Winter gloom and community notes in local paper
The column blends a dramatic poem excerpt about winter with parish circle reports and social notices. It lists choral club rehearsals at Miss Harriett Grace Story’s home on West 2nd Street, upcoming music club meetings, a postponed Edith Thompson Sunday School Class party, visits of Mrs. Frank Daniels from Los Angeles, and local residents traveling or ill. It also covers a marriage, B P W Club activities, Civics committee work for Hope Garden Club, and hospital arrangements for Mrs. Charles Duke in Prescott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Thompson
First Methodist Church
Frank Russell
Mary Battle
Julia Chester Hospital
Etta Champlin
Civics Improvement Committee
Hope Garden Club
Miss Battle
R. E. Cain
Yollie Reed
Geneva
Maude Lipscomb
Miss Deering
Hae-Ann Beauty Shop
British record flight completes London to Cape Town
In Cape Town, Squadron Leader Gayford and Lieutenant Nicholetts of the British Royal Air Force set a world non-stop long-distance record. They flew from England to South Africa, surpassing the 5,012 mile mark and stopping at Walfish Bay after logging about 5,300 miles, succeeding Boardman and Polando.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Town
South Africa
Gayford
Nicholetts
Royal Air Force
England
Boardman
Sluggish Feeling Gone After Cardui Help
Mrs. Herbert W. Hunt of Hallsville Texas shares how Cardui relieved her cramping and nausea after years of fatigue. She recounts a gradual improvement and urges other women to try Cardui, noting it is safe for women of all ages and sold at drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert W. Hunt
Hallsville
Texas
Cardui
Tonight Is Ours at the Saenger
Claudette Colbert and Fredric March star in Tonight Is Ours at the Saenger Thursday and Friday. An adaptation of Noel Coward’s play, the film follows a Paris fling between a royal domain, Colbert’s character and a Parisian lover. The romance features witty, turbulent moments and a dramatic climax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claudette
Colbert Fredric March
Miss Colbert
Paris
Marek
Brookwood School Raided by Vandals
The Brookwood school on East Third street was entered Tuesday night and robbed of fountain pens and pencils. A north window was pried, and a note from a tramp claimed the building was rifled for shelter. Mrs. Davis found a fountain pen and a cigarette case. others missing, no location for the rest was given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookwood
East Third Street
David Davis
P. S
E C Sherman Dies at 75 in Lewisville
E C Sherman of Lewisville , a longtime grocer born in Magnolia and later moving from Garland City to Lewisville, died of pneumonia at Josephine hospital. Burial planned in Magnolia. Survived by two sisters Mrs Arnold of Little Rock and Mrs Keliser of California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Sherman
Lewisville
Josephine Hospital
Magnolia
Mr. Sherman
Garland City
Arnold
Little Rock
Keliser
California
Gold coin hunter loses four coins in city delivery
In Salt Lake City Utah Carl W Schmidt an ice cream truck driver is described as a gold coin collector who left his coat on the truck running board during a delivery. The coat held four gold coins valued at 22.50 dollars. He forgot the coat and coins and later found them missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Utah
Carl W. Schmidt
Schmidt
Fiddle Contest Held in Rosston This Saturday
Southwest Arkansas announces its annual old fiddlers contest at Rosston on Saturday drawing old-time music lovers from across the region. Fourteen prizes will be awarded across multiple contests. All contestants enter free. registration with J. W. Holloway is due by February 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Arkansas
Rosston
South Arkansas
J. W. Holloway
Five B games set for Southwest Arkansas high schools
Starting at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, five basketball games will be played between Southwest Arkansas high schools, promising a full day of local prep action and rivalry matchups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Arkansas
Unemployed Put to Work in City Parks
Neenah Wisconsin relief program puts several score unemployed to work transplanting elm oak and maple trees from a woods ten miles from town to city parks and parkways under supervision of landscape artists and foresters. The trees were chosen for the Chicago Century of Progress exposition but that plan was abandoned. Earlier relief work included a tree trimming enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neenah
Wis
Chicago
Students urged to teach critical thinking over rote stereotypes
ST. LOUIS reports Dr. Hyman Meltzer a Washington University psychologist questioned 1 200 children across the city finding excessive emphasis on what to think rather than how to think in schools and textbooks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Hyman Meltzer
Washington University
Unclear county acreage project in 1933 crops noted
In 1933 the county is expected to plant tomatoes cucumbers and strawberries on available acreage. The brief fragment suggests a planned agricultural shift or expansion but lacks specifics on location scale or outcomes.
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Sir Henry Lalahla
Duval Purkins
Major
Edward Woodford
City
W. S. Purkins
East Cond Street
R. M. LaGrone
North Hervey Street
E. Padgitt
Schumann
Brahms
Clarence Baker
Frank Daniels
Los Ngeles
Calif
R. L. Gosnell
Nashile
Circle No
Womans Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church
Ralph Routon
North Pine Street
Holcomb
Alice McMath
O. A. Graves
Scarritt College
Col
Henry Hitt
Bessie D. Green
Virginia O'Neal
William Routon
Mamie Briant
Virginia O’neal
Annie Jacks
C. F. Erwin
West Sixth Street
W. E. Testerman
First Christian Church
Erwin
Heber Springs
W. E. Bruner & Sons, Inc
John P. Cox
William Reaves, Jr
Charles Duke
Cora Donnell Hospital
Duke
Miss Walters
Spencer Tracy
Sing Sing
Claudette Colbert
Kingsway Hotel and Bath House
Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas
Hot Springs
Kingsway
Kingsway Hotel
Bruce E. Wallace
Fredric March
Brookwood School
Tramp
Hope Boys
Grocer
Hope
U.S
EL Paso
Jack Guinn
Gavin
Boots
Watch Boots
Hope Star
Phoenix
Phoenix Desert
Fiesta Pueblo
Roy Anderson & Co
Geo
Jerico
Yale
W. Robison & Co
Prescott Nashville
Bert Acrengi
Elson-Hucking
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