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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1932
Page
2
The text outlines the paper's status as a second class matter, mentions the Associated Press crediting, and states charges for tributes and memorials. It lists subscription rates: five dollars per year by mail to Hempstead Boward Miller and LaFayette counties and elsewhere, with advance payment required.
The Star outlines local platform aims backing the Chamber of Commerce and county highway programs. It stresses political economic support for science and agriculture, urges farmer cooperation, and calls for more efficient county and town governance.
A piece contrasts optimistic economic forecasts with the harsh realities faced by workers hit by recession. It argues that dismissive optimism ignores job loss, homelessness, and dwindling savings, and urges those with security to remember the marginalised, especially in hard times.
Federal prisoners under confinement totaled 26 192 at August end, up 13 hundred from a year earlier. Paroles rose by 3 401 and probations by 23 168, each well above last year’s figures. Officials warn the rise foreshadows a crime wave amid unemployment and hardship.
SAM NELSON CROMWELL of the American Braille Press urges attention to blind voters needs in the coming election. He notes about 114000 Americans with sight loss and that state laws allow assistance at the ballot. He asks friends to ensure blind voters receive help to exercise their rights.
In Bennington Nebraska farmers joined harvest fun by entering grasshopper contests. Harry Pike claimed the biggest grasshopper, fed it rice flour and blades, and it grew fat enough to win the prize before allegedly escaping.
Walter L. Main three ring circus arrives Wednesday featuring Capt. Harry Walker and twenty African lions in a steel barred arena. Go Liath the Indian elephant towers above other acts in the menagerie. The show includes Jester Albert Powell, aerialists Thelma Callahan and The B edonie sisters, and concludes with Mother Goose in Fairyland and a patriotic Historic America finale with noted presidents and generals.
Community members in Fair View gather crops and visit neighbors. Loriie Flowers and Evelyn Kidd spent Sunday with Reda Ross. Ruth Greenhaw is sick, four days at Julia Chester hospital. John Flowers family visited Roy Smith family. A daughter weighing five pounds was born to John Stark and his wife. Floyd McDowell and family visited N. J. Ross household.
Laurie White enjoyed a quiet Sunday at home while Bailey Burton visited family. Sid Henry undertook a business trip to Nashville on Monday.
Frank Miles returned from a business trip to Conway. Miss Mas Bennett of this city is in California and now in San Francisco. Jim Field accepted a job in Little Rock and will move with his family. Mr and Mrs Earl Spencer and family left yesterday for Dallas Texas to make their future home.
The popular comedy pairing Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante returns in Speak Easily at the Saenger for two days. Keaton plays a millionaire college professor who adopts the troupe, with Ruth Selwyn Thelma Todd Hedda Hopper and others in the cast.
The French submarine Persee suffered an explosion in its battery room and issued a call for help. The sub was towed to Cherbourg where it is en route for further inspection. no immediate details on the accident were released.
In a western melodrama Stan Ball, cattle agent, confronts Asper Delo who is accused of killing timber inspectors. Dona Delo, Asper’s daughter, is rescued from kidnappers by Ball as Dudley Winters plans to seize Asper. Dana faces Swergin’s men while Ball hides, rides, and tensions rise toward a deadly showdown.
Local notices list visits and activities of residents and guests in Hope and nearby towns. Names include Washington Jasper Lively and Buster of Shreveport visiting sister Mrs Ruby Wilson, Miss Adell Bullard shopping, and a string of visits by Pruitts, Fraziers, Catts, and others.
Emmet C B Ward of Magnolia spent the week end with his parents Mr and Mrs Connie Ward. Miss Glen Bright of Lanesburg is spending the week with her sister Mrs Archie Moore. Mr and Mrs J M Johnson Mr and Mrs H L Daily spent Wednesday in Murfreesboro.
A brief humorous gag where a man asks for cake after being fed by a neighbor. The lady retorts with a sharp quip and offers a digestive tablet as a witty reply.
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