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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1937
Page
9
The season brings giving and joy as Veterans of Foreign Wars Rodney J Hobbs post and the Good Fellows mobilize to aid needy families with stockings and gifts. Social events fill the calendar with dances and showers for Miss Davenport and other young women as guests travel for holidays.
The column highlights Mainbocher evening gown design with blue moire and brown tulle, a Baton Rouge First Presbyterian church wedding of Dr. Carolyn Tiebout and Dr. Melampy, plus gift ideas for Christmas hostess and family gifts including home goods and books.
In a Farrington Bluff setting during a fierce February storm, Jude Blinshop is found dead after a night of disappearances involving Michael, Gay Palmer, and the Skipper. The narrator, Jim, pieces together fear and suspicions while protecting a shaken Michael and awaiting coroner help as the storm traps everyone on the Bluff.
Pattern 4674 offers a flattering sliming wash frock with short sleeves V neck and action-pleat skirt. Ruffles lace or ric rac trim options, sizes 34 to 48, fabric 36 inch guidance. Send 15 cents. book and pattern combo 25 cents. Monroe News-Star ad.
The piece lists numerous December parties at the Frances hotel Cherokee terrace and Lakeside Country club including teas and dances for Miss Martha Hunt Miss Gloria Frances Major and others. It also notes Navy Lt James Carson visiting, Mrs Hodges recovering from surgery, guests Signe Pope and Virginia Gangstad, plus Pitt etiquette guidance for freshmen coeds.
The fragment lists social tips and character sketches from a senior row, advising on smoking etiquette and behavior. It mentions personalities including Helen Margery Lillian and Mary, highlighting varied traits and stories in a campus setting.
In Los Angeles on December 22 a boy was born to George Barnes a movie cameraman and his second wife Betty Woods. Barnes announced the birth noting Norman Scott Barnes is in custody of his divorced wife Joan Blondell who is married to Dick Powell.
Clarks lodge No 382 Free and Accepted Masons has elected Joan Parker as worshipful master A P Smith as senior warden J J McDonald as junior warden R E Busch as secretary Leonard L Jackson as treasurer. Appointed officers include M D Ballard senior deacon W B Perkins junior deacon and Wilson Rowellio tyler.
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