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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1934
Page
8
A poem contrasts daytime hills with night ridges, linking landscape imagery to longing and movement. The speaker notes a hill’s friendly, sunlit presence and the restless, starward pull of night, then shifts to a motivational aside urging the reader to envision a better professional position and life.
Ben Pollock and his famed musicians drew a large crowd to Cherokee Terrace for a one night stopover en route to Chicago, delivering a peppy brilliant show. The town enjoyed lavish dinners at the Perot home and hosted literary guild gatherings while visiting guests from Tennessee and Texas added festive note.
The column lists weddings at Bethanyaven and Temple B Ns Israel with receptions at the Y M H A and Lakeside Country Club. New Year Eve balls at the Y M H A and Cher okee Terrace feature Bob Fosters orchestra and a party in progress. Other items include a school auditorium program, a state wide library service plan endorsing a two million dollar system, and various holiday visits and travel plans of local families and guests. Dr Hayden Cutler of Chicago arrives for the Biedenharn wedding with Mrs Lytha Cutler and Mr Charles Cutler among the invited guests.
A holiday scene fills the city with carols by Cosmopolitan club and Davidson High School on Main Street. Christmas pageants at Presbyterian and Episcopal churches feature detailed decorations, notable performers, and gift distributions to the Episcopal Girls’ home.
The Married People's Card club gathers at Mr. and Mrs. W F Cummings for a Yuletide Boston baked bean supper. Guests include Mrs J W McWilliams and Mrs George Weaks who win prizes, with grandchild Katherine Peters assisting and Elizabeth McGeorge of Memphis visiting. Out‑of‑town members from Eau Claire and Detroit join six tables of club members.
The article recounts how the Flame of Mexico flower, named after a Mexican minister’s Christmas fete hosted by Dona Dorotea Coronel, became a symbol of friendship with the United States. It notes Miss Sadie Schmalinski visiting New Orleans and Houston, and Mr. and Mrs. Dixon’s Christmas return to Ruleville. A Cherokee Terrace party hosted by the Junior Charity League supports St. Francis sanitarium baby clinic.
The St. Joseph event at Blackman Hall was enjoyed by many with managers Mr Dick Coor and Mr Magruder Smith Jr. and Monroe based Bob Foster's orchestra providing music. Decorations featured red and green rope forming Merry Christmas.
Dr Clarence Pierson, 66, renowned alienist and psychiatrist, former superintendent of East Louisiana hospital at Jackson and Central Louisiana hospital at Pineville, died after a long illness in New Orleans. He helped establish the Central Louisiana hospital in 1904 and led reforms for feeble mindedness and insanity laws, and segregated the criminal insane. He served in the Spanish American War and held leadership roles in several medical associations. Burial to be in Alexandria in Episcopal cemetery. survived by wife Martha Louise Hunter and six children.
Milwaukee editor A Walter Kramer of Musical America challenges the belief that music elevates human nature. While attending five music organization conventions he dismisses the idea as bunk, noting only a few masters prove the claim true.
Marian Gordon, Morning Dispatch reporter, arrives amid Silver Hondon’s celebration to report on Cliff Hondon’s possible death. The gathering turns tense as Silver confronts the news and a stranger, Max, questions Marian’s role as a reporter. Marian reads a revealing letter tomorrow.
Public figure criticizes listeners for treating radio concerts as background. He argues music shows require full attention and cites radio as boosting interest yet failing to teach proper listening. Hotel Frances hosts eighty guests including Ralph Corn and city officials as brief talks follow.
Christmas turkey dinner held Thursday night for carrier salesmen and street salesmen of the News Star World circulation department.
A historical note states that a normal man can part a weight equal to 1 percent of a ton with his bone without breaking it, illustrating early ideas about bone strength and physical limits.
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