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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1932
Page
3
Christmas mood pervades as rich and poor gaze in shop windows and children ask Santa for delightful behavior. Visitors arrive for holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Ward and Mary Margaret, joined by Virginia Berry and the Falcon faculty, plus J. J. Ward’s Christmas guest S. E. Key.
A dated instruction urges women to wear cheerful pinstriped calico pinafores. It details cutting from one yard of red or sunny yellow calico, with slanted top and full-length bottom, neck and waist ties from remaining fabric, and optional patch pocket.
City residents arrived Monday to spend the holidays with relatives in Little Rock Dallas and Decatur Texas. Notables include Elizabeth Green Fayetteville visiting her parents Geo and Mrs Green and Miss Etherine Briant Tyler College returning home for Christmas. Dr E S Richards recovering from a major Nashville operation will return home with Mrs Richards Monday night. A violin and piano recital by Mrs Campbell's students is Tuesday at First Baptist church at 7 15.
The article explains Technocracy as a movement measuring industrial progress by energy units rather than price or money value. Scott argues that machine energy and work hours reveal production truth, predicting energy as the standard to gauge growth, and foresees a future limited by resource depletion and robotic labor.
The piece describes a socialist ally of labor opposing the pampas landowners, whose estates dominate Argentina’s wealth. Public opinion blamed Yrigoyen’s foreign policies for hurting credit and trade. he was seized and jailed, with Monday’s action tightening guards around his exile on Martin Garcia Island.
The U S Department of Agriculture reports the cotton market December 10 to 16 was fairly active with Dec 16 quotations about 15 points higher. Spot activity remained light as weather curtailed picking. domestic consumption rose to 504000 bales in November, season total 1900000 bales, up 7 percent from last season and 18 percent from 1930-31. Exports to December 16 reached about 3700000 bales.
One trial case was heard in municipal court Monday on the regular docket. In the state case Howard Nichols, a 19 year old white youth, waived pre trial proceedings.
Preliminary hearing on burglary and grand larceny sent Nichols to Hempstead grand jury after he allegedly stole 25 dollars in merchandise from T. M. Ward Mercantile in Patmos on December 13. Bond set at 250 dollars. Deputy J. H. Walton arrested him. Three negroes faced court over weekend with L. Stewart and Ed Leek pleading guilty to chicken theft for 10 dollars fines plus costs. Ed Collins fined 5 dollars and costs for simple assault on a negro woman.
Jack Montgomery of Friendship near Arkadelphia received medical aid from Dr. J. T. McLane and Dr. W. D. Kirby in Gurdon after a weather delay. The four men were fed and housed Sunday night and resumed their journey Monday morning.
A dialogue shows Doris and her mother discussing Martin’s affection. The daughter notes the way he looks at her when she is not watching, implying his love without verbal confession.
A log house fire near Athens killed Mr and Mrs Matthews and two young children who were overcome by smoke while trying to escape. The blaze occurred Monday at the dwelling, with neighbors and authorities responding to the tragedy.
Jim Conway a negro grocer employee was hospitalized at Julia Chester with a fractured skull after an alleged altercation with a white man near Fulton Sunday afternoon. Conway could not give a clear account beyond a mistaken identity claim. No arrest reported.
Rumors that a man was frozen to death after being taken from a northbound freight at Gurdon, and that another man was in serious condition, were denied by C. T. Key publisher of the Gurdon Times. He stated by phone that four men rode the northbound freight.
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