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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1932
Page
2
A quotation from Col R R McCormick extols the newspaper as a product of modern civilization that reports daily news, promotes commerce, and provides a critical check on government through broad advertising and public discourse.
The Star outlines 1932 platform moves for city progress and improved sanitation, backing the Chamber of Commerce. It describes a county highway program to build gradual all weather roads and reduce miles, plus support for scientific agricultural programs and farmer cooperative effort. State highway progress and tax reform through a budget system are urged for efficient government.
Berlin crowds shout birthday greetings to President von Hindenburg showing deep public support amid mounting tension in Europe. The piece argues such sentiment stabilizes Germany amid rising threats from Hitler, the Hohenzollerns, and Communists, likening it to Gandhi’s influence in India.
The item discusses legendary claims of a toad surviving long periods in airless, foodless, and waterless confinement such as inside an empty Civil War cannon ball in Franklin, Pennsylvania. Experts dispute these tales as implausible, yet the anecdotes persist, fueling a lingering sense of wonder.
CLONAL LEONARD P. AYRES, a business prognosticator, says the long-awaited corner has turned with a normal seasonal upturn this fall, unlike 1931 and 1930. While slow recovery remains likely, the mood shifts from despair to cautious optimism as prospects improve and people regain hope for real advance.
Quotes from Loring A. Schuler, Herbert Hoover, Patrick Hurley, and General Nobuyoshi Muto reflect concern over economic distress, potential war, and decisive national aims amid tensions. The passage contrasts social pressures with political resolve and Japan's Manchuria stance.
A columnist argues Napoleon’s Egypt gaze echoes today’s rulers and cites Samuel Insull’s 1920s utility collapse. He links Insull’s holding companies to failures of regulation, warns of a government aligned with finance, and calls for stronger federal oversight to protect small investors and the general public.
C Bryner Jones notes the wild ancestors of European cattle are unknown. Domestic cattle bones appear in Neolithic England sites but only within human settlements. It is presumed cattle were brought to Europe from Asia.
Mary Eleanor McGuire, age defying 67 years with J. E. Neilson Dry Goods in Oxford Mississippi, began as a clerk during the Civil War era and has never left the firm except a four year gap. She won a national prize as America's oldest businesswoman and says she feels 16 healthwise.
In a reminiscence of Oxford's past, Miss McGuire recalls lean years in the South with scarce money and frequent panics, the goal of three meals daily and education for children, and how the women of her youth shared the vanity and dress concerns of girls today.
Almeda Babcock 22 arrives in Hope with pilot Frank Jones for a four day display culminating in an Air Circus. Babcock plans twin parachute leaps while performing stunts aboard the Spartan Dawn Patrol in Tyler, Texas. Her husband died two years ago attempting a five chute jump.
The piece portrays Miss McGuire urging girls to pursue the best in themselves through duty and a bright smile. She lauds fashion for those who can afford it and notes her life membership in the Oxford Professional and Business Women's Club. A teacher’s Milton joke caps the vignette.
A Scottish landowner complains about the weather to a tenant. The tenant agrees noting only three fine days this month with two already snatched by the Saw bath.
Inside details of a New York columnist style reporter are shown as Lew Ayres stars in Okay America at the Saenger. He plays Larry Way who uses undercover methods to reveal police and gangland secrets and helps solve a kidnapping while delivering dramatic news broadcasts. Supporting cast includes Ma O'Sullivan Walter Catlett Allan Dwan Kart Margaret Lindsey Henry Metta Emerson Treacy.
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