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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1930
Page
4
The Monroe News-Star morning world lists its publication details and advertising representatives. It notes morning and evening editions under The News-Star-World Publishing Company with standard Associated Press affiliation and national ad representatives across major cities.
The piece contemplates retrospection as the old year ends and the new year begins. It urges honesty with oneself, learning from past blunders, and facing the future with hope and renewed strength. It frames the old year as a completed tale and the new year as an unwritten page.
A reflection contrasts Patrick Henrys liberty with the Declaration of Independence and Beries on the Bill of Rights. It argues liberty lacks a precise definition and seeks a balance where laws protect public rights without unduly restricting individual freedom.
The article argues that a boy learns character not only through schooling but by heroes on the front page. It cites athletes soldiers aviators explorers and Lindbergh as living heroes shaping young minds. Parents and teachers should nurture this hero worship to pass the torch to the next generation.
The report notes that over 90 percent of rented farms are owned by nearby landlords, with only five percent held by outsiders. More than four-fifths of owners acquired land by purchase, while few received land by gift or inheritance. The study shows many young farmers move from day laborer to tenant to owner, with about three-fourths of under-25 farmers being tenants.
A humorous sketch lampoons blind market horoscopes by barbers dentists painters and other trades predicting the year ahead. The piece riffs on Roger Babson style prognostication and ends with New Year resolutions to write the numerals 1990 and 1931.
The article muses on whether a large university or a small college better aids a boy’s growth and fatherly wisdom. It weighs scale, environment, and formative impact without asserting a clear winner.
The piece notes advances promising windowless offices with artificial heat and light. It asks if such tech could also enable artificial air shows and parades. A radio beauty expert urges listening to more broadcasts. The University of Mexico fields a football team this season and spectators misread the first game as a presidential election.
A reader Q and A feature from the Monroe Morning World outlines how the Information Bureau answers factual questions. It covers air mail, rainfall weight, Dawson City population, timber acres in NC and SC, women inventors, hog weights, historical name Congreves for matches, and Count Zeppelin’s early airship attempts.
In this column the author argues that the value of Byron Shelley Shakespeare and other writers lies in their writings not their private lives. He says biographies distract from fruits of their pens and urges judging works over personal conduct. He also notes farming as a growing science and farm ownership as foundational to American agriculture.
The column discusses polio awareness and isolation guidance, then shifts to Hollywood topics about Dolores Costello and celebrity motherhood. It also includes reader Q A on radium detection, Macbeth performances, and Soviet Communist Party membership figures.
Henry Whitfield hosts the Twentieth Century Book club with a gray moss decorated setting and a two course luncheon after the program. Attendees include Mesdames C Blackmon S W Brown W M Washburn Meek J Shelton S E Prince R H Oliver M S McGuire C T Stone.
A dense listing shows 454.3 WEAF and affiliates airing news talks music orchestras and specials across day parts. Notable items include 6:15 Science Talk 7:00 Rodeheaver Sing 9:30 Sport Interviews and New Year’s Eve programming on WEAF and CBS chain stations with multiple call letters and regional repeats.
The piece notes Republican Lucas funded cartoons in Nebraska to undermine Senator Norris while denying anti prohibition funding by Henry Curran. It also cites a New Jersey race where Dwight Morrow campaigned against repeal. The article questions Lucas’s undercover tactics and the party’s stance on prohibition.
A columnist collection mocks reporters financiers and poets. Quotes from Einstein Lamont and Lewis appear beside wordplay on Christmas timing stock tone and football. A Greenland traveler notes Eskimo employment while a diamond salesman smiles at business on the rocks.
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