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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1920
Page
6
A call to support the Goodfellow's Fund urges quick donations to ensure a joyful Christmas for all. The message emphasizes sharing happiness through giving and asks readers to send contributions without delay to uphold traditions of aid and charity this season.
The article profiles Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell born December 18 1856 in Boston. It notes his lineage, Bostonian background, and long career from lawyer to government scholar culminating in the 1909 presidency. He advocates a more inclusive Harvard and a balanced representation of wealth and poverty among students.
Frederic J. Haskin reports New York moves toward wardless hospitals with private rooms for all, priced to fit the middle class. The Fifth Avenue Hospital plans to offer rooms with attached baths for all patients, regardless of means, aiming to end ward care. A struggling couple’s misfortune highlights the need for private treatment. Dr. Wiley Egan Woodbury endorses the concept as a humane, economic shift.
Columbus, Ohio December 23. Common Pleas Judge Kinkead sustains a motion to quash a summons in the suit by Frank Monnett former Attorney General and minority leader in Goodyear Rubber seeking appointment of a receiver for the company.
Washington reports frost probable tonight down to interior Central Florida and extending to the Mississippi and Alabama coast regions. The Weather Bureau issued the warning as cold air moves southward in the early winter pattern.
Moderate floods are predicted in the Ouachita river at Camden Arkansas by December 27 due to recent rains. Weather officials warn residents along the Ouachita River to monitor levels and prepare for possible evacuations if rainfall continues.
The U S state department intervened in a dispute between the British embassy and a Senate committee probing cable communications. It rebuked the embassy for sending a direct letter to Senator Kellogg about possible British censorship of messages to the United States.
The article describes a private room hospital concept with individual outside rooms, each with own lavatory and window access, a curved fifth avenue plan shaped like an R, and an isolated children’s floor with glass partitions. It notes teleautograph order transmission, dietitians, and on-site quartermaster and surgical supply departments. Endowments by Barrymores and others support the project, with completion targeted for July.
Jackson reports the American Legion division sent a telegram to the State department and Senator Harrison opposing a plan to move 1000 Mennenites from Manitoba to Southern Mississippi.
A Christmas tree will be set up in the West Monroe school auditorium tomorrow night at 7 30 under the West Monroe Baptist church. The committee will collect gifts in the afternoon for the tree and a musical program by local musicians will be presented. Sunday school classes stage a White Christmas and distribute gifts to the needy. The public is invited to attend.
Two black mule livestock items appear with rewards and descriptions. One is a horse mule blind in the left eye, the other a mare mule unmarked. Reward offered for return to I W Miller in West Monroe. The page also runs classified notices for a salesman position at a Hotel Monroe contact, and rental listings for a store building on De Siard Street and a four room house on Calypso Street with local contact names.
The five republics of Central America cover about 200 900 square miles, far less than Texas. Turkish tobacco leaves are smaller and golden. Romans protected bakers hands and faces to keep the upper crust clean. Venetians who have never seen the mainland may have never seen a horse.
The market page notes quiet activity on Thursday December 28 1920 with spots around 4 cents and sales at 173. Vest'y FAN shows a range with a high of 18.69 and a close near 18.16. Futures contracts March and May display mixed moves with modest gains and losses across near term prices.
Chicago L L Smith's Daily Cotton Letter notes a rise in markets due to the emergency tariff bill debate and favorable Southern mill reports. It cites lowered England reserves, potential European credit extensions, and a shift toward renewed production as mills plan five months ahead.
New York bantamweight Pete Herman, dethroned last night by Joe Lynch, sails on the Imperator for England to meet Jimmy Wilde in a twenty round bout. In the Caucasus Tiflis reports Bolshevik forces massing to erase Georgia from the map as heavy units concentrate at a Black Sea port. New Orleans crop officials forecast Louisiana rice production at 26 million pounds and value near 27 million dollars, with 700 000 acres.
Notice to shippers from Houston Montieth announces a new boat named Welcome and barge ready to haul lumber ties staves or any movable cargo by water. Contact phone 645 and post office box 646 Monroe La 236 for arrangements.
An ad style fragment touts fireworks at wholesale prices featuring Walker Bros. The text also references Cagiostro as a notorious impostor, describing him as a master of deception and fraud. It cites Thomas Carlyle calling him the most perfect scoundrel of modern history.
The article details Giuseppe Balsamo known as Cagliostro, a charlatan who forged identities and sold the legendary Wine of Egypt. He swindled nobles, aided Cardinal de Rohan, and inspired the diamond necklace scandal before dying in 1795 after a lifetime of deception.
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