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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1931
Page
3
Paris police launch a crusade against noise issuing 39 decrees. bans on screeching car brakes and strident horns, no engines tasting near dwellings, reduced locomotive whistles, concierges and tenants barred from using milk cans as noise, wireless loudspeakers forbidden in public, and no street music after 11 PM.
A national conference notes disease prevention lags in rural children vs city youngsters. Half of city preschoolers have had health exams while country children show lower rates. Immunizations and dental visits trail city levels, with only seven percent of country children vaccinated.
June weddings fall behind other months in New York City. The shift toward September October and November boosts jewelry and silverware demand as wedding activity wanes in June.
A New Mexico House bill proposes licensing highway billboards at five cents per square foot with a minimum $1 fee. Revenues would go into a fund to purchase textbooks for public school children.
In Palmyra Missouri a local rule restricts motorists from parking in front of the town hitching racks on Mondays to honor a longstanding equine site. A farm owner filed a complaint about clogging the area while produce markets are held nearby, citing the ves tiges of the equine era.
Yale professor Kenneth Scott Latourette says U S views China with pessimism and predicts it may take a century or more for China to adapt to Western civilization.
Three youths arrested with girls companions in a clubhouse received regular church attendance for six months as their sentence. City Court Judge Walter H. Keenfelts also imposed suspended jail terms of six months for each youth.
Morgantown West Virginia report states Prof. R J Garber of University of West Virginia reports inbreeding corn breeding yields larger crops. He notes about 30000 acres of hybrid corn grown last year with hybrids delivering about ten percent more corn and potential five percent crop value gain.
In Fort Wayne Indiana hundreds search for a buried pot of gold reportedly worth 3 million dollars promised as payment to an Indian chief over a century ago. A clairvoyant identified a farm owned by John Irving nearby where digging has continued for a week at a highly suspected site.
Lexington Kentucky prospects for better prices for strawberries are noted in the 1931 annual strawberry report from the College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky. The report indicates acreage reductions around 40 percent in 1941, with strawberry fields conditions poor. reductions vary by state with Arkansas, Tennessee, and Virginia at about 30 percent and other states expected to be around 40 percent.
Murray Kentucky memorial service for Nathan B. Stubblefield to be held March 27 at Murray State Teachers College honors the inventor recorded as radio pioneer. He died in poverty near Murray in 1928 and a monument on campus marks the tribute to his voice broadcast from the Bartholdi steamer. A stock venture failed and he retired to a lonely cottage in the hills nearby.
Verne Marshall of the Cedar Rapids Gazette led a long probe into Iowa University finances, criticizing state funds handling and Walter A. Jessup’s 1929 administration over the athletic slush fund scandal. He pressured lawmakers to act and identified key witnesses in the legislature investigation.
Clock in Hartford Old State House stopped at night after a year of near perfect time. Clock experts found the hands ceased moving due to an unseen mechanical issue.
A New York firm uses diamond dies to draw fine wire. a single jeweler maintains more than 2,000 diamond dies on hand. The smallest die has an aperture so minute it is invisible to the naked eye even when held against a light.
About 10,000 acres of forest burned in recent blazes around McDowell County North Carolina. Officials believe the fires were started by job seekers for firefighters or by mountaineers seeking a fresh rhododendron growth. Authorities warn of further outbreaks as dry conditions persist.
Kinston North Carolina October wartime era brief reports that Leod attempted to end his life by taking poison in a funeral parlor. He is expected to recover.
Mr and Mrs William Bimpke of Marion report eight births in six years contributing to local population. The family includes three pairs of twins. Empeke works as a coal miner in the region.
Town Clerk Dora Tyan reports hunting and fishing license requests in January surged by 100 percent compared with January 1930, suggesting a rising trend. The data points to growing public interest in outdoor licenses in Waterbury, Conn.
Toronto police plan to train officers who currently cannot drive as part of the new motorized division initiative. The program, announced by department officials, aims to improve mobility and respond to traffic-related duties.
Meriden Connecticut January news item reports Adam Peichocki and his wife renewing their marriage vows on the fifty ninth anniversary in East Peoria, performed by their son, the Rev. Paul Peichocki of Union City, New Jersey.
In Southington Connecticut an officer confronted suspects Leslie Brooks and Francis Chanty after they ignored orders. The duo fled, approached a police car, and were followed to a nearby location. The officer’s car was later found wrecked, with details incomplete.
Henry N. Blake, 93, claims he voted twice for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and 1864, recounting two presidential ballots in Boston.
Henry Cowan of New York was amazed when he dropped his cards during a friendly game at his mother’s home in Wethersfield. He was dealt eight aces from the first twelve cards.
A narrator recounts jealousy and a revolver threat after Olga falls for the matinee idol Del Raignol. He contemplates murder to prevent disgrace, wondering if he killed Olga or another man in the dramatic scene.
Oklahoma report notes a night fishing device by Cyrus combines a small flashlight attached to a fishing pole with a bulb at the end to attract and hook fish. The invention aims to improve bite detection during late hours.
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