06 Jan 1939
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1939
Page
1
A Texas youth at a suburban gas station reportedly impressed Samuel Goldwyn with his charm and uniform shine. Goldwyn visited and offered a contract after the encounter, inspiring discouraged young men to pursue grooming and presentation as a path to opportunity.
The essay notes Harry Hopkins, newly named Secretary, plans a countrywide effort to place millions of unemployed back to work, following his WPA leadership. It contrasts public skepticism with Hopkins’ bold approach and cites past friction with private enterprise.
Charles Cope of Elizabethtown Pa suffered two compound fractures in an arm when his car Pon sudden stop while he was cranking it en route to Harrisburg hospital The jerking motion caused the injuries highlighting risks amid rapid mechanization.
A New York physician reports eight women totaling 3956 pounds reduced to 15646 pounds in 0 months, led by a 32 year old who shed weight from nearly 400 pounds to 156 pounds. She followed a 600 calorie daily diet and thyroid-boosting treatment with gains and improved health. A 129 year old highway marker near Salisbury, NC notes Danville, VA is 81 miles north.
The page shows a hybrid of a baseball themed crossword with horizontal and vertical clues listing many terms. Entries include Baseball terms, common nouns, and descriptive hints, culminating in a filled grid referenced by numbers 1 to 61 for across and down.
A series of five quiz statements tests pastry mold authors camel digestion time order and geography. It notes timbale as a pastry mold and marks Alice in Wonderland as by Lewis Carroll while labeling ananachronistic as time confusion and Welland Canal as Canadian, with a Michigan State basketball practice drill described in Demonstration Mall.
A brisk study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her famed Jamaican Barrett ancestors, tracing wealth, intermarriage, and social isolation. The author argues Edward Barrett’s tyranny stemmed from money trouble and religious fanaticism, framing a broad clan portrait through the Jamaican origins of the house.
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