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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1940
Page
2
A reflective column argues that past wars harmed soldiers, now civilians including women and children suffer as noncombatants become targets. It contends peace must become a norm and warns against repeat aerial atrocities and strategic bombing that endanger innocent lives.
The clipped item notes visits and hometowns with names like Mr. and Mrs. Charles Haynes and their son Charles Jr visiting relatives in Rough Miss Annie Spencer returning from Texarkana to Little Rock. Mary Lee Barlow and Evelyn Wilson are listed as local travelers. drivers from Little Rock plan to attend school here this winter.
The fragment lists poem titles and authors for a Cranium Cracker page one quiz. Included are John Keats work On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, The Man With the Hoe by Edwin Markham, Mending Wall by Robert Frost, and The Indian Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
A mixed text fragment presents a social manners quiz about church conduct and a concluding wartime dedication. It includes questions about donations, communion gloves, grace, guest church attendance, jokes about religious groups, and how to respond in crowds, followed by a forthright wartime call to build military strength.
A mixed word puzzle featuring clues for both the Across and Down entries. It includes definitions for various ruminant animals and related terms, with several cryptic style hints and cross references, typical of a vintage newspaper puzzle page.
A mix of land sales notices offering 240 acres of cut over land and 56 acres pasture with a mile from major routes, priced around 7.50 per acre with some coal rights on terms. Also a help wanted notice seeking married men aged 35 to 45 for large business management, with interview times at Broadway Hotel Prescott and Capitol Hotel Hope.
In the Hiempstead Chancery Court the administrator of the estate of Irvin Burns will apply on the 1st day of October 1940 for authority to sell 80 acres comprising the South Half of the Northeast Quarter of Section 17 Township 14 South Range 24 West to pay debts. J.C. Rowden Jr is administrator. Sept 14 21 28 Oct. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is in Arlington cemetery.
Dr. John W. Studebaker, U S Commissioner of Education, calls state and local superintendents to expand civic education through public forums and school and club programs. He frames it as a national defense effort to combat dictatorship propaganda and build democracy without guns or uniforms.
A fragmented text asks how a dictatorship would alter religious life, media bans, library access, and court fairness in a town. It notes a violent scene where a rope is tied to a goat’s horn and the animal collapses, sending someone to a hospital.
Gloucester notes Vernon Brooks S5ayaar dies after a struggle with a bull while a farmer. The event appears sudden and harmful, with local accounts describing a violent encounter resulting in a fatal injury.
Courtesy McRae Mill and Food Co presents a market report listing poultry prices including heavy hens at 10 cents per pound leghorns at 90 cents per pound and broilers at 1 dollar per pound. Eggs and ducks and geese are mentioned with small price figures indicated.
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