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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1931
Page
3
A Quenin penitentiary inmate engineered a sound producing apparatus for a talking picture. Prison photographer Edward Carlton assembled pieces to create the “talkie” using parts from various sources.
The Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Company grew through extensions from Winnfield to Jena and Alexandria, added Minden to Shreveport, and reached Vidalia via Packton. H C Couch united lines in 1928 creating a system from Hope Arkansas to New Orleans with a Packton Vidalia branch and Minden Shreveport link. Passenger service improved, notably The Shreveporter, cutting travel to St. Louis to about 14 hours with sleeping cars and modern comforts.
General J. C. Hooks of Waco Texas aged 82 married at Montgomery to his wife in a ceremony stemming from a Biloxi Confederate reunion in 1930. Hooks, a superannuated Methodist minister of the Baltimore conference, wed for the third time. this was his wife's second marriage. The couple first met at Biloxi and later at the Montgomery session before tying the knot.
The Arkansas Hotel Men's Association met in Little Rock before the Dixie Hotel Exposition opening. W. T. Briggs of Little Rock was elected president with H. Grady Manning as secretary treasurer. Vice presidents chosen were A. P. Barlow Malvern J A Cameron Hot Springs and Albert Rusherm Brinkley.
Washington dispatch reports Representative Free of California accusing Democratic mouthpieces of opposing the Smoot Hawley tariff for political gain while others seek higher tariffs on copper and boots and shoes before the tariff commission. Also notes a string of brief, unrelated anecdotes about a bank visit, a domestic dispute, a poisoning joke, and Coach Robert Zuppke praising large football gates as a sign of public interest.
The advertisement promotes 666 Salve for babies claiming quick relief for headache or neuralgia in 30 minutes, feverish cold symptoms within the first day, and malaria symptoms within three days. It markets a liquid or tablet form for pediatric use and emphasizes rapid action.
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