Yecomes Platform Aims for Hope Area Development
The Star's Platform advocates municipal power plant expansion to develop Mattinddial resources of Hope, improved 193L era pavement, sanitary conditions, and business growth. It backs the Chamber of Commerce and county highway efforts to cut dirt roads yearly, promoting scientific agriculture, farmer organizations, and cooperative practice for Hempstead county's industry. State goals include highway progress, tax reform, and efficient government via streamlined expenditures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
Chamber of Commerce
Hilda
Ihi
Hempstead
Oor
Ayress
Postoffice Star Route Controversy Sparks Local Politics
Local paper challenges Post Office Department bid process for the Bodcaw star route and accuses Republican leaders of private leverage. It notes Hope’s rail connections give quick mail distribution and critiques broken promises to restore service to Bodcaw despite a gravel highway now in place.
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Postoffice
Prescott
Hope
Reublicans
J. A. Davis
1 Vick
Washington, D. C
Star
Hempstead
Nevada
Herring
Radeaw
Rad
Eaw
Bod
Bodcaw
Dreiser Lewis Duel Leaves Readers Cold
In a literary gathering Sinclair Lewis accused Theodore Dreiser of pilfering 3000 words from Mrs Lewis Russia book, Dreiser slapped Lewis, then handlers separated the fracas. The St Louis Post Dispatch mocked the scene, calling it a pointless spectacle with little merit.
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Sinclair Lewis
Theodore Dreiser
Mrs. Lewis
Russia
Dreiser
Lewis
Eve
Andrew Mellon
Indiana
Dostoievsky
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Monarchists Buy Opposition Newspapers in Spain
The monarchists seek to quiet discontent by money, buying two leading republican papers in Madrid with unknown sums, and a third is said to be targeted. Brooklyn Engle compares Spain’s tactics to Boss Tweed in New York, noting high offers and fortunes used to sway press loyalties.
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Spain
Ez] Sol
LeVox
Madrid
Heraldo de Madrid
Brooklyn Engle
Tweed
New York
George Jones
New York Times
Jones
Jay Gould
Cyrus W. Field
Moses Taylor
Peter Cooper
Sing Sing
Alfonso
Marriage Surprise at First Presbyterian Church
A surprising wedding took place last night at the First Presbyterian church as Miss Cooper Hannah wed Frank Ward after the Eastern cantata with Rev W R Anderson performing the ceremony. The couple left for a brief bridal trip to Memphis.
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Louise Holman
Henry Holsist
Texarkana
C. C. Spragins
J. W. Teeter
Botcaw
Batcaw
Cooper Hannah
Frank Ward
First Presbyterian Church
W. R Anderson
Memphis
Lanie Hawthorne
Young Peoples’ Union of the Baptist Church
Tenry Hitt
G. O. Mans
Fort Towsend
Oklo
Black-Draught Praised By Corsicana Family
Corsicana Texas resident Mrs E G Grimmett 1215 West Twelfth Street says Black-Draught cured her childhood constipation and sick headaches caused by biliousness She gives it to her children for colds and biliousness and believes it helped her husband stomach trouble by removing poisons from his system The remedy is finely powdered enabling natural extraction of medicinal properties.
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Corsicana
Texas
E. G. Grimmett
West Twelfth Street
Tunnels Referred to as Tubes in Ice Age Sage Comment
A fragment notes tunnels called tubes and suggests the squeeze they imply. It points to the burning issue for many families whether the coal pile will last through the winter.
Ragolston At Two Mrs Butler Improve After Appendicitis
Two Mrs. J. E. Butler are slowly improving after an appendicitis attack. Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Butler report flu patients in their home this week. James Martin, C. H. and H. W.
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J. E. Butler
P. E. Butler
James Martin
C. H
H. W
Riot at Joliet Pen Prompts Calls for Home Rule
Warden Henry C. Hill faces criticism as a March 14 riot at Joliet Pen leaves two prisoners dead and smolders. Prisoners threaten a general uprising unless their home rule demands are met while Hill stands firm against concessions. Business visitors, illness news, and sermons round out the brief page item.
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Henry C. Hill
Hill
Promoting Arkansas Resources Through State Advertising
Governor Roosevelt signed a bill allowing Webb to spend 19000 for summer vacation promotion. The piece argues public funds have funded publicity bureaus in California and Florida, suggesting Arkansas should adopt tax supported chambers of commerce for a statewide promotion to attract homeseekers and tourists, despite political risk. The author cites California and South Texas as benchmarks and urges systematic, broad promotion of natural resources.
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New York State
Roosevelt
Webb
Adirondack Mountains
California
Florida
Tan
Chambers of Commerce
Arkansas
South
Texas
New York Woman Meets Wallace Household Mystery
Gypsy McBride, 19, in a Parle style romance with Jim Wallace, marries him after social friction. The story follows Gypsy adjusting to the Wallace home, family pressure from Miss Ellen Wallace and Sophronia Nicholson, a chance meeting with a neighbor boy named Pat, and hints of past Marcia Loring scandal as tensions build toward a continuation.
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Gypsy McBride
New York
Alan Croshy
Whee Abe
James Wallace
Rowbridges
Guesia
Wallace
Gypsy
Bia Nance
Forest City
Jim
Ellen Wallace
Gypay
Mark Sfarrison
Jin's Inn
Ellen
Charles Nicholson
Lfe
Lucia Wallace
Lucie
Wilbur
Ben Wallace
Wilburn
Sophronia
Hilen
Lucia
Jim Wallace
Mias Wallace
Harriet
Harret
Sam Matson
Sam
Cora
Miss Wallace
Wanin
Davenpore
Becks
Pat
Kim
Flad
Tervier
Small Pat
Tuan
Wallace Home
White House
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Stay Publishing Co. Inc
Atex
H. Washburn
Mainee Hope
Ark
C. E. Palmer
Alek
Washburn
Opey
Wlarty
News of
Wi! E. Abernathy
Ashdown
A. S. Gibson
John Link Johnson
Water Creek Township
Pilsudski
Poland
Joliet Pen
Jim Ward
This Place
the Star
Mrs. Elmore Nichols
Patmos
Issac Anderson
Providence
Clara Huckabee
Zenobia Huckabee
Liberty
Walker Wiggins
Minor May
Julon
Arkait
Pat Loyes
Dave
Pati
John S. Gleson Drug Co
Adv
Hope Star
Furnfesed
Spruce Stret
J. E. Swinoley
Betty Compson
the Saenger
J. L. Rogers
City Limita
Callie M. Keen
T. L. Tedder
Erle C
Turner
Bramer Quality
C. W
Catslog
Braemer Poultry Farm
Fred Miller
Ack
Rt. 1
Clyde Toland
RA. S. L
Churchwell
Route 1
Washington
Nancy Hall
Simmons
Ross Gillespie
Halliburton Sheet Metal Works
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