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dtfRAMBLIHG IP\ 'Rp pi llj hps A four page newspaper is pub lished in New York with a vocabu lary of only 900 words. It is pub lished by the Language Research Committee affiliated with the New York University and is used to aid foreign-bom adults in learning Eng lish and adjusting themselves to the American environment. The aver age American-born adult has a vo cabulary of 25,000 words, yet the 900 word newspaper is very readable, quite complete. Doris Duke, multimillionheiress recently attained the age of 21 and now controls a $53,000,000 fortune. Her home is 1 E 78th St., New York and her auto license reads l-E-78. Neat? On 39th Street, just off Broadway a man sitting on the top of a motor truck. His legs real ail the way to the ground. He's the sandwich man who walks on stilts and occasionally holds conversations with workers in second story windows. The songs most frequently played on five New York radio stations a recent week—in the order named: "Puddin' Head Jones", "The Day You Came Along", "Honeymoon Ho tel", "Good Niarht Little Girl", "What More Can I Ask", "You've Got Ev erything", "Don't You Remember", "Heaven Only Knows", and "I'll Be Faithful." . . . They seem to indicate a trend toward sentimentality and away from sophistication. Add the continued popularity of skating, bi cycling, ping pong, parcheesi, tid dleywinks and croquinole; add the immense success of "Little Women", the film starring Katherine Hep burn; add the popularity of the movement toward long dinners and long wine lists and the total looks like a return to the spirit of the nineties! In response to my telephoned in quiry for an out-of-town guest came this prompt answer from Radio City's Music Hall, "For equipment for the hard of hearing, speak to one of the ushers, deposit $2. The usher will show you to a seat in. the twelfth row in the orchestra which is wired for the purpose, and connect the in strument. Return the instrument on leaving the theatre and your de posit will be returned in full." Nino Martini, tenor whose fame has been spread by radio, made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera Company in its first week of the season, singing the part of the Duke in Rigoletto. And just about every professionel musician in . town who had the afternoon off was there to hear and see . . . The newspaper critics of the town were luke-warm in their praise. Admitting the ner vous strain of the occasion, their comments, even so, were to the ef fect—a voice of good, if not excep tional quality. The opening night of the Metro politan, incidentally, was one of the most lavish of many years. Among the patrons were the Astors and the Vanderbilts and the J.igi Morgans, THINK OF IT! We can sell you a bed room suite consisting of four poster bed, chest of drawers and small vanity for less than $25.00. EAGLE FURNITURE CO. BEGIN 1934 WITH ADEQUATE PROTECTION INSURE! Paul Gwyn INSURANCE ALL LINGS Security —Service Phone 258 Elkin, N. C. The Princess Mdvani, the former Barbara Hutton, and many another. Almost every box sparkled with a tiara of some sort, and there was a real diamond coronet—a full crown mind you—worn by Lady Honor Channon, a guest of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt . . . And associated with all this pomp, strange as it may seem, velveteen was much in evi dence, both in wraps and in dresses. . , . Bracelets were worn by the fours and fives—all in a row. Most of them were diamond —but then, how is a mere man to know? Suffice it to say that the opening was, once nore, like something you read about. Ohio has swallowed a whale! Or at least that's the story of the whale's owner here who shipped his 55 ton whale on a 65 foot truck re cently, bound for New York. He says that not only Is the whale worth $25,000 but that he loves it and its loss has affected him deeply. He has appealed to Lincoln High way police to help him locate the whale, the truck and the driver. The whale, stuffed, was to be put on exhibition here in New York. How many thousands, who would know?—but chances on the Grand National Sweepstakes to be run in March at Liverpool have commenced to arrive in New York. In innocent looking envelopes, addressed in long hand, they come illegally through the United States mails. And the stubs for the drawing, together with the money in payment for the chances are enclosed in plainly marked envelopes, handed over to a small army of steamship stewards and crews, each with a gratuity. They agree to mail them to head quarters from a port on the other side of the Atlantic. Receipts and acknowledgements are mailed to ihe United States . . . Then not a word more—till you read of the lucky ones. You don't hear of the thou sands who've bought and lost. Only Joe Jinks, laundry driver. He says he'll get somebody else to take his route on Saturdays—now that he has a hundred thousand. Or Mrs. White. Yes, now that she has thir ty thousand, she'll have someone come in and wash the dishes at night. Words with tricky pronunciations! Accent the "turn" in alternately. "Banal" rhymes with "annal." "Camellia" day rhymes with "the hell-ya-say." "Digitalis" rhymes with "did-ja fail-us." Accent the "gon" in "gondola." "Gratis" rhymes with "Great iss Mahomet. Accent the "imp" in "impious"; pronounce the second "i" as long "e". Contrary to usual pronunciation, "misconstrue" accents the "con." Pronounce "version" as "vershun" —not as "verzhun." The first underground railway in New York was a 250 foot tunnel in lower Broadway, secretly excavated in 1873 to prove to objectors that an underground railway could be made beneath Broadway "without inter fering greatly with the traffic of that busy thoroughfare." The first subway was opened for operation in 1904. It ran from Brooklyn Bridge to 145 th street. Excavation had started in 1900. "So this is Broadway!" Visitors used to say it breathlessly. More now say it disappointedly. With more and more hot-dog stands, open-front-stand-up-and-eat restau rants, a flea circus, barkers, beggars, peddlers, blaring loud speakers, cloth banners, cut-outs and mechan ical advertising contraptions, Broad way becomes more like Coney Is land every year. With repeal, high class restaurants may follow the finest moving picture houses to 6th Avenue or go beyond to sth, leaving the garish White Way to go Coney Island as fast as it may. Jonesville News Mr. Paul Haynes of Arlington, spent the week-end with his brother, Finley Haynes of Elkin. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Spann had as their week-end guests Mrs. Spann's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Rober son, Mrs. Margaret Husey, Miss Betty Lou Roberson and Pete and Thurmond Roberson, all of Win ston-Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Adams of Burlington, spent the week-end vis iting relatives in Arlington and Jonesville. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Martin of Jonesville, had as their guests for the week-end Grady Cooke and John Swisher of Hamptonville, Frank Spann and Thomas Haynes of Arlington, Misses Gladys Spann and Connie and Dorothy Haynes and Mr. and Mrs. Nallls Mock. Mr. Richard Haynes and Miss Myrle Myers were guests of Miss Angle Haynes Sunday. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Nallis. Mock will be glad to know that they have returned to Jonesville to re side, after making their home in Charlotte for the past five months. Mrs. J. C. Spann is spending the week with her daughter, Mrs. Rich ard Pruitt, and Mr. Pruitt, at their home at State Road. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Pittman, Misses Nelda Shore and Lucille and Hazel Vestal spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Spann. at their home in Jonesville. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA emeQQK . . . i the first line of which reads, "The Holy Bible," and which con tains Four Great Treasures . ,& UAU \ ON THE FIRST FAMILIES Cain seems to have had good stuff in him, regardless of his en vious nature and terrible temper; at least his descendants were suc cessful. One of them, Jubal, war, the first musician; and another, Tu bel-Cain, as the first blacksmith, founded the useful arts. We skip over a number of other interesting characters, noting only that "there were giants in those days." and men lived to wonderous old age. Adam, in spite of the necessity for hard work, hung on for a matter of nine hundred and thirty years, but the prize for longevity goes to Me thusaleh, who established the world's record of nine hundred and sixty-nine years. He passed away in the year of the flood; there is no telling how long he might have lived under a dry regime. Old as these patriarchs were; they did not learn wisdom with their years. In Vflfl LM My m W SI aaMif£:W ••, v >&, x^Hfcamp ■PPIPP- jflHm^ »* ff.i'Vß ■SSr '■ H - 'kl I mH ARE YOU PARTICULAR AS TO THEIR APPEARANCE? Each letter you mail is a personal representative of your businesa I To the person or firm to which it is sent it conveys an impression, which, in case it is badly printed, may not be at all complimentary. ■ It is good business to see that your letter heads and other business I stationery is well printed and attractive. We make it our business ■ to print it that way if you send your order to us. WE PRINT ANYTHING FROM A CALLING CARD TO A CATALOG Next Door to Postoffice Elkin, N. C. .;. ; , , - ... , ~..- .. - .. : • ~ f JK ;,/... ,?, . . ■" . - .• . . • i * ... _._, -1,... -_ : ' -.^ fact their misdemeanors were so flagrant that It repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. There seemed to be no remedy but to wipe out the whole race and make a fresh start. One man and his family—Noah, his wife and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth— were selected for survival, and Noah was instructed to build an ark that would hold them, together with a male and female representative of each species. He was allowed to warn his neighbors, but when in any age has the hopeful human race been willing to face bad news? They jeered at his stories of the coming storm; they stood around the dry-dock when he was working on his ark and passed the same sort of crude jokes with which the folks of a later day greeted Fulton and his Clermont. v Noah was an gry, but he kept at work and had the last laugh. The, rain began and every living substance was des troyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroy ed from the earth; and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. God has never again indulged in his wholesale effort at reformation, probably because He discovered that the first attempt did so little good. The descendants of Noah lived much shorter lives than the patriarchs, You are cordially invited to attend a showing of SMALL ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES at our showroom on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 23-24, from 2 until 4 Miss Addie Malone will serve tea and sandwiches SOUTHERN PUBLIC UTILITIES CO. I Thursday; January 18, 1934 but they were up to pretty much ail the bad tricks, as we shall see. One thing which makes the Bible so interesting and so educational is the fact that it presents its great figures in their entirety—no cloak ing of their mistakes, no effort to set them up on pedestals. We see ourselves in these pages, with all our passions and frailties, all our hopes and affections, our victories and defeats. Father (to himself): "I can't un derstand why my watch won't go. I think it needs cleaning." Son: "It can't be dirty, Daddy. Sis and I had it in the bath this morning."
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