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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1930
Page
4
The Monroe News Star prints world news items with standard Associated Press content. The page lists staff roles and notes about newspaper affiliations and national advertising representatives.
The West Carroll Gazette praises the Police Jury for retaining the parish health unit and home and farm agents. It argues health services reduce sickness and infant mortality and that rural extension is interdependent with health efforts, urging opponents to learn from deprivation.
The article explains how lower interest rates after the war reduce the federal government's borrowing costs. Uncle Sam benefits by refinancing maturing obligations at cheaper rates, saving millions as the money market tightens and long-term obligations are rolled into cheaper short-term debt. Taxpayers face a lingering deficit and higher taxes as these shifts occur.
A rare congressional action repeals sixty old laws, trimming statutes on notary terms in Alaska, reports to printers, officer pay for Civil War era, and compensation for lost horses. The measure passes the House last spring and clears the Senate, signaling potential for future repeal sessions.
John C. Emery recalls chasing fads through sports and games as public favorite pastimes changed. He pursues outdoor sports and Mah Jongg, then crossword puzzles, auction bridge, contract bridge, ping pong, backgammon, and finally awaits a new option at Christmas.
A humorous verse where the speaker laments telling love while noting the beloved’s possessions. The speaker brushes aside declarations of devotion because the beloved’s wealth items like a new car, diamonds, mink coat, and satin slippers are already impressive. The poem ends with a sales push.
Washington profile on John Benjamin Kendrick of Wyoming, a long serving senator born a cowboy. From a 20000-acre Wyoming cattle operation he rose from ranch bunkhouse study to politics, including governor and U S senate, with a knack for self made wealth and a reform stance against ranch gambling.
A Washington Bureau feature answers reader questions about topics from musicians to demographics. Notable items include Walter Damrosch leading 55 to 60 musicians, the rise of women in large cities workforces, the Williamsburg restoration vision by Dr. William Goodwin funded by John D. Rockefeller, and Booth Tarkington’s biography noting birth in Indianapolis in 1869 and two Pulitzer Prizes.
The article warns mothers to act promptly when children show fever, fatigue, or vomiting. It emphasizes recognizing common signs, isolating a sick child, and avoiding unneeded remedies, noting fever and skin rashes as key indicators and stressing simple, safe care.
Commerce Department reports for the 11 months to November show U S exports totaling 3 568 473 000 a drop of 1 240 970 000 from last year while imports declined 1 236 216 000 to 2 853 596 000.
Hollywood studios recruit European actors for talkies as foreign versions rise to 63 films in six months across Spanish French German and other languages. The cosmopolitan trend grows with stars like John Barrymore and Benny Rubin diversifying roles while industry figures like Roy Chapman Andrews exchange gifts.
Monroe Commandery No. 7 Knights Templar elected officers for the coming year led by W. M. Washburn eminent commander and R. Downes Jr generalissimo. Other officers include C. Ke. Faunt LeRoy captain general and H. D. Apgar treasurer. A Christmas guests list features Dr. Armony G. McHenry and Dr. Comeaux of Vicksburg.
A dense listing of radio and television programs across networks and local stations. Itction includes show times from 4:16 p.m. to 11:60 p.m. with cross references to stations such as WEAF WABC WENR WTMJ and others, listing orchestras dramas news and variety segments.
Editorial argues police face obstacles in using the vagrancy statute to combat gangsters. Hayes and Wilbert were nolle pressed due to lack of evidence, a Supreme Court ruling, and a one year statute of limitations. Calls for stronger evidence, a potential test case, and renewed prosecutorial effort to expand the statute’s reach.
A collage of quotations from Florida Times-Union Springfield Union Manchester Union and Cordell Oklahoma showing pay up insights on debt language revival and car payments. It highlights a dean of lexicographers Dr Vizetelly praising slang while others joke about pedestrians and economic habits.
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