24 Aug 1937
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1937
Page
1
The article traces decades of depressed cotton prices and farm aid cycles from 1926 to 1987, noting prices around 10 to 11 cents per pound despite bumper crops, labor shortages, strict immigration limits, and relief cuts. It highlights forebodings of delay, weather risks, and growing hardship for southern cotton farmers.
Records from January to July show 24 strikers and sympathizers killed and 490 injured. The piece notes 1937 may be remembered as the year of the last great strikes due to rising costs and halted wages, stressing the broad impact on wages, purchasing power, relief roles, and the public.
A series on allergic diseases shows 10 to 15 percent react to common foods such as milk eggs cereals and even honey or cotton seed oil. A case of a weeks old baby with swelling traced to the mother's diet revealed navy beans as the trigger. removing beans and corn from the mother’s meals resolved the swelling within 26 hours.
Baden Germany JP Christel Crunz world ski champion and last Winter Olympics heroine has passed her B test as a glider pilot. The celebratory scene included noisy cheers from tin canisters gasoline cans and drums with lively voices, a victory flag of gunny sack, hastily picked field flowers, and a B crafted of evergreen.
Olive Roberts Barton notes shifts in girls camp life as Nellie and others join tennis, rowing, paddling, and ball games with boys. Older women fear disruption to gender roles while praising bold activity and equal play among youths.
In a lavish masked party, Duchess Elizabeth loses her emerald during a grand costume parade. Detective Bracey and Bob mitigate the crowd as a pirate fights to flee, suspicion falling on Bracey though Kathleen defends him. The scene ends with the Pharaoh clutching a plaster idol and a dramatic chase.
In this excerpt the tomboy is described as a lively girl who dislikes strict femininity yet remains not sexless or rough. It argues tomboys learn about male perspectives through rough play and independence, shaping future wives who understand men without losing femininity.
Lyle Saxon spent years in Louisiana writing about a mixed caste of slave owning landholders in New Orleans and rural parishes. The Civil War upended wealth and status, but these families clung to land and tradition amid upheaval described in this study of southern society.
In a fragmented NBC style feature the piece surveys actors and scientists like Siegfried Rumann, a German biologist and actor, noted for microphotography and genetics work at Cal Tech, with details of his lab, art, and film career, plus a stray aside on life at the House of Commons kitchen social habit.
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