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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1935
Page
25
Louisiana Tech paper Tech Talk gives $200 to the Tech band after urging improved facilities. The gift will fund two alto horns and instrument repairs as band director James A. Smith plans how to use the money.
The annual report of Chief Forester F A Silcox shows motor tourists visiting national forests reached 41,724,001 in the year ended June 30, up from 24,836,206 the prior year. Forest officials note growing outdoor interest and travel to public woodland areas.
Miss Evelyn McGee was announced the winner of the stewardship contest sponsored by the state women's missionary society at Alexandria. She represented the Baptist Church and had previously defeated contestants from Concordia and Simsboro.
RKO presents The Three Musketeers at the Paramount with Walter Abel as d Artagnan and a starry cast in a humorous swashbuckler that blends hearty comedy with adventure. Metro’s Woman Wanted at the Capitol depicts a jailbreak and courtroom drama as a woman on the run seeks the real culprit with help from a young attorney.
Purdue University touts success as Model 5th Chester white barrow, weighing 258 pounds, takes grand championship at the Chicago livestock exposition. Guard George Dennis, from Purdue's football squad, stands with the winning pig as he eyeing future pork and pigskin prospects.
Adrienne Ames charms as a vamp in a lively film with Edgar Kennedy and Robert Greig delivering humor. The ensemble includes Louis Calhern Noel Madison William Davidson Granville Bates Richard Powell Erville Alderson Gertrude Short and more as the screenplay credits note David Silverstein and Leonard Fields adapting Wilson Collison story.
Fire at 104 Pargoud Avenue nearly destroyed a two story garage apartment owned by R. W. McFarlin. The building and furniture suffered heavy damage though insured. Lucian Max Larche had vacated the furnished unit earlier, and McFarlin narrowly escaped after rushing inside to save belongings.
A joint petition recording a $135 settlement between Ike Cobb and Stovall Drilling, Inc. was filed in Oua chita parish court. Cobb, employed by the company, suffered a back injury October 8 while handling pipe. The text notes that twenty or more months are required to grow a pineapple.
The 1,065-pound Black Angus steer named Pat earned the grand championship at the international livestock exposition in Chicago. Cleo Yoder, a 19-year-old Wellman Iowa 4-H member, plans to use the sale proceeds to fund college education.
The W. H. O'Toole Construction of Monroe won a $76,269.85 contract to build supplementary sewer lines in Leesburg Florida funded by WPA. Mrs. O'Toole said her husband has other large projects and they will keep their Monroe home. The article also notes that 64 percent of New York state's 2,670 prisoners are foreign born and two-thirds of these are aliens.
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