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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1937
Page
5
A playful verse asks where a tan tray or hair lock can be found in the body. The text then shifts to social notices from Texarkana with Tuesday visitors, engagements, and weekend guests. It lists names, places, and modest gatherings, including anniversaries and arrivals at various homes.
A man identified as Hazel Leon Bruce, 22, of Piggott Arkansas, was found dead in a Southern Pacific freight car in a Gila Bend Arizona yard. Identification came from letters from former employers. he was en route from California to Texas as an electrician.
Eleanor Beard runs Kentucky Cottage Industries with retail focus in Louisville and Hardinsburg while her husband handles wholesale. About a hundred Breckinridge area women work from home on trapunte embroidery, finishing at the studio and factory, creating embossed double-stitch designs.
Kay Kennedy reports from Platinum Alaska on a fabled gold and platinum boom camp. Planes shuttle in wealthy prospectors, stampedes surge over new creeks, and gold riches mingle with hardship. Pilot M M Saszeen ferries gear to camps, landing on a high mountain top.
Washington reports Arkansas savers in 30 savings and loan associations now insured up to 5000 per account by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Nationwide total insured institutions reach 3756 with assets over 1.4 billion. Arkansas insureds include 35 Federal associations and several state-chartered ones operating under national supervision, with protections extending to deposits used for home financing and loans.
McCaskill and David Fields return home to Goodland Kansas after visiting sister Mrs Fulton Curtis. Wesley Hood and family visit their parents in El Dorado. E Webb and Bernice Daniels are guests of Mr and Mrs Henry Webb in Story. Edison Hurst and Norman Hurst of Smackover join Daley Hampton and Berta Hampton for a weekend visit. Bobs Stone of Friendship visits daughter Mrs Wallace Rodgers. Grace Davis returns to Dallas after visiting sister Mrs Louis Sutton. Ladies Missionary Society meets at the church with a varied program. Lola Wortham Nilladene Colling and Pat Hogan visit Arlene Wortham in Prescott. Mr and Mrs John Stroud and son of Washington spend weekend with Fulton Curtis.
In Adel Georgia a group built a place of worship fashioned entirely from tar cups. They surrounded the cups with decorative fans used in royal ceremonies. The project reflects a creative, if unusual, effort to create a sacred space in the community.
A clipped remark notes that in 1934, the inaugural year of major prospecting, there were three days with no rain. The speaker calls the country not great, thoughwet, and recalls a rare stretch of dry weather during those early mining years.
Shelton Washington pensioner George Harley Cousins, 88, an old carpenter, launches his first boat larger than a rowboat. He built the 37-foot sloop Patience from magazine plans and hopes to circumnavigate the globe despite no prior experience sailing larger vessels.
Colorado Springs city signs warn tourists that Pikes Peak is about five miles from town, dispelling illusions caused by mile-high sunshine. The weather can make the peak appear just two or three miles away. A note adds that the last passenger pigeon died at Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.
Former tax assessors will receive back salaries for the 1933-35 biennium, with 10 percent of the due amount to be paid in November, announced by State Comptroller J. C. Goff. The measure follows action by the 1997 legislature.
A fragmented OCR text references ancient Egyptians and a college context with scattered mentions of figures like $166,008 and Columbia University. The readable items are sparse and out of context, offering no coherent event or dates. This partial snippet lacks a clear person, place, or action to summarize meaningfully.
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