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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1942
Page
5
A home recreation plan can beat wartime limits on social activity. Create a compact game room with a ping pong table, darts, shuffleboard, ring toss, and a card table. Include boxing gloves, rope, and occasional gym devices. Pool resources with friends, adapt spaces, and use DIY gear. Plan now for winter fun and spring outdoor options.
George and Lynn Harker face a dangerous quest to secure a crop dusting contract as rival pilots threaten their business. An explosion damages the gyro, Lynn blames carelessness, and George bravely plans to pilot the test demonstration to save Brentley’s contract and the company.
In a dim hangar, George tests a planes engine and prepares hazardous dust for a launch as dawn breaks. A confrontation with Green Eyes escalates into a physical clash, ending with a crash on the concrete. the scene set to resume next week.
A playful back-to-school column features a blackboard crossword with clues and word games. Readers are invited to solve a word diamond and a word square around a central word, with references to common crossword themes and a joke about a landlady and advance payments.
Doris Wifand wins $1 in War Stamps for best money maker of the week. Her projects include a nickel lapel pin shaped like knitting needles with a ball of wool, an oilcloth cover for kitchen cleanser cans, and a novelty necklace of colored candle drippings. She lives at 6 Cornwall avenue, Ventnor City, N J. Letters detailing Money Maker ideas are invited for a $1 War Stamp prize.
Adolph remarks that last night’s argument with his wife was amusing. Rudolph adds that when she threw the axe at him, he thought he was split.
A vintage style guide suggests using nail polish to refresh and color dress accessories. It advises coating belts, jewelry, buttons, and clips with clear or bright polish, or mixing colors to create matching or contrasting hues for outfits. It promises quick drying and easy refinishing for a fresh look.
A brief urging readers to purchase a War Stamp, with a call to support wartime financing. The notice emphasizes immediate action and patriotic duty, appealing to households to contribute funds.
A juggler demonstrates stacking six penny matchboxes on end. By pushing drawers in sequence and tying the boxes, they balance upright. Releasing the top and bottom drawers causes the drawers to spring back and the stack crashes in a dramatic finish.
A step by step guide details shaping a wooden poll parrot craft to open mail. Instructions cover wood selection sanding grain direction tail shaping enamel painting beak feathers and assembling a pencil holder perch with a base dowel supports and finishing with stain or shellac.
Riddle Answers list common wordplay about explosions boiling and screen tests. The note invites readers to send new riddles to the Riddle Man at this newspaper, promising publication with the submitter’s name if the riddles are fresh.
The editor urges young readers to assume responsibility for their health, study habits, and moral development. It emphasizes forming a strong body and trained mind, valuing honesty, courage, and kindness, and partnering with parents in becoming the person they hope you will be.
A safety note warns against placing obstacles near stable doors to avoid hindering rapid evacuation during a fire. The guidance emphasizes clear egress routes and unobstructed exits to ensure swift evacuations and reduce risk to occupants.
Rearrange the countries to pair each with its current or historic unit: United States with Dollar, Greece with Drachma, Japan with Yen, France with Franc, Mexico with Peso, United Kingdom with Pound, India with Rupee, and Pakistan with Rupee.
A teacher scolds a pupil for peeking at William's examination paper for the third time. The pupil admits he knows why, saying William does not write plainly, highlighting issues of legibility and fairness in the classroom.
Fragmentary OCR lists regions including United States Maly France Ireland Janan 8 Meare Greens and British India. No coherent event or context is provided to define a clear action, date, or outcome.
Puzzle solution recap with items including crossword answers Italy and a garbled list of kitchen and household terms. Key phrases appear as 2. Skillet cabinet linoleum a-4 shamer, 4. Colles pot toaster ice box ay upboard 6 Stroyop Padina.
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