Platform proposal outlines Hope growth and highway plans
The Star endorses municipal power revenue use to develop Hope's industry and social resources, improve sanitation, pavement and alleys, and urges support for the Chamber of Commerce. It calls for county funding to build all weather roads yearly, boost agricultural programs, and promote farmer cooperation while advancing state highway work and budget reform. It also supports tax reform and Arkansaw cattle industry measures.
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Hempstead County
Great Iy
Patience of Bobby Jones outlines a golfer’s rise and restraint
A reflective profile of Bobby Jones from Atlanta praising his record streak and four major titles, then detailing how temper and impatience once hindered him. It notes a turning point in 1922 when he stopped breaking clubs and learned patience, arguing that patience is essential to personal and societal success.
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Ling
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Remarkable New Year Rhetoric Attributed To Rickett
Arkansas papers quote a distant governor's imagined speech claiming that if he ruled North Carolina he would issue a five year import ban on corn teal wheat and bacon and execution without benefit of clergy. He predicts public denunciation then a monument to him as financial redeemer.
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Arkansas
Thomas W. Rickett
North Carolina
Rickett
Unemployment Shifts From Farm Machinery Impacts Jobs
Improved farm and industrial machinery boost output and lower costs but displace workers during transition. The text cites tractors rising from 246,000 in 1920 to 858,000 in 1829 and horses dropping from 25.2 million to 19.5 million, claiming machinery saves about one and a half billion man-days across eight crops. A combine harvester now threshes and delivers forty‑five acres of wheat per day, replacing three men with new efficiency, while wheat production per bushel drops from three hours and three minutes to ten minutes of human labor. A noted Arkansas Methodist, Senator Gore, compares Lincoln Ford Hoover to illustrate job displacement.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Arkansas Methodist
International Road Congress Opens With Global Delegates
The Sixth International Road Congress begins in Washington with at least 60 countries represented. Nations from Algeria to Queensland send delegates as U S highway progress and car exports draw global attention. Roy D. Chapin leads the American organizing commission while Thomas T. MacDonald heads the congress.
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New South Wales
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United States
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
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American Organizing Commission
Congress
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U. S
State Department
Hoover
Thomas T. MacDonald
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
All Dressed Up A Finto tribesman photographed in Central Australia
A dandy of the Finto tribe, not a witch doctor or bogeyman, is shown in ceremonial attire during a Central Australia expedition. The tribe is described as primitive with stone-age living conditions. Separate notes discuss Indian burial customs and a Wisconsin study finding women at the University of Wisconsin achieve higher grades.
Skeletons found near Attica hint at ancient race
Attica Indiana September 24 skeletons unearthed near town are thought to belong to a people who preceded the Indians. The discovery is described as significant by local authorities and researchers. Further excavation and analysis are expected to identify the culture and timeframe of these prehistoric remains.
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Attica
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Rat Snap Ad Claim From Luke Reilly
Luke Reilly touts RAT SNAP as effective rodent treatment used near a river for years. The testimonial mentions a water rat killed after 15 minutes, implying product efficacy. Sold and guaranteed by Ward and Son of Hope, Crescent Drug Co of Washington, and W E Cox & Sons of Fulton. Ady
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Hope
Crescent Drug, Co
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Fulton. Ady
Judge Demands a Whisky Definition
Oklahoma City September 27. A police judge questions the meaning of three fingers of whisky. A negro charged with liquor possession claimed he had about three fingers. The judge asked three fingers in what, then postponed the sentence until the arresting officer could measure the amount.
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Oklahoma City
P. Estes
Reckless driver avoids blast in dynamite crash
Hans Helm stadt of Palisades Park New Jersey was arraigned on a reckless driving charge after his car crashed into a truck full of dynamite. Police said the road was strewn with sticks of dynamite but none exploded. Judge Carlton Doak Helmstadt placed the case on file in Belfast Maine.
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Hans Helmstadt
Palisades Park
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Helmstadt
Population shift in Mlinois penal and charitable institutions
Population in Mlinois charitable and penal institutions rose over 50 percent in thirty years, contrasted with a 17.65 percent increase in the state’s overall population, reflecting growing institutional demand and demographic change.
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Mlinois
Polish Hangman Loses His Nerve
In Warsaw an inmate of a Polish insane asylum named Koladiejczyk, once a hangman’s assistant, fell into despondency and insanity as a fresh execution neared. He believes ghosts of all criminals he helped hang haunt him with threats of an even worse death.
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Warsaw
UPI
H. Hangman
Kolodzivjczyk
Explosion damages home as gas can used for cleaning spreads
Two other persons, Mrs. B. Coleman and Mrs. OG Hardcastle, suffered slight burns in a gas can explosion. The cause of the blast, triggered while cleaning bed spreads, was not determined.
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B. Coleman
Hardcastle
Burns Prove Fatal to Youth at Little Rock
North Little Rock report states four year old Kenneth Richard Moyes died after a gasoline explosion in a rooming house on Thursday. Police and fire officials investigated the scene for cause and safety lapses as community members mourn the boy’s death.
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Little Rock
North Little Rock
Kenneth Richar Moyes
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