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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1930
Page
5
A local public notice urges residents to observe fire prevention week with practical safety measures and awareness. The message stresses weekly diligence and community involvement to reduce fire risk and protect homes and property.
Farmers and vocational agriculture students in 41 communities, under Roy H. Thomas, seek to produce three times the county average corn yield on five acres, with prizes including a loving cup for the top adult producer and gold medals for students. Contests rules require all entrants to be in classes, five acre adult plots and three acre student plots, with seed and fertilizer decisions made by teachers and contestants.
The notes correct five points about the pictured ship scene. Ships lack paddlewheels. Columbus ships did not fly the American flag. The picture should read Santa Maria not Santa Marie. Rembrandt died in 1669 making the painting over 250 years old if painted by him. The scrambled word is TECHNIQUE.
Capt. Harry Wooding, 89, completes his 38th year as Danville’s mayor. Began in 1892 during Cleveland’s administration and has served continuously. His medical bills over 45 years total under $10, and he remains active at work daily.
In Elizabeth New Jersey on September 23 Joseph G Houser sought death by his own actions. He slashed his wrists then drank poison and finally leaped from a third story window. Fear the methods would fail and worry over an auto accident contributed to his death.
A Gainesville resident recalls Thedford’s Black-Draught, used for nearly a century to ease constipation indigestion and biliousness. She describes buying it at Jim Jay’s store after a recommendation and notes relief from headaches fatigue and foul taste after a few doses.
In West Jefferson North Carolina on September 23 Democratic U S Senate nominee J W Bailey urged voters to strip Republicans of power. He charged the 1928 campaign promises were fraudulently made and that GOP policies worsened farm prices unemployment and industrial decline under Hoover. He called for a Republican defeat to restore public trust.
North Carolina reports 29.0 percent of its population in public schools for 1927 28, second only to Mississippi 33.8 among Southern states. The figures from the U S Education bulletin show Alabama Arkansas Oklahoma and Tennessee also high in pupil per population ratios. Officials say pupil density drives education effort and cost.
Corrinne leads a daring parachute plan aboard a night flight with Rosalee and Punk Melton. The ship soars above darkness and moonlight as Corrinne rediscovers freedom, but a sudden nose dive tests the crew and passengers.
Asheboro reports Mrs. W. W. Martin of the North Carolina College faculty will be in Randolph County this week to work on the in mobilization program.
The PTA plans a week of visits to Liberty Staley Seagrove Farmer Randleman Providence Ramseur Franklinville Balfour Trinity. Flora Lewellen will fill her late father E E Lewellen’s deputy post under Sheriff Ben Millikan. A Trogdon family reunion is set for the first Sunday in October at Asheboro Court House led by W A Trogdon and C E Lovett.
Mary Keener, 15, faced another school entry hurdle after 19 prior vaccines did not take. Dr Campbell gave a twentieth shot and when that failed he issued a permanent school certificate, marking a landmark vaccination case.
Ben Jones and Isabel Okio produced 138 bushels of U S No 1 potatoes from half an acre this year.
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