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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1930
Page
6
Celia Rogers cares for her ailing mother Margaret through a heatwave and sudden collapse at home. Dr Williams notes exhaustion and rest as the cure while Celia lands a new job with Ridgeway Contracting, lifting the family’s spirits until a doctor’s warning interrupts the hopeful pace.
Dr Harris Gregg pastor of New York preached his wife’s funeral in St Louis reading four poems by Mrs Gregg between scriptural passages rather than delivering a traditional eulogy. The service took place in a Presbyterian church with a distinctive liturgical approach.
Captain William Leyhe, longtime Mississippi river figure and president of the Eagle Packet Company since 1885, died in St Louis. The Naple fleet had been renowned on the river for 72 years, marking a long era in regional navigation.
Captain Eliasdon of the Bratvaag sealer returns to Tromsov with bodies of long-missing Andree polar balloon expedition crew. Discovered on White Island in the Arctic after 33 years of unsolved disappearance.
Dr Dor Dickson of the University of Chicago reports traces of an ancient Indian cemetery near Lewiston Wil Sept 16. He claims 5000 skeletons may lie under a crescent shaped mound 560 feet long and 184 feet wide at the center. He links them to Mound builders.
J J Burnett of Buffalo faced a police court charge of driving while under the influence. Magistrate Vance sentenced him to seven days in jail and suggested he choose a different cheese brand if he visits Canada again.
In St Louis a rope around bananas was found to conceal a two and a half foot rock python. Workers scattered as the rope wriggled. A stick grapple revealed the serpent which had been left as a gift to the zoo.
Bethalto Illinois sept 16 up George Kabel 87 year old farmer estimates he has threshed enough wheat in the past eighty years to make 118 320 000 loaves of bread. His average has been 30 000 bushels a year.
Gainesville residents recount nearly a century of Black-Draught use for constipation indigestion and biliousness. Mrs M C Barron of 64 West Myrtle Street recalls first taking it in Forsyth Ga in 1876 after a store recommendation. She says after a few doses her symptoms improve and she remains satisfied with the remedy. It is sold in 25 cent packages.
A fragmented note questions what women see in rivals and wins, hinting at confidence and strategy. It suggests insistence on merit over gender, implying broader critique of status and achievement in competition or public life.
Monte Carlo reports Ottavio Scotto met with Benito Mussolini who granted formal permission to transfer an artist from the Scala to Scotto’s Rio de Janeiro theater. Scotto also said he will travel to Hollywood this year to film an opera tone for Universal.
Bucharest Sept 15 The past year saw Romania railways state owned and operated record a deficit of about half a billion Lei. The system faced financial strain amid rising costs and reduced traffic.
In St Louis Missouri more than five thoroughbred horses have been entered for events at the St Louis National Horse Show set for October 11 through 19.
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