Arkansas economic and public works snapshot from 1930 era
A condensed report lists varied Arkansas developments including 1930 industry activity with 819000 average price for a group of producers and merchants, federal bids for construction in several cities, school district bond issues, and highway projects. The item mentions university and college investments, municipal improvements, and notable regional inaugurations and dedications across multiple counties and towns.
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Hite
Avera
Arkansas
Ebay
Fie
Stutt
Bo- Sheridan
Finty
Albart
Newport
University of Arkansas
Paragould
Missouri
Orzanize
Motor Boone
Stone
Craighead
Carpenter Dam
Fine Bluff
Rectar
J. B. Schneitter
Plainview
Kennett
Harrison
Whitton
Jonesboro
Monticello A. & M. College
Hot Springs
Camden
White River
Clark
Arkadelphia
Alpine SOS telephone network to aid motorists and hikers
A plan to install a fully equipped SOS telephone system across Alpine routes includes cabins where homes or barracks lack stations. Sign posts will guide to the nearest 50S telephone, with multilingual instructions for calling ambulance, doctor, or police. Any injured person or motorist can call and receive immediate service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Érous Fay
50S
Fire Prevention Week Observed Across United States
Chicago notes the fifty ninth anniversary of the Great Fire started by Mrs OLearys cow as National Fire Prevention Week runs October 5 to 11. The piece cites historic losses, urges care with matches cigars and electrical devices, and highlights fire prevention advances and educational efforts nationwide.
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Chicago
O'Leary
O’leary
United States
Revivalist Clay's Career and Misdated Notes Lead In
Fragmentary text notes a minister who shifted from the clergy to revival work and church founding after controversies with church authorities. It also references 1930 cattle shipments in the British Ministry of Agriculture report, reporting declines in fat sheep and pigs and a total year figure of 510,892 tons with scattered mentions of Ireland and Sandusky, Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ministry of Agriculture
Christina Heim
Sandusky
Ohio
London
Four States Lead Illiteracy Move in 1930s drive
Four southern states Georgia Alabama South Carolina and Louisiana head the nationwide illiteracy campaign as 240 270 illiterates were taught to read and write 40 948 in Georgia 41 728 in Alabama 49 445 in South Carolina and 108 351 in Louisiana The National Advisory Committee on Literacy chaired by Ray Lyman Wilbur notes campaigns in Virginia West Virginia Tennessee and Arkansas with no returns yet and reports Julius Rosenwald fund matched local funds with one dollar for every two raised to support the effort
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Georgia
Alabama
South Carolina
Louisiana
National Advisory Committee On
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Virginia
West
Tennessee
Arkansas
Julius Rosenwald
Brother of Henry Clay Buried in Confederate Cemetery
In Camden Arkansas the grave of Porles Clay, brother of Henry Clay, lies in an old Confederate cemetery. Clay died in poverty and estranged from kin, a rarely visited spot noting his kin to the famed statesman.
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Henry Clay
Arkansas
Camden. Ark. Ort
Porles Clay
Clay
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