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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1931
Page
2
In a sunlit Oregon town two young women Mary Frances and Ermintrude walk toward a service station then a shop window full of treats as a moral debate unfolds about love, ambition, and a possible career. Mary Frances seeks bold romance while Ermintrude fears danger and clings to caution amid looming life choices.
Senator Connally of Texas said the Treasury plans efforts to improve the municipal bond market. He quoted an under secretary and released a New York Federal Reserve Bank deputy report describing the market as in a more or less demoralized condition.
Marked Tree Arkansas reports Farmers and Merchants Bank and Trust Company, the town's only bank, failed to open on Thursday. The brief item notes the bank's closure amid unclear circumstances and mentions Massachusetts as a leading boot and shoe producer, alongside Cuban cane harvester developments.
Delta Missouri report says Imogene Hector a 17-year-old high school girl who disappeared last Thursday faded from search Monday as relatives in Stuttgart Arkansas said they had not seen her. It was noted she might have gone there where she visited last summer.
Gertrude Helkes and William Sanders, praised as the healthiest boy and girl at a national 4 H club contest in Chicago, credit diet: milk apples cabbage and vegetables. They live on farms, sleep with windows open, and stay active with early bedtimes and three square meals daily, achieving record high scores of 99.9 and 99.1 percent. Miss Helkes hails from Dakota County Nebraska, while Sanders is from Johnson County Indiana.
A collection of handwritten child wish lists from Arkansas inquiring Santa for dolls toys trains guns gloves candy nuts fruit and other gifts. Notes mention several towns and schools including Rocky Mound Hope Spring Hill Bearden Cato Patmos and Wabbaseka with references to teachers and guardians. The fragment ends noting Tyrian purple dye sourced from Mediterranean sea snails.
A Camden report notes a Stein youth, home from military service, with ties to family including J. B. McLaughlin. McLaughlin recently graduated from the University of Missouri and held a position in the context of unprofitable operations during the postwar period.
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