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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1936
Page
2
The Monroe News Star is an independent daily newspaper published by News8-Star-World Publishing Corporation at 410 114 North Second Street Monroe Louisiana. The paper emphasizes impartial reporting and includes staff contacts and office hours.
The Monroe and West Monroe Chamber of Commerce faces a crucial election of its board. The piece urges strong leadership to seize federal funds and flood control projects, improve sewerage, fire protection, and drainage, and capitalize on a promising regional economy. It stresses civic duty and selectivity to sustain growth.
An eastern judge suspended a young man’s sentence on condition he enlist in the U S Army saying the armed forces serve as a refuge. Officers rebuked the idea noting entry requires high character proof, rigorous education and strict physicals, and military service is a technical field. The article argues service offers opportunity and improves civil life prospects.
Weather experts and rural signs agree a harsher, colder winter is ahead. Washington scientists flag a five month cycle of cold, wet weather, while Menominee traditions warn of deep snow based on autumn berry growth.
A dentist explains guiding his son toward self discovery rather than strict pressure. The boy samples dentistry then engineering, learns his talents lie with mechanical work but not the physical side. The father credits patient, experiential learning as the best teaching method and a wise path to finding oneself.
Poem reflecting on life as a dream and the value of kind words and living richly in the present. The speaker urges gentle thoughts and actions, cherishing daily moments and striving to grow into the best self before time passes.
A short verse vows mutual honesty between two people. It expresses the idea that truth and honor forge lasting friendship through life’s journey. The poem emphasizes keeping secrets only as needed and staying faithful to one another.
A lighthearted chatter piece contrasts a child's panic over a busted piggy bank with a Parisian sighting of a handsome American, framing a playful exchange about money and travel.
A diner asks when the music begins, and the waiter replies in half an hour. The exchange highlights a busy restaurant mood as service speeds up to meet the expected performance.
In a playful exchange, paws asks what meekness is and an elder replies you must marry first to grasp the trait, signaling a humorous parental perspective on wisdom and life lessons.
A street joke quoted by a child explains loving winter for the chance to skate on the river when it freezes.
The excerpt shows satirical lines about a pianist, a claim of a politician’s strangest confession, and a mock note on Santa Claus travel by plane. It also mentions Roosevelt crossing the equator and a pollywog reference, with a hint of campaign timing.
A lighthearted look at film stars marrying with minimal ceremony. John Barrymore fumbles for a ring and pennies, Errol Flynn misplaces his ring and finds it on his thumb, and other couples improvise bouquets and rings as fame meets simplicity.
Washington analysts warn that winter will bring more claims of a political mandate for New Deal measures. Senators and representatives may face pressure to back White House agendas even when local interests diverge, as voters often ignore pledges and mandates alike.
West Monroe fire department extinguished a sewer fire at the Stella and North Third streets corner around 4 pm Tuesday. Authorities attributed the blaze to a child playing with matches and reported no damage.
Six young men from Monroe and West Monroe enlisted at the national guard armory recruiting station opposite Hotel Monroe. Recruits named are Philip H. Kulcke Jesse Smith Lavene pou of Monroe Siuey Purvis Roger G. Moore and James B. Serugegi of West Monroe. Corporal C V Cox said vacancies exist in the Panama Canal zone corps and recruits may be enlisted to fill them.
At a large Stonewall Lodge meeting in 1921 the lodge elected C A Newnes as C C Ener Richards Jr as V C J J Busroughs BP C Sanders M Wo KR W Germany BK of Ro and S T EL Houston M C W J Watts M AS AL RY Mal lory I Ga Lloyd McDaniel O G Representative to grand lodge S M McReynolds R W Germany Frank Musling R W Hacel Alternates W M Hunt W T Baker Charles Gar vey and 3 G Williamson as trustees A. H. Green serves one year J R Hurani e two J A Smith three years Aubrey Green of dhuckson Miss visits for Carl McHenry and Miss Major wedding A Southwestern Industrial Traffic league meeting in Dallas on December 7 will decide commodities and evidence for the interstate commerce commission hearing in Washington December 14.
J W Melton Marion Louisiana Bureau of the Census reports 13 080 bales of cotton ginned in Union parish from the 1936 crop by November 14. This exceeds the 9 302 bales ginned by the same date in 1935.
A faded fragment presents Hambone style dialogue with dialect noted as a meditative snippet. The text hints at a speaker leaving a scene and comparing a shirt to a misspoken or misread item in a regional voice.
In New York Mitzi Green at sixteen leaves child fame behind. Her hair is Garboesque, she wears elegant dresses and mascara, and her soprano voice replaces her former treble. She recalls Jackie Cooper and past Hollywood days, aims for adult roles, and treats night club work as a bridge to more mature acting.
Medical article explains nasal polyps form from mucous membrane overgrowth and can cause obstruction, infection, and bleeding. It notes causes are unclear, diagnosis by endoscopy, and removal via surgery or caustic methods, with radium sometimes preventing recurrence.
City court yesterday disposed cases by Judge W. M. Harper. Hazel Johnson white man fined 60 days for obstructing street and endangering motorists. Vagrancy 60 days. Talmadge Walker negro vagrancy 60 days. Henry Wilkerson negro vagrancy 60 days. One person charged with drunken and disorderly conduct fined 7.50. Also a note on backbone species ratios.
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