Announcement Names Louisiana radio audition winners
Mary G. Cortner of New Orleans and Earl M. Weil of Alexandria won the Louisiana contest in the Fourth National Radio Audition. They join five other district winners to compete in Nashville for a share of $25,000 in prizes and ten music scholarships. The two state champions receive silver medals, while second place went to Estelle Sanders and Stephen Hearn. The winners’ identities were revealed by radio and judges, with notes on future auditions and an investigation into first place qualifications.
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Mary G. Cortner
New Orleans
Earl M. Well
Alexandria
Louisiana
Add Thompson
Ruston
North Louisiana
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
Florida
Tennessee
Kentucky
Nashville
Dixie
New York
Atwater Kent
Atwater Kent Foundation
WDSU
Jos. H. Uhalt
Miss Cortner
Weil
Tulane University
Dido
Aeneas
Weill
Beethoven Conservatory of Music
Louisana
Estelle
Sanders
Monroe
Stephen Kendall Hearn
Thompson
Marie Norra
Addison Thompson
Earl Weil
Mary George Courtner
Kendall Hearn
Estelle Schultz Sanders
Fifth District
Hounr
Mrs. Thompson
Death And Degeneration Explained By A Cleveland Doctor
The piece questions whether death is caused by degeneration and whether dying starts at life. It discusses aging as a universal process of wear, repair, and replacement, likening the body to a machine and suggesting organs degenerate earlier in some than others.
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Wence
Dr. Price
Birds Migration Speeds Shared by Louisiana Bureau
H L McKnight of Ruston asks Richard B Otero about migratory birds speeds. The reply cites about 30 hours for northern to southern trips with no enroute stops, ducks at 50 to 60 mph and geese near 90 mph. The Ruston interest follows recent local curiosity.
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H. L. McKnight
Ruston Chamber of Commerce
Richard B. Otero
Bureau of Education
Department of Conservation of Louisiana
Secty
Chamber of Commerce
Ruston
McKuileht
State Bureau
Local Labor To Be Used In Federal Construction Work
Washington reports the government plans to use local labor at unreduced wages for winter building. Aims include maximum federal benefit to communities under a $1 billion program for public buildings, repairs, surveys, and new sites while expediting unemployment relief efforts.
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Washington
Treasury
ton@ress
Shipping Board
Wiite House
Army
Navy
Roll Call for Red Cross drives enlistment during timely period
The Lincoln party returns from Mexico with hunting notes. Barham and Heard lead a eight day trip in Coahuila with deer and bear taken, guides, long range shooting, and a prowling Mexican lion that stalked a buck near camp. Sheriff Pat Murphy is linked to a dramatic nighttime encounter.
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Legion of Humanity
Red Cross
Barham
Villa Cunia
Mexico
C. C. Barham
C. R. Heard
Ruston
W. Hamilton
Raymond Heard
Pat Murphy
Sheriff Murphy
Carter's Little Liver Pills Advertisement Phrase
An old advertisement extols Carter's Little Liver Pills as superior with claims substitutes are unacceptable. It urges readers to take the pill for a constipated liver and promotes the red bottle as a pure vegetable extract available at druggists.
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Carter
Louisiana Public Service curbs railroad and elevator fines
The Louisiana Public Service Commission was barred from collecting a 3000 dollar fine and a 100 dollar daily penalty from the Illinois Central Railroad pending federal court action. The case centers on the Central Grain Elevator in New Orleans and Cooperative Grain Elevator Co. The three-judge panel led by Holmes Foster and Borah issued the decree as part of a broader dispute over operations and losses.
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Murphy
Nots Contra
Neves
Louisiana Public Service
Iion
The
Commission
U. S
I. C
New Orleans
Louisiana Public Service Commission
T'aois Central Railroad
Milnois Central
Holmes, Foster and Borah
Central Grain Elevator Company
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Burton Beauty School
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