17 Feb 1931
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1931
Page
1
The Star outlines 1931 city revenues and spending to improve sanitary conditions and pavement, aiming to boost all-weather access, economic support, and farmer cooperation. It notes chamber and county programs promoting practical municipal progress and broader government expenditure.
Miss Grace Abbott warns that extended low mood and malnutrition among children will cause lasting mental and physical harm. She notes the world’s wealth is useless without feeding every child, citing World War era hunger and its toll on youth in Russia Germany France and Austria as examples of how adults’ misfortunes and wars ripples reach children.
The St Louis Post Dispatch recounts Catherine the Great as a positive ruler famed for education and administration. It notes her German heritage from Stettin, her expansive empire, and personal discipline, while acknowledging marital woes blamed on Peter. The piece highlights her cultural pursuits and attempts to unify servants as a family.
In Chadni Chowk a cadre of professional letter writers sit on small carpets with paper pens and ink. Businessmen and villagers alike rely on them to draft or transcribe transactions and messages. Daily, clients return to the same writer, sharing confidential details that reveal much about city life and distant homes.
Rodney Dutcher reports Polish ambassador Tytus Filipowicz denies Ukrainian atrocity charges in eastern Galicia. Humanitarian groups led by Mary Sheepshanks and Frau Oppenheim of Austria allege widespread torture by Polish cavalry and police, with villages raided and villagers beaten. Filipowicz asserts Ukrainians are content under Polish self rule, blaming unrest on abroad terrorist activity. government claims incidents were limited and manageable.
Six candidates run for Chicago mayor in a feature full of quirky lines and social quirks. The piece notes fashion shifts like goldfish skin slippers and a crime expert remark on women in highway holdups. It sketches a world where whispers replace shouts and egos are cheap at five cents a dozen in a western city.
A. A. Reynolds, a Arkansas sportsman, killed a banded duck identified as from Gren Bay Wisconsin, banded by L. H. Barkhausen in September 1930. The Biological Survey of the Agriculture Department provided the data. Migratory birds are trapped in protected reserves and tagged to trace flight for science. Some birds have shown movement to Trinidad and Central America.
In Nanking China the Peiping house where Dr Sun Yat sen died will be preserved as a national memorial. The National Government asked Hopei province to raise funds to buy the building from Dr Wellington Koo who currently owns it. Sun Yat sen, founder of the current Central Government at Nanking, used the Koo residence as a temporary home.
Urbana reports Dr. Robert Graham of the University of Illinois College of Agriculture warns 600 veterinarians are far too few for the state. With about 33 million food producing animals and fowl, one vet would serve roughly 50 000 animals, and Illinois already pays at least 20 million dollars annually to combat animal diseases.
More than 200 unemployed men in Omaha gained work on farms thanks to Municipal Judge Geo Holmes. He began six weeks ago organizing farmers with workers who have farming experience, providing board and room with voluntary extra pay from the farmers.
Pasadena reports Dr. Albert A. Minkelson plans a mile-long light race to measure light speed. A beam will reflect in a 32-sided mirror setup, with a rotating mirror, aiming to refine the 186,244 miles per second value. The apparatus cost about $50,000, now under vacuum testing.
Mrs Luther Senn of 815 Eighth Street Columbia South Carolina writes that Black-Draught has been a family medicine for over thirty years. She says it helps her and her children with colds headaches and digestion and has saved her from suffering. The ad promotes Thedford’s Black-Draught as a vegetable laxative medicine using herbs and roots and claims long use since 1832.
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