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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1929
Page
4
A threatened blow at the South was blocked as the House passed the jus bill and removed an amendment aimed at excluding disenfranchised citizens in reapportionment. The piece notes enforcement challenges and argues traditions curb sweeping changes, favoring state rights and avoiding turmoil over negro balloting.
Readers note plans for a new census in Lincoln Union Jackson and Bienville parishes to locate a milk manufacturing plant. Cows dominate reform talks as tick eradication and agricultural expansion gain momentum. Joseph A. Caulder calls the South poised for a major agricultural revolution with favorable climate and feeds.
Monroe, with three fine hotels, boasts strong guest services and well kept accommodations. The piece argues hotels shape a town’s image to tourists and potential settlers, noting the South’s booming tourism and Monroe’s rising reputation as a coming city.
Ernest Lee Jahneke assistant secretary of the navy seen at breakfast in Washington then board a tri motor plane to New Orleans arriving 4:58 pm. The piece praises fast travel as essential for today’s business world and notes air travel’s rise alongside motor car optimism.
The United Confederate Veterans announce a 1920 reunion in Biloxi Mississippi inviting participation from Louisiana and nearby states. The message honors Confederate soldiers and references Jefferson Davis as a notable link to the home of the veterans.
A 1929 column argues genius is innate and self discovery comes through struggle. It contrasts prodigies like Mill with the noisy world and cites Vedoo Carlyle Goethe to claim vocation lies in life's storms. Education helps youth find themselves amid crisis and danger’s glare.
A Washington, D C cafe nicknamed The Ugly Duckling serves chicken salad sandwiches daily for seven years to elites such as Senator La Follette and Justice Hughes. Owner Mrs Hugh Fred preserves a homey menu with apple pie and butter scotch pie, employing only cooks with personal kitchen backgrounds.
Senator J Thomas Heflin, Rep Fred A Britten, John Tyler Page, Mrs Florence Kahn, Rep Edith Nourse Rogers, Rep Andrew J Montague, Willis C Hawley and Sen Joe Robinson joined a group for lunch. Recount notes their preferred dishes from fried chicken to omelet and fish.
At least two lawmakers pursue aesthetic upgrades on Capitol Hill. Rep Ruth Bryan Owen flaunts lace curtains in Florida, while Rep John Clark of New York swaps office furniture for antiques. A satirical mix notes social contrasts and editorials from Punch and Publishers Syndicate.
The sixties era plan envisions rising uplands of the Old South stretching from a coastal city in a great half circle honoring gallant Confederacy survivors.
The Cabin asks readers for forecasts of which teams will reach the world series this year. After the plea a citywide hush followed as many claim to have expert insight, with promises to track predictions and honor the accurate predictor.
Washington correspondent notes federal census takers will work in November with more territory and faster travel. Enumarator duties expand beyond Pine and Layton to Sterlington and Bastrop area, counting population amid highways and billboards as they map new streets and towns in Ouachita Parish.
The Cabin champions books over wealth, arguing that reading good books benefits a young person more than money in the bank and inviting support for its literary effort.
In a New York East Side tenement a Russian family debates modernization at supper. The son, studying law, urges selling a brass kettle and samovar to buy American appliances. They barter the heirlooms for cash at Allen Street shops, exchanging tradition for modernity.
Philip Wolinsky, a Brest Litovsk immigrant, started a brass shop on Allen Street 52 years ago with his wife Bess. The family built a thriving business selling samovars and Turkish kettles imported from Syria, mortars and pestles for kitchen use, and brassware. Their eldest son became a physician while another sons helps in the shop. The piece notes ethnic tastes in customers, with Jews and Italians buying mortars and pestles while gentiles and others buy samovars, and Native Americans unlikely to use such items.
Small shops uptown draw most local Brassware sales while main buyers include Georgia Virginia North and South Carolina and Texas. Southern colleges and YWCA groups purchase ash receivers candlesticks and small gifts for bazaars. D-i-x-i-e hints prosperity for Brest-Litovsk residents.
Two men argued in a political quarrel and grew abusive. One man taunted the other calling him a bare-faced liar, to which the other retorted that the only thing that saves him is his whiskers. Pearson's Week noted the exchange.
The speaker urges a parish bond issue for library funding, proposing sums like $50,000 or $100,000 and more if needed. They argue money spent on books and knowledge yields strong returns in character and education.
The Ouachita Tribe No 19Improved Order of Red Men plans a big Fourth of July event at Forsythe Park Monroe featuring a parade through Monroe and fireworks display. Five new members joined First Baptist Church and Rev Farrington preached two sermons including Part Kept Back referencing Ananias and Sophia about keeping back part of offerings.
Cliff Edwards known as Ukulele Ike went to the El Capital box office for two tickets to Hal Skelly’s Burlesque but found none held for him. A ticket clerk apologized and offered two seats from a mistaken hold, which Edwards accepted and used. The next day he admitted no one had ordered the seats.
Gossip columns report Greta Garbo receives orchids three times weekly at her mansion. The flowers arrive from a florist funded by a mystery man in the West. Garbo declines details and calls the donor a gentleman, though the exact identity remains undisclosed.
Marion Davies performs and sings in the Hollywood Revue of 1929 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre opening June 14. She appears on the sound stage at six and finishes at seven the next morning, backed by a chorus of six foot tall men in hussar uniforms.
A dense listing shows Saturday June 8 radio programs by time and station across networks including WABC WJZ WGN KCBC and more. Programs cover concerts dances dramas and news with a wide array of orchestras and hosts listed alongside affiliate stations.
A collection of humorous sketches and witticisms from John P. Medbury. Bits include social quips about mosquitos, education, optimism, vaudeville, and human foibles framed as brief jokes and observations.
A column notes the humorous tribute by Herb Brown and Arthur Freed for Miss Davies. It mentions Norma Shearer and John Gilbert performing a balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, first in Shakespeare’s version and then in a modern interpretation. All MGM stars except Greta Garbo are invited, with a quip about her not fitting in.
Janet Gaynor takes a rare day off sleeping in late to pretend she is a plutocrat for a day. Telle Taylor shows new photographs, and two depict her resembling Evelyn Brent. Betty Brent starts a new film, while Carmelita Geraghty drives down Franklin Avenue and Marie Drvaslar tends her garden.
A terse note clarifies that Geo Moran of the Two Black Crows is unrelated to Polly Moran, ending with a concise aside on their separate identities.
Little Milton asks why a mite box is so named and is told people may or may not put something in it reflecting a Sunday-school tale in The Churchman.
A Salvation Army girl asks an elderly Aberdonian for a shilling. The man, age nineteen, replies and quotes scripture while noting his age and intent to hand it to Him himself, in a Times of India report.
A quippy exchange notes water hardness and rain comparison in a Wisconsin setting, presenting light commentary on local weather observations and regional quirks. The item evokes a newspaper style column of brief, informal remarks.
A humorous note reports an Indian snakecharmer switching from reed pipes to bagpipes for his snakes. The playful piece mocks the charmer and his pet ensemble as readers express mixed amusement.
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