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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1928
Page
3
Duke University readies for the 1928 29 academic year with freshman week activities and campus programs. Welcome events include campus traditions, songs, campus leaders, and health talks as 1 704 students return. Additional dormitory and classroom facilities promise a successful year.
In Havana, Dr. Matias Duque proposes testing cancer germs on convicted murderers as a cure for cancer. The Cuban government says such experiments require special enacted laws before any action. Duque argues the method could be more merciful than the garrote if it kills, or grant freedom if it cures.
The latest lingerie and dresses feature putty brown tones slightly darker than beige. Designers emphasize a refined union of color and fabric in this season's subtle neutral palette.
A Paris fashion note describes Vanilla as the latest shade in transparent velvet. The evening gown features a square necked bodice and a rippling circular skirt with an even edge, showcasing the hue’s soft, luminous appeal.
Olga the Russian camel and Billy Sparks’s trainer share a romance as Olga and Natacha arrive at Sparks Circus. The big show features 400 arena champions and a grand street parade with performances set for High Point.
Berlin firefighters known as the maid of all work responded to an alarm at a central city confectioner. Bees swarmed over cakes thousands strong from hives atop the nearby Prussian diet building, driven by a caretaker amateur bee master. The staff fled as the bakery was overtaken by the buzzing invasion.
Under a government decree Palestine will add three official new year holidays. The Supreme Muslim Council secured recognition for the Moharram new year, the first day of Moharrem, as a holiday. Existing official holidays include the Jewish new year and January 1. The move is viewed as more political than religious in motive.
Cuba faces a labor crisis as Haiti and Jamaica restrict emigration of field laborers. Havana acts to curb influx while Jamaica and Haiti respond with limits of their own. Cuban sugar fields depend on annual labor imports and efforts may aim to keep Spanish immigrant workers returning from Spain at about 500 monthly.
Norwegian scientist Dr. Carl Stor mer reports the aurora borealis appearing above Oslo reaching 300 miles high. Some rays reflect from the sunlit atmosphere at 600 miles, illuminating the sky after sunset.
The article discusses Argentina's tradition that the president must be godfather to the seventh male child in a family. President Alvear agreed to be godfather to a Protestant citizen’s seventh child, citing freedom of worship in the constitution. The case raises church membership versus religious liberty in a presidential duty.
In Kansas City area farmers pursue a cheap feed: surplus potatoes from a large crop are boiled and dumped into hog troughs as a substitute for corn to fatten hogs. This method arose as potatoes become too cheap to dig.
Notice is given of sale under a 1926 deed of trust by Myrtle C. Lowe and N. C. Lowe for debt to Prudential Insurance Company. The High Point auction is at 11:00 A M on October 1 1928 in front of City Hall to the highest cash bidder. Property: parcel on Park Street near Granby Lee Street with improvements.
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