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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1939
Page
5
In Knoxville the University of Tennessee Greek letter sororities face limited private space for initiation rites. Rooms assigned in dormitories may not accommodate secret ceremonies as planned, prompting questions about secrecy and logistics.
Various society items from the community page. A poetry fragment accompanies notices of a theater event and social club meetings. Residents Mrs. Grady Hirston and Mr. Cantley move into the city. The Bay View Reading Club hosts a program on glass and antiques led by Mrs. Houston, with next meeting planned for November 1.
A literary roundup praises Mary Sehumatin's Strife Before Dawn for its stark frontier drama. The tale follows Keith Maitland and his wife Hope, whose home burns when she is captured by Indians. she later marries her captor, while Maitland falls for Virginia youth Jagguetine Norris. Conflict escalates through Indian and white clashes before a hopeful ending.
Shreveport hosts two Louisiana State Fair auto race programs on Sunday Oct 22 and Sunday Oct 29. The 1939 International Motor Contest Association finale features top dirt track contenders from Gus Schrader and Emory Collin to Johnny Holmes and Johnny Wohfiel. Entries promise one of the largest fastest fields in years with strong national championship prospects.
Private Walter P. Steele of Company G Sixteenth Infantry recounts 26 years in the army detailing combat in the last war where he earned the Distinguished Service Cross. He discusses pay and retirement plans and notes soldiers’ focus on food women and liquor while reflecting on duty and obedience.
A historical segment centers on four Shawnee chiefs including Pontiny the Indian dictator and Logan who avenged a massacre. It features Sam Brady’s famed escape, the Moravian Indians massacre at a Christian mission, and Sinmen Girty depicted with disputed renegade views.
Paris report on Western Front medical advances highlights aims to reduce casualties and improve survival. Innovations include refined surgical techniques, safer blood storage enabling longer preservation, rapid ambulances, in-place emergency hospitals near the Maginot line, new disinfectants, and anti tetanus injections to curb infection and gangrene.
Beltsville Maryland reports a spray from the U S Horticultural Station that prevents premature apple drop. It uses a growth substance in strong concentrations to slow fruit loss on Williams, Barry, and Red varieties, cutting drop rates from over 64 percent to about one percent.
Acetic acid concentration was one thousandth of one percent per event. Tater tests with a spray containing only 25 on thousandths of this acid markedly inhibited dropping in several apple varieties. All things in the universe are made of the same basic material.
Barbs Miler notes war’s harshness and quitting a winning game. European capitals embrace the wasp waist after rationing. Newark police nab a suspect with no fingerprints. Buenos Aires to build the world’s widest street. land ferries to ferry pedestrians. Indiana psychologists study emotional reactions to words like kiss and Hitler.
The giant stag beetle native to England spends five years in its larval stage before maturing to a length of about three inches, according to natural history notes.
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