Monroe youths win in a varsity beauty popularity contest
Special to News-Star reports R L Davis elected handsomest man Alymer Montgomery eighth place as Biggest Heartbreaker Harold Pixon tenth as Firest Freshie in Reveille Gumbe election held at LSU on December 14 All three Monoe youths noted Caddo parish area also seeing honors Sadie McDade Belcher prettiest co ed Roy Benoit Shreveport Best All Round Man J T Jeter Shreveport Biggest Heart Breaker
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News-Star
Baton Reure
R. L. Davis
Alymer Montgomery
Harold Pixon
Firest Freshie
Louisiana State University
Monee
Caddo Parish
Sadie McDade
Belcher
Roy Benoit
Shreveport
J. T. Jeter
Colored people seek donations for Christmas fund
Rex O Williams started a Christmas fund for the poor and needy teetoes to provide cheer for aged negroes and orphans on Christmas. Many are without work and meager wages make clothing and the holiday difficult to provide. Rev Williams is pastor of the community.
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Rex. O. Williams
Goodfellows Fund
Megrees
Rev. Williams
Christmas Day charity drive at Tabernacle church
A church asks contributors to contact the organizer by phone 524 for clothing groceries or cash. Funds will be distributed at a Christmas Day service at 11 o'clock at the church.
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Tabernacle Church
Theodosia Burr: A Portrait of Aaron Burr’s Daughter
Theodosia Burr, born 1783 in New York, grew to be a renowned beauty and scholar. She was educated by her father, mastering Latin French and Greek, with early exposure to Horace and Terence. Married to Joseph Alston in 1801, she became her father’s constant companion amid a vivid early 19th century life.
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Theodosia Burr
American Statesman
Aaron Burr
New York
Theodosia
Burr
Joseph Alston
Albany
House of Representatives
Wash
Commodity futures quotes for December 22 1920
Prices for copper futures show steady activity with March contracts at 13.22 for copper and May at 13.56. Spot copper moves around 14.0 to 15.25 with highs near 14.78 and lows near 13.82, while March and May futures drift through the day.
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High Low
Unclear fragment hints at sales and dates
A fragmented text mentions sales figures of 3 000 and a date around 10.20 in March. It references an easy target or category called Spots 9.76 and a line about close SOHUATY with unknown meaning.
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Close Sohuaty Lj
Big Abdeta Doh sEtese-adbyiyty Toate BT
Theodosia Burr’s Mysterious Fate at Sea Remains Unsolved
In 1812 Theodosia Burr Alston sailed from Charleston aboard the Patriot to visit her father Aaron Burr. The vessel vanished without a trace with no wreckage or survivors found, leaving the mystery of her death unsolved and closing a chapter on Burr’s political decline.
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Ington
Thomas Jefferson
United States
Aaron Burr
Theodosia
Burr
Joseph Alston
South Carolina
Richmond
Europe
New York
Aaron Burr Alston
Patriot
Charleston Bar
Theodosia Burr
Women across the world gain ground in public life and labor
The dispatch notes several milestones for women including Mrs. Mariel Simpson as Oregon sheriff, Mrs. Jessie Kirk elected to Winnipeg city council, and predictions that women students may outnumber men in America colleges within a decade. It also mentions Katherine Stinson in hospital, Antoinette Brown Blackwell voting in New Jersey, and other historic female figures and events.
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Burmah
Belgium
Mariel Simpson
Lincoln County
Oregon
Winnipeg
Jessie Kirk
America
Katherine Stinson
New Mexico
France
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Elizabeth
N. J
Blackwell
Charlotte Pierce
Philadelphia
Seneca Falls
N. Y
New Castle
Board of Education
United Confederate Veterans
Sarah Knox Davis
Jefferson Davis
St. Francisville
Hollywood
Richmond
Davis
Eugenie Smet
Helpers of the Holy Souls
Paris
Hstory
Indiana
State Senate
Katherine Smith
Indianapolis
The Pleasure of Going Out Over Staying Home
An observer explores why people seek social outings not for the activity itself but for being part of a crowd. The piece contrasts normal pleasure with restless craving and urges individuals to identify true pleasures and avoid ones that merely turn ashes in the mouth.
I Detest the Man Who Laughs at My Groans
A speaker complains of envy and fear of being a hireling, praising self reliance and strength while condemning those who mock his pain or crush his bones. He rejects tyranny and insists on personal dignity, noting variety in people and politics and condemning cruel mockery.
Home party game book requests and kitchen tips column
Reader asks for book recommendations for home games and a curtain dye tip. Several letters offer to mail publishers, mills, and a pepper stuffing recipe with detailed steps plus a moral remark about housekeeping and in law impressions.
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A. L
Pennsylvania
T.G. D
Lost pink cameo brooch reward for return
Classified notices list a lost large pink cameo brooch with reward for return to 1810 Jackson street. Also a lost black horse mule near Collinston Louisiana with liberal reward to Mr Alice Felton Mer Rouge. A roan mare with Texas saddle is blind in one eye and near Swartz Louisiana. Furniture rugs and bric a brac offered at 316 Beard Street.
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Jackson Street
Collinston
Alice Felton
Mer Rouge
Texas
T. M. Wright
Swartz
Arkansas Prisoner Escapes During Transfer Near Corey
Sheriff Peyton of LaSalle parish was returning a burglary and larceny prisoner to jail when the man slipped away through a small window aboard a Missouri Pacific train car near Corey. Heavy rains hindered tracking with bloodhounds. The same report notes a separate incest case in Jena, with DA Thornhill at the scene.
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Monroe News-Star
Columbia
Peyton
LaSalle Parish
Arkansas
Corey
Missouri Pacific
Here
Jena
J. B. Thornhill
Iena
Johnson
Explosion at Du Pont mill kills four in Scranton area
Four men die and two injured in a blast at the pressing and packing mill of the Du Pont Powder Co near Mossice. The blast is felt across the Lackawanna Valley. A Central News dispatch from Helsingfors reports hundreds killed or injured in a railway accident near Petrograd due to overcrowding. details are scarce.
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Associated Press
Scranton
Dupont Powder Co
Mossice
Lackawanna Valley
London
Helsingfors
Finland
Petrograd
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