Yuletide Reflections and Holiday Guests Parade in 1920s News
A lengthy holiday feature blends religious musings on Christ’s mercy with notes on bayberry candles and Yuletide customs. It mentions Bishop Vincent urging charity and a Bayberry candle folklore promising health and wealth. The piece shifts to social notes of Dr. Scott Hamilton’s arrival from New Orleans and holiday visits from Gunby and Gunby relatives, Holcomb family in Atlanta, and Frank Cook joining Mrs. Cook in the Theus family home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott Hamilton
New Orleans
Mrs. Hamilton
John
Frank Cook
Atlanta, Ga
City
Holiday social calendar and wedding notices at Lakeside area
A crowded Christmas season article details open houses and dances through December 28 at Lakeside Country Club Plantation club and Y M H A venues. It notes weddings for Elizabeth Biedenharn and Bertha Alyce Masur, plus guests and arrivals from Shreveport York and New York, with extensive party descriptions and outfits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakeside Country Club
R. L. Wood
Phi Kappa Fraternity House
Lakeside Golf and Country Club
Josephsnacman
Edward Seymour
John Sherrouse
Suzanne Sperry
Walter Kellogg
Delta Beta Sigma
Plantation Club
Delta Sigma Fraternity
Phi Kappa Fraternity
Eta
Frances Hotel
Elizabeth Biedenharn
Hayden Cutler
Bethaven
Henry Biedenharn
Island Drive
Bertha Alyce Masur
Irvin Shlenker
Temple B'Nai Israel
Bob Foster
Billy Haynes
Buster Baur
Durwood Griffin
Jake Chase
Cherokee Terrace
Christmas Prophecy by Helen Weishim
A brief poetic piece recalls the Magi visiting the infant king and shepherds in Judea. It envisions a future dawn when one arrives with balm for weary souls, offering new hope, love, and shelter in tune with Christmas stars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christmas Prophecy
Helen Weishim
Judea
Is There a Santa Claus A Classic Answer For Doubt
The article recounts the 1897 New York Sun editorial by Francis P Church answering Virginia O Hannon's question about Santa Claus. It highlights the moral that belief in Santa exists through love generosity and faith, and notes the piece's lasting popularity and misattribution to Charles Dana. It also lists local holiday notices about Roy Hale Mary Lee Sullivan Thomas Sullivan and a dancing party at Lakeside Country Club with changes in timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Christendom
Francis Pharcellus Church
New York Sun
Church
the Sun
Charles A. Dana
Friends of the Sun
Virginia
Sun
Mr. Dana
Mr. Church
Christmas Season Arrives With Visits and Events Across City
Douglas Kelly returns from Hardin Simmons University with two classmates for the Yuletide. Donald Lafayette Clower born December 17 to Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Clower. Ida Schaller to spend Christmas in Bastrop with Terzias. Teflis Grotto ball set for December 29 at the Virginia hotel. Sewanee and Tulane students home for holidays. Louisiana clubwomen urged to uphold Christmas ideals in a message from Mrs. Ralph H. Agate of Lafayette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Joy Steele
J. C. Steele
Miss Steele
University of Texas
Douglas Kelly
Hardin Simmons University
Texas
B. F. Kelly
Messrs
Joseph Everett
Willard Gaskins
Percy Clower
Donald Lafayette
Ida Schaller
Bastrop
Leo Terzia
Terzia
William Terzia
Crystal Ballroom
Virginia Hotel
Dorothy Lewman
Charleston
Ill
Eastern Illinois Teachers’ College
W. Lewman
Louisiana
Ralph H. Agate
Lafayette
Louisiana Federation of Women’s Clubs
General Federation
Clubwoman
American Home Department
America
Two piece dress pattern for school wear illustrated
A sewing pattern advertisement promotes Anne Adams two piece dress designs for Girls with a slim skirt and a blouse with a back pleat and front panel. It lists pattern 2091 sizes 12 to 38 and fabric needs for size 16. Orders go to Monroe News-Star Pattern Department in New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Monroe News- Star Pattern Department
West 11Th Street
New York City
Christmas Spirit Among Clubwomen Urges Community Service
The speech emphasizes Christmas spirit guiding clubwomen to study public problems and support worthy enterprises. It urges unselfish care, service before self, and spreading Christmas joys across the land, wishing readers a blessed season and a better nation.
Imitation of Life at the Paramount shines with stellar talent
At the Paramount audiences see Imitation of Life based on Fannie Hurst. John Stahl crafts the screen adaptation with Claudette Colbert and Warren William. Supporting cast includes Baby Jane Rochelle Hudson Alan Hale Ned Sparks and more. The Capitol runs Gambling a tight mystery melodrama from George M. Cohan with Wynne Gibson Doroday Burgess and Rowland V. Lee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paramount
Paramount Theater
Fannie Hurst
John Stahl
Claudette Colbert
Bea” Pullman
Warren William
Baby Jane
Universal
Rochelle Hudson
Alan Hale
Ned Sparks
Henry Kolker
Alma Tell
G. P. Huntly, Jr
Wyndham Standing
Paul Porcasi
Capitol
Capitol Theater
George M. Cohan
Cohan
Percy Hammond
The
New York Tribune
America
Mr. Hammond
Wynne Gibson
Dorothy Burgess
Walter Gilbert
Ted Newton
Cora Witherspoon
Percy Ames
Harold Healy
Clark Robinson
Rowland V. Lee
al Draper
New York
Europe
Brown bribery trial follows Marian Gordon recounts details
Marian Gordon reports to editor about Lon Casad's departure as the Brown bribery trial unfolds. Brown is accused of taking $10,000 to influence a defective high school project. The plot centers on Jery Case and Jenny's roommate Carlton with Marian heading to the courthouse amid tense courtroom atmosphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Symopsis
Martuan Wordon
Morning Dispatch
Brown
Lon Casad
Jery Case
Jenny
da Carlton
Mariana
Tony
Honor and Hard Choices Inside a Courthouse
Marian sits through a tense Brown bribery trial as she confronts fear and longing. Tony and Len discuss honor while spectators fill a dreary courthouse. The verdict nears and Marian steels herself to face the outcome tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony
A. E. Elliott Visits Monroe For Holidays
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Elliott of New Orleans are spending holidays with Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Elliott of Monroe. Mr. Elliott is connected with Louisiana Power and Light in New Orleans and is a Monroe native and City High School graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Elliott
New Orleans
Mr. Elliott
O. G. Elliott
Monroe
Elliott
Louisiana Power and Light Company
City High School
Sterlington-Fairbanks Post Distributes Gifts
The Wal ter F. Smith post No. 207 American Legion Sterlington and Fairbanks distributed twelve baskets of groceries fruits and nuts and presents for children to families of ex service men and others aided by the post auxiliary 60-
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter F. Smith
The
American Legion
Sterlington
Fairbanks
Post Auxiliary
Santa Claus program brightens homes with missed gifts
The initiative operated in a Santa Claus program aimed at delivering Christmas cheer to households likely overlooked by Santa Claus during his rounds, bringing festive joy to those in need.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Man Killed While Boarding Train in Logansport
Loganport Louisiana December 24 Ben Williams 26 of Shelby County Texas died attempting to board a mixed freight and passenger train on a holiday trip to Shreveport Williams with Chester LaFitte and Wilmer Ferguson was last seen alive by friends at the train’s arrival body found mangled two blocks from the Southern Pacific station in Logansport
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logansport
Ben Williams
Shelby County
Texas
Williams
Chester LaFitte
Wilmer Ferguson
Shreveport
Southern Pacific
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Bethlehem
Vincent
Thomas Gunby
Sar Ellen
Edith
Olive Gunby
Roy Holcomb
F. T
D. J. Hirsch
Abe Arent
the Flower Shoppe, Inc
S. E. Suey
Neil Buie
Eugene Windes
Milling Bernstein
Buie
Windes
John Henry
George Hemphill
Hemphill
Craig Hayes
York, Penn
Bella Hayes
Elizabeth Hudson
Mrs
F. G. Hudson
Ben Pollack
Doris Robbins the Radio Songster
Cherokee Terrace Hotel
Frances
Ers
NEA Service, Inc
Papa
Virginia O'Hanlon
West Ninety-Fifth Street
Roy O. Hale
Annapolis
R. O. Hale
Mary Lee Sullivan
Washington, D. C
Thomas Sullivan
Minnie Cole
Jeff Cole
St. Francis Sanitarium
Miss Cole
Whitworth College
Bellhaven
Miss
John Sherrouse, Jr
Culver Military Academy
Indiana
Bell Ans
Ruby Keeler
Warner Bros
Dick Powell
Pat O’brien
Hollywood
Frank Borzage
Bobby Connolly
Robert Holloway
Cyril Yancey
Sewanee University
Tennessee
Alwina Mulhearn
Tulane University
Mr. P. Mulhearn
Sarah Foster
Memphis, Tenn
News-Star Daily
Jhe Caddams
Bolivia
Marian Gordon
Jeanne Bowman
Marian
Chapter
Tje
Lon
Marietta
Little Marietta
Arian
Mickey Mouse
Bowen
Tabby
Lem Southerland
Mellan
Sutherland
Lan
Len
Lem Sutherland
Sterlington-Fairbanks Post
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