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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1925
Page
4
A New York woman opens a finishing school for birds teaching canaries to sing and parrots to speak better. The piece lampoons crude speech from parrots by recalling absurd, humorous vignettes with canaries, surgeons, glue, and a deaf and dumb asylum as punchlines.
Notable birthdays and events listed include 1850 Robert E. Pattison born in Somerset county, 1854 Pope Pius IX dogma clarification, 1871 Newton Booth California governor, 1875 William E. McLaren Chicago bishop, 1886 Isaac Lea death in Philadelphia, 1890 Boise state legislature convened, 1922 Astoria fire ends, 1928 US Germany treaty signed. Names and dates appear in a year-by-year roll.
Bank robbers in Milwaukee secured over $200000 in cash and securities. The Law Society in England marks its centenary while Greens and Romans use the element rings but not wedding rings.
The News-Star urges steady traffic education for drivers to reduce weekly fatalities from accidents. It warns nine tenths of crashes stem from carelessness and calls for driver responsibility, better vehicle maintenance, and possible licensing if needed, urging use of the Golden Rule on the road.
An estimate shows thirty three cents of every dollar collected by the United States goes to the military establishment with much spent on wars. The piece argues for pruning military spending and reallocating funds to public works like highways, questioning whether battleships truly serve national safety.
A column urges citizens and business leaders to engage with the current Congress. It argues public schooling has produced educated fools and stresses the need for more discussion of national affairs. It calls for trying out this session to see if interest grows.
The article notes 800 English soldiers wed German women during the Allied occupation of Cologne despite wartime antipathy and orders to avoid fraternizing. It compares with Americans and French unions, discusses lasting questions about motive, and hints at outcomes for these wartime marriages as British troops depart with German wives.
A column critiques Wayne B Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League as a vocal defender of Prohibition. It argues public officials must enforce laws, questions private influence on enforcement, and suggests broad societal and governmental debate on whether to sustain or modify the 18th Amendment.
The writer opposes prohibition as tyrannical and advocates personal choice in drinking. He fears saloon culture and industry corruption but argues for no church or creed to intervene. He criticizes Anti-Saloon League and Wayne Wheeler for demonizing opponents, acknowledging good people exist on both sides.
Secretary E W Anderson of the Monroe Progressive League calls a directors meeting for Tuesday at 7 30 p m in League rooms to plan for North Louisiana inquiries after a Chicago irrigation exhibit. Ouachita Valley Camp No 10 Woodmen of the World elects officers led by Charles Garvey consul commander and J J Jones adviser lieutenant.
In New Orleans and southern cities the holiday liquor supply is said to be similar in quality but with varying prices. Rum runners cluster near Timbalier Light as federal prohibition agents move to curb contraband. Recent seizures of raw ingredients and liquor tie to a roundup of alleged Volstead violators and major cases slated for trial before Judge W S Grubb and Judge Louis H Burns. Defendants include Walter L. Cohen, L A Meraux, L G Shiell, and Gertrude Lythgoe.
The text notes a severe test ahead for soldiers and their German wives as they settle in a land with many native women unmarried due to war deaths and prewar gender imbalances. It suggests both British troops and their spouses may struggle for acceptance.
At the first sign of colds fevers headaches take one Pond s Pill at bedtime It will start your liver and remove the bile and poisonous matter You wake up well Cost 25c adv
Public health notice offers a free book by W C Rowntree MD from Texarkana Texas about pellagra. It lists symptoms and encourages those with stomach trouble nervousness weight loss and other signs to seek information. No medical advice given beyond diagnosis and book offer.
Today marks birthdays of several prominent figures. Cardinal OConnell of Boston born in Lowell sixty six years ago. Charles Murphy Canadian Postmaster General newly appointed senator born Ottawa sixty two years ago. William Durant Boston born sixty four years ago, Edward Blake Paris based bishop born Gorham Maine sixty seven years ago, Isauro Gabaldon long time Philippines resident commissioner in Washington born sixty years ago.
A Philadelphia police veteran of twenty six years touts Sloan's Liniment for back and leg pain from overwork and weather. He says a light application targets the hurt, improves blood flow, and eases stiffness so he feels fit again quickly. Drugstores offer bottles at 38 cents.
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