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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1933
Page
2
Article blends poems and society notes with verse from Abraham Cowley and local social items. It catalogues visits and guests across towns like Bella Vista and Shreveport, plus an address by Rabbi Hirsch and society club messages. It notes a new baby Mina June and plans for trips to Chicago and the Century of Progress exposition.
Pattern 1526 offers a bib yoke with buttons, shoulder capes, puff sleeves, and pleated skirt for sizes 8 to 16. Sleeve can be omitted. fabric requires 318 yards for size 12. Pattern book features juniors styles and accessories. order details and pricing included.
Mrs Norton state president of the Business and Professional Women spoke to the club praising women in law medicine engineering and government service. Miss Lucille May Grace registrar of state lands discussed the state land office work and noted a $200000 midyear income from oil gas and mineral leases. Grace also became the first Louisiana woman elected to a state office.
The National Congress of Parents and Teachers announces a semi annual national board meeting September 18 to 21 in Washington D C to mobilize public backing for stricken schools. Louisiana PTA president Mrs Lawrence A Matthes in Shreveport says the group will promote enlightenment publicity and public interest in education. A Louisiana PTA board meeting is set for September 30 in Alexandria at Hotel Bentley with Mrs Matthes presiding. Also noted are bereavement, visits, and a Baptist Missionary program at First Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon.
Global ship scrapping reached 1,296,325 gross tons last year while new vessel tonnage launched totaled 726,591 gross tons, reflecting a net reduction in active merchant marine capacity.
The note lists a series of community events from Monday to Wednesday. Events include Phi Kappa summer dance at Riverside Country Club from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. and church programs hosted by Circle 7 and the Presbyterian auxiliary. A Cooley lawn gathering featured a Negro quartet and Southern Seminary singers performed for friends.
The MGM drama Another Language opens at the Paramount featuring Helen Hayes and Robert Montgomery. Adapted from Rose Franken's play it explores a middle class family and mothers in law with strong performances and restrained direction by Edward H. Griffith.
After performing before luncheon clubs and organizations in Monroe the Southern Seminary Singers a Negro male quartet from the American Baptist Theological Seminary Nashville plan to leave Friday to continue their tour. They are rated among the three outstanding southern singing groups noted for melody and spirituals jubilees sacred humorous and folk songs. The quartet appeared before Rotary and Kiwanis clubs in Monroe.
Levee boards of Caddo Bossier Red River and DeSoto parishes seek federal takeover of flood control navigation and drainage on the Red River. Harry Jacobs chief of the state board of engineers urged a joint plan for government assume the work and asked for action in Washington. He said the government could take charge under the flood control act.
In a tense scene Mary schemes to test Noel while warning him Avis Arlen plans to see him alone before marriage. Noel protests the insinuations but Mary urges vigilance as she hints Avis may use a sacred bond to disrupt the betrothal. Continued tomorrow.
Colin Hewitt and Germaine Tremblay are stranded on a fogbound shore near Cap and V Orage. After Germaine is knocked unconscious in a collision, the pair shelter under a tarpaulin and await rescue as night falls. A mysterious cry and distant noises signal impending peril.
The proposed oyster marketing code would split producing states into four divisions: North Atlantic Massachusetts through Delaware. Middle Atlantic Maryland to North Carolina. South Atlantic and Gulf South Carolina to Texas. and Pacific coast states. The plan, from the Oyster Growers and Dealers Association of North America, would create a marketing committee and a uniform grading system. Association president Howard W. Beach and officials said they represent about 80 percent of the industry and noted farmers face very low prices.
W. C. Feazel, a member of the state Recovery board appointed by President Roosevelt to administer the National Recovery Act in Louisiana, returned Friday from New Orleans where he attended a board meeting that did not take place due to lack of instructions from national headquarters.
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