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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1920
Page
11
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Voters statewide will select delegates next Tuesday December 14 for the spring Constitutional Convention. With few contests all nominees were chosen previously, but the poll remains essential to legally elect delegates. In Ouachita parish electors vote for Capt Allan Shblars and Col Frank P Stubble as parish delegates and for J T McClellan and Joseph D Barksdale as Fifth Congressional District delegates.
Louisiana voters are urged to pay the poll tax of one dollar by December 31 1920 to preserve voting rights. The article notes possible constitutional changes in 1921 22, and discusses how men and women may be affected by poll tax requirements for future elections.
In Monroe area, veterans held over 7 million in Government life insurance during the war and many have since dropped it. Officials warn that more than 5 million of this insurance lapsed due to ignorance of rights, urging awareness to protect benefits.
A call to reinstate a policy accompanies assurances of duty to family. The speaker reminds readers that death is certain and urges communicating with Leonidas Barkdull Faulk Post No. 13, American Legion in Monroe for instructions on how to proceed.
The piece notes a trend of returning to obscurity for aging towns and cites Nome Alaska once bustling after the 1898 Klondike rush. It recounts a mass exodus with 350 residents sailing away and fewer than 200 remaining, ending with reflections on memory and fading glory.
A column reflects on Wilson’s mediation offer for Armenia and the potential impact of moral pressure without troops or money. It cites diplomacy amid Turkish resistance and hints at broader imperial and domestic issues including Germany, Bolshevism, money, and a New York divorce ruling.
A meditation on paying the price for success and enduring work, citing Edison and Turner, then a discussion on South Carolina bankers urging a 50 percent cotton acreage cut to lift prices, urging self-sufficiency and infrastructure to secure lasting prosperity.
Presidents and boards from Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts and Rhode Island gathered at Massachusetts Agricultural College Amherst for an important two day conference on state college finances and instruction. The aim is to standardize expenditures and improve uniformity in management across New England institutions. A side note mentions a first class ocean steamship requiring 120 firemen.
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