Hope High Battles Pine Bluff Zebras In Scoreless Grid Fracas
In Pine Bluff Arkansas the Hope High School Bobcats and Pine Bluff Zebras battled to a scoreless tie. Hope threatened in the third quarter and late in the fourth but could not convert. Pine Bluff repeatedly moved into Hope territory but the impregnable Bobcat line held strong. The game featured sharp punting duels and heavy line play throughout.
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Leonard Ellis
Pine Bluff
Ark
Hope High
Hope
Zebras
Bobcats
Bright
Reese
Old
Benson
Westerman
McGibbons
Revival at Water Creek Church Begins Monday Night
Water Creek Methodist church will start revival services at 7 30 o clock Monday evening September 21. Rev Fred R Harrison will be in charge according to Richart D McSwain who announced to The Star.
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Water Creek Methodist Church
Fred R. Harrison
Richart D. McSwain
Sper Train Proves to Be a Astute Success
A Football Special train carrying 179 passengers arrived at Pine Bluff at 5 10 Friday and returned by 3 10 a m. The Hope and Pine Bluff teams met in a well attended event with a watermelon prop and a bobcat on display. Coaches Hammons and Cornelius orchestrated a double feature with a large crowd, bands, and a pep rally marking Pine Bluff’s new stadium dedication.
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Great Hope
Hope
Pine Bluff
Foy Hammons
Terrell
Cornelius
Hammons
Missouri Pacific
Zebra Town
Pine Hotel
Star
Hurricane Turns Out to Sea Again
A violent tropical hurricane moved north along the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to New Jersey threatening New York. About 44 deaths and 15 missing were reported Friday night with many vessels unaccounted for as winds reached 100 mph. The storm center near Nantucket was forecast to pass Saturday morning, with the Long Island coast and Delaware Bay seeing the fiercest effects.
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Associated Press
New York
Atlantic
North Carolina
New Jersey
Cape Hatteras
Virginia Capes
Delaware
Maryland
Washington Weather Bureau
Chesapeake Bay
Hatteras
Center
Nantuckett
Mass
Long Island
Delaware Bay
Bumper Crop of Insects Helps Keep Game Birds
Dan Ramey, state game supervisor, reports an abundance of quail and healthy birds in Pratt Kansas. He credits the bumper insect crop and dry mating season, noting insect life boosted game supply despite drought conditions.
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Brouth
Dan Ramey
Sate Gant
Man designs his own tombstone in retirement
John Van Wyhe of Ireton finished a grave monument he designed himself. He built models and crafted it from concrete, saying he could not stand idle until death and that he might dig his own grave if he expected to use it soon. The article also notes a California cobra plant that resembles a snake and swallows prey whole for digestion.
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Ireton
John van Wyhe
van Wyhe
California
J. N. Montgomery Dies at 76 in Idabel Oklahoma
J. N. Montgomery 76 died at 4 p.m. Friday at his daughter’s home in Idabel Oklahoma. A former Hope resident, he moved there in 1884 and returned in Hope in 1906. He served as city treasurer for three terms and is survived by his widow, one daughter Mrs. J. Billingseiy, six sons, eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren, plus a sister and two brothers. Funeral in Hope at Rose Hill Cemetery Sunday at 2 40 p.m. with pallbearers named.
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J. N. Montgomery
J. 0
National Campaign in Waiting Stage
Byron Price notes the campaign remains in a waiting stage for both parties. Democrats reserve decisive moves for the final hours while Republicans weigh whether to present a concrete program or ride anti administration sentiment. Neither Landon nor Roosevelt has outlined key policies on relief, farm issues, labor, or constitutional questions.
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Byron Price
Associated Press
Washington
Landon
Roosevelt
Alarming Hitchhiker Fatality After Car Wreck Near Hope
John Watkins, 81, of Kensett Arkansas, died after a wreck 11 miles west of Hope on the Fulton highway. Mrs G E Sorrell of Texas was injured, bruised and cut, and treated at Julia Chester hospital. She was en route to Russellville when she picked up Watkins who waved his arms in religious fervor, frightening her and sending the car into a ditch and rolling twice. Watkins died about an hour later. Sorrell's condition was not serious. An ambulance from Kenseth transported Watkins' body home.
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John Watkins
Kensett
Ark
G. E. Sorrell
Texas
Hope
Watkins
Julia Chester Hospital
Sorrell
Julia Chester Hosital
Russellville
Kenseth
Pepe
Maine Test Doubtful Value in 1932 Election Turnabout
Reston Grover analyzes Maine voting shifts from 1932 to 1936, noting a Democratic surge in 1932 that did not guarantee national outcome. He highlights Brann’s governor win and later Senate defeat, Borrows’ 40,000-plus Maine lead, and the uncertain influence of the New Deal on subsequent races. The piece weighs whether Maine’s upheaval signals broader national trends.
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Reston
Grover
Associated Press
Washington
Maine
Loyes
Hoover
Farley
Roosevelt
Topeka Farm
Louis J. Brann
Democratic Party
Brann
Senate
Braun
Lewis O. Borrows
F. Harald Dubord
Norman
All-Steel Safety Bus Debuts for Hope Schools
The Hope Special School District receives its first all steel safety school bus, a Wayne body on a 197 inch wheelbase Dodge chassis. Purchased by Jeese School Board from B. R. Hamm Motor Co. for 7894, it seats 60 with dual aisles and automatic vacuum-operated safety doors. It replaces the district’s 1929 wooden bus.
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Hope Special
Wayne
B. R. Hamm Motor Company
Jeese
Hope
Hearst Rapped by FDR and Passengers on Queen Mary
Washington accuses a notorious newspaper owner of attempting to portray President Roosevelt as receptive to alien groups hostile to American government. The White House statement denies the claim. The Queen Mary transports 3200 crew and passengers across the Atlantic.
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Washington
White House
Rossevelt
Turned Brown By Brown Turner NASHVILLE Teun
With fragmented OCR text, the item references Brown Turner in Nashville and mentions themes of alcohol myths, mood, cotton farming, rain in Kansas, and political notes about farm programs and Mexico. The passage is incoherent and lacks a clear event or outcome.
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Nashville
Kansas
Mexico
Preacher Smith
Cobb Speaks in Hope Monday in Arkansas Governor Race
Osra Cobb Republican candidate for governor will speak in Hope on Monday night from The Steps of the city hall. A Little Rock resident formerly from Montgomery County where he served twice as state representative, Cobb plans stops in Prescott, Waldo, and Lewisville with speeches scheduled for 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. local times.
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Osra Cobb
Carl E. Bailey
Arkansas
Cobb
Little Rock
Montgomery County
Hope
Prescott
Walz Waldo
Lewisville
Pennsylvania Deputy Faces Hex Threat in Rural Case
In Allentown Pennsylvania deputies serving papers encountered superstition as a woman reportedly barred spirits with crossed broom sticks and a guarding dog and car. When she lifted a cat and muttered a word deputies fled amid claims of hexing rooted in local lore dating back to 1691.
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Allentown
C. H. Peters
Bransford Bailey Pick Speaker Nomination in Ark House
Carl Bailey named Representative John M Bransford as speaker candidate for the 1937 Arkansas house with five others notified. Leo Nyberg withdrew after Bailey informed him of the Bransford choice. The Hot Springs state convention featured Democratic oratory with Joe T Robinson and Brooks Hays among speakers as Bailey expected to receive governor nomination Saturday.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Carl Bailey
John M.bransford
Lonoke County
Jane Bailey
Bailey
Leo Nyberg
Bransford
New Deal
Carl E. Bailey
Joe T. Robinson
Will Steel
Texarkana
Lamar Williamson
Monticello
BE. W. Frost
Brooks Hays
Bob Bailey
Russellville
Clifton H. Scott
National Campaign Fund
Arkansas
Leaves Opera to Be Teacher Again
Kirkville Missouri reports Phardie Wells, a former Missouri farm girl with twelve years at the Met, returning to Baylor University in Waco Texas as an instructor. She aims to teach American music to Americans, foundations for a national tradition, and continues to explore American themes in opera including a possible cowboy opera.
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Opera
Kirksville
Metropolitan Opera
Phradie Wells
Missouri
Met
Thame
Waco
Texas
Volve
Baylor Universsity
Ameni
Arkansas & Texas rail workers strike over wage and rules
In Greenville Texas about 500 engine men conductors brakemen and other workers quit over claimed failures to reinstate 1933 wage and working conditions agreements. The Longville dispute prompted rail service disruptions as crews walked off in Hope and surrounding yards with no official statement from the carrier.
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Greenville
Texas
Arkansas & Texas
The
Arkansas
Louisians
Arkansas “& Engineers
Alcazar at Toledo Falls After Massive Mines Explode
The Spanish government claims two one ton mines exploded at the Alcazar fortress in Toledo. The blasts ripped the southwest tower from its base and opened gaps in walls as government troops stormed the ruins. Defenders used machine guns amid wreckage while women and children sheltered in damp cellars. air bombardment preceded the assault.
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As Press
Toledo
Alcazar
Plete
Associated Press
Spain
Alcazar Fortress
Noly
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