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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1931
Page
4
A reflective piece urges walking honestly with love to discover true friends. The text contrasts truth with deceit and links good character to trusted companionship. Local items mention Sunday gatherings in Texarkana, visits from families, and social club plans at Reading Club in Bay View.
The article reports Joe Cook’s ex wife Helen Beatrice Cook, Broadway comedian, facing an uncontested divorce in Newark while Joe travels with a Chicago musical comedy. It notes their three children and a Sunday Saenger Theatre audience, plus local music teachers Mrs McRae and Miss Valentine. Additional brief society items list Rev and Mrs W R Chandler visiting Little Rock, Mr and Mrs Kline Snyder visiting relatives, Miss Louise Riddick visiting from Morriston Hwill, and B P W club meeting at Hotel Barlow with Mrs Talbot Feild as hostess.
Trick skaters head to Hope Roller Rink for three nights this week Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday The five member troupe will entertain local fans and offer instruction in events demonstrated by the performers Interviews may be arranged at the Buller Rink starting Tuesday night Featured performers include Miss Rida Mills Ray Brooks Jack Mec Gaughy and Billie Ladabetter.
Fragmentary text describes fines or penalties tied to a pump and potential legal matter. No clear names, places, dates, or organizations are readable. The readable bits suggest a distant, unclear reference to fines in connection with a black youth and a patent or public works context.
Sensational drama of cranked politics and underworld life based on actual city happenings. Wallace Beery leads a large cast including Lewis Stone Marjorie Rambeau Jean Harlowe and John Mack Brown in a Metro Goldwyn Mayer production.
Snow Williams of East Texas oil fields spent the weekend with home folks Mr and Mrs Dock Samuels and family of DeAnn visiting Mrs J A Johnson on North Hervey Street. Ben Haynes a Ouachita College student spent the weekend with his parents here Mrs and Mrs Gus Haynes. Carter Haynes of Camden formerly of this city was a visitor in Hope Saturday and Sunday.
A restaurant chatterbox riffs on boxing, contracts and scams. He notes Sharkey is billed to fight Carnera in Brooklyn amid contract snags and suspensions, questioning integrity and fate of a world championship bout. The talk hints at boxing politics, promoters, and possible reversals in New York and California.
In Angora the dusty unlevelled courtyard around Saint Sophia Cathedral is being beautified by municipal workers. They are paving with marble and laying flower beds. Benches will be added for visitors and a voting area may be installed for Turks to sip coffee before prayer.
Prescott Bill Erwin, son of Mr and Mrs W E Erwin, has been selected by J W Jernigan as the club boy to deliver the response to the welcome address by Dr J C Futrall during Farmers Week.
Miss Marjorie Reed of Albion, N. Y. was named Tree Day Mistress and the senior class’s most beautiful member at Wellesley College. Other top selections included Elizabeth Lineberger of Long Beach California Elsie Watkins Highland Park Illinois Mary Griffin Hudson Falls New York and Katherine Brown Dale Park Illinois.
In Bon Terre Missouri five month old David Bayles was introduced to his ears with a lengthy welcome. He has seven grandmothers and six grandfathers including two great grandparents, highlighting a large extended family present at the event.
FARMINGTON Ark U ARI Ap proximately 450000 tomato plants are being distributed to growers in this section. More than 100 acres will be planted in tomatoes for shipment as green wrap tomatoes and for can ning.
Cleveland note: radio beacons provide exact ship locations and positions to foghorns on the Great Lakes. Beacons with an eye to see a lighthouse two miles away through heavy fog aid vessels, per BE R. Mc Cracken. The 34 beacons were set up by the U S Lighthouse service and are clock operated, checked daily from Arlington during the navigation season to prevent interference between stations.
The Lind costume, worn by the Swedish Nightingale Jeony Lind, shown in a church in Maine over 86 years ago, will be exhibited at the Cologne Museum of Applied Arts.
In Rio de Janeiro a horse allegedly killed itself by dash into a fast moving vehicle after days of sulkiness, according to its owner. The report notes the animal's deliberate action and references urban traffic risk.
The text recalls a chaotic baseball moment with a sharp insult, a home plate confrontation, and a retort about the Marcel. It mentions Al Shwmane and a snappy dresser, with an exchange between a manager and umpire about where the technique was learned.
In Mildmay England a 34 year old, Gordon Togwood, fired from a window at a rat, hit a policeman and was fined ten dollars in court. The incident followed a mistaken aim during a local scuffle. The court proceedings identified Ed Richard as the officer involved and the defendant faced a modest penalty.
Helier Jersey reports a legal change making it a violation to export snakes lizards and other reptiles as they are deemed of great use to the island. The law aims to curb outbound shipments of reptiles to protect local resources and biodiversity.
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