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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1941
Page
2
Fragmentary Puzzle Word List Sparks Scramble of Clues
A garbled OCR fragment lists numbered word clues and phrases such as Horse Ss trappings Lion's hem Viscous Woolly Small island and various cryptic items. The jumble appears to be a crossword style worksheet or dictionary exercise with partial phrases and misread characters, ending with a stray numeric and letter sequence. The readable items point to a dense, puzzle-like source.
Tailed locomotive cars derail near town
A partial report notes a locomotive and several cars derailed in a nearby area. No injuries are mentioned and investigators are expected to inspect the site for causes and potential repairs. Officials urged caution for any onlookers and crews working the scene.
North China to Supply 1.3 Million Laborers for Japan Projects
An employment bureau in North China is established to furnish 1.3 million Chinese workers for projects in Manchukuo Mongolia and Japanese occupied Central China. Officials say North China is a cheap labor market and has met similar needs in the past.
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Manchukuo
Mongolia
Chin
North
China
Royal Ladies Aid War Effort Through Austerity
English royal women trim wardrobes and cut back on comforts to support wartime rationing. Queen Elizabeth travels in uniform or simple colors, visiting hospitals and bombed areas while guiding the royal household. Princess Margaret Rose and Elizabeth join patrols, blood drives, and charity drives, as Duchess of Gloucester oversees air force duties and hospital tours, and the Kent family reduces social life to run wartime offices.
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Adelaide Kei
England
Duchess of Kent
Margaret Rose
Queen Mary
Quen Elizabeth
Duchess of Gloucester
York House
London
Princess Royal
King George
Wommen
Army
Queen Elizabeth
Mary
Duchess of York
Elizabeth
Britain
Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Air Force
Scottish
Barnwell Manor
Northamptonshire
Buckingham Palace
Women's Royal Naval Service
Kents
Donations to City Library Aid Civiliz tion Booklets
Mrs. Carroll Bishop, librarian, has donated ten groups of six booklets each on the Achievements of civilization prepared by the American Council on Education. Booklets include Story of Writing, Story of Numbers, Story of Weights and Measures, Story of Our Calendar, Telling Time, and Rules of the Road. Copies go to Hempstead County and Hope headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll Bishop
Hempstead County
American Council of Education
Hope
Weather Men Draw 6 Month Duty Tour on Desert Island
New Orleans hosts a six month assignment for two United States Weather Bureau workers, Neil B Ward and George Grover. They will observe on Swan Island, 100 miles northeast of Honduras, supplying surface and upper air data. The uninhabited island hosts rare traffic with ships stopping every six weeks. Ships from United Fruit will transport them from New Orleans.
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New Orleans
New Orléans
Avay
Ancle Sams
Neil B. Ward
George Grover
United States Weather Bureau
Swan Island
Honduras
United Fruit Company
Jeland
Senior Play at Spring Hill presents Deacon Dubbs
The Spring Hill Senior class will present Deacon Dubbs a rural comedy in three acts Friday night March 21 The cast includes Warren Butler Ray Martin Charles Walker Junior Davis Paris Anderson Eunice Foster Pauline Ward Mavis Collins Erma Anderson Ina Anderson and others Sukri Saracogilu is noted as a Turkish foreign minister.
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Spring Hill
Deacon Dubbs
Sorghum Center
Warren Butler
Amos Coleman
Ray Martin
Rawdon Crawley
Wolfin Shoop
Charles Walker
Major McNutt
Junior Davis
Eunice Foster
Philipena Ponower
Pauline Ward
Emily Dale
Mavis Collins
Trixie Coleman
Erma Anderson
Yennie Yensen
Sweden
Ina Anderson
Italian counterattacks suffer heavy losses in Eritrea
Cairo reports British General Headquarters say Italian counterattacks against positions captured in Eritrea inflicted heavy Fascist losses. More than 800 prisoners were taken by British forces, likely at Cheren, a mountain stronghold blocking the route to Asmara and Massawa. Rome confirms Italian counterattacks and gains.
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Eritrea
Cheren
Asmara
Hritren
Massati
Rome
Italian air raid hits Cheren area rail line
A Romunique report says seven planes bombed and machine gunned Batin troops and gun posts in the Cheren area. Forces attacked the railroad southeast of the town. One Italian plane was reported shot down.
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Batin
Fragmented OCR utterances on imagery and speech
The text presents a garbled mix of phrases about unions, a missing stenographer, and talking pictures. It references Afghan marriages, a mosquito with 22 teeth, and a general sense of scattered quotes, with no clear event or coherent report to summarize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Fat Hemlnbeewni Mood Observation
The motorist asks what the other is looking at, commenting on the naked scene, while a dry reply notes it is not the first car seen but is very much kept. The fragment hints at a humorous or curious exchange during a traffic moment.
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America on Our Own We Must Solve Our Problems
Our democracy faces a challenge as serious as earlier eras and the United States now stands strong with forty eight states. We must create and defend a fearless press to guarantee freedom to grow, appreciate it, conserve it, and keep it free as The Newspaper Publishers Committee of over 350 papers publishes these messages weekly to readers.
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United States
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