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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1933
Page
4
The Alatheon Class of First Baptist Church will hold its regular monthly business and social meeting at 7:36 Tuesday evening in the parsonage near the church. The social will be the annual Halloween celebration, and attendees are asked to come in costume and masked.
Mrs L B Crip of Pulaski Illinois praises Black-Draught as a great relief for headache constipation and biliousness. She treats bouts of illness with a dose every other night until symptoms ease. The notice promotes a new pleasant tasting syrup version for children.
The rule details maximum hours and wages for retail workers, limiting overlong weeks and daily hours. It allows temporary summer hour reductions without reducing weekly pay, with exemptions for professionals outside sales, guards, and maintenance staff. Executives in specified city sizes may exceed limits, with peak period provisions for Christmas inventories. Hours must be consecutive each day with limited intervals.
Chicago news reports Philip K. Wrigley of the Wrigley Jr. Company announcing that agreements with large chain stores will preserve a standard 5 cent Wrigley’s Chewing Gum package. He says the move aims to stabilize confectionery pricing in line with Roosevelt’s NRA program and aid small retailers in meeting NRA requirements.
Laneburg Home Demonstration Club held its October meeting at Mrs R P McGough home with autumn decor and a salad course after a brief business session. Attendees included Mrs J T Adams Mrs C F Nels Mrs Gautsche Mrs M Gann Mrs H C Bright Mrs N Fore Mrs Mazin McGough Mrs J P Hazzard Mrs H Jackson Mrs B McBough Mrs H Steed Mrs E Garrett Mrs Joe Fore Miss Hazel Daniels Miss Esther Sampson Miss Marie Adams and Miss Edna Gann.
The text outlines prohibited retailer practices under NRA rules. It bans false policy claims and undervaluing competitors, prohibits secretly giving value to influence sales, and forbids misleading substitutes when a brand is ordered. It also restricts purchasing or selling NRA coded merchandise without the insignia and allows labeling past stock with the NRA insignia.
Classified notice offers an Arkansas automobile license tag for 1933. It lists member 119340 and states the owner may obtain the tag by paying for this advertisement. The text appears as a small public ads snippet with the date range 24-31.
Suit to foreclose was filed Saturday at Boston in the fifth judicial district court by trustees named in the mortgage securing the Texarkana Gazette company’s bond issue. A judgment was rendered by Judge Hicks Harvey Monday and the foreclosure should conclude in about 39 or 40 days. Louis Heilbron appointed receiver to operate the business in the interim to free the Gazette and the Texarkana Daily News from entanglements under prior ownership.
Harvey Couch a Reconstruction Corp. director said he would appear before the Senate stock market investigating committee. He described a letter to Charles McCain of Chase National Bank as personal and noted a 1932 Aug date mentioning Seaboard Airline stock. He said McCain asked him to resign to reorganize Insull properties but he planned to finish his government work and return to Arkansas.
Arkansas Legion officials mobilize to enroll Bodenhamer Year members after endorsement at Chicago. The 1934 drive targets 11 194 members by Armistice Day with posts earning torch bearer labels and honor scrolls for each new member.
The home of a son, Luther, at Foreman is cited as the place. His body will be returned there for burial. Services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Rose Hill Cemetery. Luther and Wade Atkinson, his kin, are well known locally. For years they worked at McRae's Hardware Store. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Henry Bowden of Little Rock, three sons, George of Hot Springs, Luther and Wade of Foreman Kopeman.
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