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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1930
Page
1
An excerpted opinion on the rise of racketeering from New York to Chicago. It describes protection rackets in dry cleaners, musicians, and stores, with threats and violence used to enforce payments. The piece argues racketeering undermines civil order and civic authorities must act to prevent national decline.
The piece surveys Pennsylvania political power dynamics with Pinchot and Vare factions, noting Philadelphia and Allegheny county machines contend for influence. It highlights Atterbury’s railroad bloc, intra-party shifts, and the likely Senate race tensions as Philadelphia pressures a Pittsburgh contingent.
A collage of quips on Turkey Greece Thanksgiving and charity coal from a New York writer. Knute Rockne praised for study habits. Java rubber trees yield to rice crops signaling shifting economies. A college professor hints men should marry stenographers. A stray line hints at church doublings and prayer.
At the church the 9:45 a.m. Sunday school offers age department classes for lesson study with hearty invitations to join. Morning worship centers on The Righteousness of Faith and an evening sermon on Every Man Finds his Own Place A universal Law of Life. Special choir mass at 7:31 p.m. Young People’s Society program. Executive Board meeting Monday 7:30 p.m. Ladies Auxiliary. Wednesday prayer meeting and Bible study listed.
First Baptist Church invites members to attend Sunday prayer and morning session at 9 45 with Pastor Bowen. The 11 o'clock sermon will address church work problems, followed by an evening talk at 7 40 on the topic What May We Expect from the Rubbish Heaps. The church urges a large turnout of boys and girls.
Geneva officials say progress toward global abolition of slavery is being made. Over the past year measures reduce or end slavery in Persia, Sudan, Abyssinia, and Transjordan. Ratifications of the League's convention rose from two to forty four, though the Mohammedan world remains the hardest area due to religious recognition of slavery.
Fragmentary text references places like Tulsa and actions resembling a boxing exhibition with prize cocks from Spain and South America. Mentions dates, rivers, high temperatures, and beer consumption. Difficult to extract coherent events or entities beyond scattered references to locations, individuals, and activities.
Texas dominates U S sulphur production according to Commerce figures with 2 439 978 long tons mined in 1929 valued at 396 527 409 at the mines Nevada and Utah contribute minor portions The figure shows output more than double a decade earlier and Texas accounts for over 90 percent of the U S total Ouachita College Book Store Damaged By Fire
Springfield news item reports 78 year old Alexander Newton, a widower and former coal mine hoist operator, placing a newspaper ad offering his home’s free room and board to the first unemployed middle aged couple to respond. He notes loneliness since his wife’s death last April and says three persons will live with him.
In San Francisco Officer B C Lally of the harbor police stands by over a $2 600 000 gold bullion shipment brought ashore by the liner Shinya Maru. The five ton load is tied up and awaiting unload until the next day, with Lally noting that guarding a couple of million dollars isn’t much fun.
In Tulsa Oklahoma a new padded spur cockfight trend drew attention as some groups organized events to aid unemployed veterans. Officials noted safety concerns and the unusual method attracted local spectators and press scrutiny.
A Presbyterian missionary family from Memphis Tennessee Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Tylee and daughter Marian were attacked in the Brazilian jungle where Rev. Tylee served. The Rev. Tylee, Marian, and a nurse were killed. Mrs. Tylee was wounded according to the photo caption accompanying the story.
A Massachusetts study by the Massachusetts Fruit Growers Association surveyed 4,000 families on apple use. It shows 48.7 percent eaten fresh, 42.6 percent cooked, and 48.0 percent used in salads. The report notes regional variations across the state.
WILLISTON N D A raft built from two stacked rows of empty barrels will travel to New Orleans after floating the Missouri and Mississippi. Builders include C W Christman homesteader Bob Ras hler ranch foreman and Frank Keith transient riverman with a cabin and motor for propulsion.
In 1923 Canada shipped over 29.6 per cent of its beer to the United States, with the United States also absorbing 98 per cent of Cana exports in wine. The wine total reached 40,116 gallons worth $107,114. Canadian beer exports to the U S amounted to 986 per cent of volume totaling 78,201 gallons sold for $2,848,955. Citizens within Canada consumed a portion domestically.
A roundhouse banquet was held in Varberg Sweden to mark an anniversary of the Varberg Borås railway company. Over 240 invited guests included engineers and conductors with the railway for more than twenty years.
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