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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1929
Page
4
The Mouroe News Star published evenings except Sunday notes the News-Star Publishing Company Limited at 110 114 North Second Street and lists the president secretary treasurer roles.
A Texas tourist praising the Dixie Overland route notes its straight unbroken path through northern Louisiana and a forthcoming Vicksburg bridge. The piece argues the highway’s pavement and minimal ferries make it a fast, popular southbound corridor and urges towns along the route to advertise its growing assets.
The statement by Bishop James Cannon Jr of the Methodist Episcopal Church South argues that the Democratic Party must repudiate wet tendencies or dry southern Democrats will leave the party. He cites 1928 as a warning and urges southern support to avoid permanent desertion and future splits in national elections.
Six prisoners seized the sugar-house locomotive in an escape attempt at the Louisiana penitentiary. Gate keeper who let them pass without resistance was dismissed by Warden J E McClanahan. The piece notes McClanahan’s prior roles as Caldwell Parish sheriff and state representative and questions whether harsher guard discipline would reduce escapes.
The Emporia Gazette cautions Kansans about Wall Street temptations urging hard lines against naive investors. It notes urban financiers prey on small town optimism, with Long Island and Greenwich avenues tied to plutocrats profiting from small savings. The New York Times counters that market dabbling is not only a rural issue, highlighting broader temptations.
A sharp tale of a double-breasted plutocrat who pursues his secretary, delays, and triggers a triangle. The secretary marries another man, triggering jealousy and a ruinous sequence as the employer intrudes again. The woman loses husband, home, and reputation. the piece ends by asking readers to judge the folly.
A collection of reflections on the Bible, Solomon and Confucius, and journalism ethics. Quotes attributed to Solomon and Confucius illuminate wisdom and conduct while a Tottenville writer argues for clear ownership and accountability in newspapers.
The Moorehouse Enterprise editor Isaac Chapman is set to wed in Shreveport on Tuesday August 20. The column notes his engagement and playfully laments his single status ending, while musing on local resort fantasies and saluting his upcoming nuptials.
The piece notes aviation interest changing fund raising and subscriptions while waterfront salvage remains mighty. It recalls a woman misled by a young man seeking a pilot’s license and highlights daring salvage operations like the S S Steelmaker rescue in the south seas and the Peacock’s tow to New York.
Charles Maronna in Brooklyn gathers vast old rope from New York harbor and sells it to paper manufacturers nearby. About 25 firms along the waterfront process rope, paper, burlap bags and rags into patterns, napkins and bags, supporting a regional recycling trade.
The snippet lists August travel plans for Mrs J J Potts and daughter, and Mrs John Collens invites a Pittsburg visit. T C Newton of Bastrop transits Monroe en route to Lake Providence for business. Mrs L Smith and daughter depart for Tennessee for August with relatives. A Methodist church society hosts a tea at Mrs J Q Graves home with lavish decorations and bamboo. Sig Haas returns from the West after attending the Elks grand lodge in Denver and touring Yellowstone. DeSiard Sunday School reports the Ouachita Parish convention at Sterlington a success.
On August seventh in New York at the Belasco Theatre the crowd witnessed a girl actor playing a zither cue after the Japanese samurai drama The Darling of the Gods ended. The girl’s prolonged silence followed by a staged death led Matty Purcell to stop relying on assistants to load blanks into stage revolvers.
The article recalls Matty Purcell’s 25 years managing stage props for David Belasco and highlights his toughest duties. It notes Lenore Ulric’s Mima pearls, metal black pearls strung on copper chains that repeatedly broke, and Purcell’s longest-remembered assignment in The Governor’s Lady with scenes spanning a governor’s drawing room to a suburban home and a child’s restaurant.
A dense schedule lists Central Standard Time radio programs with stations including WABC New York WEAF WGN WLS and WJZ. Entries detail artists orchestras duos and operas across dozens of stations such as KOA KSL KFI KGW KOMO and KWK, with times and cross-network notes.
A collection of light witticisms and social observations. The items mix humor about manners, markets, and modern life with quips on religion politics and household trivialities. The tone resembles a late era vaudeville column.
The property man in The Girl of the Golden West employed 22 assistants for the storm scene. They sift salt through rafters, grind wind machines, sprinkle paper and salt by doors, and a mare pelted a window with rock salt to simulate sleet. Purcell devised many effects, using wooden wind machines and electric blowers with a segmented stovepipe vent.
A vivid collage notes Purcell’s crew rolling 1,500 cannon balls down a 45 degree incline into steel plates accompanied by a five foot drum costing 1,200 dollars. A tramp seeks food while a householder jokes about a dog. Various quips touch on oarsmen, a boathouse, a ball mishap, and light fare from Yale Record.
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