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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1938
Page
2
The city hosts numerous gatherings as 1938 ends, with societies and clubs honoring Miss Elizabeth Milner of Edminton and Miss Ann Wood Morris of Jackson. Nurses at St Francis celebrate a Christmas tree event with Caroling and gifts, while a Legion hall dance at Clarks marks holidays for Coldwell parish students.
Sunshine Delicatessen lists bargains with oysters 39 cents per quart, shrimp 35 cents for two pounds, hens and fryers at 23 cents per pound, highlighting ready to cook seafood and poultry specials.
A column outlines practical steps for wives to improve husbands mood and home life. It urges cooking breakfast, maintaining appearance, reducing money talks, keeping issues private, and sharing entertaining duties. It stresses supportive behavior, respectful language, and being good managers of finances and time.
Weekend notes list dances at the Cherokee terrace Frances hotel Lotus club and Revelers ball at the Virginia hotel with open house events hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Masur Shlenker and Mrs. Roberson. Church and club meetings fill Sunday and Tuesday schedules.
Mr and Mrs Robert Holloway plan Yuletide visits with both sets of parents and return to Washington DC by Sunday morning. Francis Gariepy party completed a Yuletide visit with Dr Bendel family and heads to New Orleans then Chicago. J W DeArmon of Houston visits his mother in law in town during Christmas vacation. William Washburns spend Christmas with Edminson Parkes family in Houston and return home with Parkes family guests. Mrs William Gladney and children of Baton Rouge join the party for a weeklong visit. Sub-deb club members host an informal supper and elect officers Geraldine John president Jimmie Pardue vice president Anne Fulson secretary Marion Smith bookkeeper. Verna Watts will visit in Memphis Saturday morning. Miss Jacke Montgomery visits Rayville for Sullins College. Dewey and Gordon Sisson families return from a Gulf Coast motor trip. Four-fifths of Chinese lower-class conservation is about food, observers say.
Dec 3 Richmond report describes a spraying method using potassium naphthalene nitrate from Boyce Thompson Institute to delay blossom in fruit trees and potatoes. Dr. John D. Guthrie notes the chemical can slow sprouting to avoid frost risk. A second note mentions St Isaacs Cathedral visible from the Gulf of Finland.
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