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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1929
Page
4
A reflective note cites Chapin on heaven, showing that wicked deeds secure wages in time while Heaven never defaults, emphasizing moral cause and effect.
Amid labor strife and a police chief’s death, Loray Mills opens a summer camp on St. James Lake near Morganton for all employees. It offers fishing boating and recreation at low cost while urging wage growth and better living standards to boost southern prosperity and industrial relations.
The Wellesley professor returns to attack education blaming women teachers for defects. He argues modern instruction is too practical and emphasizes method over principles, calling American thinking feminine and urging cultivation of abstract thought and dignity beyond wealth and comfort.
The Daughters of the Confederacy at Ahoskie prepared the annual dinner for Hertford county veterans of the Confederate armies, but none of the veterans attended. The Gastonia Gazette notes the gesture and urges current generations to fund care for the remaining veterans, now in their eighties.
Rev Tom Alderman Sykes heading the flower show committee urges prompt entries from city gardeners and community to ensure a fine 1929 exhibition. cooperation and belated entries urged to avoid delays.
Mr. Sykes urges prompt entry submissions and classifications to ensure smooth handling of the show. The furniture building management has offered space, boosting the chance of a successful event. The show is slated for September 13 and 14.
An American prohibitionist notes Scandinavian approaches to alcohol control. Finland enforces prohibition, Norway uses local option after repeal, Denmark taxes heavily, and Sweden pursues a liquor-control system aimed at reducing abuse rather than use. He suggests mixed outcomes with Wet view favored overall.
A curator-like reflection on tourist rooming houses as democratic social spaces and a brief note on postwar diplomacy between Britain and the United States. The piece highlights humane hospitality, cross-country encounters, and optimism about ongoing naval talks, then ends with Alaska’s forests as unlikely future wealth through a planned porn and paper industry amid rising paper prices.
A North Carolina reader calls for strict driver licensing and financial responsibility laws to reduce highway deaths and injuries. He cites Connecticut New York and New Jersey measures requiring insurance or bonds, license suspension, and asset postings to cover judgments. Durham September 9 1929 John W Hester.
A mother recalls Jesus as a child sitting with His mother at bedtime. She describes His small movements and yawns as shadows cross the land, noting His resolve and bravery facing a relentless hour before being carried to bed.
James Donald Ragan a small boy died at his parents home 1114 Ward Street yesterday at 4 30 pm after a brief illness He was born in High Point January 11 1927 Surviving are his parents and sister Margaret Ellen Ragan Funeral plans awaited father is traveling from Newport News Virginia
Jack Hicks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hicks, was struck at East Green Street and Woodberry Avenue while walking home from Emma Blair school. He suffered bruises with no serious injuries and was taken to Guilford General Hospital before returning home. The drivers stopped and assisted before leaving.
Former Rear Admiral Mahrholz urges all households to be compulsorily trained to use gas masks. He calls for sham attacks on big cities with airplanes dropping cough gas bombs to force immediate use of protective masks.
A garbled text listing varied quiz prompts covers animals orders, flavors of words, opposites, canals, niagara borders, Nova Scotia, Sweden, embeddings, and other miscellaneous clues. It resembles a mixed vertical and horizontal puzzle with many unclear items and missed spellings.
Beginning with fall terms at North Carolina State College sanitary engineering will be taught under civil engineering. J Sammie Whitener of Raleigh was elected assistant professor to lead the new field, reflecting North Carolina’s growing need for trained sanitary engineers in design construction and operation.
New certificates of incorporation issued in Raleigh include Ideal Mercerizing Company of Burlington to produce and trade yarns with $100,000 authorized capital. Basingers, Inc. of Salisbury to handle boots and shoes with $30,000 authorized. Sigma Epsilon House Company of Chapel Hill to run a fraternity house with $20,000. Whiteville Cabinet Works, Inc. to manufacture cabinet work with $5,000. Taxed names include R. D. Neville, C. B. Phillips, Lewis C. Basinger, W. A. Basinger, H. E. Thompson, J. N. Callahan, G. H. McCormick, and J. Heinzli.
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