Arkansas audit of highway expenditures eyed as probe begins
Citizens anticipate a forthcoming audit of highway spending as the Audit Commission, led by Chancellor Futrell, prepares to hire investigators. The effort aims to trace 6 million dollars in road program costs since Arkansas launched the project, urging transparency and accountability while politicians debate details and scope.
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Cen
Arkansas
Friends of Good High
Futrell
Audit Commission
Harry Lemley
Gkits
Pension burdens in Tennessee and Arkansas reveal heavy costs
Arkansas auditor distributes July warrants to 4 710 Confederate pensioners totaling about 235 000 while Tennessee faces a 110 000 monthly pension outlay. Arkansas budget shows pensions plus interest on bonds exceed 9 million, with sinking funds depleted and deficits looming as bonds must be redeemed.
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Tennessee Treasury
State Auditor of
Arkansas
Tennessee
Comptrellr Reed
Arkanses Gazette
Roche praises high wages for Colorado coal miners
Miss Josephine Roche promotes high wages and union cooperation at Colorado Fuel & Iron Co and Rocky Mountain Fuel Co as fixes for wage cuts. She cites rising miner productivity, no strikes, and loyal labor relations, arguing fair labor policy benefits production amid price wars and industry greed.
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Rodney Dutcher
Wwashington
Josephine
Roche
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Colorado
Rockefeller
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co
Miles Roche
Rocky Mountain Fuel Co
Misa Roche
Miss Roche
soFvor
Vascar
Denver
Ben Lindsay
Rocky Mountain
Migs Roche
News Of Other Days Highlights From Hope Column
The Blur of Hope notes Mr and Mrs D M Finley left yesterday for Hot Springs. John Doty, once a Hope resident now in Texarkana, greeted old friends. Col A G Lowry and Dr J W Sykes fished at Guernsey Lake. J M Hyatt of Ozan visited Saturday. TEN YEARS AGO George Hinton Jr won Baby Show prize at New Grand Theatre. Adel Adrienne LaRue second prize. Road work began on the Blevias McCaskill route through Ozani bottoms. John Hatley of Hope Hardware was mentioned.
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John Doty
Hope
Texarkana
George Hinton, Jr
New Grand Theatre
Adel Adrienne LaRue
Hope-Washington-Columbus Road Meet In Hope This Afternoon
Commissioners for the Hope Washington Columbus road will meet in Hope this afternoon to discuss phases of the work under way. Interest in the Hempstead County Fair in Hope this October grows daily.
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Hope-Washington-Columbus
Hope
Hempstead County Fair
Grasshopper Season Hype Spreads Across Nebraska and North Dakota
The note suggests grasshoppers in Nebraska and North Dakota enjoy a sunny spell, with activity described in casual local chatter. The snippet hints at seasonal abundance and a lighthearted mood among observers in the two states.
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Nebraska
North Dakota
Hoover Roosevelt Race Seen by Republican Leader
Dallas Texas Republican National Committeeman B Creager predicts Hoover will be re elected in 1932 and sees Franklin D Roosevelt of New York as the Democratic nominee The forecast calls for a Hoover Roosevelt contest described as a walkover if the prevailing mood does not worsen.
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Dallas
Texas
B. Creager
Republican National
Hoover
Creager
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Roosevelt
New Jersey Senator Wounded in New York City Apartment
Roy Yates, a New Jersey state senator from Passaic County, was seriously wounded by a gunfire incident Friday in an apartment at 201 West 89th Street in New York City. He suffered a bullet wound to the abdomen and was hospitalized for treatment.
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New York
Roy Yates
New Jersey
Passaic County
West 89Th Street
Unclear fragmentary report involving Senator Yates
Fragmentary text mentions Senator Yates with a quoted exchange and references to a marriage and three daughters Olive, 15, Hisle 1%, and Ruth 1, leaving the rest unreadable. The passage lacks coherent events or context.
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Yates
Olive
Hisle
Ruth
Two Die in Warehouse Fire at Greenville Miss
In Greenville Mississippi a warehouse used as a U S government supply depot burned early Sunday. Flames destroyed the frame building as two government employees and a night watchman died. George Rigney Jr aged 35 of Greenville and Alex William 60 a Black man were the deceased. The blaze caused extensive damage estimated at about 150000 dollars.
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Greenville, Miss
Greenville
Miss
Oriain
United States
Central Area Jevee
Ernest’ Lewyrata
Ings
George Rigney Jr
Alex "William
Death notices and bootlegging lore in Chronicle feature
The Chronicle recounts deaths including Garland and Capt. M. Kitchens of Guernsey and reflects on early bootlegging terminology traced to Chapel Hill. It notes 19th century liquor laws, discusses Judge A. H. Carrigan’s memory of bootlegger origins, and lists local advertisers from the era such as S. L. Bracy Arthur A. Gibson & Son George W. Houston Martin & Co and others on Elm Street.
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5. M. Kitchens
Guernsey
Chronicle
Judge Carrigan
Chapel Hill University
North Carolina
S. L. Bracy
Arthur A. Gibson
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J. M. Hyatt
Ozan
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Ozani Bottoms
John Hatley
The
Hope Hardware
Little Rock
Eee
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India
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Knisi
Pine Way
Mey Hanne
Ossie
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Southwestern Bell
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