Hempstead County Fair Tour Begins Visiting 13 Communities
The Hempstead County Fair Tour started with 15 Hope businessmen and the Hope Boys Band leaving City Hall at 9 a.m. to visit 13 communities toward DeQueen and points north. The tour includes horse and mule races with free admission, three days of races starting Thursday, and a full countywide push to recruit entries. Rides halt for lunch in Ovan, with the tour announcer Sid Bundy ready to promote the fair ahead of its next Tuesday start.
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Hope
Hope Boys
DeAun
Blevins
Hempstead County
Hope Police Department
Sid Bundy
Lis
Fair Ground
Ovan
State Grid Teams Prep for Start of Season Friday
Arkansas high school football opens Friday with the Big 15 teams facing varied openers. Hope High meets Haynesville La Golden Tornado in Haynesville as Camden battles Smackover on their home field. Other matchups include Little Rock vs Malvom, Brinkley at North Little Rock, Pine Bluff vs McGee, Jonesboro hosting Wynne, Hot Springs at home versus Gainesville, Benton at Beebe, Fordyce against Monticello, Russellville vs Danville, Fort Smith vs Van Buren, Blytheville vs Pigott, and Pine Bluff after Piggot game. Several nonconference openers follow for Dorado Clarksville Forrest City and others.
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Arkansas
Hope High School
Haynesville
Bobcats
Louisiana
Hope
Golden Tornado
Hammons
Brasher
Magnolia
Little Rock High School
Little Rock
Tigers
Brinkley High Seimol Tigers
North Little Rock
Lewsi'y Witdeala
Tern
Pine Bluff Zebras
McGcee
Jonesboro
Wynne
Hot Springs Trojans
Red Swaim
Gainesville
Texas
Benton
Beebe
Fordyce
Monticello Fordyce
Camden
Camden High School Panthers
Panthers
Russellville
Danville
Fort Smith
van Buren
Blytheville
Dildy
Gome
Pine Bluff
Paragould
Clarksville
Catholic High
HI Dorado
Warren
el Dorado
Silvem Springs
Chokavitle
Forrest City
Hines Nigh
Memphis
Bransford Endorsed for Speaker by Arkansas House Members
Hot Springs Ark four representatives announced that a majority of House members signed within 24 hours a petition endorsing Lonoke native John M. Bransford for re election as speaker. Governor Bailey’s endorsement drew protests from two rivals Leo Nyberg of Helena and Edward Bryson of Prescott. Toney warned there would be no contest, saying the race is settled.
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Hot Springs
Ark
HH. Kemp Toney
Pine Bluff
Arkansas
House of Representatives
John M. Bransford
Lonoke
Bransford
Bailey
Leo Nyberg
Helena
Edward B. Bryson
Prascott
Toney
School Teachers to Meet Saturday in Hope High School
Hempsten County Teachers Institute holds a business meeting at Hope High School on Saturday September 2. All licensed white teachers are expected to attend. School directors and friends of education are invited to discuss county schools matters.
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Hempsten County Teache Institute
Hope High School
Ated Close
Friends of Education
Austin
Pepunty
Probable Starting Lineup Notation Shows Player Heights
A brief listing notes player heights 175 184 and 160, implying a probable starting lineup based on listed measurements. No teams or events are named in the fragment.
George Leads Georgia Nomination Fight in Primary
In Georgia's Democratic primary Senator Walter F. George leads for renomination with 64,603 votes across 145 counties as Eugene Talmadge trails. Lawrence Camp, backed by the president, is third. Governor race shows Howell and Rivers leading in their respective fields amid a crowded field. Presidential remarks label George a dyed in the wool conservative and back Talmadge as a strong opponent of the New Deal.
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Atlanta
Walter M. George
Wis
Roosevelt
Georgia
Weddnesday
Eugene Talmadge
New Dew
Lawrence
Camp
Senate
van Task
George
Talnadge
GaaPj
Walter F. George
Aig County
Galt
Free Land For
Talmilge
Rivers
Bangham
Ward
Caal
W. G. Melrac
Wall Springs
Talmadge
Lamar County
Martial Law Ordered for Sudeten Towns Amid War Threat
Reported order of martial law in Sudeten areas of Czechoslovakia followed claims that leaders’ followers had been killed and others wounded in disorders. A map highlights circled towns, showing their location relative to Czechoslovakia.
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Sudeten Gorm Ares
Czechoslovakian
Sudeten
Mntce
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
Petition PWA for Hempstead County Courthouse
Arkansas delegation asked the Public Works Administration to waive rules to permit funding for a Hempstead county courthouse. PWA requires local elections to share costs by October 1, 1938, but legal restrictions delay the Hempstead vote to November. Delegation members Maupin Cummings Graves and A N McAninch remained for further talks.
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Washington
Arkansas
Public Works Administration
PWA
Hempster County
Hempstead
Maupin Cummings
Fayetteville
Albert Graves
Hope
A. N. McAnineh
Little Rock
Farley name in Supreme Court appointment plan revealed
Postmaster General Farley disclosed that President Roosevelt decided to appoint Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas to the U S Supreme Court in 1937, notifying him shortly before his death. He would have succeeded Justice Van DeVanter, who retired amid the court fight. Senator Vigney Black of Alabama was later chosen.
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New York
Farley
Roosevelt Aid
Joseph? Robinson
Arkansas
United States Supreme Court
Justice van DeVanter
Vigony Black
Alabams
Untitled historical riddle about a bachelor president
A riddle notes the only bachelor U S president was born four years after the Bounty mutiny and died eight years after becoming a septuagenarian. Identify the president, his birth year, and what he had become before death. answer on Classified Page.
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United States
Bor
Mutiny On the Bounty
Beg Pardon Wednesdiws volition of Hie Stag sand Vic
The text reports a local court case involving Holly of Hope and Tiedt SMP facing charges for drunkenness and assault with a fine noted as R10. It mentions Furtell, Arkansas Louisiana Gas company, and De Ot Purtle with a fine in Hope municipal court. A Kentucky figure of 43.000.000 MK gas and a reference to Winer appear without clear context.
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Hie
Stagsand Vic
Holly of Hope
Assert Aid Battery
Qin Furtell
Arkansas
Lousiana Gas Companys Cmnplaye
Ta Kentucky
Cotton closes steady with slight rise in New Orleans
New Orleans cotton market opened Thursday at .09 and closed at 7.99 with spot cotton holding steady, middling price at 7.84, reflecting a seven point gain.
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New Orleans
Vorth
Morgenthau Clears Arkansas Treasury Staff Stance
Secretary Morgenthau said at a press conference that he found no basis for charges that Treasury employees in Arkansas engaged in political activity.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Treasury
Arkansas
Cotton ginned in Hempstead county to Sept 1 totals
There were 920 bales of cotton ginned in Hempstead county prior to September 1, as counted by federal gin reporter W. H. Kiter. The 1937 figure for the same date was 1,018 bales. Holland is noted to have more than 45 miles of canals.
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Hempstead
W. H. Kiter
Federal
Ed Holland
Wooten backs county delegate selection plan in Arkansas
HOT SPRINGS Ark June P Wooten secretary of the Democratic State Committee said he would seek to have the state convention record in favor of choosing national convention delegates by county conventions He would offer the plan to the resolutions committee later that night The current system designates national delegates by the state committee The report also recalls the Civil War battle of Lookout Mountain nicknamed the battle above the clouds
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Hot Springs
Ark
P. Wooten
Democratic State Committee
Resolutions Committee
Englishman Cobb Sets New Record at Bonneville Flats
Wealthy John B. Cobb of London shattered the world automobile speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats Utah achieving 950.2 miles per hour. He surpassed Captain George E. T. Eyston’s 345.49 mph record set here August 27. Both drivers failed earlier trials before their official runs.
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Bonneville Salt Flats
Utah
John B. Cobb
London
George E. T. Eyston
Emerson Quote on Goodness and Reverence
A compact reflection on virtue noting that loving goodness shelters angels, honors reverence, and lives in harmony with God, attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Emerson
Hit Run Love in the Spring Courtroom Serial
Stenographer Patrician McGraw dreams of marriage to Larry Kent amid a spring rain and a busy traffic court. The case continues as witnesses and attorneys speak while Pat imagines her forthcoming wedding and a different home life with Joye’s glamour fading into the background.
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Patrician
McGraw
Pat
Larry Kent
Joye
Larry
Chamberlain to Meet Hitler for Peace Talks in Germany
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flies to Germany to meet Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden amid calls to annex the Sudeten region. Annie Chamberlain prays at Westminster as her husband seeks a peaceful solution while Czech troops quell Sudeten unrest with casualties reported.
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London
Eng
Annie Chamberlain
Abbey
Hitler
Chamberlain
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