The Star's Platform for Hope City 1930 Reform Drive
The Star promotes Hope city progress through a municipal power plant to develop social resources and sanitation, backing the Chamber of Commerce. It urges Hempstead County road funding, a weatherproof annual program, and a statewide highway plan. It calls for farmer organizations, cooperative progress, tax reform, and efficient government funding. It also advocates freeing Arkansas from cattle tak.
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Hope
Mare
Sepport
Chamber of Commerce
Hempstead
Arkansas
New York Political Scandal Cited as City Warned
A New York broadside argues the attorney general probes all city affairs and that Tammany Hall displays a long pattern of political corruption. It notes judges implicated by payoffs and indicts district leaders, framing New York as a cautionary example of how voter indifference allows one group to dominate city government.
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New York
New York City
Tammany Hall
Aime
Tammany
Isamé
Philapolitics
Chicago
Detroit
Lon Chaney’s Rise From Ample Handicaps to Film Fame
Lon Chaney, who died in Los Angeles, rose from poverty and deaf mute parents to become a celebrated silent star and “man of a thousand faces.” He left school early to work, educated himself through reading, wrote for Encyclopaedia Britannica on screen make up, and thrived in stage, silent films, and talkies. His perseverance and talent inspired youth to overcome obstacles and pursue hard work.
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Chaney
Los Angeles
Colorado
Britanica
Lon Chauncy
Aden
Brady
Lon Chaney
Lacy
Hved
Elena
Georgia chain gang deaths reveal cruel working conditions
Two Black men on a Georgia chain gang died after being forced to work on road crews in extreme heat. The Delby Tribune notes ongoing cruelty by authorities toward prisoners, highlighting harsh treatment and fatal outcomes in the hot sun.
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Georgia
Jonesboro
Delby Tribune
Mails and Misdeeds Highlight Postal Limits and Censorship
A historical column examines the vast stream of mail through Uncle Sam's system and argues limits in reading all correspondence. It notes that while gross violations like murder plots and poisoned goods exist, the postal service lacks authority to inspect every item. It contrasts sealed books and magazines, marked cards, and dubious remedies, with legal boundaries on enforcement and censorship.
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Rodney Dutcher
NER
Wester G¢ Ashington
Uncle Sam
Postofice
Occa
Paul Tesco
Waiter E. Kelly
Nation
Telco
Poultry Prices Soar at World Poultry Congress
London September 2 In a Crystal Palace exhibit the World Poultry Congress sees poultry and rabbits fetch high sums. A Plymouth Rock cockerel sold for 2630 dollars, a white Wyandotte cockerel the same. C C Wilts of Salisbury entered a Rhode Island Red and a white Wyandotte sire valued at 4860 dollars each. Six white Wyandottes also listed among top lot values.
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London
Crystal Palace
C. C. Wilts
Salisbury
Wiltshire
Rhode Island
Worthy Show Seeks High Bids for Exotic Pets
A diverse exhibitor lineup features birds and mammals with high values. Barred Wyandottes at 12 head bid 2916, red magpie valued 972, Old English game birds at 4860 and 7290, two English owls 490 each, a long-saved tume ler 729, red chequer racing pigeons 490 each, frillbrick pigeon 291, Lady Rachel Byng’s rabbit 7.20, two Angora bucks 4900 each, silver fox female rabbit 2430, and two sable rabbits listed at 5080.
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Rachel Byng
Captain's Well Again Bubbles in Amesbury Town Landmark
Amesbury Massachusetts restores Captain's Well on the high school corner once dug by Captain Valentin Bagley in 1796. The well now sits fed by town pipes, losing its rustic charm, but remains a cooling landmark aided by a $5,000 gift from former State Senator James H. Walker. Whitier's poem from 1840 spurred the restoration and recalls Bagley's narrow escape and the well’s enduring legacy.
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Amesbury
Mass
Whittiers
Amesbury High School
Valentine Bagley
Whittier
iBd
James H. Walker
Captain Bagley
Nonsense Notes Mix Jazz, Prohibition, and Puns Across Years
Fragmented items joke about jazz, corn, pills after meals, and punny quips. Mentions Kentucky dog trials, dry agents in uniforms, and a chiropractor quip. A Swiss cereal trend and a whimsical tale of an angler and a desert voyage end with a moral.
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General Assembly
Kentucky
Saddler Says He Got Better Through Black Draught
Somerset, Ky S saddler W. Conant testifies he used Thadlord s Black-Draught for decades to treat costiveness and dull fowling. After starting the remedy in small doses he reports relief and better health, recommending it to friends. He notes the product’s powder and root-based formula.
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Somerest
Conant
Costivencan
Thadlord
Erneteeta
Skyscraper Rival Raised For Antwerp Europe
Antwerp prepares to surpass Madrid and Hamburg with a 28 story skyscraper at Volksbank de Louvain. The steel frame rises in four months with American style setbacks and mixed business and residential use. Architects from Europe watch, noting radical design contrasts and strict city controls in London and Paris.
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Madrid
Hamburg
Antwerp
Europe
Volksbank de Louvain
America
London
Paris
Rider Avoids Dog, Crashes Motorcycle in Madison
Gordon Mott escaped injury when his motorcycle crashed into a curb to avoid a dog that darted into its path. The motorcycle was demolished.
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Madison
Wis
UPI
Gordon Mott
May Be Deported
John Harteg, 46, who entered the United States without a passport and has been in the country four years with out an effort upon his part, it is charged, to obtain naturalization papers, may be deported to his native Holland.
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Fortwayne
Ind
John Harteg
United States
Holland
Military bank notes sell at a discount in Peiping
Military bank notes issued by Marshal Yen Heyuhan are selling at a heavy discount in Peiping despite martial claims of northern victories. The notes are being rejected by tax collectors and merchants organize protests, arguing officials will not accept them and merchants fear a run if withdrawals continue.
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Americriv
Thomas Lapton
W. Stirling Burgess
Enterprise
Harold S. Vanderbilt
Peiping
Yen Heyuhan
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Associated Press
Trope
Mitchet
Col
R. R. McCormick
Billy Marsh, Jr
Ive
Rudyard Kipling
San Francisco
Kiping
Mark Antony
Tree Sillere
Woodcock
Prohibition
Dadion Talley
Switzerland
Saddler
City of
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Cup
USK
Rone
Mary Hale
Heyer
Hey Tre Masters
School of Nublis Seryion
Natural Gas Service
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