17 Dec 1931
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1931
Page
1
Fragment of a newspaper notice showing pricing for city carrier and mail subscriptions. The text mentions annual rates and distribution terms, reflecting historical publication practices and policy disclaimers from a 19th or early 20th century local paper. Names and precise figures are partially garbled.
Incomplete text references the Star's platform on municipal power plant development, a 2031 powerholding goal, improved backyard conditions, and a Chamber of Commerce note. It mentions a County Highway program to build roads annually and reduce economic support, with Hempstead County benefits from cooperative statewide efforts for better rural and urban governance.
Hoover asks Congress for saddlaon federal appropriations for year. Critics slam Hempstead county for do-nothing government and rising salaries while public roads and farm programs suffer. County agents’ funding cut, Southwest Arkansas Fair losses blamed on lack of field workers as farm prosperity wanes.
The Edgar Thomson mills in Braddock Pa. have rehired 6000 workers for Christmas though no new orders. The plan costs the company over 660000 dollars, but the workers will not face the holiday empty handed. It is a bold gamble with potential long term benefit for the firm.
Joe E Brown stars in Local Boy Makes Good at Saenger Theatre opening Sunday. The film shows Brown as timid clerk and botany student who falls for Julia Winters while plotting athletic bravado, with Julia’s arrival and Spike Hoyt testing his nerve. A bookstore clerk Marjorie Blake pushes him toward competition, leading to comic mishaps, a surprising victory, and a romantic turn.
A long list of children from Washington and nearby communities write Santa with requests for dolls, dolls beds, bicycles, candy, nuts, fruits, apples, oranges, gloves, coats, boots, dresses, pianos, toys, and firecrackers. Many mention their teachers, especially Mrs Holt, Miss Allen, Miss Roxie Watkins, and Miss Mary Leslie, and ask Santa to remember siblings, mothers, fathers, and other children.
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