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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1936
Page
16
Shoppers fill the holiday scene with gift seeking and festive purchases as Christmas approaches. The Fine Arts club hosts a Christmas program at Mrs. Dean Selig’s home featuring music, poetry, and dance.
A Christmas era report recalls three boys dropping firecrackers from a viaduct injuring a young woman’s eye and facial damage. It warns of hazards of firecrackers, urges caution, and notes laws restricting sale or lighting them. The piece also mentions Mary’s burn from a gas stove after Christmas and advises stove shields and fire safety, plus local social notes and military furloughs.
A busy schedule lists events from Frances hotel and Lakeside Country club including D B S dances on the Frances roof, open houses at Y M H A and Arent home, tea dansantes at Phi Kappa house, and Delta Sigma Christmas ball at Cherokee terrace. Notables include Miss Nanette Selig and Mr Martin Fuhrer visiting from Chicago, with Lucyle Godwin back with her parents.
Inspector Hylton follows a murder at Hope Enderton where Arthur Burdett was clubbed to death. Suspects include Dale Shipley and Lumsdale as villagers recall a tense Monday with Shipley walking to Reeves then vanishing before dinner. The hunt scene frames the suspect inquiry.
F. C. Eason, John Renwick and Earl Cobb, students at the State Normal, are enjoying holidays with friends and relatives in this city, sharing stories of campus life and plans for the new term.
A truck owned by Monroe Transfer Co. caught fire at 1820 DeSiard Street near 2:48 p.m. The blaze was extinguished in five minutes. Welding apparatus caused the truck fire. Two grass fires followed, one started by children and another by care.
The report notes gasoline use at 3200 Gordon avenue and the east end of the traffic bridge as part of an overall U S consumption near 17.7 billion gallons in 1935.
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