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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1940
Page
4
A hot morning in a business office leads to a comic exchange as an impatient caller seeks Mr Cadwaller. The receptionist teases about heat and schedules while mishearing names and pondering the hot weather. The scene ends with a playful warning about Mr Cadwaller’s potential reaction.
Jimmie Fidler surveys Hollywood gossip from August including Joan Bennett’s east trip while her producer husband tours for good will. Artie Shaw heads to Washington for the National Symphony concert planning. Gar Wood Jr and Joanne Marshall rise in industry chatter as Norma Shearer visits backstage. Roy Rogers faces a name rights suit, Shirley Temple’s rumored return could spark Babylon, and MGM’s Boom Town tops previews with Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy.
The piece traces advertising from ridicule to a driving force behind industry and commerce. It argues advertising transformed trust, aided growth, and became essential to business, industry, and professions, evolving from fringe boast to a universal working instrument.
A Scottish scientist claims opposites do not attract in courtship and marriage, arguing people marry those most like themselves. The piece questions why such a theory would have made marriage historically stable and ponders modern divorce trends under mutual admiration and mutual flattery.
A reflection argues that many Americans stay at home due to necessity yet can find beauty and fulfillment near their own neighborhoods. It cites Thoreau on beauty and suggests rivers, skies, grasses, and sunsets rival distant travel. The piece urges appreciating local surroundings for happiness and life’s pleasures.
The piece describes worsening European famine amid war, noting Denmark’s meat surplus followed by slaughter to import feed not available, Norway’s 60 percent reliance on imports with fishing fuel shortages, and broad shortages across crops and provisions. It cites Berlin propaganda and Hitler’s foretold global control, with nations ra rationing.
Alfred Smith walks through sore feet. November weather features. The article centers on the controversial headline about John L. Lewis attacking both political parties and the related public reaction.
A camp counselor critiques a boy nicknamed Grumpy for failing to join a hike. The two trek five miles toward Old Mines while the youth voices fatigue and hunger. The counselor uses the journey to illustrate behavior and discipline. Personal inquiries about child care are invited to Monroe News-Star.
Washington insiders note key departures from the Roosevelt administration following the Chicago convention. Big Jim Farley and others exit as party machinery adjusts with Hopkins Byrnes and Barkley at center. Lou Johnson and Garner face uncertain futures as McNutt navigates third term debates. The piece ends with an unrelated note about London's National Gallery boiler housing and fire risk.
Fifteen years ago Frank Stubbs Jr. visited New Orleans while Mrs. Felix Terzia and family traveled to Jackson Mississippi. The Chamber of Commerce and Ouachita parish police jury invited governors from four states to Monroe for Labor Day celebrations. Miss Ethel Gray wed Emmett DeVolin in El Paso Texas on August 3. Mrs. J M Brothers and sister Minnie Brighton toured Cooper's Wells Mississippi for two weeks. Frank Stubbs and two children plan a motor trip to Brevard North Carolina with their son Charles joining summer camp later.
GOLDSBORO N C Farmer John Tart heard a plaintive peeping from a house cupboard and found a chick hopping out. He believes the heat wave hatched one of the eggs kept in the cabinet.
Kansas City report states Glen M. Wilkerson's home was entered through a service door by a prowler who read the newspaper, sat in a favorite chair, and left with a ring and stud valued at 35 dollars.
Governor Ratner, 43, Republican and first term, led with 150,935 votes defeating Jay A. Welch and C. D. Lank as of 2,039 of 2,735 precincts. Democrat William H. Burke, 61, former internal revenue collector, won 63,705 votes over S. L. Mathews across 2,080 precincts.
Mr and Mrs Raymond Eisenbrardt report a duck egg placed in a saucer hatched into a duckling during the recent hot weather spell at their Iola Kansas residence.
Elm Creek Neb officer Simon Laycock helped a motorist change a tire. The next day police found the tire had been stolen from Leonard Tool. The thief then sent the tire to Laycock on collection terms.
A Gaar family reunion gathered at New Hope Methodist Church in Dodson with Malcolm C. Gaar Jr. presiding. Speakers included James Stovall and Charles L. Shell. J. A. "Uncle Jimmie" Gaar served as a member of the program. The next reunion is scheduled for the first Sunday in August 1941 with J. A. Gaar as president and honorary president.
Dan Smothers and Charles Davis collected 140 rattlesnakes and turned in 99 and 41 sets respectively to the county auditor. They were paid 25 cents per set, totaling $35 in bounties for their rattling harvest.
Ferriday officials led by Mayor A. B. Crothers will install traffic lights at main street intersections soon. A committee from the mayor and aldermen will map locations and oversee installation. A separate note states that about one meteorite in 2000 submissions to museums is an actual meteorite.
A New York columnist profiles tipping as an entrenched Old World custom fueling profits for restaurant owners and top staff. He cites Sam on 50th street who thrived post prohibition, a doorman turned restaurateur, a Twenty-one club waiter with a yacht, and hat check bosses collecting large tips, arguing tips mostly enrich bosses rather than staff.
Col onel F C Harrington announced that 2 500 000 WPA rolls records are being reviewed to identify skilled workers for national defense. Those already qualified for 130 defense occupations may be employed immediately, while others will enter vocational training via WPA and education and defense advisory commissions.
Rev. J. S. Johnson started a revival at Grayson Baptist Church on Sunday August 7 and will continue through August 11. He is assisted by Rev. Joe Harbour of Urania in the revival series.
Eastern standard time adjustments shift to CST for two hours and MT for two hours. The lineup includes O Neills, Sketch-nbe wear, Bud Barton's Sketch nbe, and a variety of serials, news, music, sports, and dramatic programs across CBS NBC and other networks with multiple time shifts and program changes.
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