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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1930
Page
3
ERWIS VIII of Newport, a sister of Mrs. N J, returned to her home in Hot Springs on Monday after being away. The report notes she left Lewisville and had been in Alabama before returning to Hot Springs.
In Washington a conference will map relief measures for drought afflicted regions. Attending are President Hoover and two farm leaders pictured: S. H. Thompson, head of the American Farm Bureau Federation, and Louis J. Taber, leader of the National Grange.
A Williams strip narrative shows workers and soldiers facing hard times and discharges. The scene critiques the era’s draft and enlistment pressures as characters reflect on their fate and the toll of unemployment.
The adobe house where Henry Wickenburg wed 50 years ago will become a curio of the western ranch fate. It stands part of the Rar FX ranch. Wickenburg, noted as discoverer of the Vulture gold mine, a Civil War veteran, is referenced in this local item.
Beekeepers of Illinois urged to induce their wives to enter honeys and honey sweetened culinary products for premiums offered. Petersburg, Aug. UP Mibois State Patr. Springfield, TH. Aug. 15, 1yp. contest with Springfield and Petersburg noted in fragmentary activism.
Aug. 15. Clark tide George Walls opens the first meeting of the community to form a county aid group for the drouth region. Gordon Okolona Gray Arkadelphia and others attend as the Chamber of Commerce day at 2 p.m. to address farm hardships and unemployment.
Arthur C. Powell of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, has suffered a string of misfortunes this year. A May storm blew one of his barns off its foundation, followed by June wind that removed two more barns. A recent fire destroyed three farm buildings, and a car collision en route to report the fires added another setback.
Michael J. Toohey retired on pension after 35 years operating a Baltimore & Ohio switch engine in Washington yards with no accidents. He began his railroad career August 8, 1889, starting in the shops of the old O. & M. railroad at Vincennes.
James Brown fished from a bank using two lines one baited with a minnow the other bare except for a hook. He claims he prayed over the hook and soon felt a strong tug on the minnows line pulling in two thirteen inch trout observed by a game warden who netted them and verified the tale.
James Bath of Bangor Maine felt no pain as a fast moving passenger train severed his leg while he lay on the tracks near Fremont Ohio. The injury left Bath with a wooden leg.
ST LOUIS August 15 UP Record high water on the Mississippi due to drought uncovered part of the old levee and a spring bubbling through the stone paving. Levee hands have used the spring for drinking purposes.
Farmers in Valley county may be relieved after discovery of 38 barberry bushes and over 5000 seedlings near James Petska’s farm. Wild bushes appeared in fence corners and along section lines, with spread noted for several miles, linked to rust issues that have hampered wheat production.
In Valdosta Georgia farmers faced boil weevil damage to cotton and turned to tobacco. By 194? the Georgia tobacco crop became a prized commodity with growers earning about 16 million dollars from sales this season.
A large white owl was found asleep on a window ledge on the thirteenth floor of the Central National Bank building in downtown St. Louis. Stenographers arriving at work saw the bird and it fluttered away toward the city.
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