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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1923
Page
2
A proposal outlines completing river traffic on the Ouachita, enabling year round navigation and steady industrial development in the Monroe district. It envisions permanent manufacturing enterprises, enhanced gas field activity, and long term community building benefits.
The piece argues high city costs push production to smaller towns, praising Monroe for affordable land, transport, fuel, markets, and low taxes. It claims workers favor city life but many would move to the country if better living options exist, and promises local jobs and housing opportunities.
The piece notes states enacting laws to curb roadside billboards, arguing driving tourism and vistas should not be blocked by ads. Illinois Governor Small praises preserving rights of way, citing grass fringed drives and neat, sightly boards.
Somers travels to Australia with his wife to escape postwar England. They encounter labor unrest, new social ideals led by Kangroog and a mix of radical thinkers as Somers weighs a radical recode of society. The novel blends rugged realism with philosophical debates while tracing personal and societal upheaval in the bush.
J W Smith, local architect, accepted to design two modern school buildings in DeSoto and Evangeline parishes. Grand Cane DeSoto will get a twelve room building costing about 50 thousand dollars, with construction to start within sixty days. Ping Prairie Evangeline will have four classrooms and an auditorium, about 25 thousand dollars, with plans to be delivered to contractors in thirty days.
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