Wartime Roads and Bridges Progress Report 1941
In harsh weather conditions a county report notes major roads fading and repeated maintenance. Second class roads were bladed monthly and 1 dollar bridges built across 89 culverts. Concrete take and wooden land bridges are described with joints sized 12 to 30 inches. Ozan and Ben rivers show driveways near churches gravelled. A Springhill road lot exchange with Hope County is mentioned, with W P A equipment ready to aid road work. Judge Luck thanks residents for road efforts and weather permitting ongoing improvements are planned.
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Ithpaleke
Ehunty Tor
Niles
Ozan
Beno
Eatherson
Buck Ark
Springhill Road
Ty of Hope
West Rt House
Ec County
W. P. A. Lipment
Imre
Seniors to Stage Class Play Deacon Dubbs Comedy
Seniors to present the annual Class of seniors play Deacon Dubbs a clean cut rural comedy Friday night at H venue announced Wednesday previews for the rural community show featuring senior cast and production notes
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedean
Deacon
Sowing Seeds and Frost Risk for Home Gardeners
The guide explains frost risk for home gardeners. Hardy seeds can be sown when soil is prepared and frost danger is over, using the average last frost date as a guide. Tender plants require protection and may need a wait of two weeks under glass or up to thirty days after the last frost date to ensure germination and growth.
Cadet Earns Wings After Solo Flight At Hope High School
Nolan Cargile recalls a solo training flight with praise from instructors and cadets. Vasco Bright helped celebrate as the silver wings were removed and gold wings earned after three takeoffs and landings and a formal Form One.
World War II Bulletins From London Washington and Mexico
Prime Minister Churchill warned Russia that Hitler covets Ukraine and threatens Egypt as Salonika falls amid grave Nazi moves to Tripoli. In Washington Italy demanded the recall of the US embassy attache after Italy pulled its ambassador, while Rome reports Sicily guarding the US embassy and Mussolini weighing action. Mexico City sources say Berlin and Rome may sever relations after Mexico seized 12 Axis ships.
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London
Churchill
Russia
Egypt
Salonika
House of Commons
Attica
Erith
Tripoli
Libya
Washington
Italy
U. S
Rome
United States
Yarious
Mussolini
Mexico City
Berlin
Mexico
Mother's Night at Hope Gospel Tabernacle Revival
Rev. Wm. F. McPherson conducts a revival at Hope Gospel Tabernacle with nightly services at 7 30. Thursday focuses on mothers, Friday on men, with Lutton quartet, Young Peoples Night led by Christ's Ambassadors, and C. A. quartet. S. A. Mays directs congregational singing. Mrs. J. E. Hamill accompanies. The series closes Sunday night.
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Hope Gospel Tabernacle
Wm. F. McPherson
J. E. Hamill
Sales School Certificates To Be Awarded At City Hall
A large crowd will attend a 7:30 p.m. ceremony in the City Hall auditorium under the Chamber of Commerce to honor 186 graduates of the anti co course. J H Jones Hope High principal R P Bowen of the chamber and Blain Ellington of the State Employment Service will speak as certificates, issued by the Distributive Department of the State Board of Education, are presented.
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Chamber of Commerce
City Hall
Cntico
State Board of Education
Arkansas State Employment Service
J. H., Jones
the Hope High School
R. P. Bowen
Hope Chamber of Commerce
Blain Ellington
State Employment Service
Ruby Lawson
George Collins
Hazel Sullivan
Paul Edie
Caltor Bove
Lottie Boyes
Martha Blackacd
Reece Chambless
Mae Chambless
W. G. Legford
Ded Reid
Hazel Bryant
Della James
Uoomer Cobb
James T. Cobb
Cue McAdams
Edward Aslin
Lucille Thomason
H. T. Hollingsworth
T. E. Robertson
Joe Jones
Polly Joyce Edie
Ethel Thomas
Jack Porter
Sweeney Copeland
Clifton Franks
Scott's
Frances Mitchell
Wanda Collins
Geo
W. Robison & Co
W. Robison
Clyde Coffee
Fay Russell
Charle C. Reed
Nell Williams
Corbin Foster
Etta Kinard
Pauline Bailey
Angie Sue Andres
Nona Matthews
Helen Bailey
Merle June McLarty
C. F. Roulon
Ferrell Williams
Charles West
Gillian Bryant
Hope High School
Claudia Agee
Evelyn Albright
Gerald Bales
Curtis Breeding
Charles Bundy
Jack Butler
Dale Clerk
Marin Collier
James Copeland
Helen Crews
John Crosby
Franks
Jack Greenlee
Jimmie Hazgard
Nancy Hil
Jack Honeyend
Paul Hutson
Wilton Jewell
Lyle Jones
Geraldine Lee
James Light
Marilyn McRae
James Miller
Inez Neal
Paul
P. J. Holt
Trinon Hubbard
Stewart Hunt
Sara Shield Jobe
Lorene Johnson
Louise Johnson
Betty Mae Lamon
Katherine Lane
W. G. Ledford
J. O. Muamn
Roger Metcalf
Roy Mouser
Evelyn Page
J. A. Phillips
Ernest Porter
Margaret Parton
Minnie Muse Presley
Rhee Roberts
Edith
British warn continued from page one on Africa conquest
The report notes Massaua Eritrea and near completion of the conquest of Italian East Africa. It calls for Irish ports and air fields to guard Britain’s northwest approaches and warns Vichy forces against moving French ships from Africa to metropolitan France. Ivory sources describe tusks from elephants walruses and narwhals as a major supply.
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Massaua
Eritrea
Italian East Africa
Britain
Africa
France
Hitler
Briant Florist Expands Staff with Miss Fannie Cannon
Miss Fannie Marc Cannon, former Hope resident, joins Briant Florist staff. Previously with Paul Carroll Florist of Houston and Chopsy Florist of New Orleans, she led Houston's National Flower Shows entertainment bureau. Cannon brings extensive event planning and arrangements experience. She invites friends to call on her.
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Fannie Marc Canon
Fonmer
Hope
Briant Forist
Cannon
Paul Coarwall
Houston
Texico
Chopsy Florist
New Orleans
Miss Canon
Germans split Greece as Salonika looms in quick advance
Athens dispatch reports a German blitzkrieg driving a wedge west of Salonika to trap Allied troops along the Struma valley. Yugoslav forces contest Skopje area as German forces push toward Katchanik pass near the Albanian border. British say no contact with German troops yet while Berlin claims no British engagement.
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Athens
France
Greece
Salonika
Macedonian
Struma
London
Salonktkid
Skoplje
Yugoslavia
Bul-garia
Katchanik Pass
Stefani
New Zealand
Berlin
Vardar
Food Campaign Continues With Girl Scout Donations
Ten year old volunteers and multiple Girl Scout troops collect cakes cookies and candies for soldiers. Troops No 5 led by Mrs Clyde Monts and Assistant Mrs Dale Wilson join in. Third Ward reports show many ladies donating cakes and cookies with a longer list to follow. Other wards canvassed today and Whiteday publication promised for remaining troops.
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Joe Ann Allen
Norma Jean Archer
Maxine Bowden
Naomi Bruner
Jo Ann Card
Norma Jean Cheney
Mary Elizabeth Caleman
Janis Davis
Dora Lou Franks
Patsy Hatcher
Patsy McPherson
Betty Joe Methyin
Mary Lou Moore
Mary Ellen O'Dwyer
Prudence Parker
Ruth Ellen Stubbeman
Virginia Sue Sutton
Barlouise Thacatin
Patsy Duke
Jane Dredd
Sue Henry
Peggy Cook
Martha Nell Urrey
Girl Scouts
Clyde Monts
Lestler
Dale Wilson
Sophia Willams
Betty Ann Benson
Matilda McFinlin
Carolyn Hamilton
Alice Lile
Barbary LaGrone
Dorothy Jean
Eva Joan Milam
Doris Urrey
Allee Loraine Heard
Betty Dune Allen
Scoul
Third Ward
Lowit
Frank Nolen
George Sandefur
HR. M. Briant
Della McClanahan
Albert Jewell
Albert Graves
Elizabeth Pritchard
Linda Jewell
F. D. Henry
Joe Moustan
Clyde Hill
EB. B. MecFuddin
Earl Russell
George Millar
Malcolm Porterfield
C. O. Roberts
G. Norton
C. R. Crutchfield
E. P. Stewart
F. D. Howle
E. H. Stewart
Nora. Carrigan
E. O. Wingfield
A. A. Holbert
S. A. Westbrook
J. H. Bennett
Ewdy
Thompson Evans
B. L. Rettlg
C. H. Coffee
Whiteday
Hempstead County Schedules Sweets Drive For Camp Robinson Soldiers
American Legion members state Hempstead County will donate cakes candies and cookies to comforts the soldiers at Camp Robinson. The effort emphasizes community support with many local names listed among donors totaling $102.40 after prior reports of 8175.
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American: Legion
Hempstead
Hempstend
Camp Robinson
Hampstead County
Hempstead County
Bowe U. K
McRae Holn
Floyd
McDowell Max Cox
John Gaines
Aid I. T. Urvey
C. Cook
E. B. Finney
Bil Ben Ediminston
Broadening the tax base flattens the nocketbook
The note mocks social pretensions and petty woes with quirky lines about work and leisure. It observes common rural and urban vignettes, hints at fiscal strain, and ends with a sly jab at taxation and expense. The piece reads as a light, witty column fragment from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper.
Steel shipments reach 47.5 million tons light products 1939
The United States steel industry reported light steel product shipments totaling 47,524,000 net tons by 1939 and heavy steel product shipments of 21,327,000 net tons, reflecting substantial industry output.
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Stet
United States
British Troops Enter Massaua in East Africa
British forces occupied Massaua the chief seaport of British East Africa, completing the conquest of the region. The fall of Massaua routed Italian positions along the Red Sea and Indian Ocean fronts, with Ethiopian and British colonial capitals now in Allied hands. Barbers, capital of British Somaliland, was recaptured as Italian troops retreated in Ethiopia.
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Cairo
Massaua
Biritrea
East Africa
Red Sea
Hed Sea
Mussolini
Adia Abuha
Asmmara
Erliren
Mogadiscie
Malan Sony Lntiel
Barbers
Arly Ito
Satel
Ethiopia
First Confederate copyright marks Hill verse book
Theophilus Hill of Raleigh NC authored the first book copyrighted under Confederate States of America laws. The text notes a long memory task about insect names, mentioning memorizing many insect varieties daily.
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Theophilus Hill
Raleigh
N.C
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Drug Company
King Frost
U. 8 Department Agriculture Weather Reports
Nolan Cargile
Bulletins
Pontiac
General Motors
Third St
Sales School
Miss Fannie Canon
Tlewtemen
Herve le Huede
Newark
Treasury Department
Lydik
Pinkham
Jair
Ladies Specialty Shop
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Coca-Cola
Coca- Cola Reins Company
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