13 Oct 1931
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1931
Page
1
Fragments outline a state program supporting scientific agricultural acts and a highway initiative. Mentions cooperative effort, efficient government, and county benefits. Referenced entities include Hempstead County and various organizations, with incomplete phrases about cattle ticks and local town improvements.
Camden council passes a city curfew aimed at youths under nine. Critics call it excessive and argue it criminalizes small children while supporters say it disciplines night conduct. Debate centers on age, enforcement, and effects on families and rights.
An elderly New York woman clings to $400,000 she lacks, resists relatives aiding her, and hires a nurse as a vivid example of how rapid modern life can slip away. The piece contends growing old isn’t inherently tragic, yet many old people become fixed, out of touch, and longing for a vanished world.
Rodney Dutcher reports on the George Washington Bicentennial celebration planned from February 22 to November 24, centering in Washington with Hoover as chairman and Sol Bloom leading a national program. The capital show features mass singing at the Monument, a grand parade, and a star-studded pageant with Fairbanks Ford and Pickford among others, plus a presidential Washington impersonator sought for the season.
Season to date cotton wagon receipts total 17,359 bales with 6,023 weighed at Boyett's Warehouse and 1,336 at the compress. Compress stock last night 5,990 bales, down from 9,20 last year on the same date. Iron Mountain train No 4 northbound derailed near Chepard eight miles south of the city. no serious injuries, but several hours of delay expected. Miss Mamie Briant chaperoned a Texarkana football trip for Hope High.
Barbs note the English gold crisis and Gandhi's visit drawing less attention from Mussolini. William Castle Jr urges resilience with a grin and bear it attitude. India has Gandhi, Italy Grandi, France Brandy. The witty line links knowledge to vitamins A B C.
In New Liberty friends note two Bright children and a Honea child are recovering from diphtheria. Thomas Pubile returned home to Hope after staying with his uncle Jack Hamilton. Enoch Latham of Texarkana visits the Hamiltons as Herman Hamilton nears recovery following tonsil removal.
Cora Donnell recalls Prescott church attendance with Langston and family last Sunday. Misses Bessie and Myrtle Hamilton along with Cohen and James Hamilton joined the singing at Sutton Sunday night.
Bethelham villagers report farming progress and invite Bible meeting attendees at Crang schoolhouse each Wednesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Iva Sutton move into Mr. Tom Landes’ house. Miss Madie Huckabee visits her sister. T. W. Landes visits Hope on business. Mrs. Henry Lewis and son Kennth return home after five weeks with sister Mrs. Lucille Landes. Nellie Huckabee calls W. E. Lewis. Mrs. George Williams improves after illness. John Beavers and Iva Williams take a Pine Bluff business trip.
The article notes farmers finishing cotton picking and busy with corn peas hay potato digging and syrup making. George Crews takes daughters Bonnie and Helen to Shover each morning for school while Brookie Nell Rogers Perry and others accompany him. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Mont Shepard of near Patmos with Kurber and Jordan families. John McClaughan of Hope builds a potato house for R V Stephenson.
An old advertisement notes headache as an early symptom of constipation. It urges treating the root cause with Thedford’s Black-Draught rather than painkillers, claiming widespread relief. A testimonial from L. P. Duncan of Tullahoma Tennessee describes headache relief after using the product.
Night with her brother and family as well as visitors at Willis A. Cobb’s home. Harold Sanford and family were in Hinton and Patmos over the weekend. Reports of illnesses and health wishes. Humorous quotes from Lustige Zeitung and Stray Stories.
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