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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1933
Page
1
Within two weeks the government accomplished the following items as a notable display of power, though not up to the highest standard of overall strength. The text reflects a summary of swift actions or achievements highlighted in the era’s reporting.
The Monroe News-Star lists subscription options Daily and Bun Daily and Sun Daily and Sun combo plans with monthly weekly and yearly rates. It notes second class matter status and lists ad representative offices while asserting independence and impartial news coverage.
The piece defends using trial and error for farm relief, arguing the pending farm bill is an experiment. It criticizes past remedies, notes the bill’s flaws like a sales tax and land withdrawal, but urges action over paralysis, and supports Washington’s open minded approach as the only path to learning what works.
The piece notes that last year across six cities donations to philanthropic efforts totaled 176 million dollars, with national charitable giving likely over half a billion. It argues that lower public subscrip tions in 1932 reflect reduced resources, not diminished generosity, as welfare and daily acts of charity rose among the unemployed. It highlights widespread private aid and sidewalk charity despite hardship.
A 1933 Bell Syndicate essay argues babies exhibit curiosity and mischief as instinctive learning. mothers should allow exploration, even if it means minor destruction. It notes children grow into capable minds through early experiments, warns against stifling curiosity, and cites adenoids checks if inactivity appears.
Poem and brief quotes describe the power of words to unite strangers into friends. A speaker reflects how a single word forged comfort and closeness in an hour of fear, while a humorous domestic exchange about shoes and a husband’s singing adds light local flavor.
Hank and Bill discuss a story with no humor and a sharpshooter Jim in the mix. Rich Uncle asks what he would receive before death, and the Nephew offers his job in reply.
A husband and wife discuss their cat Tobias who has vanished. The wife suggests aphasia is causing disoriented behavior as Tobias wanders unable to identify himself or his home.
A playful quarrel over birthday roses escalates as a girl recalls receiving thirty two blooms from Mr Knosit, with Kathryn protesting the gesture as perfectly horrid. The exchange hints at social banter among schoolgirls in a 1933 setting.
A garbled OCR fragment reports teachers and Congress, but the text is incoherent. It mentions papers, essays, and beams, hinting at a school or public document mixup and a possible reference to Boners as a humorous item.
President Roosevelt pushes a large public building program tied to his farm bill amid mixed White House support and partisan debate. Representative Connery of Massachusetts, who opposed forest employment, later voted with the White House. Analysts warn such a program would strain the budget while some see forest work as cheaper unemployment relief.
F B Surgaine Jr spoke at the Hotel Frances luncheon recounting three years in Africa. He said Africans remain superstitious about Christianity and favor ju ju and black magic while describing a flourishing automobile sector driven by chiefs who buy cars with head taxes. A coast to interior road network and a piano duet by Hastings and Gerald closed the program.
The 15 Years Ago column notes the soliciting committee for the local Red Cross chapter with Mrs. R. H. Oliver Jr. as chairman and others named. It also reports Mrs. Harry Russell and Mrs. James Autrey visiting home, a large turnout bidding farewell to drafted Black soldiers at the U S and P station, and Monroe men closing a major timber land deal in Rapides Vernon and Winn parishes valued above nine million dollars involving 102 009 acres sold from Jay Gould heirs to the Forest Lumber and allied companies led by Capt. J B White.
Oscar Johnson has been awarded the sub-contract for installing plumbing and heating fixtures in the new federal building. Landis and Young hold the general contract and Johnson will be paid 2300 dollars for labor only, with materials supplied by the general contractors. The scope includes all plumbing and heating work except boiler setting, breeching, pipe covering, and painting.
A temporary restraining order bars D. Crawford Young from cutting timber on specified sections in township 17 north range 1 east after a district court filing by William F. Pipes. Judge David I. Garrett set a $500 bond as Pipes seeks $1,025 for alleged illegal removal of pine gum cypress ash timber and pulp wood from the property.
Program grid shows coast to coast and regional blocks with station lineups and time slots. The listing includes dozens of programs from The Flying Family to The Goldbergs and Burns and Allen across East, Midwest, Dixie, Mountain, and Pacific Coast regions with start times ranging 4:30 to 12:30 and multiple orchestras, comics, and drama segments.
In New York a driver pays a speeding ticket with a five dollar bill as a cop collects it, while stories of adaptable workers unfold. A man earns ten dollars a day reading a rare book to a packing-obsessed millionaire, counts inventories in Chinatown, and tours museums for a girls’ school. A wealthy former socialite survives by clever frugality, crashing events for free tickets, hotel studios, and dining with paid companions.
A devotional reflection asserts that war is human, while peace is the Lord s work. It urges peacemakers to seek wisdom patience and good will and to begin peace within their own minds and lives. A concluding prayer asks God to grant peace on earth and to forgive past desolations.
A Denver bandit known as Slippery Dell Han lon is paroled after serving a ten year sentence at Canon City Penitentiary. He expresses plans to travel to Europe and change his life amid cautious city expectations.
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