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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1950
Page
7
In a 1920s style Q and A, Wiggam argues against flattery and snobbery, notes early humans lived by hunting, and credits recent millennia with brain-based progress. The piece promotes the booklet How to Read Faster and Better by Albert Edward Wiggam as a guide to improving reading speed.
In a Minneapolis reader’s question, South should have deduced who holds the ace of diamonds. East’s sequence of plays shows he lacked the ace, while West is inferred to hold it, guiding South to play low on East’s diamond lead. The critique frames how correct deduction beats luck in bridge.
Marian Martin pattern 9383 targets sizes 34 through 52 with a slenderizing scalloped step in design. Includes yardage for size 36 and a complete illustrated Sew Chart, plus a Marian Martin Pattern Book offer and another pattern promotion. mentions truffle cultivation in the U S.
In Columbia Mississippi on June 26 a mixed Negro and white audience at Lampton civic center joined in a rededication ceremony tied to Plymouth Rock. Dr J R Otis Alcorn A and M College president urged a return to Pilgrim principles and warned against increasing dependence on government while praising Lester Williams for initiating the NEA rededication effort.
Police investigated a pre burned cross and anti communism note found at a Negro residence near the Tuskegee Institute campus. Patrolman Watson said the items appeared left by mistake at C. W. Hunts home after he moved in. The note bore the Federated Ku Klux Klans Inc signature and condemned radical northern carpet baggers and foreign communists.
An advertisement offers six simple priceless rules for personal improvement. Sent for 15 cents plus a 3 cent stamp, with payment to Dr. A. E. Wiggam care of the newspaper. Enclose a self addressed stamped envelope.
Headache neuralgia and muscular aches respond to the BC formula. The powder and tablet forms deliver the same fast relief with the famous combination of ingredients. Each package provides quick action for simple headaches, neuralgic pains, and minor muscular aches. Two tablets equal one powder. 10c and 25G.
A Monroe woman, Mrs. Tony Sward of 421 DeSiard Street, suffered injuries in a West Monroe crash early Sunday night. She was taken to St. Francis Sanitarium by Mulhearn Ambulance after 7 p.m. Police charged both Sward and the other driver, Tommy Younse of Downing Pines, with reckless driving causing an accident and personal injuries.
A person was taken to the sanitarium, treated for minor injuries, and released after a crash at the intersection of North Seventh Street and Powell Avenue.
Pope Pius XII led rites completing the sainthood for Maria Goretti known as the Martyr of Purity. The eleven year old who faced a rapist died defending her vow. The ceremony drew about 60,000 attendees with 11 cardinals and over 100 bishops present.
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