West Theme Recurs Amid Local Social Notes
A column blends a verse about “the West” with community happenings. Little Miss Jean Young returns from Shreveport visits. The October Pat Cleburn chapter U D C meeting names delegates for the National Convention in Memphis and endorses Mrs. Massey for 1933 president general. Various social visits, church events, and dinners across Texarkana are noted, with reminders of upcoming meetings and a comic company scene closing the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat Cleburn
Edgar Briant
C. S. Lowthorp
J. F. Gorin
D. H. Tipscomb
Don Smith
Briant
Hich
Memphis
H. T. White
C. S. Lewthorp
Chas. Haynes
W. E. Massey
Hot Springs
R. 2. White
James R. Henry Sr
George Washington
Our County
Mary Carrigan
Washington
Harriet Grace Story
Charles Haynes
West Second Street
Insull's Billions Faded in Ruin Amid Market Crash
The report details Insull Utility Investments' insolvency with assets of 27.5 million against 253.98 million liabilities, a 207 million loss on securities, and similar shrinkages at Corporation Securities. It notes dramatic price drops for Insull holdings and portrays a deteriorating Samuel Insull as a once powerful financier haunted by ruin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Insull Utility
Corporation Securities, Inc
Middle West
Insull Utility Investments Co
Insull
Commonwealth Edison
People’s Gas
Public Service of Northern Illinois
Samuel Insull
Tragedy Follows Jealous Suitor in Death of Victor
Mile Cocea recalls her relationship with Victor a wonderful boy with a planned annulment. He battled doubts after long impetuous letters to Milo Cocea and jealousy, while two guests attended their last night. Funeral was attended by President Bouisson and naval officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milo
Cocea
Victor
Mile
President Bouisson
Chamber of Deputies
Hope Municipal Natatorium Planned With Federal Credit Help
City alderman praises Mayor Vesey for securing a $20,000 federal loan with more to follow to fund a municipal natatorium at Fair Park this winter. Hope reports 374 relief registrations and eight Hempstead county regional committees aiding other areas.
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Anderson
John Vesey
Little Rock
Fair Park
Hope
Hempstead
Fergusons Sister Dies at Nashville
Mrs. William C. Gaines died at her West Cypert street home after a long illness from diabetes and complications. Funeral services were held at the residence, with interment in Nashville cemetery. She leaves husband, daughter Virginia a Chicago Musical College student, son William Jr of Nashville, sister Mrs. O T Spraggins of Memphis, and five brothers J C Ferguson Idabel Oklahoma Henry, Ware, Charles and Jim all of Nashville.
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Nashville
Ark
William C. Gaines
West Cypert Street
Gaines
John H. Ferguson
Virginia
Chicago Musical College
William, Jr
O. T. Spraggins
Memphis
J. C. Ferguson
Idabel
Okla
Henry
Ware
Charles
Jim
Reconstruction Finance Corporation August Report Published
Washington report notes the Recon struction Finance Corporation released for August shows total loans of 186.2 million dollars. Of this 122 million funded financial institutions, 13.9 million aided states, and 15 million supported cotton interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
South Trimble
House of Representatives
Atlee Fomerene
Reconstruction Board
Rotary International delegate Alois Cervenka visits United States
Alois Cervenka of Plzen in Czecho Slovakia, a Rotary International committee member, is a druggist and plate glass manufacturer back home and travels to the United States on Rotary business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alois Cervenka
Plzen
Czecho
Tammany Passes Up Jimmy Walker
Former New York mayor James J. Walker broadcasts his congratulatory radio message to Democratic mayoral nominee Jann O’Brien aboard an Atlantic ocean liner as Surrogate John P. O’Brien wins the party’s nomination after Walker withdraws. Roosevelt and Smith push Lehman for the gubernatorial nomination in Albany.
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Europa
James J. Walker
Jann O'Brien
New York City
Walker
Mysore
India
John P. O'Brien
New York
mid-Atlantic
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alfred E. Smith
Roosevelt
Smith
Albany
Tammany
John F. Curry
Herbert Lehman
Stabilization Loans Support Arkansas Banks and Cotton Co‑Op
The Stabilization corporation extended loans totaling 35,000,000 dollars to the American Cotton Co-Operative association. Among Arkansas bank loans listed is the Security Bank of Searcy with 53,000 dollars.
Waiter Brought Eleven Oysters in Cologne Dining Row
A Cologne dining note recounts a waiter delivering eleven oysters when a dozen were ordered. The remark jokes about seating thirteen at a table, reflecting social dining etiquette in the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lustige Kolner Zeitung
Cologne
Will Leaves Reynolds Tobacco Fortune to Richard and Sisters
Smith Reynolds wrote a will less than a year before his murder in Winston Salem N C. It plans to leave the Reynolds tobacco fortune to his brother Richard and two sisters with specific bequests. Libby Holman is not named in the will despite reports of its creation near her Long Island summer home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Smith Reynolds
Winston- Salem
N. C
Reynolds Tobacco
Richard
Long Island
Libby Holman
Libby
What a Question Man at Garden Gate
A humorous Tit-Bits quip recalls a boy answering a passerby about his mother. The boy says he is mowing the lawn because the grass is long, highlighting a playful exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden Gate
Plant Based Laxative Black-Draught Syrup for Children
Thedford’s Black-Draught is a natural plant laxative made from ground grown vegetables. It stimulates the bowels using active medicines found in nature and offers a non synthetic option for daily digestion. Now available as a syrup for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thedford
Nature
Sheriff Light Sets Prisoner Diet At Thirty Cents A Day
Sheriff LightGileam announces daily prisoner feeding at 30 cents down from prior 19 2 cents and 23. The statement says meals are wholesome and ample though not fancy, aiming to curb epicure tastes as a policy warning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Onio
Gileam
Light
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Sir Henry
Arthur Chapman
Miss Jean Young
Shreveport
A. L. Black
Frank R. Johnson
Greenville
Miss and Mariamna
C.D. Lester
Hatley
Texara
Fred Stroud
John Fred
Valliant, Oklo
H. H. Griffin
J. L. Arrington
Camden
Womans Missionary Society
First Methodist Church
Washington Berry
Dorsey McRae
Ladies Auxiliary
The
Presbyterian Church In
DeQueen
S. G. Norton
Polk Singleton
Wallace Rogers
Boonville, Ark
First Baptist Church
Gus Haynes
South Pine Street
Haynes
Edith Lewis
Little River Association of the Baptist Church
R. M. LaGrone
Mrs
Surrey Gilliam
el Dorado
Prescott
Womans Missionary Society of the
Methodist Church
Lee Lane
O. A. Graves
Herbert M. Stephens
Blevins
Ralph Routon
Tully Henry
R. M. Briant
J. M. Stinson
Cameen
Mary Louise
Zilpha Keith
A. S. Guinn and Sons
Hugh and
Paris
Tex
G. W. Northcutt
Wailes
Irene Dunne
John Boles
Horseman
Nutley
IONA
A&p Coffees
Red Circle
Bokar
White House
Armour’s
Rubye Blevins
Patsy Montana
George W Ware
Experiment Station
E. F. McFaddie
Rotray
Fergusons
Wm. C. Gaines
Nashville News
Agarettes
Carte Mvens Tobacco CO
Chesterfield
Columbia Coast-to-Coast Network
Cesterfield
Jimmy Walker
O’brien
Smith-Roosevelt
Will
Reynolds
Shrader’s
Shrader
Main Street
Little Rock, Ark
Taylor’s Cafe
Elson‘huckins
Licersor & Myers Tonacco Co
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