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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1947
Page
6
Water in nature continually changes between air and liquid but remains water. Balti was a city of 2,000 population in 1797. Horticulturists from the U S Department of Agriculture note 38 native blueberry species in the country. It takes 10 to 20 tons of water to produce a bushel of corn grain.
Four safes robbed in Duplin and Sampson counties within 48 hours drawing sheriff and SBI attention. Ikey post office, Warsaw Milton West garage, Wallace Kaiser-Frazier garage, and Crumpler Brick office near Roseboro targeted. Cash, bonds, checks, stamps and silver stolen. one ring spared.
Flue cured tobacco markets closed for weekend after heavy Friday sales with price gains on the border belt up to four dollars per hundred and up to two dollars on the eastern belt. Middle belt prices fluctuated with gains to three forty nine per hundred and losses to two dollars. Kingstree and Conway markets closed for season. North Carolina Governor rule tied to ten thousand pound property value. no safe trace found.
Lincoln Mills Co will distribute 10000 among 2220 employees as a cost of living bonus. Nearby Stillwater Worsted Mills and Harrisville Combine Co plan bonuses totaling 370000 for 1800 workers. Lincoln Mills, a woolen mill, had closed since last year and reopened last month. The article oddly notes the average Puerto Rican family size as 5.5.
The Rev. L. V. Davis a 35 year old free will Baptist minister is jailed in Lillington after returning from Nevada to face charges of illicit sexual relations with a 14 year old girl he supervised at an orphanage. He was arrested in Lovelock Nevada after leaving North Carolina following his discharge as supervisor of the orphanage near Dunn. He is scheduled for trial at the November term of court.
The note records the establishment of the first commercial glue plant, located in Holland, in the year 1690. It highlights a historical milestone in industrial chemistry and glue production.
The article notes the traditional southern practice of serving pot liquor with greens to preserve soluble nutrients and explains that a brogue originally referred to a shoe made from hide or half-tanned leather wrapped around the ankle.
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