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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1948
Page
6
Social and personal items list local events and visits including a square dance at the Hope Youth Center, a MYF picnic at First Methodist, and numerous family visits between Malvern Texarkana and Los Angeles. The notes mention guests, travel plans, and a discharged branch with infant Hope.
Dr Jordan outlines encephalitis as inflammatory brain disease with viral forms named Japanese type B St Louis Australian X and Russian spring summer. Sleepy sleep crises mark many epidemics. early symptoms include headache and vision changes. chronic aggressive phase worsens outlook. No proven serum or drug cures. prevention and treatment remain limited. research continues with need for more.
States' Rights Democrats announce plans to launch their national campaign in Kentucky next week, the home state of Democratic vice presidential candidate Alben Barkley. Headquarters in Jackson, Mississippi disclosed the strategy last night as they move to contest the Kentucky ballot.
A hospital or local notice records the birth announcement for a daughter on August 4 1948 with families Brenda Fay Tullis Hope Thomas McElroy Dillard Sara toga Mrs W M Cantley Hope Miss Ella Marie McFadden Lewisville Josephine Mr and Mrs George Rister Rt 1 Lewisville Mrs R L Seavey Je Lewisville Troy Butler and little son Rt 3 Hope.
Miriam Sterling's hundred dollar bills surface at Belmont Park parimutuel window. Detective Gus Ripley tails a slick runner, confronts Joe Steppo, recovers a social security card and pistol, but Steppo vanishes. A later corpse under Williamsburg Bridge stalls the case. Ripley vows to hunt Steppo and unravel who got the money.
Chicago reporter Robert T. Loughran relays that George Red Smyth a career criminal was found dead in the trunk of his car on a highway near Plainfield. Authorities say he was tortured stabbed gagged and shot twice in the head. investigators suspect he was dragged to his doom after a spree of robberies with the Tunnel Gang authorities note linked leaders have been convicted and are under indictment for related murders
Doan's Pills offer a painless way to flush kidneys when kidney disorder allows poison to remain in the blood. Backache rheumatic pain and fatigue are blamed on kidney trouble. Druggists are urged to sell Doan's, a stimulant diuretic used for over 60 years and claimed to ease backache and urinary discomfort.
Fragmentary clippings recount a Chicago mob feud with the Tunnel Gang and Smyth’s downstate moves near Streator and Peoria. The gang clashes end with Auburn killed, Smyth wounded, and police debate if the underworld eliminated him. The note also credits Pope Sylvester II with inventing the first clock in 996, though widespread use came in the 13th century.
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