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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1933
Page
4
A compact reflection noting that human history shows immoral means always hinder good ends, citing Job 2 10 and Coleridge. The pair contrasts faith in divine blessing with ethical restraint and warns against dishonest paths to desirable outcomes.
General Hugh S. Johnson urges an end to disputes between capital and labor spokesmen in the National Recovery Administration and warns of possible resignations if harmony is not achieved. He commends a steady hand guiding NRA recovery efforts amid internal controversy.
Rising costs challenge every business. Earl W. Elhart argues that eliminating waste and speeding up production will push technological development, especially in non selling divisions of retailing. He notes retail has lagged industry in tech gains and urges inventive, labor saving devices to improve distribution amid NRA pressures.
State officials press to host a New York Stock Exchange office as New Jersey trends toward law conflicts with the nation. The governor declined to return the escaped criminal Robert Burns to Georgia, a Cracker state, for completion of a prison sentence.
The piece notes New Jersey’s liberal trust laws and charter practices drawing stock exchange activities and criminal shelter, with Wall Street moving stock selling to New Jersey to dodge New York City taxes. It predicts operations will begin there in October and warns of bridges burned with other states.
Washington delays in mailing checks to cotton farmers strain trust as crop reduction contracts have been fulfilled but promised payments for 1933-34 and 1934-35 lag. Officials promised all checks by Sept 22, yet slow government machinery risks blocking upcoming reduction efforts.
A writer urges the federal government to prohibit shipping explosives by trucks and autos and transfer to railroads. The piece cites safety, noting a New Jersey accident where four died and 20 injured when a nitro cellulose freight collided with picnickers, warning highways already risk dangerous loads.
A veteran Alaska gold rush crowd, the International Sourdough Association, reunites in Los Angeles. The article argues reunions honor shared wild experiences over wealth, noting gold seekers sought adventure and new horizons more than mere riches, gaining lasting life rich in experience.
Maj Gen Smedley Hutter proposed a solid sense for United States policy in a recent address. The remarks emphasized firm strategy and clear objectives amid evolving global tensions.
The article cites Gen Butler arguing intervention may be needed to protect foreigners and restore order in Cuba and other nations. It suggests inviting Central and South American powers to share the expedition, reducing unilateral action if others join. It notes Rep Dickstein's push to relax immigration rules for persecuted fugitives while maintaining overall restrictions.
The piece notes tennis shifting from aristocratic pastime to mass spectacle as crowds boo stars and disrupt quiet in big matches at Forest Hills. It argues professionalized crowds and stadiums prime the sport for public support, suggesting sponsors should stop selling tickets if audiences misbehave. Sally Rand, Chicago’s nude dancer, walks into a police station with a black eye. Dressed up at last!
A quirky dispatch notes rising European tensions and the idea that war signals may come when nations seek U.S. loans. It also mentions New Guinea brides altering traditional cooking, and a scientist’s remark about reading American joke books. The piece ends with a humorous instruction about pronouncing Persian cabinet names and breakfast requests.
New York NRA reports strong sales as retailers phase out old time clocks and install new models across offices. Industry observers note growing demand for automated timekeeping amid workforce modernization and productivity push.
A young Indian boy swallowed a key and was brought to medical staff who worked quickly to remove it. Doctors stated the incident caused distress but the child is expected to recover.
A collection of quirky newspaper snippets notes a North Carolina pastor drafting a church code demanding regular sermons, jokes about snoring clauses possibly included. Chicago opera seats at a dollar spark a low ticket remark. Cleveland hosts a beer expo and inventors’ congress with no new beer invention yet. Inflation comments call it up and up.
Sue confronts Kenneth Corbett after he presses for sexual favors under a paid arrangement. Heated dialogue follows as she realizes she is expendable and contemplates leaving, while he taunts that she has no leverage. She returns to her room, shaken, and begins to wash away the encounter before answering the door.
Quincy Illinois September 23 Wiley Post the globe circling aviator injured when his plane crashed Thursday is on the way to recovery at a hospital with cuts and a slight skull fracture The crash forced postponement of his speaking tour Post's Winnie Mae is guarded to deter souvenir hunters while awaiting rebuild Post had circumnavigated the globe twice most recently this summer alone but had no prior crashes until the motor failed at fifty feet causing the plane to strike the earth
New York stock exchange will lose about 25 of its most active stocks on Oct. 2 as trading begins on the newly organized New Jersey stock exchange. Leading brokers in Wall Street assert trading will start on that date even if Mayor O'Brien has not signed the NYC stock transfer tax law yet.
In Perry Michigan on September 23 residents noted hotter water from a well after an explosion. L C Gulick reported the temperature rise and has asked a Michigan State College geologist to investigate the cause.
A. Belders discusses the lasting wreckage from saloons and Prohibition. He argues that eliminating alcohol revenue does not end societal harm, notes the rise of indolent crime and corruption, and urges patient law enforcement and education to rebuild a broken social order.
London Sept 23 A Delhi doctor reported in the Coritise Medical Journal that an Indian girl gave birth before turning six. The newborn weighed four pounds three ounces. the mother recovered after three days of fright and nursed the infant for nine months, by which time it weighed 11 pounds 2 ounces.
During trials the French destroyer Cassard maintained over 48 miles per hour for three hours marking the fastest vessel of its class in the world.
List of cryptic clues spans multiple items including terms for public office, professions, pronouns, and misc. The puzzle asks for identifying a US public official from the given clue sequence, with many entries referencing common crossword style hints such as wing, caution, verbal, and secular, alongside international and domestic terms. The readable fragments suggest a themed set rather than a single narrative, requiring assembling a name or title from intersecting hints.
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