Farm Bureau seeks members in Hempstead County drive
The Hempstead County Farm Bureau launches a membership drive with a contest promising two watches as grand prizes for the top two members by April 15. Candidates include Mrs Clyde Osborn Gran Hurst in Hulsey Washington Herbert Butler Spring Hill Arlene Wortham McCaskill Kathleen Downs Columbus Joe Eddie Johnson Columbus Quinton Derryberry Blevins Elton Cummings Beards Chapel Frances Huett Patmos. Entry details are via Frank J Hill secretary with rules. Huskey urges farmers to support a national Farm Bureau federation for Hempstead county’s benefit.
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Hempstead
Hempstead County
Farm Bureau Federation
Farmers’ Organization
Huskey
Governor orders halt to open gambling in Garland county
Governor Bailey declares state intervention to end open gambling and slot operations in Hot Springs and Garland County after reports that gambling resumed at two clubs. He asks state police to notify local law enforcement and stop the activity, signaling imminent action. The page also includes unrelated comic dialogue among named characters.
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Bailey
Garland County
Hout Springs
Hope Hempstead farmers urged to diversify with soil building plan
Hempstead county farmers are urged to switch eggs from cotton to cheese, adopting a soil building plan. Hope Brick Works buys a $560 terracer machine for small farmers, with tractor support offered, plus silos, vetch and oats planting, and cow peas for multiple annual crops to restore soil. The note also covers a public asset sale of Washington State Bank assets in Washington Arkansas and seed oats promotion. Heavily dense text emphasizes soil conservation, local agricultural cooperation, and a bank insolvency proceeding.
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Hempstead
Hope Brick Works
Craig Roseborough
Soil Conservation Office
N. PB. O'Neal
Hope
Cheese Factory
Public sale of Hempstead County real estate by chancery order
Under a chancery decree dated March 1, 1927, Hope Retail Lumber Company sues Lee L Meadows and others. Commissioner Ralph Balley will offer at public vendue on April 7, 1937, at the Hempstead County Courthouse in Washington Arkansas the parcels: South 50 feet of Lots 11 and 12, Block 18 Wallace Addition Hope. Lot 9, Block 45 Cornelius Heights. Lot 22, Block 7 Cornelius Heights. Credit three months with bond and six percent interest. lien retained to secure payment.
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Chancery Court
Hempstead
Hope Retail Lumber Company, & Corporation
Lee L. Meadows, Et al
of Hempstead
Washington
Arkansas
Wallace
Hope
Cornelius Heights
Hempstead County
A. D
Ralph Balley
Chancery
Mauch
Lewis Portrait as NRA Organizer and Political Figure
The piece sketches Lewis as a hard edged yet softening public figure, chronicling his rise as an organizer since 1910 and noting his fame, sarcasm, and clashes with figures like General Hugh Johnson. It highlights his influence on wage-hour talks with steel and coal interests and his blunt, chilling rhetorical style during negotiations.
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State Teachers College
Lewis
Hugh Johnson
Napoleon
Roosevelt
General Motors
Big Steel
Mysterious Cake Loss At Supper Quietly Discussed
A mother asks Mother Janey how two pieces of cake became one left in the pantry after supper. Janey replies she cannot know unless the pantry was so dark she failed to see the other piece.
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Janey
Puzzle loving post office clerk reads stars in mail
Los Angeles, a postal worker Thomas A. Shipman deciphers fan letters by drawings that spell actors names. He explains examples like coal bin and ban for Binnie Barnes and a leap of rocks with help for Judith Barrett, noting many letters go unanswered if no forwarding address exists.
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Los Angeles
Thomas A. Shipman
Binnie Barnes
Doris Nolan
Boris Karloff
Shipman
Judith Barrett
Canary diet linked to weight and care in El Paso
EL PASO Texas diet and proper weight are as important for canaries as for humans says Mrs R H Hatchett who runs a bird hospital. Birds sing better when weight is right nails must be manicured. She notes many curious behaviors among her hundreds of birds including a meticulous house keeping canary that sweeps a torn magazine page each morning before bathing.
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EL Paso
Texas
R. H. Hatchett
7 Magazine
Mussolini and a Rendezvous Delayed in Rome and Paris
Fragmentary memoir notes recount a July sequence involving Mussolini, de Chambrun, and a hoped rendezvous in Rome. The narrator describes meetings, secrecy, and a promised audience that did not occur, plus mentions of an exposition role and a Paris return ticket. The untidy account includes references to Alfieri, La Tour, and various intermediaries.
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Alfieri
Benita
Paris
Francois la Tour
Rome
Mussolini
Mme Ferreery
Vartorio Cerruli
Traliagainby
France
Rene
Portrait of Mussolini Entered in Court Records
The Second Bureau official notes reveal a dispute over how to classify a photograph of Mussolini and diary fragments found in the apartment. Magistrates wavered between a neutral portrait and a direct Mussolini portrait before records settled on the latter.
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Second Bureau
Mussolini
Adlerika Promises Quick Gas Relief and Bowel Cleansing
An advertisement urges readers to treat bloating by cleansing the bowels with Adlerika rather than stomach alkalies. It claims gas stems from old poisons and bacteria in constipated bowels, causing pain, fatigue, and poor health, and asserts Adlerika removes these poisons from both upper and lower bowels. The ad directs readers to Gibson Drug Co. for purchase.
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Adlerika
Gibson Drug CO
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Farm Bureau
Pollotz
Max
Tona
Harold
Frances
J. L. Williams & Sons
ROY Anderson and Company
Monts
Nevada County
Shipley Studio
Walnut Street
Washington State Bank
State Bank
G. S. Jernigan
W. S. Atkins
Moderna
Le’s
Lewis Has
Rumor Purvis
Janice Jarrett
Texas Sonal
Melvin Purvisngeles
Ace G-Man
Roldo Rowden
T. S. McDavitt & Co
Phoenix Hosiery
Geo, W
Selby
Crete
AAA
Kathryn
Geo.w.robison , Co
Prescott
Nashville
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