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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1930
Page
2
Delaware Ohio June 21 Dr Harlan T Stetson director of Perk ins adservatory believes a vast irregular fogmass near the sun may form the sun's corona. He seeks to measure how close the fog approaches Earth as the corona is thought to be light reflected from a cloud of cosmic dust and foxlike masses.
The platform calls for using municipal power plant revenues to develop Hope's social resources and city paving, improve sanitation, and support public events. It backs a county highway program for all weather roads, farm cooperatives, tax reform, and efficient government.
A mother of seven children is jailed after a small New York still raid while a six story warehouse fire destroys a massive illicit operation. The blaze killed three workers as investigators found the site housed hundreds of tons of equipment, making it the largest still operation since prohibition began. The piece contrasts the sudden, visible policing of minor crimes with the covert, extensive networks behind large-scale illicit production.
A factory lunchroom tale reveals quiet courage and pride as a worker, fainting from hunger, prompts colleagues to pool food and support his family. The piece praises impersonal aid networks like the Family Welfare Association of America for helping poverty-stricken families regain self-respect without public humiliation.
Washington gossip notes rising chatter about possible presidential and vice presidential candidates two years before the election. Democrats show unusual optimism about capturing Congress and keeping Hoover in office, while Republicans recall past election misreads and speculative talks orbit around Jim Reed Joe Robinson and Jim Hamilton Lewis as potential nominees.
Two Star police officers are depicted as leaders of new execution squads in Chicago’s war on gangs. Lieutenant Al Booth is credited with six kills in battles, while Lieutenant Patrick O Connell has five gangsters slain to his credit.
The piece surveys 1920s concerns from standard waistline definitions to Prohibition era bootlegger ads and stage critics. It notes St John Ervine on night drinking harming drama, hints at Will Rogers hosting a campus bagealariat address, and mentions Chicago gangsters playfully naming descendants as off shoots.
New York June 21 UP The world has been made too safe for travelers says Constance Bridges a youthful explorer who has wandered through Ladak Bali Cambodia and Burma. She recalls perilous moments such as crossing Zofila Pass after a cholera outbreak but notes the only hardship was lack of ice. A Radcliffe graduate from Lake Forest Ill she has no plans to become a writer and has not pursued publishing.
The manuscript traces a Himalayan journey presented as fact but written as fiction. The author recalls fear from a so-called minute snake in Burma and a tiger hunt with the maharajah of Gwalior, noting modern excitement lies in getting to the theater on time.
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