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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1939
Page
6
The article details Monroe society's summer gatherings from boat and swimming parties to garden weddings and barbecues. It notes Miss Jane Burgess and William Adams plan a Saturday afternoon garden wedding, plus various comings and goings of local families, clubs, and prominent residents including mentions of social hosts Delta Kappa Pi and the Monroe BPW club.
Advertises S S S Tonic as a spring lift to combat tiredness and restore red blood cells. Claims it improves appetite and digestion, stimulating natural juices and better food value. Invites readers to send name and address for an illustrative booklet.
Friday a barbecue supper will entertain Miss Jane Burgess and Mr William Adams hosted by Mrs James Burgess and Mrs Henry Chalin. An auxiliary meeting of M F P O C No 792 will be held at Mrs Robert Garrison 714 North Third street at 745 p.m. On Saturday the marriage of Miss Jane Burgess and Mr William Adams occurs at the Burgess home at 4 p.m.
In a report to publishers chaired by Harry M Ayres the Anniston Star, the committee on schools of journalism led by Mark Ethridge urged forming a national council for journalism education. The group would evaluate current school standards, propose improvements, seek foundation aid, survey teaching methods, and publish education principles for major newspaper groups.
Governors of New England press state consent for federal land takings as Army engineers plan four dam sites. Aiken secured 67500 to back the fight while Connecticut advances remedial projects. Sites include Franklin Falls Pemigewassett river Black Water Webster Armmonoo suc Bethlehem Junction and Surry Mountain Keene.
J. W. Hartman, a leading authority in his industry, died Thursday. The Hartman plant is in Sterlington and his home was 1200 Fairview Avenue, Monroe. Survived by wife and five children, his father Joseph W. Hartman Sr. of Pittsburgh, and brothers and sisters Paul, Robert, Catherine, Agnes, and Evelyn Hartman, all of Pennsylvania.
On a mid western Army post Elizabeth Nurse and fiancé Adam Drew figure in a complex social drama. The narrator discovers old acquaintances in the colonel’s library and contemplates a tense evening as the post prepares for a hop. Tomorrow: Elizabeth and Barney.
Mrs Noel C Little of Brunswick Maine national consultant for the National Congress of Parents and Teachers will be featured speaker at the annual Parent-Teacher short course at Southwestern Louisiana Institute June 20 to 23 Dean F M Hamilton announces the course is conducted by the Louisiana Parent-Teacher association with college faculty cooperation and many prominent business and educational figures will speak.
The United States possesses about 495 million acres of forest land showing vast timber resources. This figure highlights national scale of woodland coverage and potential for conservation, recreation, and industry.
A coroner stated the kidnapped baby was not drowned after a near home sighting. A neighbor heard a car stop between 9 and 11 p.m. Tuesday with a crying infant and several people talking. A stranger loaded a bundle into a rear compartment before fleeing. Nearby clues included a silent dog and a mysterious phone call seeking a local FBI office. Sheriff Myers and FBI agent J. R. O’Hara continue questioning family members.
An advertisement urges workers to stay on the job and get in shape using Nash's C. L. Tonic. It cites malaria biliousness and constipation as common southern ailments, claims the tonic boosts energy, and offers a money back guarantee with a 50 cent bottle and 89 cent family size at Sandman's Pharmacy in Monroe.
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