26 Dec 1938
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1938
Page
1
Neighborly Christmas scenes unfold with family visits and open houses. A strained couple struggles with parenting, divorce, and guilt while planning festive gatherings and a safer holiday for children.
Local notices detail Woman’s Missionary Society meetings at Gerden Avenue Methodist church with circles led by Mrs Lo Ho Patrick Mrs Woo Lusk and Mrs J O Alford. Fraternal banquets balls dances at Frances hotel Cherokee terrace and Delta Sigma events with intermission party at the Hale home and other open houses and homecomings for New Year festivities. Includes alumni homecoming buffet supper and society ottom events with reservations and times through Sunday New Year’s Eve plans and loose family travel notes.
Atty Mowe investigates a strange weather event at Macea Lorne where poet Svacal’s work inspires controversy. Suspected killer from a left handed crime scene emerges as Roddy Strate and Tim Core recount odd clues. Marieq Arey and Pam’s father figures appear amid tense family ties.
Asey Mayo pursues Pam’s ambergris clue amid a web of suspects including Aaron Frye and the Carrs. Police searches, alibis, and a watchful town provoke tension as firearms, money and a looming threat raise the stakes at Quanomet’s eerie Octagon House.
Judge A. C. Floyd 81 former Memphis city judge and editor died in Nashville. He began his career in Columbia where he was married and later edited papers in Knoxville and Chattanooga before Memphis News-Scimitar. He served two terms as city judge and later entered real estate. Pallbearers include U S Senator E D McKellar and Memphis power broker E H Crump.
Fragmentary copy notes actress Joan Bennett setting aside a black wig amid a stumble over a public persona. The piece mentions comparison to Hedy Lamarr and a disclosure about a sensitive health topic referenced to a San Francisco context involving Ray Loman Wolur, head of an American social hygiene group.
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