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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1940
Page
1
A fragmented report notes pan American protests against aggression in Europe and the Low Countries, urging unity against Nazi influence. It mentions police raids on gatherings, German propaganda activities, defense measures, and Italian Fascist action, with concerns over Nazi and Communist networks and rising tensions in 1938.
Pinkey Byers and Elmer Brown report a good show as the Senior Class presents The Arrival of Kitty next Thursday evening at the New Grand Theater. Frances Reed returns from Little Rock trip. Maggie Betl hosts Mrs C S Chapman of Shreveport as house guest.
Answers list key figures and dates from antiquity and modern history. Mentions Alexander the Great 323 B.C. Caesar 2 B.C. Constantine 337 A.D. Charlemagne 814 A.D. Napoleon 1812 A.D. Bismarck 1871. Mentions regions Germany Lithuania Latvia Finland Sweden Denmark and seas near the Dardanelles and Mediterranean.
For sale three business lots on East Front Street plus a nice lot on South Main in the 400 block and a six room house one block south of the new courthouse. Terms include $150 cash balance and less than $25 per month. See Floyd Porrierfield.
A brief sketch shows how Nazi moves spark concern across Europe and boost pro Nazi and fascist factions while the Americas vow to stay united against foreign influence and internal subversion. cooperation with Communists appears in the background.
A mixed crossword style puzzle lists horizontal and vertical clues from 4 to 52 with references to a cabinet official related to treaties and import export. The grid hints include terms like Norse deity and fish eggs, suggesting a filled word puzzle solution topic around government and common nouns.
Raymond Robins files with the Arkansas Commissioner of Revenues for a retail liquor permit at Robins Liquor Store in Fulton Arkansas. Permit would run July 1, 1940 to June 30, 1941 under Bulletin January 7, 1938 and Supplemental Regulation No 19 effective July 10, 1997.
Notice shows an application for a liquor permit for Robins Liquor Store at 220 East Third Street Hope Arkansas. Permit sought with bulletin dated January 1 19 and effective July 10 1947.
A. L. McNeal about 50 of Little Rock was rescued from a submerged automobile in Lake Hamilton near Hot Springs after the car ran off the Huot Springs Glenwood highway. He was in unconscious condition in a Hot Springs hospital Thursday night. Two passers by waded to the car and pulled him to shore where a lung motor was applied.
In a vivid, opinionated sketch the piece notes Berlin’s expansion through European capitals from Vienna to Brussels and claims Hitler seeks more capital. It laments the World’s Fair dropping its Tomorrow motif, hints at Sumner Welles’s possible disclosure on Europe’s leaders and the war’s future.
A fragmented, archaic dialogue poses etiquette queries about child dinner conversation, loud exclamations at table, handling bread, and using utensils. It references a moment with Orson Welles and a Dutch figure looking skyward, suggesting a literary aside amid obscure, mispunctuated text.
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