Mulberries Remembered and Lost in Country Lore
Kenneth Leslie’s Windward Rock echoes the drift of youth and loss as the mulberry groves, once plentiful in countryside life, fade away. The piece recalls wild fruit, pies, and simpler days, noting the decline of mulberry trees while Margaret and Elizabeth Hudson return home to visit their parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Hudson
Art Institute
Chicago
Elizabeth Hudson
New York City
F. G. Hudson
Social Roundup and Local News From Monroe and Shreveport
The item lists numerous social events at First Baptist and Methodist churches in Monroe including meetings at 3 30 p m and circle activities. It notes bridge teas and garden parties in honor of Miss Mamie Ola Heard plus a Shreveport Times social page feature about Miss Martha Olive Myatt hosting a dance with Miss Nora Maithes. It also reports arrivals, such as J E Peters Jr at St Francis sanitarium, and visits by Art Edwards of Baton Rouge and trips on the Millsaps houseboat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church of
Monroe
Presbyterian
H. L. Gregg
Circle 6
Mexico
Circle 7
Dean Selig
Mamie Ola Heard
Lallage
Gertrude Feazel
Elizabeth Drew
Gladys Grant
Shreveport Times
Martha Olive Myatt
Morton Myatt
Nora Maithes
Shreveport
Country Club
Louisiana's Mary featured by Doris Mac Donald in Independent Woman
The Louisiana Business and Professional women issue highlights Mary Mims extension sociologist as a pivotal state community worker. The piece notes her leadership across 318 organized communities from New Orleans Crescent City to northern hills and that many states seek to adopt her cooperative work plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independent Woman
Louisiana Business and Professional Women
Louisiana
Mary
Doris MacDonald
Mary Mims
Louisiana State University
State Community Worker
Our Mary
Crescent City
New Orleans
Fraternity Convention Attracts Wide Range Of Attendees
Monroe welcomes 75 delegates from Sigma Phi Omega Delta Sigma and Delta Beta Sigma with special trains from Alabama Mississippi Arkansas Texas Kentucky Georgia Florida Tennessee and Louisiana The event includes tea dances banquets and a farewell ball at the Virginia hotel with addresses by city and national leaders and trophies awarded at the banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Sigma Phi Omega
Delta Sigma
Delta Beta Sigma Sorority
Alabama
Mississippi
Arkansas
Texas
Kentucky
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
Louisiana
Virginia and
Frances
Harold Miles
P. Hubert Kuhn
Knoxville
Tenn
Virginia
Arnold Bernstein
Delta Beta Sigmas
Delta Sigmas
Ntional
Local Visitors Reach Natchez and Area for Weekend
Gilbert residents Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Conner and daughter Mary Britton spent the weekend in Natchez with relatives. D. L. Bornman Jr., former Gilbert high school faculty member now living in south Louisiana, visited this past week. Mrs. L. L. Gragg of McAllen Texas is visiting her father S. H. Lee and brother C. H. Lee this week. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Calhoun Jr., Mrs. L. M. Calhoun Sr., and Miss...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huel Holloway
San Diego
Calif
Charles Rountree
Nannie McKinnon
Monroe
W. M. Snyder, Jr
Louisiana Tech
Ruston
W. M. Snyder
Ed Ellington and Sons
J. C. and Noble
Mangham
F. E. Lyles
G. G. Conner
Mary Britton
Natchez
D. L. Bornman, Jr
Gilbert High School
South Louisiana
L. L. Gragg
McAllen
Texas
S. H. Lee
C. H. Lee
L. M. Calhoun, Jr
L. M. Calhoun, Sr
Anne Adams Pattern 1912 with Chic Bodice and Sleek Skirt Lines
The pattern features a simple silhouette enhanced by clever side seam lines that elongate the figure and create a slender illusion. Front waist is unbelted with a back joining belt, back neck opening noted, available in sizes 14 to 42. Pattern 1912 priced. book and pattern set offered with illustrated instructions.
Sailors Describe Burning of Ship Knut Hamsun
Seventeen of the 35 crew members from the Norwegian freighter Knut Hamsun survived a 58 hour ordeal at sea after a nitrate cargo fire. The ship went down 100 miles off Nicaragua on June 10. the captain, David Frick, and 16 others were rescued by the Zacapa and brought to New Orleans. Rescue marked Captain George A. McBride’s second save for United Fruit, with the crew facing red hot decks, rationed water and biscuits, and a perilous drift before salvation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Caribbean
Knut Hamsun
Nicaragua
Cuba
Jacksonville
Fla
Panama Canal
David Frick
Bergen
Norway
Frick
Santa Cruz del Sur
Guantanamo
Walter Erickson
George A. McBride
McBride
United Fruit Company
Carillo
Varuna
W. Trulsrud
N. Jacobsen
Nils Hansen Battewert
Olaf Olues
Olav Hattestad
Andreas Nelson
Kurtsen Edvartsen
O. H. Je
Blond Goddess Synopsis in Jungle Escape
Ex explorer Frank Grahame and movie star Janice Kent flee murderous tribes in the Yucatan jungle. They fall into an inescapable valley joined by a wounded high priest and Grahame’s missing aviator friend Billy Langton. Langton narrates his own ordeal with the same tribe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yucatan
Frank Grahame
Janice Kent
Billy Langton
Grahame
Langton
New DANGER ANGTON Faces Peril of Jungle and Sea
In a remote jungle valley Frank Kent Langton and companions consider escape by raft or cliff ascent as rains threaten. Langton plans to stay with Janice, while Frank volunteers to swim for help using a makeshift balsa jacket. The aging priest, mute yet commanding, watches, offering unease and guidance as the group prepares ropes and rafts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angton
Frank
Langton
Billy Langton
Janice
Herbert Jensen
Merchandise Stolen From Gilbert Store and Depot
Franklin parish authorities asked Monroe police to watch for two 17 year old African American males after a Saturday night break‑in at Gilbert depot and store. An undetermined merchandise total was taken and a stolen automobile with license 147 227 was believed used to flee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Parish
Winnsboro
Monroe
Gilbert
Tettering Skin Remedy Claims Quick Relief
The advertisement touts a formula that allegedly cures skin diseases including ringworm athlete's foot eczema and tetter. It promises immediate soothing sensation and healing in days with a money back guarantee if relief is not achieved.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Eve C
Bradford Society
Kenneth Leslie
Ea Tyra
Women’s Missionary Society
First Methodist Church
Irene Clark
Carrie Dee Drew
Virginia Mitchell
Mary Grace Lawn
Mamie Ola
Bobbie
Caroline Magnani
Bernard Thomas
Charles Jackson
Donnell
Crowville
Bayou Macon
Gussie Donnell
Eula Donnell
Bertha Donnell
Woodie Franklin
J. E. Peters
J. E. Peters, Jr
St. Francis Sanitarium
Dale Lawhead
Tommie
Jack 50N
F. Millsaps
Ellen Kent Millsaps
Elizabeth Kennedy
Travis Oliver
Millsaps
Ouachita
Art Edwards
Baton Rouge
William Clark
DeSiard
Vaughn Fields
Sydney McLaurin
Vicksburg
Fields
McLaurin
Clark Duncan
Edgar
T. H. Woods
McGinn
M. M. Underwood
W. Sykes
Mary Smith
Wilson Ewing
A. V. Revoire
Jackson Street
Joseph
Billy Naff
Annette Butitta
Madeline Butitta
Bobby O'Donnell
James Guerriero
Mary Ann Wilds
Jane Gremiljion
Warren Blackwell
Katherine Smith
Helen Benoit
Louis Pecaisting
Fred Coon
Rosalee Ballard
Ada Mashaw
Curtis Seeley
Herbert Breard
Eleanor Woodard
Kathaleen Rolleigh
Kathaleen Revoire
Paul Fudickar
Paul, Jr
Bill
St. John Lake
C. R. Boston
Missouri Pacific
St. Louis
Elizabeth Casper
Alexandria
Flossie Carroll
Margaret Hatch
City
Betty Mengis
C. L. Mengis
Dwight L. Schieber
California
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Denver, Colo
Frank McClellan
Durant
Oklahoma
la Nette Southall
C. W. DeLand
Mary Frances DeLand
Gertrude Mack
Baskin
Elizabeth Gill
News-Star Daily
The
Cahdams
Anne Adams
Monroe News- Star Pattern Department
West 1Ith Street
Chapter
Billy
Ack
Lang
Go Rane
Ortega
Cord
Ahkin
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