The Star's Platform for Hempstead County Reform
The Star calls for municipal power plant revenues to fund social resources in Hope and civic improvements. It urges gradual road work funding and sanitary upgrades, with annual projects to cut back taxes. It supports the Chamber of Commerce efforts and county farmer groups in cooperative state highway reform and efficient government spending.
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Hope
Chamber of Commerce
Duaweather Road
Hempstead
Two New Governors Candidates in Arkansas Campaign
The Arkansas race for governor expands with Sheffield of Helena and Brooks Hays from Russellville entering the field. Their platforms criticize machine control, call for reform, and propose shifting state priorities. The discourse also notes the Highway Department as a major issue and reflects the Star’s stance on fair campaigning and voter guidance.
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Arkansas
Sheffield
Helena
Brooks Hays
Russellville
Hays
State Highway Commission
Lee Cazort
Heffield
Camma
Theigbway Department
Conde
Ign
Arkansas Marriage and Divorce Rates Reflect Social Change
The Hot Springs Sentinel Record reports Arkansas statistics showing 30 323 marriages in 1929 the highest on record and a peak in divorces at about one per six weddings. December saw more marriages than June with girls under 18 outmarrying men by roughly 15 to 1 and 566 over sixties taking vows. The statistician attributes rising divorces to greater female independence rather than other causes, noting women filed for divorce more than men by about three to one.
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State Health Board of
Rkansas
Arkansas
Hot Springs Sentinel
Watch the Children Backing Cars Warns Parents in Russellville
A Russellville accident killed a three year old when his father backed a car from a garage. The piece urges care, noting children lack awareness and urging adults to look twice and back out slowly to prevent such tragedies. It cites several similar incidents and calls for cautious driving around children.
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Russellville
Carey
Jonesboro ‘Tribune
Literacy drive stirs nations in illiteracy crackdowns
A national illiteracy campaign in 1930, led by Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur, aims to teach five million adults to read and write in six weeks before the census. Educators doubt the plan yet officials say the push is to spur long term effort, with 32 states already organizing campaigns and local committees forming under school superintendents and prominent local leaders.
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Rodney Dutcherner
WY Ashington
Ford
Europe
United States
England
Germany
Switzerland
Norway
Denmark
Japan
Advisory Committee
Hoovers Commission
Interior
Ray Lyman Wilbur
National
Wilbur
Leland Stanford University
Gue
Dawn of Spring Sermon on spiritual seasons by Rev Bowen
The sermon links springtime to renewal in the Christian life, contrasting winter’s gloom with renewed grace. It recalls biblical psalms and Civil War era reformers, noting Pentecost as spring, the Dark Ages as winter, and Luther and Wesley as later spring figures bringing revival.
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Bowen
The
Baptist Chuera
David
God
Martin Luther
Mancthon
Calvin
Knox
Wesley
Whitfield
Suurg
Harvest Days and Winter in Our Hearts Message
A devotional piece recalls early life of George Eagt mar and a pastor's sermon urging readers to assess their spiritual season. It contrasts springtime warmth and harvest joy with winter gloom, asking if worship and Christ's service guide Sundays or idle pleasures. The tone is reflective and exhortative for personal and church renewal.
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Temple of God
Arkansas Democratic Frontrunner Promises Honest Government
In a forceful denunciation of the existing political machine, the candidate vows a frank campaign on vital issues and asserts a single controlling question for Arkansas voters: whether to restore responsive government or remain under self-serving politicians. He frames his bid as a struggle to wrest power from a complacent regime and rally Democrats to a new, more democratic order.
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Secres
Mgehine
Arkansas
Thomas Iefferson
Democratic Party
People of Arkansas
Train engine crosses over trailing car on circular loop
In the Tehachapi mountains a locomotive on a long train traverses a looping track that forms a complete circle, passing over the rear end of the train as it completes the circuit.
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Tehachopl Mountains
Fragmented OCR Word List From Mixed Text
A garbled OCR fragment catalogs items such as races, puzzles, jokes, and various phrases. It lists terms like Serpent 4, The Dorian, race 18, Fabri made from fax, Birds of brite, Crossword Purale, Wing 4% Tutt, and many scattered references, lacking a coherent story or clear event.
Oranges lead in per capita use. Dutch seedless claim noted
The piece argues Holland dominates per capita orange consumption and hints seedless varieties provoke naval tensions. It notes U S drinks pairings, then quips about American gum consumption exceeding one thousand dollars a week, implying many stenographers. The fragment ends with "Coolidge silent during visit to Cincinnati."
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Holland
United States
Eas
Coolidge
Cincinnati
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KOKA
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Chicago
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Oisholns
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the Maytag Company
Newton,Iowa
Fox
Fae
Bonds Maytag Co
EL Dorado, Arkansas
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Hot Springs
Minden
Louiviana
Camden, Arkansas
Parcel
Joan St. Ingenuons
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Lax
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