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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1930
Page
2
In a collage of odds and ends a Wales bank clerk buys a Derby Day ticket and wins a top prize while others like a laborer, a fisherman, and a farmer chase similar bets. Knute Rockne weighs shifts in football and the allure of the open game. A man builds a gas station venture that fades, leaving the core trio with unchanged lines.
Jolson appears in Mammy a wartime musical comedy with songs by Berlin and Jolson, featuring a starry cast including Louise Dresser and Hobart Bosworth. Michael Curtiz directs a Technicolor sequence heavy program blending minstrel roots with modern comedy, promising big laughs and musical highlights.
The advertisement promotes a June sale on toilet articles at John Gibson Drug Co. with many items discounted about a third. Featured products include Cara Nome Cold Cream Arbutus Vanishing Cream Shari Perfume Jonteel Vanishing Cream Lemon Cocoa Butter Cold Cream and Klenzo Cocoanut Shampoo among others.
Standings show Nashville and Little Rock 12 to 6, Atlanta 15 to 11. Two games today include Nashville at Little Rock and others. Boston 12 St Louis 9 leads, Brooklyn 39 Pittsburgh 6, Chicago 21 Philadelphia 8, New York 3 Cincinnati 0.
Shreveport defeated Beaumont 13 to 12 while Fort Worth beat San Antonio 6 to 0. Houston edged Wichita Falls 4 to 3 and Waco won 10 to 4 against Dallas.
Borger Texas transitions from martial law to a peaceful city as Osage Nation wealth and oil booms reshape the region. The town hosts vast carbon black plants producing hundreds of millions of pounds yearly while line pipelines expand toward Denver and Chicago.
At Hominy Oklahoma on June 24 Osage Indians face tight oil income dropping from 13500 to about 4000 yearly yet plan to continue the annual pony smoke fest. The event, called pony smoke, draws visitors from other tribes and the Osage still can offer a few hundred ponies as gifts.
W B Croker of Shreveport visits his mother Mrs Mary Croker while Leigh McClendon Jr of Texarkana spends the weekend with his parents. Beryille Seavey returns from New Orleans for vacation with kin. Miss Mamie Kelly of Rosston visits Mr and Mrs Tom Fervis. John Craig of Pine Bluff, student at Henderson State Teachers College, spent Monday night with Marlatt McClenden. Mr and Mrs J H Dobson motor to Hall Summitt to visit her brother Harvey Jackson. Mrs G W Philips of Pico Texas, visiting Lewisville, heads to Camden for two weeks. Lewisville water system work to start soon. Dr R L Armstrong leaves for Dallas for a baby clinic. Mrs P O Burton goes to Dallas to be with H L Lester’s family as their daughter is seriously ill in a sanitarium. Mr and Mrs Mack Oglesby host a Riverside Club house party for their daughter and guests Miss Clara Philips Newport, Miss Frances Fitzugh Batesville, Miss Fay Johnson Prescott, Miss Bess Johnson Prescott, Miss Martha Burton and Miss Elizabeth.
Guardian for Nannie Bell Thompson Paul Thomson and Leon Thomson announces public sale of described farmland in Hempstead County Arkansas by decrees from Hempstead and Howart Probate Courts dated June 2 and June 11 1930. Sale at Hempstead County Courthouse on July 15 1930. 50 acres more or less in section 21 township 9 south range 26 west. Terms: three months credit with bond secured by legal order and court decree bearing interest and lien on property. Sale by R F Scot Gunoreliag June 24 July 1
London June 24 Any Britisher may rent a fast seaplane from the AI Ministry for the 1981 Schneider Trophy race if the seaplane is insured for 100000. The government approves leasing the 1929 Schneider Trophy racers to eligible applicants or concerns for use in the upcoming race following their decision not to extend the program.
Low active RAF officers are to compete as Britain seeks to defend the Schneider Trophy. The 1931 effort may reuse and further develop 1929 and 1930 machines, with manufacturers bearing construction and operation costs for prestige and advertising value.
A June Arkansas Alumnus report shows Arkansas University rapid expansion from 1913 to 1930. It details student totals, extension programs, and faculty gains including more with advanced and doctor’s degrees, plus rising agricultural extension activity and station farms, reflecting strong institutional growth.
The Arkansas Alumnus notes growth in library volumes from 25 000 in 1913 to 100 000 in 1950 and equipment value from 125 000 in 1919 to 850 000 in 194. The University of Arkansas, once not recognized by standardizing agencies, is now fully accredited. Fourteen new features were added since 1918 under Dr. Futrall’s presidency, including graduate school health service business and law programs rural economics sociology journalism home economics public speaking agricultural education engineering forestry and the registrar and business offices.
Hardy Ark June 24 Bobby Welch six year old boy is regarded as a mathematical wizard though misquoted as such. The child can recite multiplication tables up to twelve and say them backwards and multiply random numbers rapidly.
Pine Bluff Ark June 24 Aunt Lucy Bell regarded as one of the region s oldest residents died here recently. Born in North Carolina she moved to Arkansas as a girl of eight and lived a long life in this community.
A speckled rooster on the Arkansas Tech farm in Russellville adopts two orphaned chick broods after their mother dies. Sidney, a Black college cook, notes the rooster feeds and protects the chicks during the day and night, keeping them under his care.
Hot Springs hosts a state convention on September 26 and 27 to consider a lost will, announced by Mike Kinkead, vice of the state organization.
The document states W. G. Bright Justice Peace for DeRoun Township Island County Arkansas issues a warning order against R. S. Thomas to appear and answer the complaint filed by W. T. Elder. Date references include May 22 1930 and May 23 1920 with June 6 13 deadlines.
Our annual June toilet goods sale offers big savings on many items including cold creams vanishing cream powders and tooth brushes. Readily available are Arbut Vanishing Cream Jonteel Cream Lemon Cocoa Butter and more with discounts around a third.
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