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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1933
Page
4
The piece defends the CWA as a humanitarian program to put relief recipients to work, warns against quitting prior jobs, and notes wages and hours while stressing temporary, nonsteady positions and the goal of saving lives and souls.
The passage describes Ma making fruit cake with citron peel spice and brown sugar. The house fills with the scent as the family teases her firmness about portions. The fruit cake is central to Christmas dinner, both first and last to be eaten, with scraps left for New Year’s.
John Blake argues that young men should be allowed to forge their own path after education. He notes fathers often talk down to sons and urges giving twenty one year olds real freedom to pursue talents, fail, and learn. He warns against shaping youths to fit outdated gentlemanly standards.
Poem reflects on past happiness and youth remembered through a golden memory box. The speaker recalls a Glee Club moment and the sunlit joy in a friend's smile, noting time alters life but memory preserves the thrill and laughter.
Michael-Well greets Patsy Eagan and offers a temporary loan, proposing a casual agreement amid a cordial exchange. The scene centers on their reaffirmed friendship and finanzial aid in a moment of pause.
A playful remark during the annual parade drew laughs and gasps as onlookers weighed wit against offense. Officials urged civility while organizers defended the humor as harmless satire.
The speaker notes that First Actor Ham Fatter has offered creditors 3 cents on a dollar, while second Actor- What a bluff that guy can chuck is dismissed as a bold bluff.
Dialogue reveals a family dispute over funding for a son of a business partner. Jinks notes rival partners offer to cover his winter expenses in Palm Beach if he travels there.
The editor confirms a poetry contest with a $1 entry fee per poem. The impecunious poet asks for the poetry editor, not the humorous editor.
A humorous note quips about language barriers between Americans and French people. The speaker claims French folks cannot understand their own language and jokes about failed attempts with phrases learned from a correspondence course.
A playful collection of humorous exam tidbits contrasts interjections with how animals speak less than humans. Chaucer, Arthurian legends, and Wycliffe ideas appear in a playful jumble, with notes on canterbury pilgrims and stair like steppes.
A dense schedule lists NBC WEAF CBS WABC and regional nets detailing daytime and evening radio programs. It notes coast to coast coverage with specific show names such as Tom Mix Sketch and The Wizard of Oz along with orchestras, dramas, and variety acts across Central East Midwest Mountain and Pacific Coast regions.
New York report on Marie and Ann, two former milliners who remake discarded hats into cheerful new designs. Their upbeat approach wins customers, and one NJ teacher helps their rise. Proceeds from a Carnegie Hall concert benefit Warm Springs infantile paralysis relief.
Washington notes the Tory club critique of Roosevelt over currency policy. Critics rail at inflation while citing Sprague and Baruch, Smith, Baker as counterpoints. The piece questions public mood in the Midwest and South amid calls for higher farm prices and silver sentiment.
December 13 at 8 15 p m Rotarians Arrange Fundraiser for Good Fellows Fund Cobb will headline a citywide entertainment. A council chamber meeting at city hall 8 p m plans reception for returning soldiers with a large local committee including Mayor Apgar and J T Bryant.
A 17 year old girl afflicted for over five years with a jaw bone disease seeks surgery after gaining parental consent. Dr M N Federpeil offers free services and hospital facilities for the operation, aiming to proceed soon, possibly before Christmas.
In 1932 Japanese high school girls crafted a flag for a Shanghai regiment and dyed it red with their own blood. They sent secret hints to aid offsetting a hostile crowd while keeping the recipient free to act as he wished.
Ripley Mississippi December 11 two former convicts Mark W Spencer and Nathan Richardson are under federal probe for extortion tied to threats against Circuit Judge T E Pegram and a crude bomb thrown at his home last October The case drew in Justice Department agents and lawmen from Birmingham Memphis and Jackson with claims that Spencer authored the notes and Richardson acted as accomplice The judge had received threats demanding eighteen thousand dollars in currency before the weapon was used and exploded harmlessly in tree branches
Pan American Refining plant construction in Texas City will restart at noon with D J Smith of New York announcing rehire of all non arrested workers. Sheriff Braggne pledged protection as about 2000 men were affected by the strike of welders and boiler makers seeking higher wages.
Rabbi F. K. Hirsch of Temple B Nai Israel will be principal speaker Monday at the Shreveport B Nai Brith lodge annual celebration. The program will be at Temple Agudeth Achim with members from other Louisiana cities attending.
In Caldwell Texas Edward Griffin is sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary after a jury convicts him of murder in the death of Mollie Jankiewiak’s infant daughter. Prosecutors allege a grave was prepared before the birth. The jury reached its verdict after deliberation lasting into the weekend.
Hollywood reports that George Bernard Shaw reversed course and sold The Devil's Disciple to RKO. Production slated to begin in January with John Barrymore star.
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