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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1930
Page
4
Local newspaper page notes publication details for The Monroe News Star and Morning World. Listing publishers editors and advertising reps and post office filing as second class matter with Associated Press credits and wire service notes.
Kin Hubbard known as Abe Martin is remembered for a career at the Indianapolis News spanning forty years. His humor is praised as fresh and sharp with capsule novels like his quotes about life, travel, and human foibles.
The Christmas Day toll includes 200 deaths across auto fires drownings hunting and violence as a major share from motor vehicles. The piece notes vehicle speed and holiday freedom raise fatalities, compares to 1928 averages of 263 daily deaths with 72 daily auto fatalities, urging safer New Year celebrations.
Rail lines in Louisiana and Texas push to cut passenger coach fare to two cents a mile to counter bus competition. A proposed federal regulation for highway carriers mirrors rail rules and was advanced in the last Congress. The issue awaits early action as the interstate commerce commission has begun a second review.
A humorous glossary defining terms with satirical twists. It lampoons abdicating rulers, optimists, pedestrians, and politicians, ending with a quip about a millionaire oil burner marrying a nightclub dancer in a midnight oil joke.
John Blake discusses arguing effectively listening to opponents and keeping cool. He recalls a trolley fight over coffee price and contrasts arguing nations. The piece shifts to rail and highway regulation taxes and the push for interstate carrier regulation.
Readers asked about Elmer Oliphant as a four letter man at Purdue and West Point. Other queries cover Floyd Gibbons, alcohol in bread dough, first concrete pavement in the United States, early skate use, public opinion, how to phrase death causes, recusants in England, and the grave of L Enfant.
The article explains frostbite care emphasizing gradual thawing not heating, and outlines steps for mild frostbite or chilblains. It covers rubbing, cold water applications, blister care with sterile puncture, and when to rewarm with absorbent cloths, plus hot drinks and avoiding alcohol.
A quiz page presents concise Q A pairs covering Reno Nevada altitude 4500 feet at Sierra Nevada foot. It notes Reno dry bracing air and sun. It asks who coined mutual admiration society likely Oliver Wendell Holmes. It details Roosevelt coal strike troops plan and 1924 rayon term usage. It cites Cleveland on suffrage and 1928 air mail priority by United States Post Office Department.
Hollywood notes that Monte Blue Esther Ralston Billie Dove Colleen Moore Laura LaPlante Corrine Griffith and others are returning to screens after talkies. Some have rejoined studios with new projects while others pursue stage or vaudeville, sparking talk of possible second careers and renewed stardom.
Central Standard Time listings show multiple stations and programs including WEAF WGY WBC KD segments. The text reads like a dense timetable of music dramas news and orchestras across networks with numerous call letters and times.
The piece notes Viscount Willingdon’s appointment as viceroy of India, after earlier rejections, and his prior role as governor of Bombay. It emphasizes the tough Indian independence challenge, Britain’s need for a capable administrator, and the global implications as Willingdon assumes leadership in a volatile empire.
A collage of quips and cheeky asides from a newspaper page. References to a new motor horn sounding like a harp chord, Mussolini and Monte Carlo, rebels in Spain, Flo Ziegfeld, stage stars, an opera director on firing a singer, and a bridge champ headline.
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