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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1916
Page
4
A public notice warns male citizens they must pay the poll tax by December 30 to avoid being listed as Squaw Men and losing voting and office rights for 1917 and 1918. It stresses two consecutive years of receipts, ties the tax to school funding, and urges timely payment to qualify to vote.
A persuasive public health notice urges the public to stop spitting on streets to prevent tuberculosis. It warns that dried spittle dust travels by wind and causes illness, calling on everyone to act to curb spread. The message frames spitting as the primary disease source and advocates collective action.
Officials enforce the God and Drugs Act more strictly due to European war conditions. War disruptions have raised the number of small diverse shipments, increasing inspector work from one to twenty consignments per importer. Adulteration temptations grow as prices rise for foreign spices and crude drugs, with coriander fennel celery cumin and cinchona among items found adulterated and mislabeled.
The Bureau of Chemistry operates at major ports to test foods and drugs entering the United States. Inspectors scrutinize invoices and require consular certificates, detaining shipments suspected of adulteration or misbranding for analysis. If violations are found, goods are refused entry or must be labeled correctly after hearings, in cooperation with Treasury customs officers.
Helleville Ontario December 27 Sir Mackenzie Bowell veteran statesman and former premier of Canada marks his ninety third birthday today. Health strong for age and he rarely misses a day of work. Bowell served fifty years in parliament most in the house of commons and since 1892 in the senate. He has held ministries of customs defence trade and commerce president of the privy council and was premier for about a year.
Educators from across the nation gather for the twentieth annual convention in Chicago. The three day session opens with Dr. Glen Levin of the U S Bureau of Education leading a slate of speakers on practical business instruction.
The Canadian National Hockey Association opens its season in Montreal on December 27 and runs until early March. Schedules are split into halves with the first-half leaders facing the second-half winners in a final playoff. A slow start may yet yield a championship.
London December 26 English literary societies held exercises to celebrate the 200th anniversary of poet Thomas Gray born 1716 in Cornhill London. He wrote the Elegy died 1771 and is buried at Stoke Pogis beside his mother.
New York observers estimate thirty million dollars more in pay for about a half million workers as 1920 prosperity continues in industry and finance. Police officers parade Christmas benevolence, trimming station houses and delivering gifts to children to curb crime through social service.
Nearly two thousand members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and its affiliated societies gathered at the American Museum of Natural History to report on the year’s scientific progress and chart research directions for 117. The meeting is described as the nation’s premier scientific event, akin to England’s British Association gathering.
In a note book summary Dr Join Balcom Shaw recently inaugurated as Elmira College for Women president is described as a Presbyterian clergyman with pastorships in New York Chicago and Los Angeles born on Long Island and educated at Lafayette College He studied theology at Union Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1883 He became Elmira College president in 1915 He authored several spiritual books and contributed to religious magazines and journals The piece also covers Dr V K Wellington Kee Chinese Minister to the United States visiting the University of Chicago convocation and delivering an address on China and the United States Kee studied at Columbia earning a doctorate and is regarded as an able diplomat and orator He is seen as a capable negotiator for U S China relations.
A compilation of historical notes including the death of Katharine von Bora, various wars and battles, literary figures like John Keats and Charles Lamb, the 1834 Milwaukee mass meeting for Nebraska grasshopper relief, the 1873 Milwaukee church service shift, 1970 bombings in Peronne and Rome floods, and other dated milestones.
A historian who began his career fifteen years ago as a University of Texas history professor has served as official investigator in Texan and Mexican history for the United States Bureau of Ethnology and the Carnegie Institution.
In Mansfield Louisiana on December 25 an armed thief entered C M Jenkins’s home after the family returned from visiting relatives, forced Jenkins to hand over his purse, and fled with about $1,000 in jewelry. Police tracked a rifle and revolver clue through a ravine but lost the trail. a recovered revolver was found. Jenkins, a local store owner and bank official, offered a $1,000 reward for the suspect.
Amsterdam December 26 The Telegraph reports Germany's reply to Holland on Belgian deportations may be unsuitable for Dutch Parliament and Holland has asked Berlin to alter the reply.
John Martin Thomas of Middlebury College Vermont and Ira J. Reeves of Norwich University are cited as college presidents serving with the Vermont National Guard when called by President Wilson last June. The piece lists other aging figures and honors, including Princess Marie of Romania and British officials, marking birthdays and notable roles.
The national indoor tennis championship moves to the Seventh Regiment Armory boards for a decisive afternoon. The event, under United & National Lawn Tennis Association auspices, features top young players led by Powell as the field grows with several collegiate entrants. Singles and doubles will be played as the day unfolds, with results expected to follow.
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