Platform highlights for Hope and Hempstead County progress
The Star's Platform urges using municipal power plant revenues to boost Hope's industrial and social resources. It calls for more pavement in 1933 and better alley sanitation, Chamber of Commerce backing, and a county highway program to reduce dirt roads yearly. It promotes scientific agricultural programs and farmer cooperation while supporting state highway reform and budget efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
Chamber of Commerce
Hempstead
Steffens Seeks Carmel School Trustee Post With Reform Idea
Old muckraker Lincoln Steffens announced a Carmel California school trustee bid proposing a “Strange and refreshing newness” to education. He favors surveys of adults to identify “funny certainties” and aims to teach children to be markedly different, wiser and kinder than their parents, in a bid to raise future generations.
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Incoln Steffens
Carmel
Calif
Dbs
Baxing
Mr. Steffens
Lessons From the Banking Holiday on Credit and Confidence
The narrator reflects on the national bank holiday as an education in currency and credit. It shows how small cash amounts, via credit agencies, become working capital and why complete confidence is essential for credit. With confidence restored, business recovery should proceed more smoothly.
Governor Considers Plant Takeover for Unemployment Relief
Michigan Attorney General Patrick H. O’Brien urges a bill to empower the governor to seize idle factories and lease them to communities to ease unemployment. Governor Comstock doubts the plan, yet critics note the stark contrast of want amid plenty and idle capacity.
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Patrick H. O'Brien
Michigan
William A. Comstock
Spirits have bodies yet cannot use earthly matter
Quote from Sir Oliver Lodge on spirits lacking earthly form contrasts with a comment by Howard W. Nudd, director of the Public Education Association, about schools meeting public demand.
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Sir Oliver Lodge
Howard W. Nudd
The
Public Education Association
Janet Hill Becomes Mrs Curtis Social Secretary
Janet Hill accepts a secretary position with Mrs. Curtis in a spacious home after meeting her at the Every Home Magazine office. Bruce Hamilton arranges the offer and Janet discovers a gentle test of acceptance from the Curtis household as she prepares to start work the following Monday.
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Janet Hill
Carlyle
Betty Kendall
Janet
Bruce Hamilton
Every Home Magazine
Rolf
Jeff Grant
Janet Ames
Silvani
Pat Silvant
Jeff
Jem
Bruce Hamiton
Hamilton Anys
Mrs. Curtis
Bra. Curtis
Miss Hill
Buster
Hamilton
Pauline Hayden
Nollie Lambert
Mollie
Kay Francis
Local social notes from Arka delphia and nearby towns
Twenty five years ago Miss Amboline McCorkle of Arka delphia spent Thursday with relatives here. Miss Hazel Johnson left Monday to visit the family of J. L. Ware of Bonham Texas. Stuart Wilson after a tennis match at Emmet walked to Prescott in forty minutes and is now competing against the world champion long distance walker.
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Amboline McCorkle
Arkadelphia
Hazel Johnson
J. L. Ware
Bonham
Texas
Stuart Wilson
Emmet
Prescott
Roy leaves for Little Rock to join Hessig Ellis firm
Claude R. Roy departed yesterday for Little Rock where he accepted a position with Hessig-Ellis wholesale drug company. Mrs. James Gorham of Blevins is visiting her daughter Mrs. P. R. Simpson in this city. Mrs. Kline Snyder spent Saturday in Texarkana.
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Claude R. Roy
Little Rock
Hessig-Ellis Wholesale Drug Company
James Gorham
Blevins
P. R. Simpson
Kline Snyder
Texarkana
Glen Hazard Murder Tale Set in Tennessee Mountains
Maristan Chapman builds a murder tale around the isolation and speech of Tennessee mountaineers. Sheriff Joe Marks probes Bill Woody’s death, once ruled accidental, to uncover who killed him for money or resentment. Knopf published the book at $2.50.
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Glen Hazard
Maristan Chapman
Tennessee Mountains
Daniel Boone
Queen Elizabeth
England
Bill Woody
Bill
Joe Marks
Knopf
McCaskill School to Close Early Over Funds
McCaskill School will close one month early due to lack of funds. Woodrow Gentry is hospitalized in Memphis with a bone specialist. Several local residents and visitors are noted, including Misses Maxine and Dorothy Sevedge in Nashville and Dr. J. E. Gentry with Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Thomas visiting Memphis. A barn on the Sevedge farm burned, destroying hay corn and peas.
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Woodrow Gentry
Memphis, Tenn
Maxine
Dorothy Sevedge
Nashville
Wilma Butler
Thelma Bruce
Blevins
J. E. Gentry
C. C. Thomas
Memphis
Tenn
Tom Stewart
Murfreesboro
H. B
P.T. A
Smackover
Local Church Notes Highlight Regular Service and Visits
Antioch Rev Jewel Linam filled his regular appointment here Sunday. Several from here attended church at Emmet Sunday night. Miss Irene and Fern Cook spent a Saturday night with Mrs C D Green. Perry Dougan attended singing at Piney Grove Sunday afternoon. Prayer meeting was well attended Wednesday night. Francene Mahon conducted services. Mrs Robert Harris is leader next Wednesday night. Florene and Myrtle Jenkins of Emmet spent Sunday with Vera Mae Harris.
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Jewel Linam
Emmet
Irene
Fern Cook
C. D. Green
Vick Dougan
Williams
Piney Grove
Perry Dougan
Francene Mahon
Robert Harris
Florene
Myrtle Jenkins
Vera Mae Harris
Constipation Relief Cited By Meridian Woman
Mrs. Carrie Brown of Meridian Mississippi reports spells of swimming in the head and dizziness from constipation. She credits Thedford's Black Draught with easing her symptoms after a half teaspoonful in water, and says she now keeps it in the house for occasional laxative use.
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Carrie Brown
Meridian
Miss
Thedford
Therford
Potatoes and Gardens Dormant After Cold Snap
Jets Around Shower describe spring like weather then a cold snap causing crops to go dormant. Community members share visits with relatives including Miss Edger Mitchell and Kermit Mitchell, Nellie Leach, H B Sanford, and many other local families during a busy week of gatherings and hospitality.
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Edger Mitchell
Kermit
Mitchell
Twins See Themselves Through Others Eyes
A reflective fragment notes a belief that twins may have an advantage by viewing themselves as others see them, prompting a question about perception and identity. The quote attributes the idea to Kikeriki and centers on self-awareness through external perspective.
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Kikeriki
Birthday Surprise Patient Sees Doctor Tomorrow
A patient calls at a doctor's office and is told to return tomorrow night. The wife explains the doctor is busy but vows to surprise him on his birthday, being his first patient of the day.
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Alex. H. Washburn
Star Building
Southersee Hope
Artanes
C. E Palmer
Arkansas
Col
R. R. McCormick
Star
Associated Press
Nevada
Howard
Miller
LaFayette
citTy
Bruce Catton
NER
Ofnelleope
Laura Lou
Brookman
NEA Service, Inc
Mrs. Curtisné
Oveins
By Bruce Catton
Antioch
Ceeman
George Clark
A Mbendalle
Nellie Leach
H. B. Sanford
Troy Aslin
Center Point
Amos Dorothy
Leo Farmer
Alice Mitchell
Baby
Jeff Mitchell
Vera Caudle
Adell Sanford
Ethel Reece
Jack Chaney
Pauline Britt
H. B. Sanfords
Bernice Jordan
Mont Sheppard
Patmos
Harold Sanford
Pauline O'Neal
Falls Valley
Gla
Willis A. Cobb
Henry Bearden
Glendon
Ree O. Gray
George Crews
Kermit Mitchell
Sid Houston
Howard Vines
Howard Sanford
Kansas
Joe B. Hargis
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