The Tramp Printer Echoes Through Print History
Arthur Floyd recalls the vanished era of roaming printers like Walt Whitman and Mark Twain in Inland Printer. He describes a modern linotype man who still travels, chasing work from Havana to the metropolitan papers, keeping the spirit of the Tramp Printer alive despite mechanized industry and changing times.
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Arthur Floyd
Mark Twain
Missouri
Willian Dean Howells
Stewart
Willie Waterhouse
Walla Walla
Wash
Floyd
United States
Havana
Telegraph
Court
Metropolitan Papers
Official Count Announced on Rates and Amendments
Election officials released the official statewide tally Tuesday detailing votes for President and Governor along with results on multiple amendments and acts. Democrats carried the presidential choice while Republicans trailed. amendment tallies show varied support and opposition across measures. Nobly, Homer Adkins and Harley C. Stump appear among gubernatorial candidates with minor third party totals.
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Homer Adkins
Harley C. Stump
Walter
McNutt
Ind
Verse Reflection on The Wicked as Restless Sea
Quotation from Isaiah 57 20 compares the wicked to a troubled sea unable to rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt. The verse declares there is no peace for the wicked, expressing a stern moral warning.
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God
Emmet Youth Wins National Farmers Award
Emmet, Arkansas youth Gerald Reyenga won the 1940 Star Farmer of America title at the Future Farmers of America annual convention in Kansas City. The award carried $500 from the Kansas City Star. two Arkansas youths, Harold Ellen and Gerald Reyenga, were listed among 156 candidates for the American Farmer degree, the organization’s top honor, requiring three years of vo-ag study and significant farming investment and achievement.
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Kansas City
Arkansas
Future Farmers of America
Star Farmer of America
Gerald Revenga
Emmet
Future Farms ¢Rs
American Royal Livestock and Horse Show
Kansas City Star
Arkansans Quality
Harold Ellen
Junction City
Gerald Reyenga
Ember Trust
Italians Are Driven Back At Front In Albania
British air raids hit Albanian bases behind Italian lines with depots and munitions dumps blown up. Greek troops retreat in parts of Albania as Italians push to regain heights near Koritza. At Durazzo and Valona raids disrupted supplies, while a new ration drive claims Greek positions south of Koritza.
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Athens
High Command
Durazzo
Albania
Valona
New Deive
Belgrade
Koritza
Koritea-Phlorina
Roosevelt third term expected to sustain New Deal reforms
Bruce Catton analyzes Roosevelt's likely path in a third term, predicting continued heavy government spending to drive economic recovery. The Wagner act, securities act, wage-hour law, and New Deal farm programs would persist with possible detail changes, work relief continuing, strong labor influence, no TVA retreat, and broadened pensions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Sidney Hillman
Defense Commission
TVA
Safety Day Is Set for Nov. 19 Hope Chamber Plans Program
The Hope Chamber of Commerce announces Safety Day on Tuesday November 19 with visits to all city schools and industrial plants to promote safe practices. A 430 pm mass meeting at the City Auditorium will award certificates to Camp Alton boys and plants with perfect records. Talks by Dr. R H Foster and Wilson Runfon plus reports from industries schools and city government will follow. The Hope High School Band will perform and a safety picture will run at the Saenger Theatre all week.
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Hope
Chamber of Commerce
Ched Hall
Chamber of Commercce
Roy Anderson
John Guthrie
C. P. Robarts
Leonard
City Auditorium
Camp Alton
R. H. Foster
Wilson E. Runfon
State Department of Labor
Hope High School
Guy E. Basye
Saenger Theatre
General Motors Corporation
Saenger
Hempstead Circuit Court Opens With Judge Bush
The Hempstead Circuit Court convened in the courthouse Tuesday morning with Judge Dexter Bush of Texarkana presiding. Many civil cases were listed for opening, but only the McBrayer versus Lamber Ca personal injury suit had been heard by 2 pm and was not finished. The civil docket is expected to extend through the week while criminal cases, including two first degree murder counts and several burglary grand larceny and assault charges, may begin next week.
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Hempstead
J. K Carruthers Killed in Prescott Train Collision
Prescott report says J. K. Carruthers twenty five, a farmer near Prescott, was killed at 0:40 Monday when the Missouri Pacific Sunshine Special struck his automobile at Elm street crossing. He died instantly. survived by wife and one child. Funeral services set for 2:30 Wednesday at Midway church with Rev. Willie Arnold officiating.
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Prescott
J. K. Caruthers
Missouri Pacific
Sunshine Special
Elm Street
Carruthers
Hoe
J. K. Carruthers
Midway Church
Cornish Undertaking
Willie Arnold
Rookie Riflemen Learn to Use Many New Weapons
Drafted infantry trainees will shift from WWI style units to a modern force with nine rifle companies per regiment and three heavy-weapon companies. During 13 weeks of prep, draftees train with rifles grenades bayonets and with light machine guns mortars and auto rifles. Later they learn battalion to army corps level training and by year end will be infantrymen who know their jobs.
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Milton Bronner
NEA
Washington
John Q. Citizen
Europe
Ifle
Just Plain Guts ad appears on Page 3 Star today
The eighth in a series of press ads by American publishers explains the free press and democracy. The notice notes Cuba’s population as 60 percent white and 40 percent Negro.
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Eigth
Today's Star
Cuba
Methodist Conference Opens in Texarkana with Eve Session
More than 300 Methodist ministers and lay delegates arrived for the Little Rock Conference opening. The first general session is Tuesday night with Holy Communion under Bishop Selecman. Dr. Frank Hekman of Duke University will preach the conference sermon.
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Texarkana
Little Rock
Aubrey C. Walton
Albert Little
Conference Board of Christian Education
E. C. Rule
Pine Bluff
Charles C. Saleeman
Selecman
Frank
Hekman
Duke University
Cranium Crackers Trade Jargon Quiz prompts and clues
A puzzle feature asks five jargon questions across rail, radio, film, music, and crime. It requests what haghead means, a sustaining radio program, a horse opera, a long-haired boy, and a snow bird with answers on Page Two.
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Hollywood
Explosions Rock Northeastern Plants Killing Several
A staged series of blasts at two industrial plants in the northeast killed three men and wounded many, with alarms across towns including Woodbridge New Jersey and Edinburg Pennsylvania. The incidents involve factories tied to defense production and chemical works, with investigators from the FBI beginning inquiries.
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Federeau
Ina
Defense
United Railway
Woodbridge
Edinburg
New Castle
Wester Pennsylvani
Trojan En Pany
Souts
Hope Malvern Meet Friday Strength in Local Grid Showdown
Hope and Malvern prepare for Friday as Malvern eyes a top state ranking after a 2 0 win over Prescott. Coach Breeding returns to guard, May may try fullback, Oliver shines in running, Jewell adds gains, and the aerial game enables the Bobcats to post 20 points for their first victory.
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Prescott
Malvern
Little Rock
Camilden
Bobcats
Breeding
May
Oliver
Jewell
Cotton NY Market Report Refines January Quotes
In New York trading, January cotton finished at 9.76 cents per pound after an intraday high near 9.82. The Middling spot price stood at 40.07 cents, reflecting modest shifts in futures and cash markets.
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New York
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Hempstead Red Cross Drive
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Mattie -Ann
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Harry Fisk
G. Collier
J. B. Ellen
T. H. Butler
R. M. Wilson
Warry Lemley
Mary
Emmet Youth
National Farmers Award
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Berlin
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Hy Bruce Caton
Henry Wallace
Senate
Lee H. Garland
Hempstead County
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Ealing
H.R. Moore Jr
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College Hill Methodist Church
Otto Teague
Fairview Methodist Church
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