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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1936
Page
11
Contested public notice hints at selecting a steady leader capable of truth discernment amid turmoil. The article lists community events and meetings across Brankwood, Mex, and nearby towns, including the Hive Day observance and church circles with notes on hospitality, devotionals, and December plans. It also reports a new birth, adding Carley Naomi to the family of Hamp Muett.
Slapstick cinema is recaptured with stars like Myrna Loy and William Powell in The Man, It Happened One Night, and The Gay Desperado. Joan Crawford and Clark Gable appear in glamor contrasted scenes. Lily Pons plays playful chaos with a supporting cast including Gene Raymond and Mischa Auer. The piece notes audiences’ fondness for absurd humor and the era’s shift toward zany, unpredictable humor.
The piece notes the 25th anniversary of the electric self starter and its practical adoption in 16 automobiles, with plans to observe the event in New York alongside upcoming auto shows. Charles F. Kettering led research at General Motors, building a Dayton lab team, while Henry M. Leland first applied the device to Cadillac, aiding safety and ease of use for drivers, especially women.
Scattered returns from Maine to California show Roosevelt building a lead in key states. Massachusetts and Minnesota piece by piece push his total electoral votes higher while Republicans lag in Pennsylvania and other early count regions.
An advance bulletin to Orville W. Erringer, state manager for Hamilton Depositors, announces a 25 percent rise in the October 31 1926 quarterly dividend to 1.66 cents per Hamilton Trust Share. The record marks the eighteenth consecutive dividend and the largest October distribution in the fund’s history. The President’s Report notes substantial gains across the portfolio with notable increases in United Gas, Detroit Edison, Consolidated Edison, Union Pacific, United States Steel, General Electric, Du Pont, and Union Carbide. The Hamilton Trust Fund’s current market value reaches 1 251 800 as of October 24 1936, up over 100 percent in the past year.
Mississippi faces autumn losses as federal data reveal about four million gallons of sugar cane syrup and two million gallons of sorghum syrup produced annually. The piece also recalls James Ward Packard, born 1863 and died 1928, and mentions leaf-sisis pests in the Guianas.
In initial returns the Union party vote for Representative Lemke was negligible across sections. The New Deal grows stronger as tabulation continues. Lamon trails by about 1,000 votes in Kansas, while London leads in Maine Massachusetts Michigan Nebraska New Hampshire Rhode Island and Vermont.
Fragment from a diary style narrative mentions a hospital, nurses, silk sheets, and a private operating theater, with the narrator pondering life’s comforts and a looming sense of villainy in a character named Henry amid sports references to a Colorado university football squad.
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