A Merry Christmas Spirit Through Giving and Hope
The News-Star essay extols Christmas giving beyond gifts, praising Good Fellows fund and welfare groups in Monroe for aiding underprivileged families. It notes broader community enthusiasm, urges personal acts of help, and concludes that true joy comes from helping others achieve a happier Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News-Star’s Good Fellows’ Fund
Monroe
Good Fellows
The
News-Star
Monroe Welfare Association
West Monroe Welfare Group
Plugging Loopholes in Federal Income Tax Law
Senate committee hearings reveal numerous tax loopholes used to evade the statute. Proposals define family, restrict exchanges among relatives and corporations, and aim to restore revenue, with potential gains of hundreds of millions. The committee urges major revisions to strengthen the law.
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Senate
Ittee
Dependability Key to Career Success Says Uncommon Sense
In a 1933 column John Blake argues that native ability fails without dependability. A former boss recalls a brilliant worker who deteriorated when bored, illustrating how consistent effort through drudgery matters. Dependability, not talent alone, drives promotions and steady employment.
The Glee Club By George Elliston
A reflective poem where the speaker meets the Old Years Elf as a companion of self. The elf conjures childhood scenes, friends, and laughter, yet also recalls tears and farewells as the year passes. The year’s motif explores memory, nostalgia, and self awareness through personified time.
The New Clerk and Old Clerk Jab Over Holiday Boss
A humorous exchange shows the new clerk wondering what a boss who acts like a dyspeptic bear with a neck boil is all about. The old clerk says the boss remains gruff only during the festive season of good cheer.
Pa’s baseball chatter spills into family chat
Egbert complains that his father overuses baseball talk, while Maudie retorts with a joking three strikes remark, illustrating how papa extends the sport into daily life.
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Egbert
Maudie
Ocean Freezing Invention in Joke Dialogue
A light dialogue imagines a future where a husband boasts of freezing the ocean to block submarines. He jokes that if his plan succeeds their baby will be too rich to become president, while the wife questions the prospect.
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John
Wall Street
Grampus
Wordplay undercuts lesson on French terms and family ties
The dialogue riffs on French phrases and family roles. The French teacher notes pas sounds like pah and means step, while the pupil asks if pas-pa would mean stepfather. Miss Belldon mentions ancestry tracing, and Miss Hitter jokes about buying home furniture on credit.
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Miss Hitter
Loyal Dog Saves Owner From Fire Dies Heroically
A dog rescued its owner from a blazing building and perished in the act. Hicks laments the loss while praising the noble little animal's courage and life-saving deed.
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Hicks
Boners and a Philosophical Snippet
A humorous clipping notes Berkeley’s view of reality as subjective and questions what constitutes the Soviet. It wryly contrasts middle-class napkins and a joke about polyps swimming in youth and clinging to relatives in old age.
Roosevelt Faces Congressional Sniping As Recovery Persists
Washington dispatch notes President Roosevelt believes the recovery program is beyond experimental stage and working. Advisers anticipate limited trouble with Congress, expecting regular Democrats to stay supportive while Cabinet sniping remains a political nuance. Even with friction, the president’s stance and allies’ loyalties are unlikely to derail policy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Christmas Baby Born While Father Serves Overseas
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. McKenzie welcomed a baby daughter born December 17. The father serves in France. Police Inspector R. E. Heaps warns residents to limit fireworks within city limits and cites specific restricted streets and areas.
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Mrs. C. E. McKenzie
R. E. Heaps
The
News-Star
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Eighth
Grand Street
U. S. and P
Telemaque
Real Estate Transfers in Calhoun and Breard Addition
Filed Thursday in the clerk of court office, Jewell Thompson transfers all interest in a Calhoun land parcel fronting 132 feet on the Dixie Overland highway to E M Finley for 107 dollars. Allan Sholars transfers a lot in square 10 of D A Breard Jr home addition fronting 78.63 feet on Auburn avenue and extending 145.03 feet to an alley for 4 850 dollars.
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Jewell Thompson
E. M. Finley
Calhoun
S. W. Pipes
Allan Sholars
Henrietta B. Sholars
D. A. Breard, Jr
Auburn Avenue
North Second Street
England Scotland and Ireland Compared to New Mexico
The text notes that England, Scotland and Ireland combined are smaller than the U S state of New Mexico, implying a comparison of geographic or territorial size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Scotland
Ireland
New Mexico
Christmas Seal Sale Helps Two
A twelve year old girl and her mother recover from tuberculosis thanks to funds from the Ouachita Tuberculosis and Public Health association. The 1933 seal sale campaign ran from December 1 to Sunday, with the child restored to health and the mother on the road to recovery after lengthy treatment and hospital care aided by the association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouachita Tuberculosis and Public Health Association
Association For
Hazel Flaherty Parents Win Compensation from Woolworth
In district court a joint petition shows Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Flaherty on behalf of their daughter Hazel Flaherty 16 received 150 dollars from F W Woolworth company plus 12 dollars for medical expenses. The payout settles an injury from September 9 while working in the store when she bumped a wrapping board and aggravated an old appendicitis scar. The filing notes possible need for another operation and mentions nervousness while Hazel worked five days weekly at eleven dollars.
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E. C. Flaherty
Hazel Flaherty
F. W. Woolworth Company
Miss Flaherty
City Court Docket Warned by Judge Harper
City court cases disposed Thursday by Judge W M Harper include Hazel Taylor fined 100 dollars for driving while intoxicated A Henley 7.50 for drunken and disorderly and vagrancy 30 days Anderson Jones 17.59 for fighting 37.50 for drawing and displaying a dangerous weapon Albert Taylor 30 days trespassing on city property suspended if he leaves town Levy Gremillion 15 days drunk and disorderly Eugene Coker 7.50 for drunken and disorderly. The tree frog note mentions color-changing camouflage implications.
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W. M. Harper
Hazel Taylor
A. Henley
Anderson Jones
Albert Taylor
Levy Gremillion
Eugene Coker
Radio Friday Schedule December 22 10 PM Coast to Coast
Radio Friday December 22 program grid lists NBC WEAF networks by region with time slots 4:30 to 12:30 including The Wizard of Oz Irene Beasley Circus Days The Goldbergs Waltzing by Abe Lyman Victor Young Orchestra The First Nighter Lum Abner Meyer Davis Orchestra Jack Denny Orchestra Ralph Kirbery Ted Weems Orchestra Harry Sosnick Orchestra Jack Armstrong Cowboy Tom H V Kaltenborn Bobby Benson Tito Guitar and Memory Lane east cadets.
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Tom Mix
Irene Beasley
East
Wmag
Shirley Howard
Billy Echelor
The
Goldbergs
Orch
Cavaliers
C Toc
Abe Lyman
Victor Young
Orchestra
Lum & Abner
Sociable
Meyer Davis & Orchestra
Jack Denny
Ralph Kirbery
Ted Weems
Harry Sosnick
Walc Wade
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Jack Armstrong
Cowboy Tom
H. V. Kaltenborn
Bobby Benson
Aland Pete
Lixie
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Tito
Lush
Parenteau
Memory Lane
Cadets
Mmid West
Radio Schedule Fragment With Multiple Performers and Regions
A dense listing shows a radio timetable with city, coast and region blocks. It references acts such as Myrt and Vy Panico, Edwin Co Hj, Boswell Sisters, Isham Jones Orch, Amos n Andy, Three Musketeers, Red Davis, Phil Baker, and May include NBC WJZ network ties across Northwest Midwest Pacific Coast and East regions with shown times from early morning to midnight.
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Myrt & Vy
Panico Ore
Texas Rangers
Midwest
Otstra—Ldixié
Ico Ore
Bae Sic
Tommy McLaughlin
Johnson
CBS
Gladys Rice
Bongs
Edwin Co
Isham Jones
Little J. Little
Joe
Leon Belasco
Henry Busse
Coaco Coast
WJZ Nettwork
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Wim Wiba
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Pacific Coast
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Henry King & Orchestra
Three X Sisters
Eget
Wen
Lowell Thomas
Orphan Annie
Amos 'N' Andy
East
Three Musketeera
Shutta
O'Keefe
Ore
Dangerous Paradise
Red Davis
Ph! Harris & Orchestra
Phil Baker
Frank Simon
Mario Cozzi
Sonas
Amos
Andy
West
Freddie Martin
Clo
Cah Calloway Orchestra
Smoked tastes of fame and fortune in New York
In New York, notable smokers reveal cigar costs and habits from J. P. Morgan’s Havana blend to Douglas Fairbanks paying 65 a hundred. Arliss, Wiggin, Myer, Mackay, and Zukor seek vintage tobaccos while actors, singers, and society women favor varied priced smokes. A tale of a Wall Street boss and a vanished chauffeur ends with a humorous traffic episode.
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Park and Tilford and
Dunhill
Albert Wiggin
Eugene Myer
Clarence Mackay
Adolf Zukor
Owen Davis
Douglas Fairbanks
New York
Park and Tilford
Chicago
John McCormack
Galli Curci
Hollywood Close-Ups: Tracy Faces Future Despite Break
Hollywood columnist Dan Thomas notes Lee Tracy remains active after a Metro studio broke his contract following a Mexico City incident. A preview of Advice to the Lovelorn earns him praise and potential work, with Arbuckle cited as a cautionary tale and McLaglen quipping about dressing rooms alongside Lowe.
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Lee Tracy
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Mexico City
Tracy
Roscoe
Fatty” Arbuckle
Arbuckle
Victor McLaglen
Edmund Lowe
Vic
Lowe
McLaglen
Morehan
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A. M. Myatt
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Associated Press
Uncommon Sense
John Blake
Bell Syndicate, Inc
the Glee Club
George Elliston
Berkeley
Cecil Jensen
House of Representatives
Brain Trust
Wilson
Joseph Davies
Wisconsin
President Coolidge
William M. Butler
Massachusetts
Coolidge
Mr. Butler
Louis Howe
Professor Tugwell
Moley
Congressional
Hambone’s Meditations
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J. P. Morgan
Havana
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George Arliss
Mr. Morgan
Frank Vanderlip
William
Green
American Federation of Labor
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
al Smith
Hollywood
Dan Thomas
NEA
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