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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1935
Page
4
A garbled collection of social updates, wedding chatter, church notices, guest arrivals, and local personalities. Readers are named alongside families visiting Ashdown, Little Rock, and nearby towns. event dates include August and September, with references to weddings and hosting duties.
Becky Sharp starring Mirian Hopkins plays Thackeray’s famed social climber Becky Sharp. The character’s hunger for social rank and wealth drives a ruthless ascent through London society, as she manipulates both men and women to rise while scandal shadows her path.
The excerpt notes a character with no income who nonetheless dives into a blazing moment, and highlights a Savenger showing of Bucky Sharp on Sunday Monday and Tuesday, suggesting a promotional run or film screening at the Saenger theater with emphasis on dramatic display and sparking glory.
The text lists various church activities including Sunday school at 9:45 a m and morning worship at 11 a m led by Pastor T Douglas and Rev Horace Honen. Evening services and mid week prayers are scheduled, with revival meetings announced at Evening Shade Church and Our Lady of Good Hope parish detailing mass, catechetical lessons, and benediction.
The Alaska airplane crash that killed Will Rogers and Wiley Post triggered immediate effects in Hollywood with delays in releasing two Rogers starring pictures valued around $1,000,000. Fred Stone mourns the loss as a national calamity, while 20th Century Fox weighs postponement and bans on aircraft use in productions.
Reports from Burbank California indicate the aircraft that killed Will Rogers and Wiley Post was assembled from second-hand parts and flew under a restricted government license. The construction took place at the plant where the ship was assembled under Post's supervision.
Nashville coach Lester Bradley announces the 1995 football schedule with seven home games and four on foreign fields. The season opens September 20 and lists games against Dierks Russellville Camden Idabel DeQueen Hope Texarkana Horatio Malvern Searcy and Prescott, with Thanksgiving date noted.
In Portland Rogers muses on fame and death during a two week-ago visit. Interviewers press him about writing a book, but he replies with a joke about not being dead yet. The piece also notes California's post January 1 1936 safety glass mandate for all new cars and Kansas Kaw Valley potato yields near 1 000 car loads.
About 9,900 persons over seven years old are on relief rolls across 63 Missouri counties this year. The figure reflects persistent poverty levels and ongoing aid distribution managed by local agencies.
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