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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1936
Page
16
Dun & Bradstreet reports mixed results for the week with wholesale contraction as retailers wait for clearer consumer signals. Retail demand rose in districts with school reopenings and Labor Day disruptions trimmed industrial output. nationwide retail sales up 3 to 8 percent from last week and up to 25 percent in some areas.
Guidance on passing roadwork with one side blocked advises waiting for the opposite lane to clear and to follow the signalman’s flag instructions to prevent delays confusion and potential accidents. The advice emphasizes safety and orderly passage during repairs.
The data outline year over year percentage rises in eight geographical regions: New England from 12 to 18, eastern from 15 to 20, middle west from 17 to 20, northwest from 15 to 21, southwest from 15 to 30, southern from 15 to 20, and Pacific coast from 18 to 25.
In Cleveland the Council of Jewish Women ran a thrift shop to raise money for welfare. A bargain hunter bought a green felt hat for 25 cents and a tailored tweed coat for 1.25 dollars. Later the missing shop items were found sold by the venture’s co chair Mrs Milton P Schlesinger.
Greenville market reports 2,863,700 pounds sold for 661,582 dollars this week at 23.10 a hundred, with season totals at 4,363,006 pounds for 999,527.06. Rocky Mount sells 4,274,682 pounds this season for 1,016,655.62, averaging 23.78 per hundredweight, and yesterday’s sales reach 618,302 pounds for 142,853.50. New bright belt markets show Wilson at 824,388 pounds for 23.24 and Goldsboro at 99,418 pounds for 23.01.
The federal trade commission issues an order against Blackwell Journal Publishing of Blackwell Oklahoma to stop unfair competitive methods against Blackwell Tribune Publishing. Prohibited actions include circulating false disparaging statements offering Tribune subscribers free Journal subscriptions and quoting advertising rates below cost.
Haywood county manager M. E. Swearingen reports unemployment nearly eliminated with 3,600 registered a year ago now under 1,000, mostly unskilled laborers. He says his files of unemployed names are practically exhausted.
A roadster overturned five times in a 70 foot tumble down Elk Mountain Scenic Highway near Asheville. Four occupants John Toley Eva Thomas and Mr and Mrs BE Reynolds escaped with only minor injuries.
County Attorney J. H. Falloon recalls a high school letter dictated by his father sent to William Barada of White Cloud Kansas. The document returned years later with Barada's note on the reverse side.
Mrs. Charles F. Lambeth hosted a tea on Randolph street in Thomasville in honor of Miss Julia Brown Jennings and her upcoming marriage to Clarence F. Gibson next month. The event featured fall flowers and a receiving line with Jennings and her mother Mrs. T. B. Jennings, followed by light refreshments.
Mrs. David Mac Jester and her infant returned home on Thursday after a brief absence. Details of their trip or residence were not disclosed.
Liberal leaders from Wisconsin, Minnesota former laborites, and independents from about six states gathered in Chicago for an executive session to shape the presidential campaign. Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. and seven sponsors debated how far to back a candidate.
Chicago market notes show butter at 9 762 unsettled creamery specials with 93 score and 15 to 34 percent ranges for various grades. Eggs listed at 6 863 firm with prices unchanged.
Amelita Galli-Curci has recovered from thyroid surgery and will perform with the Chicago City Opera Company. Manager Paul Longone announced the return dates from November 17 through 20, nearly a year after her sensational debut at the Auditorium.
Five men died when eighteen freight and oil cars of an M K T train derailed and burned twenty miles southwest of St. Charles Missouri with rescuers fearing additional transient workers may have perished in the blaze.
Chicago dispatch reports police guarded the Dawes home after a suspicious loiterer reappeared. Police Lieut Carl Ekman aided security while General Dawes remained inside awaiting the morrow’s events involving his adopted daughter Virginia Cragg of Evanston.
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