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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1923
Page
4
The Monroe News-Star outlines a plan to improve drainage and enable year round Ouachita River navigation. It calls for robust industrial growth in the Monroe district including gas fields and permanent manufacturing plants.
The Monroe community cheers the Central Savings Bank and Trust Company as it opens its own new building with an evening at home. The paper praises the bank as a thriving local institution and views the move as a bright sign of Monroe’s progress and prosperous times ahead.
The Monroe churches increasingly use ads and Saturday notices to promote services showing a live and vital community role. Ministers are slowly embracing publicity though cooperation remains limited, with the paper offering space for church announcements and daily Bible verses.
Rev. Edward Hayward’s Rotarian sermon argues that no one can live for self alone and stresses that modern government progress and public amenities demand unselfish conduct. Each action affects others, and people should carry this mindset daily.
A garbled notice recalls the Wright brothers Wilbur and Orville achieving the first successful heavier-than-air flight twenty years ago. The piece argues aviation is an American invention and laments limited current development in the United States alongside a stray mention of a Brazilian city and workers.
Esmond Phelps argues that the Ku Klux Klan is an unAmerican force seeking political power by religious prejudice. He urgesLouisiana voters to back Hewitt Bouanchaud, a Catholic, to defeat the Klan and defend constitutional religious freedom.
The piece riffs on holiday pressures and political themes with playful observations. It hints at Ford and Muscle Shoals while noting Christmas costs for married men and a wave of prospective tenants, all in a cheeky, dated humor tone.
The Federal Farm Loan Board reports a better agricultural outlook based on data from twelve land bank presidents after their winter conference. It notes satisfactory collections and a general rise in prosperity while warning that some regions suffer from crop failures low prices and labor shortages, representing only a fractional area.
Eleven rice growers pleaded guilty to rioting and malicious misde meanor in Stuttgart Arkansas. They were fined $100 each for the attack on the Free Press during which editors R A Berry and T F Lawson were beaten. Charges of assault and aggravated assault were dismissed.
G. W. Clark declared open defiance of the law with harm to the Growers Cooperative Association and the community. A grand jury, convened to investigate the invasion of newspaper offices and the Arkansas Rice Growers Cooperative Union, was expected to report today. only one prior report had been made during its ten days in session.
The Fisher corporation announced purchases totaling about 100,000 acres of standing timber in Tennessee Arkansas Louisiana and Mississippi to secure an uninterrupted Ti materials flow. The properties will be run by Fisher Hurd Lumber Company a new subsidiary with Q B P Hurd of Memphis Tenn as president and general manager.
Victor Ruzan, 19, charged with highway robbery in the Gracewood Lawton store theft, received a six to ten year term from District Judge J. H. Stephens. The judge stated such a crime implies intent to murder and offered no leniency.
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