Word: arkfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blytheville, Ark., Russell Jackson walked out of his untouched home to find three neighboring houses piled up in his front yard...
Passing under a triumphal arch of bamboo resembling Noah's Ark, he entered a bamboo palisade. There he spent the day squatting upon matting with acres of other squatting Congressmen. Most of the speakers could not be heard by more than a fraction of the listeners, but whenever the Congress has met this has always been true and Indians do not mind. To them a palaver of this kind is a great emotional experience and they pay little heed to the shrill, monotonous speeches. Then every nightfall President Bose climbed back into his chariot and was drawn home...
Small Julia Hatcher, pupil at Hatcher School, Marked Tree, Ark., raised her hand. Said Julia: "I want to leave the room." Asked teacher: "Why?" Replied Julia: "Because the room is on fire.'' Out marched the children. Down burned the school...
Engaged. Helen ("Billie") Hicks, 26, sturdy golfer who won the U. S. women's amateur championship in 1931; to Widower Whitney Harb, 44, president of a North Little Rock, Ark. auto agency; in Little Rock...
Last week to Negro Claybrook's other distinctions was added that of being selected in Marion, Ark. to serve on a jury with eleven white men in the trial of two Negro youths for raping a white girl. He was the first Negro so honored in Marion since 1888, one of the few in the whole history of Southern jurisprudence. The trial-attended by 800 spectators who were searched for weapons at the courthouse door-lasted one day. When it ended, it took Juror Claybrook and his confreres only seven minutes to find the defendants guilty...