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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1921
Page
4
The Monroe News-Star lists payment terms by mail and carrier for a year or six months with advance payment required. Additional postage charges apply for papers beyond the second postal zone. In city delivery within Monroe and West Monroe, rates mirror the mail terms.
The notice states the Associated Press retains exclusive republication rights for its news dispatches and locally published material in this paper. It underscores AP ownership of credited and non credited content.
The Regular Democratic organization swept the Orleans Democratic Association in the primary for Supreme Court Justice and District judge. Judge John St. Paul won the associate justice nomination and Edward J. Ryan the criminal district judge nomination, defeating Rosen and Gill respectively. Ex-Governor Hall’s allies and a storied political history are noted, while Behrman and his group celebrate a decisive victory.
Fragmentary remarks describe ongoing push by the National Woman's party for further equal rights. The piece notes federal and state efforts to address remaining inequalities affecting women. It highlights the debate over eligibility and privileges for women within the political framework.
The article debates how laws on domicile, property, jury service, and name choice apply to single and married women. It questions whether married women should keep their birth names and how children’s surnames would be chosen, noting public cues from prefixes Miss and Mrs reveal social assumptions.
The phrase profiteer appears in a New York Evening Post 1863 remark about high prices stock jobbers and gouging profiteers. The term faded after the Civil War but has resurfaced and may stay, prompting lexicographers to add it to revised dictionaries regardless of approval.
The piece contrasts the imagined romance of a Western myth with the reality of crime and settlement progress. It notes remaining wild west conditions in Mexico and other Latin American regions, citing a Buenos Aires Standard quote about Patagonia and frontier brigandage amid Argentina’s vast forests and cattle ranges.
A collage of pointed anecdotes covers entertainment, politics, and society. Highlights include commentary on western clichés in film, Babe Ruth’s fame, Germany’s stance on German Americans, a Marne Armistice Day marker, a Cleveland ticket seller turning to theft, large families in North Carolina and Georgia, Scapa Flow after surrender, Beaumont’s public dress codes, and ex-governor Norman Willey’s death.
A humorous vignette recalls Tony, a new office boy from Italy, entertaining staff and answering a stenographer's wartime question with a witty retort. Separately, Nebraska extension service trains farm women in health and contagion prevention amid neighborly disease concerns.
The poem contrasts the carefree truck driver with ordinary motorists. It praises the driver’s confident mastery of the road while warning drivers to follow rules and stay vigilant. It envisions rulers of old yielding to popular will and urges gaining dignity through work as a truck driver.
The Minnesota State Poultry Association exhibition began in Minneapolis and will run through the week. The show features one of the largest, best displays in the association’s history with entries from the Northwest and Canada. Gas-tack workers reportedly benefit from the tarry odor in their workplace.
Distinguished leaders from across the South gathered for the annual meeting of the Association of Colleges and Secondary Southern States in Birmingham. Attendees included C. A. Glenn and John E. Cette on, with sessions featuring Dr. Carnegie and discussions on the relation of colleges to society.
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