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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1925
Page
2
Terms state 15 cents per week or 65 cents per month payable in advance for carrier service in Monroe or West Monroe. The text also references telephone calls and editorial rooms with garbled entries indicating listed office numbers.
Hundreds of amateur pedestrians walk across the country this summer in humorous observations on long hikes. The piece jokes that corn plasters cheaper than railroads enable a New Yorker to reach San Francisco in four months, with bunions and calluses measuring mileage.
Edwin F Gay, a Harvard professor and long dean of Harvard’s School of Business Administration, predicts rising living costs in the United States due to reparations and war debts. A Michigan and Berlin graduate, he joined Harvard in 1902 and led the business school from its 1908 start, shaping its influence. He served on wartime Federal boards and contributed to economic policy during the war effort.
Today marks the birthdays of Hamilton Holt former New York editor and U S senator candidate from Connecticut born Brooklyn N Y 53 years ago Bishop Francis J McConnell of the Methodist Episcopal Church born Tranway Ohio 54 years ago Otto A Hauerbach playwright born Lake City 53 years ago Pickford a prominent motion picture figure born Sezonte 29 years ago
A commentary notes Arkansas tomato packing gains where land costs 10 to 25 dollars per acre, canning pays 12 to 16 dollars per ton, and long growing seasons lure Ozark growers. Contracts fix prices before planting, reducing risk, while weather remains the only variable. The piece discusses adapting such a cropping-canning program to local conditions and the question of profitable, widely grown commodities for isolated regions.
Brano Lessing argues Governor Sorlie’s call to repeal anti cigarette laws shows laws rarely improve people. He asserts laws cannot educate or reform morals and that true progress requires raising collective intelligence, praising Sorlie's stance as a good start.
Invitations pour in as Ouachita parish prepares a Labor Day celebration to dedicate the new Shard paved highway sector now open to traffic. Local officials urge concerted community effort to host dignitaries from Louisiana and neighboring states and welcome many guests to mark the event.
Monroe units leave for Camp Beauregard amid veteran pride and high hopes for honors in the annual encampments. Local officers have trained the companies to rival any era, strengthening community loyalty and support for the Guard’s service training of young men.
A plan to arrest 3,500 women in Schuylkill County and mining towns for two years of capitation tax nonpayment signals a broader effort to enforce the law. Tax collectors statewide report much resistance among maids wives and widows, prompting 1923 calls to repeal imprisonment exemptions for women.
The Monroe fire department was alerted as oil drained from two large Crude Oil Co. tanks caught fire, producing towering smoke. Local social notes mention visits, a new home for unfortunate girls nearing completion, and a natatorium plunge party attended by several young residents.
A portrait series by William K. Hutchinson offers intimate glimpses into the personal pastimes and foibles of national figures, revealing playful contrasts between public stature and private tastes. The piece surveys recognizable names and eras with concise, vignette style notes.
Pre existing immunity for women in Pennsylvania is ended. Foreign born women argue tax rules differ from European norms, native born resist who have not voted. Capitation tax targets all residents, causing unrest as women gain citizens duties with rights. The scene mirrors wider state tensions amid suffragist campaigns.
Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania is described as a top legal mind and Republican power who enjoys hunting moose with a camera, winter mountain climbs on Mount Katahdin, sailing along the Maine coast, and farming near Devon. He rates the outdoors above courtroom battles and notes his carpentry and farming teamwork with Mrs Pepper.
The piece profiles a distinguished Senator famed for outdoor interests and legal mastery. It notes his Penn athletics in the 1880s, later defense of organized baseball against the Federal League, drafting the peace agreement for the major leagues, and pushing a memorial in Washington. He also pursues reading and holds many degrees and legal writings.
Local ad for J. D. Richardson at Bell Tin Shop 410 Walnut Street offers expert repair of car fenders. Satisfactory straightening available. inquire for details and service in this line.
An advertisement touts Indigesto Tablets for indigestion heartburn gastritis and acid stomach with rapid relief after one or two tablets. It lists F. J. O'Neill Medicine Co of St. Louis as maker and New South Drug Store Ltd at 1108 Grand St as seller and guarantor alongside O’Neill's VR Tablets for constipation and liver ills.
Dr James Edwin Wallworth advertises general surgery and medicine services at Ouachita National Bank Building floor phone 207 Seventh 704. Appointment times listed as 33 to 12 and 1 to 2.
Westbound and eastbound times listed for Bonartville stations with multiple services including fast and local trains. Key departures show 7:00 am local westbound and 10:10 am local past trains, and 10:57 am eastbound fast train with 6:25 pm and 6:35 pm later runs.
Fragmented timetable shows Main Line Southbend El Dorado Farmerville Natchez branches with listed arrival and departure times. Details are incomplete and include garbled text but convey multiple trains at various stations and times.
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