Word: ark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Fouke, Ark., at a Pentecostal meeting, a farmer boy slashed an artery in his companion's arm. Worshippers formed a circle around the wounded youth, prayed fervently for an hour, watched his blood flow unchecked until he was dead...
Violet Hilton swore last week that she was sincere in her desire to marry the orchestra leader. Marion, Ark. and Charles City, Iowa telegraphed the rejected trio offers of marriage license and minister...
...Marshall, Ark., at the first two lines of a limerick Emmett Slay chuckled. At the next two he snickered. At the last one he roared boisterously, slapped his hip, discharged a pistol in his pocket, shot a friend in the thigh...
Divorced. Anne Ludlow Cannon Reynolds Smith, 23; from Frank Brandon Smith Jr., real estate man, her second husband; in Hot Springs, Ark. Charges: general indignities. Mrs. Smith's first husband was the late tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, whose second wife was Singer Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman...
While these crimes were taking place throughout the land last week, the executive council of the American Bankers Association in Hot Springs, Ark. was pondering a report on the subject of bank robberies. Bank clearings in the 21 leading U.S. cities last week were up 82% from last year to the highest level since January 1932, but the week's crop of robberies was nearly normal. An ABA committee reported that in the six months ending Feb. 28 there had been 188 bank hold-ups by daylight, 29 night burglaries-an average of nearly nine per week...