Mimi Lights the Candle at Friday Assembly
A school assembly featured the play Mimi Lights the Candle with characters Mrs Randall and Mimi among students Ellen Collison Joyce Kern Emma Turkington Louise Chaffinch Janice Reed Minerva Breeding Anne Breeding Mac Fifield and others. The piece underscored Christmas kindness and reunion of old friends, with humor from a cook. A humorous Santa list follows with playful requests and light school notes. Agriculture notes report a hog raised for butchered meat by Gilbert Emerson in FFA.
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Music Department
Mimi
Mrs. Randall
Ellen Collison
Granny
Joyce Kern
Emma_ Turkington
Christine Andrews
Louise Chaffinch
Jenny McBride
Janice Reed
Tess MaeBride
Minerva Breeding
Mary—aAnne_ Breeding
Launa—Mac Fifield
Cook
Santa Claus
Sam Young
Bill White
Emma Turkington
Frank Zeigler
Mac Fifield
Ohio
Maryland
Wayne Cawley
Bill Horsey
Mr. Thomas
Mr. Crouse
Larry Wimbrow
Booby Smith
Helen Fearins
Satterfield
K. Hollis
Daisy) Brubaker
Greensboro
Shangy Weir
Micey Shaffer
Gilbert Emerson
Self Feeder Pig Study and Literary News Snapshot
A report details a dry lot feeding pig project: started June 12, ended Sept 18, 98 days, fed with corn and tankage, profit per pig, and 8 percent sale price. It notes second pig profit with the Self Feeder and includes a library roundup on the book Journalist's Wife by Lillian Mourir, describing its insights on Europe and Americans.
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Gilbert
Philadelphia
Lillian T. Mourir
Germany
Italy
France
Russia
Richard
Richad
Europe
Byrd Alone in South Pole Shack Described in Book Review
Library note highlights Richard E. Byrd and his book Alone detailing five months solo at Little America. March 1933 plan to bring a six month self sufficient shack, later arriving too small for one person, weather extremes, a near gas explosion, and broadcast duties. Also mentions Byrd's adventures and where to find the book in the C H S library.
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Mary Ann Reinhold
Richard E. Byrd
South Pote
Little America
Byrd
South Pole
Shack
Bernard Heinel
Roaring Twenties heads Dentonia Theatre bill
The Dentonia Theatre presents The Roaring Twenties starring James Cagney and Priscilla Lane on Monday and Tuesday December 25 and 26. Based on an original Mark Hellinger story, the film chronicles the dramatic era from postwar up to the 1929 stock market crash, highlighting rapid social change and lawlessness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dentonia Theatre
James Cagney
Priscilla Lane
Mark Hellinger
1939 Denton cinema bills tease air and war era tales
Public notices mix Bewildering ads for 20th Century Fox film 99,000 Men a Year and Dead End Kids On Dress Parade at the Dentonia Theatre with Christmas season letters from Denton readers. Mentions wartime student pilots and civilian aeronautics program, alongside holiday requests from local children in 1939.
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Ade
America
Smash
Dentonia Theatre
20Th Century-Fox
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Warner Bros
Washington
Letter From A First Grader To Santa
A fragment from a Christmas letter dated December 19 1939 from Denton Mi by six year old Janes Baker asks Santa to visit for Christmas. He mentions his teacher Mrs Brooks and expresses a wish for a big wagon with racks and a ball.
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Denton, Md
Santa
Denton
Brooks
Jake
Christmas Wish List for Mrs Hignutt and Family
A third grader lists desired gifts for Christmas oret including an umbrella a wrist watch a doll baby a bingo set a red marking pencil clothes for a doll a new dress bedroom slippers and fruit plus nuts and candy. She asks to remember her teacher Mrs Hignutt her mother father brother grandmother and grandfather and Rachel James.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christmmas
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Denton Journal
Melvin & Johnson, Inc
Vors
ILIA
Harvey Fleetwood
Legrande Food Stores
Cheistaas
States
Canada
Tacidas
Adela
Hewesh
Puerto Rico
The
C. & P. Telephone Co
Market St. As
Eweepap
Port
Thawley
Redskins
Hughes’ Giants
Oil City Rats
Nuttle
Clippers
Giants
Rats
Senios
Jost
Earl M. Crouse
Fifth Avenue
Cagney
Yuletide
Joy
S. A. Johnson
Mer
Townsend
Buckley’s Food Market
Nuttie Milling Co
Yoletide Joy
Butler
Louis C. Butler
Franklin Butler
Glen Butler
Janes Baker
Merry Xmas
Gustav Good
Watchmaker & Jeweler
A&p
Cone Sumer Polley
Ann Page
White House
Jane Parker
Sood Stores
Florida
Sitin
Cranitierries
A&p Soft
Campbell’s
Woon
Kare Blue Label
Jane Parker Tb
Cake
Holly
Gunoter
Ashade
Loun Campbell
Np Dain Dromedar
Sunnyfield White House
Ives
Yukon
A & P Food
Ridgely
Cloverdale Dairies
Henry Kern
Prop
Walter Sparklin
General Insurance
James M. Clarke
Christma
Koenig’s Restaurant and Bakery
Market Street
3Rd
Bullock & WhIte
Superservice
Chrysler
Plymouth
Sbaglinas
Caroline Ic¢ Cream CO
T. R. Benson
Met
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