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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1937
Page
3
George Amord, injured and lame, seeks at home work to support his family with a home cartooning course costing $25. After earning the outfit and starting work, he faces criticism and a requested extra $20 for professional polish, while a local artist bluntly condemns the venture as a deceitful scam and warns Jane and George that his cartoons show no real promise.
City wide Thanksgiving service planned at First Baptist Church Thursday at 10 a.m. Rev Vernon Hammond of First Christian Church to preach. All church choir members asked to participate with First Baptist providing special music. Citizens invited to attend the union service.
Mary Davis Gillies notes Shaker furniture from a historical sect returns as chic decor. New pieces blend old designs with industrial touches, preserving simple lines while using dowel pins and rounded forms. Travelers to Europe show rising interest in Shaker inspired settings.
A fragmented etiquette item outlines questions on telephone manners. It covers whether to note call time, how a single woman should announce herself on business calls, avoiding private chatter in crowded spaces, and handling missed calls. It presents sample answers about saving awkwardness and timing.
Practical carving guide by Joan Duriam from the AP service. Edmond Schunk of Vincent Astor's St. Regis Hotel in New York explains a step by step method, including positioning the bird, cutting the drumsticks, and separating joints for serving. Continued on Page Two.
In bitter cold at Hope, Ifigl School beat Blevins 33 0 to win its Ulehth grid contest. Bobcats staged a 65 yard opening drive with Vasco Bright scoring and Stone adding. Masters, Bright, Eason and Fulkerson scored for Hope, with strong line play from Stone and Parsons supplying the extra points. Blevins battled but was shut out through three quarters as Hope pulled away 26 0 at halftime. The Bobcats face St Joseph High School of Dallas on Thanksgiving Day in their 12 game schedule finale.
Tom Dolan inherits a mystery after Mrs. Callahan’s death and a stranger funds his college. He seeks his parentage and origins through Skip Tracers Co. detective Daniel Eisenberg finds two clues: his birthday Oct 21 1907 and a past move to a distant city with bridge in its name. The pursuit to identify his father and mother continues.
Rome Italy 74 premier Mussolini announced a cabinet shakeup naming the Duke of Aosta as viceroy of Ethiopia while Mussolini himself took the African portfolio. He holds five of fourteen ministries including interior war navy vir and colonies.
LITTLE ROCK State Director W A Rooksberg of the Unemployment Compensation Division assured employers there is no danger the unemployment fund will be used for any purpose other than paying benefits to eligible Arkansas workers. He said law requires every penny be deposited with the U S Treasury for the Arkansas Unemployment Compensation Fund, with a reserve to ensure program permanency.
Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Modslevsky and Dr. A. C. Kobb will leave Hope Sunday morning for New Orleans to take an intensive one week postgraduate course in medicine and surgery. The week after they will attend the South Medical Association meeting in New Orleans starting November 29. Tulane university offers the postgraduate course to visiting doctors during the week of November 22.
Treasury agents conducted synchronized raids nationwide and smashed a 750000-dollar-a-year narcotic distributing ring. Seizures involved 17 importers and large-scale dealers, with many operating through the Hip Sing Chinese tong, marking the largest such action since March 1935.
This query appears as a playful trivia prompt from a classified page. It asks about the lightest known wood, the Nobel prizes, whether Patrick Henry was Irish, and the Mason-Dixon line, then requests the remainder of the U S Constitution preamble. The note indicates answers appear on the classified page.
The Fruit & Truck Branch Experiment Station recorded an official low of 20 degrees Saturday morning, the lowest this season in southwest Arkansas. Official readings over the past four days show 82.4, 29, 26, and 20 degrees. The Associated Press forecast at noon Saturday predicts relief with a fair, slightly warmer night and Sunday.
The World Museum sponsored by the American Legion will stay at 112 South Elm Street Hope for another week. It benefits the Christmas Charity Basket Fund. Featured attractions include Alberta a 25 year old 33 inch tall figure from Mexico who speaks no language and Dr LeRoy the mentalist presenting Mental Telepathy.
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee will begin hearings December 1 on a resolution urging Governor Merriam of California to grant a full and complete pardon to Tom Mooney, with Mooney possibly appearing as a witness. The probe aims to scrutinize the San Quentin inmate’s case and seek clemency.
The Chinese government announced the surrender of Soochow 50 miles west of Shanghai as Japanese spokesmen hailed it as a stunning capture. Chungking officials vowed to continue fighting inland, while Soochow’s loss is described as pivotal with minimal Chinese resistance.
Local Red Cross fundraiser in Columbus lists multiple donors and amounts, led by R C Stuart and totaling 45.36 from Columbus community contributions. The article also notes prior balance and various names tied to the drives including Columbus High School and CCC Camp participants.
A concise aphorism attributed to Pythagoras notes that a thought or idea may start in folly but concludes in repentance, reflecting on the moral arc from folly to contrition.
New Orleans cotton opened at 7.88 and finished Saturday at 7.95. Spathette closed seven points higher, middling at 7.97.
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