07 Sep 1940
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1940
Page
1
A concise item notes reader safety and unsolicited materials amid a deluge of space fillers. It references enterprise associations and county readers, mentioning a price of $3.50 per year and a call to reduce unwanted content.
The American Youth Commission from the American Council on Education urges retooling high schools to include actual work experience and social studies. It criticizes current curricula for overemphasizing algebra and English composition while neglecting preparation for modern jobs. Institutions must self-criticize to prove value to the world.
20 Years Ago residents and visitors appear in town with Erle C Turner Patmos Hopier West Emmet J W Deaton Stamps guests at Hotel Barlow Miss Ethel Arnold to Chicago for months Measik P Brundidge formation in morning from extended item
Ruth Millett argues modern mothers deserve more credit for chauffeuring families than traditional aimed duties. She likens a mother at the wheel to a breadwinner and explores societal shifts in recognizing women’s work. The piece uses vivid contrasts between past domestic roles and contemporary taxi driving mothers. The Coastal segment notes Peak Island coast guard station as Negro-manned and its growing usefulness amid changing conditions.
Puzzle listing numerous cryptic style clues and partial definitions related to theater, botanicals, and general terms. Mentions a star actress with husband E. H. and various numbered entries like 7 Harvest 18 Spar 1970. Includes words such as Liliaceous plant and miscellaneous cryptic references.
George Britt’s The Fifth Column is reviewed as a sharp, well sourced summary of active Fifth Columnists in the United States. The critique notes Britt’s support for civil liberties even as he calls for targeted actions against foreign agitation and suggests steps to curb hostile influence including better consular oversight and cutting financial support to extremist networks. The review praises Britt’s clarity and warns against broad, indiscriminate attacks on those with foreign ancestry.
A quiz on proper hotel and travel conduct asks whether a young man should wait in the lobby for a returning escort, if a young woman may entertain a guest in her private room, and whether a man should accompany a visiting girl to her hotel room. It also includes guidance on tipping red caps, washing basins on Pullmans, and sharing dressing room space, ending with a policy quiz answer key and a note about the first geodetic survey in the United States led by Simeon Borden in 180?
The page lists items including memory loss anticala, schizophrenia with split personality, claustrophobia fear of confinement, megalomania delusions of grandeur, and pyromania disposition. It notes Gibraltar as a British possession since 1773.
A Barbs couple wed midair in parachutes over New York, a bold stunt amid wartime tension. The piece notes Britons’ air fears, calls for awakening the nation to emergency, and contrasts civilian coping with Nazi protests and public shifts in behavior.
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