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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR item lists locations and rooms in a newspaper office. The readable bits mention a business office editorial room and BIT Social News with unclear identifiers. No clear events or identities are established for a fuller summary.
The News-Star urges Governor Pleasant to reappoint W. E. Atkinson as State Highway Engineer citing four years of faithful service. It emphasizes his practical experience, theoretical knowledge, and suitability to lead highway construction and maintenance across the state.
The News-Star argues citizens should pay the poll tax to exercise the franchise. It warns that failure to pay before January 1 1917 bars voting for two years and bans holding office. the small tax funds public schools and must be paid to remain a qualified elector.
The Memphis News Scimitar discusses Christmas savings clubs and cites half a million dollars distributed by local banks to twenty six thousand club members. Funds are set to meet Christmas costs and high living expenses, with money used for fees, property, farming purchases, or redeposited as next year’s saving.
The piece argues thrift boosts personal finances and national wealth. It contrasts American consumer excess with French savings, praising small deposits, and notes a growing inclusion of over ten thousand colored people in thrift efforts. It forecasts 1917 optimism as people embrace saving and self discipline.
The piece urges Congress to adopt federal control on interstate cold storage to prevent price manipulation, arguing state laws are 80 conflicting and ineffective. It predicts slow action but hopes immediate relief by removing a 16 cent per pound tax on oleomargarine.
A compact timeline lists Samuel Kneeland’s Boston death in 1769, 1776 British advances, Washington’s 1799 death, naval actions near New Orleans, Albert’s 1861 death, 1868 debt repudiation vote, Serbia’s 1897 war, 1894 Debs’ Chicago jail sentence, 1901 Marconi wireless, Grant widow’s 1902 death, 1911 Amundsen pole discovery, 1914 Good Roads Congress, 1915 NAWSA congress, and WWI era battles and leadership changes including Haig’s 1915 appointment and ongoing Vosges fighting.
A New Orleans Times-Picayune opinion denounces the federal oleomargarine tax as an unlawful food tax that sustains high butter prices. The author argues the tax burdens the public amid food inflation, claims revenue does not go to the treasury, and calls for immediate repeal to relieve consumers and credit Congress.
Pierre Blendin Canada secretary of state and Mines Minister in the Bordon Cabinet turns 42 today. A lawyer by training educated at Laval University Blendin rose quickly in Dominion politics, elected MP for Champlain in 1905, deputy speaker in 1911, Inland Revenue minister in 1914, and secretary of state after Louis Coderre’s resignation in 1915. Also noted today Prince Albert II of England age 21, Dr Frank Nelson 51, Judge Arthur Audette 60, Louis Marshall 60, Matt Wells 50, and Congressman Wyatt Aiken 53.
An advertisement notes that nervousness caused by constipation can be eased quickly with Chamberlain's Tablets and that the tablets also aid digestion. Available everywhere.
The week lists major meetings and sports events. American Baseball League annual meeting in Chicago. Invitatation golf tournament opening in San Gabriel. Southern bagbeds association directors meet in Nashville. Boxing bouts Mel Copogan vs. Murphy and Tom Leeva vs. Kom Salsbury in Chippewa, Greenfield Mass. Eastern intercollegiate basketball season opener. World sprint championships in New York. Shamus O'Brien vs. Willie Beecher in Brooklyn. Six day bicycle race begins in Madison Square Garden, New York.
Delegates from several states gather in Evansville Indiana for a two day Contra States conference organized by the chamber of commerce. The session aims to gauge middle West business sentiment on transportation legislation and policy affecting rail and waterways.
American League owners and officials met behind closed doors at the La Salle Hotel to wind up the 1916 season and tackle key items. Major topics include Players' Fraternity salary protections, a proposed five member arbitration board, and ratification of the Boston Red Sox sale to Henry Frazee and associates.
Washington December 14 Many governors former governors and governors elect gathered for the annual governors conference. The postponed meeting replaces the Salt Lake City plan canceled due to Mexican crisis and state troop mobilization. The three day session will seek ways to improve state conditions and harmonize interstate laws amid federal encroachment concerns.
The governors expect a spirited discussion on transferring railroad regulation to a Federal board and dissolving state railroad commissions. Forest conservation public health measures and water power laws are on the agenda with President Witton set to address a conference session.
The Standard Warehouse and Compress Co warns that compress receipts for cotton delivered by named parties have been lost and duplicate receipts issued. Public caution issued that the company will not recognize or deliver cotton tied to the lost receipts or the duplicate faces. J. J. Jamison No. 681 issued Sept 16, 1916.
A fragmented notice lists multiple numbered items with names such as W. R. Brady Dr. Duke Hodge and Jno. T. Cole, all dated mainly in October 1916 and November 1916, including various issued numbers and references to STANDARD WAREHOUSE & COMPRESS CO, with illegible trailing text.
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