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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1930
Page
3
A garbled report discusses women’s suffrage and juror eligibility, noting leaders in Utah and Iowa differ on women voting and serving as jurors. It mentions Meyer, Cooper, Hammil, and Emitherson in relation to the November vote and citizen duty.
In Iowa City, the University of Iowa launches a first‑in‑America school of letters under Prof Norman Foerster. All language and literature departments Greek Latin French Spanish German English join in one integrated program aiming to dissolve traditional departmental borders and emphasize shared language study.
Veland Ohio October 8 UP Cleveland Public Library announces the John White collection acquired the Vendidad version of Vesta five sacred books in the Faris of the Zoroastrian canon. The rare volume is one of only three known copies remaining.
Sydney's harbor span set for December 1931 completion as the final joining of the two 1 650 foot halves was completed on August 19. The project ranks among the largest bridge feats in history, with progress advancing steadily through the final stages.
The project details a two hinged arch bridge totaling 3770 feet including approaches. It will carry four electric railway lines and a 56 foot roadway with capacity for six lanes of traffic. Arch height reaches 110 feet and 170 feet clearance at high water. Dorman Long & Co. builds it.
New York Ontario report shows 247 airplanes manufactured and 273 sold in August across commercial and military sectors. The figures highlight a robust month for aerospace activity amid ongoing demand.
In Tientsin on a pleasure trip near Shanhaikuan a man drowned after relatives and friends failed to rescue him. A fisherman offered to save him for 500 dollars, but relatives first balked at the price and then offered 130 and 180 dollars before finally agreeing to the 500. The man disappeared in the water for the third time.
PIEDMONT D Oct. UPI Uncovering logs in the Piedmont petrified forest four miles north of here suggests it will be the largest in the world when dug out Geologists say the length girth and extent of the analyzed wood already found promise to surpass the Arizona petrified forest Excavations this summer yielded a log 35 feet long and two feet in diameter said to be the largest ever found
Deadwood South Dakota report notes rancher Claude Adams found a tin can near a spring while tending cattle. The cache contained gold dust valued at about 7.45 dollars according to a local jeweler. The find echoes old Black Hills mining lore of miners hiding dust caches during Indian threats or while traveling.
In Butte Montana radio installation work is underway on air mail planes of National Parka Airways Inc. Nearly 70000 dollars is being spent to fit seven planes with intermediate wave length receivers to receive weather reports. E J Seely, radio engineer, says completion is expected within a month. Flights operate between Great Falls, Butte and Salt Lake City.
Alliance, Neb. Oct 8 A drought and lack of pasturage have not seriously affected the cattle business in Nebraska says Robert Graham president of the Nebraska Cattle Growers Association Shipments for the year have begun in all grazing centers and indicate an excellent year Association records show that during June July and August 67271 head of cattle were shipped to market a substantial increase over the same period in 1925
UNBANA Til Oct UP Snails that form today s table delicacies are the same kind that existed about 40 000 years ago says Dr Frank C Baker curator of the University of Illinois Museum He has completed a study of snails sent from Algeria found imbedded in rock from the stone age period He notes that the snail rings and essential characteristics were the same as those seen today
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