with a Victory garden canning to aid soldiers. He will receive one dollar in War Stamps for his efforts.
Defense blunders and the gas shortage affect all cars prompting taxis to pool rides. Passengers are urged to share one taxi and arrange trips in advance to conserve fuel.
A set of school quiz questions asks about color complements largest bear ocean creature with ivory tusks yard measurements circle circumference diameter factor, Mickey Mouse cartoons, colonel vs major rank, and the capital of Denmark.
An assortment of quirky items including Alaska bear and walrus references, a pi approximation, an animation note, and a Copenhagen entry. The fragment hints at a trivia-style list with numeric and geographic elements.
A lighthearted cartoon caption features a dentist promising a costly set of teeth. The patient counters with a pun about buck teeth, framing a comedic exchange on dental costs.
Hotel proprietor asks the guest to call the porter and the guest declines. The guest states he wakes at seven every morning, prompting another request for porter assistance.
Answers to puzzle 1 include vacuum bottle vase y valise varnish vegetable ves sel vest vinegar Digan vise mana vercipes. Items 3 and 4 reveal crossword solution and a rearranged slope from pole plus S. Clues point to Dover doer and Maine mana as wordplay pairs with mixed letters.
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