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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1939
Page
5
The Bay View Reading Club studied the Trail of Tears and Great Southwest Trail with Dr Etta Champlin and Mrs Carrigan leading. D.A.R. chapter notes cover upcoming Hot Springs convention, new officers, doll collection talk, and local social broadcasts in Nashville.
Mrs. Howard described the vogue for using dolls as fashion models and displayed German and French dolls, English costumed dolls, Mayflower pilgrim dolls, and the poignant Dixie Bride. She compared the subject to a vast book spanning 4000 years of dolls and their uses, earning a rising vote of thanks and plans for the February meeting hosted by Mrs. Black, Mrs. Johnson, and Miss Carrigan.
A displaced renter laments repeated removals and dwindling resources. He and his family sold chickens and a milk cow, left behind land for a garden, and now scrounge a living on the road. He criticizes the system for making it impossible to feed a family on six bits a day. He recalls quitting his Tennessee home to go sharecropping here.
The AAA fears the work is done by machinery while FSA backs migrants by brokering land leases and arranging loans. Local authorities feed marchers via Surplus Commodities. Parm Settlement Administration helps settle them, but the effort mainly turns jobless farmers into sharecroppers with $200 to $300 loans for mule plow seed and tools.
The landlord explains plans to reduce acreage per family to keep the same number of families, arguing smaller households would let others fare better. He recalls a past large acreage loss and notes debts and sacrifices, including feeding sharecroppers from his own pocket. He defends the landowner's burden and rejects beggary by tenants who won’t work.
Henry Albert Phillips argues in New Designs for Old Mexico that Mexico moves toward freedom under a labor-led reform era. He portrays expropriation as a potential turning point with wide Latin American implications, covering history travel and political reporting from Aztec rule to the Cardenas Plan.
Henry Hubbard, 77, retired farmer and longtime post office employee, died of a heart attack. He and a companion had played rummy at Ewings’ home nearly every afternoon for the last decade.
Cortez and next you watch an independence day parade from the presidential palace balcony in Mexico City. Mr. Phillips doubts Cardenas labor regime’s success and notes ballots, not ballots, have controlled Mexico, citing a recent election with 3000 votes cast amid a city population of 1,000,000. The author provides an exhaustive picture of Mexico then and now and ends with tourist tips.
GLENWOOD Iowa a ten year rummy marathon ends as deaths disrupt play two days after J Hy Ewing a retired participant dies leaving the game unfinished authorities report the long running event dissolved by fatality influencing the final outcome at the Glenwood club.
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