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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1933
Page
2
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The Star presents a municipal platform advocating use of power plant revenues for industrial and social development, pavement and sanitation upgrades, and backing the Chamber of Commerce. It supports a county all weather road program, state highway progress, tax reform, and a budget driven government.
In Pacific naval maneuvers the value of drill is shown as ships practice forming new lines and acting as a unit. The Jutland example demonstrates how disciplined movement saves fleets by enabling rapid changes in formation under pressure.
The Lamp article from the Oil Company of New Jersey discusses the price of war, noting a $200 billion capital loss and millions of lives, and argues that postwar adjustment will occur through economic correction and prudent handling to lessen severities, urging caution against entering another war.
Thirteen Chicago men form the Anti Superstition Society to flaunt old taboos in January. They plan ladders, black cats, and one match lighting with a Friday 13 banquet. The piece notes superstition resists reason and that truly superstitious people remain unmoved.
Clarence Darrow questions preachers moral vocabulary while Upton Sinclair critiques socialist alignment with technocracy over two generations. The quotes frame a tension between ethics and modern systems in early 20th century discourse.
Gus Irvine and Bob Briant were in town. The Union Hardware Co. organized with A A Gibson as president J H Weaver as vice president S A Scott as secretary treasurer and C S Lowthorp and Dr J R Autrey on the board. Authorized capital stock 50000. Attendance at local events noted along with visits and farewells among residents.
Miss Lynda Lambeth will entertain this evening the following girls with a banking party: Misses Frances Sullivan, Frances Arnold, Lucille Briant, Mary Haynes, Helen Secrest, Kathleen Daniel, Snow McLarty and Anna Norton. Mrs. J. L. Myers and son Jim have returned from Montgomery, Mo., where they spent the holidays.
Henry’s Chapel resident Howard Fincher Jr returned home Saturday after Christmas with his uncle R. M. Fincher. Mr and Mrs John Bill Jordon visited Mr and Mrs Fletcher Easterling and children near Patmos last week. Mr and Mrs Arlis Ellis and their Bluff Springs children spent Sunday with their parents Mr and Mrs Andy.
Residents enjoy recent fine weather and look ahead to a better year in 1933. Delma Wright visited his brother Harvey Wright and family in Rocky Mound. A local gathering occurred at Misses home with several attendees from the area.
Political notices list the accritic primary election details for City of Hope with names for Treasurer and Alderman candidates. It also notes social visits among local residents and extended family gatherings over the weekend. Specific names include Dwight Ridgdill Raymond F Jones J W Harper Claude M Agee Chas E Taylor W A Lewis Jewel Galloway Vv C Hanson Rothwell and others.
A short, garbled dialogue shows a child named Johnny being taunted about his dirty face by an auntie figure. The phrase ends with a jumbled question about what he thinks.
A review of Frederick Van Wyck's Recollections of An Old New Yorker notes its portrait of pre autos life among New York's wealthy. The author describes sleigh races and country retreats as representative of a vanished era, though the book is rambling. published by Liveright at four dollars.
Washington letter shares bright Christmas greetings and hopeful wishes for a prosperous new year in 1933. Rev. Troy Wheeler filled his regular duties and community notices conclude the excerpt.
A quick quip exchanges a mother’s imagined response to a boy’s language. The boy retorts his mother would say thanks because she is stone deaf, delivered in a playful, old time newspaper style.
Sheila Shayne an 18 year old dancer from vaudeville stock travels with her late parents and boards at Maloweells rooming house. She rehearses at Joe Paris office for Daisy Gleason and catches the eye of wealthy men Trevor Lane and Dick Stanley at a party.
In a bustling club scene Trevor courts the entertainer Sheila Shayne while the Melody Boys plan a late return. Dick, Joe Paris, and Lane discuss acts and dates as tensions rise over a hopeful connection and the mystery of a new dancer.
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