23 Jun 1930
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1930
Page
1
Fragmented OCR of a daily crossword puzzle page lists scattered clues and stray names such as California, Anny, R Wolk, and Halli plus odd word fragments. The readable bits resemble puzzle entries and stray proper nouns without coherent clues or solutions.
The Star's platform urges using municipal power plant revenues to develop Hope's social resources, pave streets in 1920, improve sanitary conditions, and support county highway expansion. It backs scientific agriculture, farmer cooperatives, and a streamlined, efficient government to modernize Hempstead county and free Arkansas from cattle ticks.
A mother of seven was arrested in New City for operating a small still, while nearby a six story warehouse fire destroyed a vast illicit still operation. The contrast highlights the uneven enforcement and the persistent liquor supply amid Prohibition. One case ends in imprisonment, the other in an accidental blaze that wipes out a sprawling, long-untouched operation. Local authorities note the disparity reflects a broader national issue.
A reflection on quiet bravery in daily hardship. It highlights a factory lunchroom story where a worker without food shared pride and dignity despite hunger. The piece praises impersonal aid and praises the Family Welfare Association of America for aiding poverty stricken families over fifty years.
Washington commentary notes rising talk of presidential candidates two years before the next national conventions. Democrats seem unusually optimistic about sweeping gains. names include Jim Reed, Joe Robinson, and Hamilton Lewis with discussion of Owen D. Young. The piece mocks the volatility and vanity of political chatter.
Chicago police bureau assigns two lieutenants to lead execution squads in a new war on gangsters. Lieutenant Al Booth has six kills in gun battles, and Lieutenant Patrick OConnell is credited with five gangster fatalities.
A fragmented clipping references the U S Bureau of Standards defining the woman's waist line position. It cites St John Ervine warning against night drinking harming drama. It jokes about bootleggers advertising not a hiveough in a dayland and mentions Will Rogers address at a college and Chicago gangsters speaking of descendants as off shoots.
New York June 2 The world has been made too safe for travelers says Constance Bridges a Radcliffe graduate who has explored Ladak Cambodia Burma and the Vale of Kashmir She recalls a Zofila Pass trip after a cholera plague and notes the only hardship was lack of ice She plans to publish a book about her adventures after seeking a publisher and signing a contract.
The manuscript describes a six week completion and a Himalayan journey told in fiction. A fear of a so called minute snake from birth unsettled Bridges during a visit in Barim. A tiger hunt with the maharajah of Gwalior proved more tame and unexciting than expected, with beater-driven chase and a lack of thrills. The author muses that modern entertainments are safer but less adventurous.
Delaware Ohio, June 21. An Ohioan believes a cosmic fog or fog-like mass forms the sun’s corona. Dr Harlan T Stetson at Perkins Observatory says the corona may be light reflected from a cloud of fog or fox particles, studying how it approaches Earth.
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