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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1923
Page
4
The Monroe News-Star outlines a plan to improve drainage for lasting community growth, expand year round river traffic on the Ouachita, and achieve complete industrial development in the Monroe district with permanent manufacturing enterprises and gas fields expansion.
The newspaper previews five gubernatorial candidates from Ouachita parish, focusing on their views on secrecy and the Ku Klux Klan, conservation, the girls' training school, taxation, good roads, corporate policy, and other legislative duties.
The piece praises attractive shop windows and holiday spirit in Monroe and New York sources. It credits merchant folk with driving the Yuletide mood and predicts a prosperous Christmas, noting widespread satisfaction with the economy and strong advertising and service.
A public notice urges timely poll tax payments and obtaining the 1925 receipt amid looming deadlines and a presidential year next. and notes Mrs. P. K. Kula completed a 2000 mile auto trip from Ann Arbor to Dallas while Mrs. G. Corbett, wife of a Canton builder, has helped supervise building at least 50 homes.
A 5 foot 3 to 5 foot 7 inch height and 125 to 140 pound weight range is discussed as an ideal for women. A church near New York saw women members undertake to repaint the building with a young bride of 20 painting the steeple from a 7 foot height.
A woman who has been twice married and whose husbands have died is noted in a remarkable case. The report mentions a church ceremony and the motoring home after the marriage, outlining unusual marital history and fatal outcomes.
Crane Wilbur stars in The Monster a six character mystery play praised for pacing and humor. Suzanne Daubet and Walter James received noted support as The Bat looms as the next show while Tiger Rose starring Lenore Ulric is deemed good and likely to please most patrons.
A collage of quick scoops and quips cites curious facts and oddities from politics money and crime including Congress bald heads a Canary birds bill and a Spanish wife cooked in oil. It mentions a Seattle jail Wisconsin dealer and a Los Angeles star with an auto train crash and notes about autos outnumbering houses.
A reader letter reproduces Prof. Brown’s account defending school health actions during the smallpox orders. He says the board of health orders were published and followed, with 97 percent of 750 pupils complying, certificates issued, and vaccination or exclusion enforced, while Dr. Dowling’s visit prompted a disagreement over the school’s closure. The piece details communications with doctors and the county health board during the outbreak.
A school district faces a health board order amid vaccination certificates for returning pupils. Dr Hirsch notes a pupil with smallpox exposure and a director confirms clearance. officials say no compliant student attends Ouachite Parish High. Browne questions motives behind school closure despite regulatory compliance.
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