House Passes Bill to Double State Tax Upon Liquor
LITTLE ROCK A%- The house passed Thursday a bill to double the gallonage taxes on hard liquors for the old-age pension fund. The senate approved 26 to 0. Emergency clause adopted 69 to IL. A joint resolution to amend the constitution in 1938 to enable a workmen's compensation law was adopted 1, 69 to 7. Senate rejected a license-change measure to shift license paying date to April 1.
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Little Rock
House
Moore
Deshna
Mikel
Sebastian
General Assembly
Senate
Shaw
Gathings
West Memphis
Smalley
Crawford
Purviance
Union County
Martin
Fl Dorado
Barney
Texarkana
Arkansas Ol Dealers Alsogiation
Arkin
Carnival Friday at Hope High School
Hope High School hosts its annual carnival hosted by the student council on Friday night at 7 30. Varied concessions fill the home rooms and clubs with an amateur contest finale in the main auditorium. First prize is 3 dollars with two additional cash prizes. An employee of the U S Bureau of Mounted Industry developed a hybrid potato with a fl avor and allergy free features.
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Hope High School
A THOUGHT When said he wote them Nae Hion shall rise
A reflection cites a biblical verse from Luke 21 10 about nations discord and kingdoms in conflict, noting a prophetic warning of upheaval. The phrase echoes apocalyptic language and emphasizes upheaval among world powers.
New Conference on Strike Is Called
DETROIT, Mich. Governor Murphy resumes efforts to resolve the General Motors strike by summoning a conference with representatives of the corporation, the United Automobile Workers, and the Committee for Industrial Organization. Police guard the conference chambers as talks seek a truce period for final settlement negotiations.
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Detroit
Mich
Frank Murphy
General Motors
Corporation
United Automobile Work Union
Committee For Industrial Organization
Murphy
Soil Conservation Withstands Rain on Farm Projects
Field inspections on farms part of the Bodean Creek Soil Conservation Service project show existing work withstood January rainfall of 1.25 inches the highest for the month since 1841. Rain totals exceeded long-term averages, with December moisture at 6.45 inches and erosion-control features stable though limited maintenance is needed on terraces and channels. Nearby, Lindsey Bary on a Manchester farm maintains a small animal menagerie including Canadian bears buffalo and llamas for fun.
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Bodean Creek
Soil Conservation Service
Manchester
Lindsey Bary
Hempstead County Flood Relief Fund Nears $2000 Goal
Hempstead county Red Cross flood relief fund rose by donations from Washington Columbus Ozan Bingen and Fulton to reach $1,625.05 with Nevada county up to noon totaling $1,025.54. J B Thompson, chapter chairman, expects the total to climb to $2,000 before the campaign ends, noting Washington’s report was largest and added $860.05.
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Washington
Columbus
Ozan
Bingen
Fulton
Hempstead County
Red Cross
Nevada County
Prescott
J. B. Thompson
Hope Schools in Retrenchment for Second Semester
Hope School Board trimmed plans for the second semester to eight months for white schools through sixth grade and seven months for negro schools. The action aligns expenses with revised revenues, noting salaries at 70 percent of 1929-30 and eight fewer teaching positions amid a 25 percent rise in enrollment.
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Hope School
Hope
Quarter Million Fire Destroys Cincinnati Furniture Factory
A major blaze in Cincinnati early Thursday damaged the Stille and Duhlmeier furniture factory and retail rooms and the Art Wood Turning and Scroll Co plant. Officials estimate losses between 250000 and 300000 dollars as flames threatened a large part of the west end.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
West End
Stille & Duhlmeier
Art Wood Turning & Scroll Co
Centennial of Self-Cleaning Plow Observed in Historic Effort
The centennial of the self cleaning steel plow is marked as frontier settlers in 1827 faced soil cling. Blacksmith John Deere at Grand Detour Illinois in 1836 fashioned a plow from broken steel saw, creating a moldboard and share. Demonstrations drew crowds as the plow cut clean furrows proving self cleaning steel design. Deere's workshop launched the enterprise later moving to Moline now led by Charles Beers Wiman.
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Moline
Til
John Deere
Grand Detour
Ill
Vermont
Deere
Hoek
Lewis Crandall
Crandall
A&a
Pass Juni
Charles Beers Wiman
Uie
All-Time Monthly Rain Record From July 1849 Revealed
Disjointed weather history notes describe Hempstead county Arkansas records. The report cites July 1849 with 19.50 inches of rainfall as an all-time single-month record, and outlines early Arkansas weather data starting in 1803 with Smithsonian correspondence.
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Rey Nn
Hempstead
Arkansas
Washington
N. D. Smith
Hope Star
Smithsonian
Ark
Joseph Henry
Smithsonian Institution
Bear Six
Weather record keepers in Hempstead county history
Official records from 1840 to 1936 trace weather reporting in Hempstead county from Dr. Smith in Washington to Judge Carrigan in Hope and N P O Neal, with the Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station taking over in 1936. The piece notes each observer kept 20 plus years of data and stresses rainfall and temperatures.
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G. W. Ware
Print
Mark Twain
Hempstead County
Uwanthan
Hempstead
Turned Brown By Brown Turner
KNOXVILLE Tenn the Russians keep on shooting those who don’t like the way the country’s being run. They’ll run out of inside enemies and jump on Japan to keep their trigger fingers in practice. The Japs resent not having room for their population and could solve the problem by selling automobiles for a ride and a little now.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Japan
Mayor of Spa Unlikely to Quit in Hot Springs
Hot Springs Ark. mayor Leo McLaughlin dismissed a report that citizens would seek his resignation. He said he stayed in his office from 7 a.m. to noon with no delegation appearing, while business leaders voiced broad support for his administration.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Leo McLaughlin
Fascists Thrust Against Malaga
Fascists launched a combined land sea and air attack on Malaga a fortified port city on the Mediterranean as Gibraltar reports heavy bombardment and intensified fighting near the city defenses.
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Malaga
Gibraltar
Spain
Medterranean
Self Prophesy Delayed Death For 1935 Funeral Kept
Birchwood Tennessee 79 year old John Burdette long promised to die September 20 1935. He now claims a new vision foretold life until 140 and that a celestial voice in 1895 promised he would live 40 more years. Burdette had planned his own funeral 16 years ago and remains alive though frail.
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Birchwood
Tenn
John Burdette
Burdette
Beleaguered City Safe as Ohio Falls in Flood Fight
Cairo braces as the Ohio river dips two tents of a foot aiding flood defenses. Levees hold under 58 feet at Helena and 59.59 feet at Cairo gauge. 120000 workers reinforce the billion dollar system while Memphis and Helena report rising waters and ongoing seepage and sand boils remain a concern.
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Cairo. M
Ohio
Cairo
Bird’s Point
New Madrid
Helena
Little Rock
Arkansas
Mississippi
U.S. Army
Red Cross
Soe
Sippi
New Orleans
Eugene Reybold
United States
Paducah
Hickman
Reybold
Memphis
Gulf of Mexico
Relbold
Rena Lars
Miss
Reybuld
Minor City Fire Alarms Report Week Three
The Hope Fire Department answered three alarms this week. Two involved soot burning in chimneys and no damage was reported. A third occurred at an East Seventh Street residence. One alarm occurred Monday and another Tuesday.
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Hope Fire Department
East Seventh
Cotton opens steady and closes lower in New Orleans
In New Orleans, cotton for March delivery opened at 12.76 and closed at 12.70. The market finished steady to four points lower with middling prices around 130.
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New Orleans
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G. M
Iwifred“F. Sloan, Jr
Broadway
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Michigan
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W. E. Elmore
Tl, Pilkinton
Wn Robertson
Luther Smith
Job. Stuart
Aeth Horton
T. B. Haworth
A D. Barrow
A. P. Bailey
Elba Golst
Co Parsons
Co. C. Stuar
W. V. Frasier
Eugene Pinugar
Pat R W
Ralfall
Dowsbateau
Nathan Douglas Smith
Smith
Brown Turner
McLaughlin
Mediterranean Port
Crest
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