24 Jan 1939
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1939
Page
1
A fragment from a district paper contains notices on advertising deadlines and subscription rates, interspersed with political commentary. It mentions March 15 tax returns, the 76th Congress, a public canal, and disparate views on policy and social issues amid a weather theme and taxation talk.
The Florida Times-Union urges readers to support a polio fund aimed at caring for afflicted children and funding research. It defends the Roosevelt birthday event as essential charity, arguing donors help needy children rather than the president personally.
A reader explains she paid for a subscription so her child under seven would not miss the funny paper. Investigators clarify she meant the comic strips not the general issue.
An anti religious tract in Bezbozhnik urges Russian youth to obey parents unless advised to oppose oppressive or counter revolutionary instruction. The piece contrasts this with Soviet calls for secular duty and notes shifts in Germany under the Hitler regime, including the rise of Walther Funk and changes at the Reichsbank.
A playful column surveys Manhattan history and culture, noting Abe Lincoln in theater lore, a judge's church tribute in Corpus Christi, Martha Scott’s Hollywood return, Laughton’s handmade sloe gin, a Greenwich Village watercourse Minetta spring, the first jitterbug claim, and Carl Catmer’s push to finish The Hudson River before a South American trip.
Senator Reynolds of North Carolina critiques prohibition while attacking immigrant displacement and unemployment. He cites 10,000,000 unemployed in the United States and 7,000,000 aliens illegally present, warning against immigration and labor displacement by machinery.
AP brief items report a Pittsburgh dentist suspecting a jail crook after $4 went missing from his pocket following nine patients treated in the jail. Other notes describe Elmer Winteregg’s $10 furnace air draft lesson, 51 snakes found in a well, a 900 pound cake for fundraising, Britain’s tallest recruit, and a mix of sensational comments on defense and foreign policy.
Broadway sport bragged he sold a dog for ten thousand dollars but confessed payment was two cats at five thousand each. An impecunious friend asked for a loan for his wife's hospital operation, and the boastful writer declined, revealing the comical twist.
In 1935 the town recorded the highest horse count reaching 902000. Minnesota and Illinois tied for second with 746000 each on the sarge road statistics.
A dense list of across and down clues covers diverse topics from plants, polishing materials, and historical periods to animals, nautical terms, and coins. The puzzle includes numerous misspellings and garbled entries, suggesting OCR errors from an old newspaper page.
An international building club will soon open in London's Park Lane offering a social venue for architects, real estate agents, surveyors, builders and merchants. Trachoma is noted as the most widespread disease, with sufferers developing thick eyelids and a film over the eye, leading to inability to open the eyes.
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