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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1929
Page
4
The Monroe News-Star staff page lists C. EB. Faulk as editor and W. Worthington as business office editor with office and editorial rooms in the La. and Miss. region. The address appears as 223-224 and 219 synoptic lines.
The Dallas mayor known as the “hot dog” leader completed a year in office with a string of unconventional acts. He released prisoners for Christmas, kept parks open 24 hours, proposed selling reptiles to fund donkey rides for children, removed “Keep Off the Grass” signs, trimmed rail spikes for rests, had officials work in shirtsleeves, and installed an icebox in the office filled with soda. While seen as silly, several moves drew broad approval and Dallas residents seem to like the flair.
Last minute push to pay poll taxes as deadline looms. By 5 PM 5,082 payments recorded, with final totals expected around 8,000 for the year. Sheriff’s office opens a single window to handle remaining payments and offers postmark receipts for mailed remittances.
Old records show Janauschek wept for the stage as cheap musical entertainment widens. Jane Cow laments high costs and movie competition, argues subsidies could keep classic drama alive in towns with libraries, warning spoken drama may vanish in fifteen years.
Monroe citizens plan a New Year celebration from Selman field. Two planes will depart near midnight and fly over the city releasing parachute flares as they descend slowly. The sight aims to mark aviation progress and provide a bright, festive display for the year ahead.
A 1929 King Features column envisions an idealized Utopia, named Hutopia here, where liberty, peace, and cultivated minds guide society. It mocks gossip, strict statutes, and class bias, urging honest creators to build a harmonious world through love and creative labor.
The article profiles Henry Allen Cooper, a Wisconsin congressman born in 1856, as a central figure in a future clash over Philippine independence. It notes his long service since 1893, his white hair and beard, and his strong personal stake in the issue.
A staged dialogue portrays New Year entering the cabin to cheers while Old Year predicts trials ahead. Old Year recalls deflated markets and Gov. Long, warning of fading attention as resolutions falter. New Year vows endurance records and political surprises, while Old Year exits as history.
A Manhattan heiress studying music in New York spends Christmas southward in Bermuda. Her friend handles mail in her absence and forwards a letter with a substantial check from her father. The Fort Victoria and Algonquin collision at sea strands the letter, leaving the recipient unaware of funds or fur gifts.
In June 1902, after a committee debate on Philippine self rule, Cooper read Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere and his farewell poem My Last Farewell. The experience shaped a passionate House floor speech urging Filipino independence.
A long struggle over naming conferees for a joint committee stalled by Senate opposition ends with a favorable report by a two vote margin. The dispute centered on a Philippine house of representatives bill and the strategic choice of conferees kept alive by resistance.
A tale of a young woman who will tell her father she lost a check and needs a replacement. In parallel a full grown Abyssinian cat owner faces a temporary custody dilemma fearing zoo life and neighborly chase. San Francisco gossip notes coyotes near Golden Gate Park and calls for longer skirts amid public taste debates.
Sequences of visitors mingle in Collins ton and nearby areas as Mr. and Mrs. F McCormick and Dr. and Mrs. Byron Vaughn arrive for theatre night. Randle family guests, Rev Robert Randle en route to Harrisonburg, and several Monroe area residents frequent local households and entertainments.
Hollywood scenes brim with film industry magic as Santa, Nancy Carroll, and a wind machine truck stage a snow filled Christmas along Hollywood Boulevard. Aircraft snowfalls and movie stars spotlight the yuletide pageant while studios lend festive fireworks to the city’s holiday glow.
AP reports two nationwide football broadcasts on New Year’s Day. The Tournament of Roses at Rose Bowl in Pasadena California will be on NBC while the East West All Star game at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco will air on CBS.
A column of satirical shorts and quips from 1929, riffing on manners, marriage, and public life. Items include non-transferable engagement rings, a professor waiting for himself, scarecrows with sex appeal, and jokes about lovers and automobiles.
Hollywood shoppers crowd the stores with stars like Betty Compson in green and Ronald Colman among the demanding holiday crush. The scene shows the season’s frenzy as celebs join the public in search of gifts amid the bustle of the gift department.
Associated Press reports that U S population reached at least 119,806,000 in 1928, up 14 million since 1918. Of the total, 46,500,000 supported themselves and the rest of the population.
The secretary of agriculture announced a revision of pink boll worm control regulations effective January 1 1986. Key update allows interstate movement of cotton samples and baled lint from regulated western Texas New Mexico and Arizona without fumigation if produced in a county and within five miles of it where no infestation has been found for two preceding seasons.
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