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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1931
Page
6
Gypsy meets Alan Crosby on the voyage home and confronts a mysterious Parisian woman seen on the dock. At Mrs. O Hares in Granby street the reunion includes playful teasing and gossip about Mrs Langley and her divorce before Crosby departs suddenly to handle a business matter.
Health in the Hilly Springs area shows several cases of scarlet fever and whooping cough. Brother Hanna conducted services Sunday at Hilly Springs and Willisville. Next Sunday night March will feature Brother Beeson in Willisville. The county tournament ended successfully with Willisville winning both cups. Mrs Effie Martin and two children visited relatives, and A J Moriar was a visitor. Loyd Waters of AL and M college in Magnolia spent the weekend with kin. Mrs Dora Treen of Texarkana visited her daughter Mrs Pletcher Woodruff. Regular singing is scheduled next Sunday afternoon barring rain. attendance is welcome.
A 72 year old blind man, Max Reder, and his dog Duke were attacked as they returned home. Two burglars pressed chloroform against their noses, leaving them unconscious. Max later revived Duke with water and sought help at Lin Vuln hotel.
Customs officers inspected a truckload of oats arriving by ferry from Grand Island revealing 47 bags of cats 3 quarts of Canadian whisky and 71 vases of ice. The Chicago elevated railroad carried a significant amount valued at 82.9 million dollars during the period described.
Cleveland city council committees are set to approve bonds totaling 14.5 million to start the 1931 construction program. Projects include Cuyahoga river straightening with 1.5 million for that aim, 500 thousand for street work, 590 thousand for storm sewers, 1 million for sewage disposal, and 1 million for street improvements, funded from the 31.5 million approved last November. The river project requires land acquisition and War Department plan approval.
Work has begun on a 100 mile sea coast highway from Tampico to Brownsville. General Andrúe Almazan oversees the project as Mexican secretary of communications. The dirt road will have shell and asphalt topping and be passable about 300 days yearly, running mostly within five miles of the coast.
James Lacey, linked to a prison hash recipe tied to a disturbance, faced a police judge who questioned his repentance. Lacey replied meekly saying he would do anything to escape the hash. He received a citizenship lecture and was released.
Chicago offers a fine unused smokestack built in 1914 for a municipal incinerator plant that was never operated. The city plans to cut through a street, placing the chimney in the proposed route, and will sell it cash and carry to any buyer willing to remove it.
A. R. Eaton of Walsh Okla shares lessons from 2000 miles of “free” touring across the United States and Canada. He says hitching succeeds when one is well dressed and acts as a gentleman, noting he rarely waits more than a mile for a ride. He offers to pay part of the gasoline bill, though most drivers do not expect it.
A town’s unemployed painters refused municipal work 404 cents an hour to paint and instead joined a drive to trap stray dogs offering a 50 cent bounty. Reports note many workers left painting duties to their less agile brothers.
Duchess of Portland visits Mansfield fish shop owned by W. Burton. She enters to ask about Mrs Burton’s health and helps fill orders, drawing crowds and setting a new receipts record. Burton, once employed on her estates, lost an arm in a previous accident. his wife had a serious illness and was treated in London at the Duchess’s expense.
A distorted report ties William Frazer of Rahway New Jersey to the death of Mrs Phoebe Sader whose body was found near Bowling Green. The accused, shown with a rifle, is described as the self confessed killer, with David Union Security New Jersey as prosecutor.
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