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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1930
Page
4
Publishing details for the Monroe News-Star Morning World include ownership, staff titles, and advertising representatives. It lists president, publisher, associate publisher, manager, and post office classification, along with Associated Press membership and multiple national advertising offices across major cities. The text preserves archival newswire attribution and distribution notes.
The Monroe business revival campaign launched last Monday with the slogan Buy Now draws crowds to shops. Merchants report inroads on stocks, lower values entice purchasers, and early signs indicate rising prosperity and confidence across the city and region as 1930 ends with a blaze of business glory.
President Hoover denounces proposals to extend federal criminal laws to cover racketeering and insists states must enforce their own laws. He warns federal policing of state crime threatens state rights, urges renewed local law enforcement, and warns against central government overreach and nullification of state powers.
The piece contrasts last year’s easy profits with today’s elusive market. It argues weak hands and a lack of women traders undermine buoyancy, calls for more tips, and notes brokers’ roars over rotten business. It asserts without tips the market stays flat near two percent.
A quoted idea proposes free wheeling as a driving shift style enabling shift without foot movement. The note suggests pedestrians could use a similar principle. Copyright 1830 by the Bell Syndicate emphasizes a clever mechanical concept.
Washington notes William Tyler Page has served the house of representatives for nearly 50 years from page to clerk. On the eve of his golden anniversary he pursues a task to standardize election certifications by states, a delicate but needed reform. Page recalls early Capitol ties and a famous ink spill tale with Speaker Carlisle that broke a tense session into laughter. He remains an authority on congressional matters and answers a flood of daily inquiries with courteous deliberation.
A reader quiz column covers slang origins and historical queries. Topics include gigolos, William Jennings Bryan’s grandson, hiking slang from the Philippines, 1905 NYC to Chicago train times, Fairbanks’ birthplace, Glenn Curtiss seaplanes, early day nurseries, pastel framing, camel hair textiles, and Washingtons’ Mount Vernon dining times.
A public health style piece advises modern cleaning with vacuum cleaners moistened mops and dusting cloths to reduce germs. It notes that dust gathers in dark corners and stresses sunlit airy rooms for children with light furnishings and minimal heavy rugs or draperies.
A Hollywood note highlights a surge of familiar and new beauties in talkies. Leila Hyams Lily Damita Nancy Carroll Mary Astor June Collyer Anita Page Claudette Colbert Jeanette MacDonald Jeanette Loff Ann Harding Kay Francis Natalie Moorhead Marilyn Miller Helen Twelvetrees Claudia Dell Bow and Garbo are mentioned plus upcoming stars Evelyn Lave Elisa Landi Marlene Dietrich June Collyer Jane Keith Mary Nolan. Casting chief Fred Daug notes redheads are rare among 2490 extras and bit players, most being blond or brunette.
Rev. Thomas H. Morris new pastor of the First Methodist church arrives in Monroe with family and is quartered at the Parsonage on Wood Street. Herman Levy of New Orleans visits with Mr. and Mrs. Herman Masur. Socials at West Monroe and Riverside clubs feature varied guest lists. Monroe Aerie of the Eagles elects new officers for the coming year.
A dense listing of radio programming across WEAF WABC WJZ WLS and other networks with hourly shows including The Campus The Mail and various orchestras. The schedule names stations KDKA KYW KOA WGN KMBC KMOX and others, noting programs from morning through late night and multiple repeats.
The piece argues against the myth that American Indians are vanishing. It notes their population growth, education, and adaptation to modern life, portraying Indians as resilient and actively contributing to national welfare despite changes in tradition.
A collage of quotes from Ivor Brown Roy Priest Elmore M. McKee Henry Ford General Pershing and Professor Edwin F. Gay, linking liberty, modernization, youth striving, aging, and the call for international economic cooperation amid wartime prudence.
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