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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1940
Page
2
Unable to extract a clear event details sequence from the fragment. The text hints at a baseball or cricket style score with hits and innings but lacks identifiable teams, location, or outcomes.
Davis Bureau of Ani... Oliver L Adams, veterinary office in Hempstead county, warns farmers that excessive calls for hog cholera control strain resources. He urges action with quality virus to protect pigs for life and maintain best hogs.
The county agricultural committee promotes bur clover seed plots with seed and barnyard manure mixed for soil building. The 1941 AAA program draft in Washington extends grants, increasing areas and practices while keeping the minimum payment and tree planting allowance under review. J. L. Wright, Arkansas AAA head, has been in Washington assisting regional officials.
Hollywood chatter centers on double bills and mixed Gallup data estimating weekly U. S. movie tickets. Judy Garland and George Murphy shift to mature roles in Little Nelly Kelly while Orson Welles works on Citizen Kane. The piece cites actor patriotism rumors, Greene enlistment facts, and industry skepticism toward inflated attendance claims.
Friday results show Birmingham 3-4, Little Rock 2-15, Atlanta 15, Nashville 13, Memphis 3-3, New Orleans IL-1, Knoxville 8, Chattanooga 3. Saturday schedule lists Boston at Cincinnati and Brooklyn at Chicago with other matchups noted. Team records include Cleveland 48 597, Detroit 6 742, New York 62 53, Boston 63 54, Chicago 50 55, Washington 51 65 440, St. Louis 49 1 0B, Philadelphia 46 69 400. Detroit replaces opponents on wet grounds with Chicago at Washington and Detroit at Boston.
List of names including Miss Jackson T A McCord Garmen Frank Nardine Chic Sales B L Kauffman and others shot at 25 W L Davis 25 Cc OW Wilson Ray Cumbie Louie Wilson W L Walters C V Nunn Carroll Nardine Hugh Clark Monty Kaufman Bill Summerville Jack Kaufman with numbers 19 12 12.
Roanoke Virginia report states lean tos and cabins will line the 2000 mile Appalachian Trail from Katahdin Maine to Fort Oglethorpe Ga with shelters spaced about a days walk apart. Myron H Avery of New York leads the Appalachian Trail Conference which plans metal signs to replace damaged wooden markers and to create a European style shelter network amid cooperation of about 30 groups totaling 10000 members.
A New York City sight features a $2000 pair of sun glasses set with diamonds around the rims and two carat square cut diamonds at the center. A California scientist notes flames leap from the sun surface at 20,000 miles per minute and can reach 500,000 miles high.
A studio rejects a writer's screenplay as unfit for filming and a new picture is fast tracked. Don Ameche leads Western Union though it won’t depict telegraph invention. Burgess Meredith, once slated for Broadway, now headlines Second Chorus with Fred Astaire, both unable to play the trumpet. A new Dietrich film is planned within a year as Marlene Dietrich's daughter Maria pursues thematic lessons and acting.
A Baltimore umbrella manufacturer laments shrinking demand as fashion shifts and wartime impacts vanish. The piece notes a broader economic shift from traditional goods to automobiles telephones and transportation, with women’s changing roles amid caution about dangerous cassava bread imports from Venezuela. It mentions Neville Chamberlain and appeasement in a reflective aside.
Wild hemp described as a public enemy causing hay fever distress and used in making marijuana cigarettes. A historical note recalls 17th century French etiquette allowing men to keep hats on at table until toasting ended.
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