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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1931
Page
4
Ty Freckles argues that electrocution fails as a deterrent and urges severe, isolationist punishment. He proposes removing visiting and writing privileges, locking offenders in an Adirondack facility, making them work to support dependents, and keeping them alive only until death.
Fragments of a devotional poem about faith and patience accompany a string of local social notices. Weekend guests include Rev and Mrs John G Reese of Morriston and Erroll Williams of Chicago. Club meetings, PTA events, church services, and host families fill the town schedule with Brookwood and Oglesby activities noted among other local engagements.
Dr Amos Osborne Squire chief physician at Ossining for 30 years proposed Devil's Island prison in the Adirondacks to replace Sing Sing's death chair. He spoke before the Greater Advertising Club at the Lafayette Hotel, saying fear of the chair did not deter criminals and that he never recalls carrying the chair in his years at Sing Sing.
New York reports Captain Frank M. Hawks, holder of the transcontinental record, plans an Atlantic crossing at the end of March for an extended stay in Europe. He will consult foreign aircraft technicians inspect European transport lines and attend international air shows in Stockholm and May.
Miss Dalsyo Ponkey, attending Tyler Commercial College since last October, returned to Emmet last week. Misses Lueilie Barrow and Charlene Crane, also Tyler College attendees, spent the weekend with their parents at Ozen to honor the Yorktown soldiers. A sesquicentennial ceremony next October will unveil statues at the National Yorktown monument site, costing about $3000.
Mrs. Henry Hicks visiting Forrest City will attend the Cotton Festival in Memphis this week. Mrs. Conrad Lewis and Miss Sibyl Smith left Monday for Dallas to visit the Baker Hotel. An ad promotes Adlerika as a stomach and bowel cleanser claiming relief from gas and constipation in two hours and claiming it clears poisons from upper and lower bowels. John S. Gibson Drug Company advertisement.
A dramatic kidnapping unfolds as Ginger is lured from a riverside setting. Benito and Giovanni mastermind the operation with Bart and Bard aiding the plot. Ginger is knocked unconscious and smuggled onto a boat, left hidden below blankets while authorities and family rush to decipher clues.
NEWMAN, N. U. P. reports devotion of animals to humans extends beyond dogs and horses. A Persian cat named Andy followed an elderly mistress everywhere. After her death the cat refused food, wandered rooms and beds, searched for his mistress, and died of starvation.
In Okemah Oklahoma the Camp brothers demonstrate the curing of irrigated terraced sweet potatoes. After growing in specialized sheds the potatoes are dried with electric fans, the walls of the curing sheds packed with air flow enhancing equipment.
A fragment describes preserving potatoes by keeping them dry, using stove-warmed air and large fans to maintain proper airflow in the sheds.
A fragmentary line mentions twenty five thousand pushy sweet potatoes and sheds, with unclear context or event. The readable text hints at a public or market setting but lacks coherent details or names to identify a concrete item.
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