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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1923
Page
4
The Monroe News-Star outlines a plan to improve drainage for lasting community growth, develop year-round river navigation as a trade route, and foster complete industrial development in the Monroe district through permanent manufacturing and gas field expansion.
Justice Ford of New York argues censorship is misused for books and media. He compares moving pictures to a family circle and says the public should guard against obscene material while preserving liberty to publish. The piece contrasts school book limits with parental and public oversight.
A tale contrasts counties with good roads and poor roads tied by a quarrel over highway policy. A farmstead fire in the opposing county triggers fire-squad fees from the poor road area, illustrating costs beyond taxes and a campaign for better roads at the next election.
The piece riffs on Greece’s king being sacked and compares royal life to movie star marriages. It shifts to light quips about Russians and Mexicans, joking about soap, talent, and politics while lampooning modern cinema and global relations.
The article notes Dr. David P Todd has reported discovering a new sun spot in a cyclonic area two Earth diameters wide. It recounts a fifty year career in astronomy including roles with the transit of Venus expeditions, U S Naval Observatory eclipse parties in Texas 1878, and leadership of multiple eclipse expeditions in Japan West Africa Barbary and the Dutch East Indies. Todd was born in New York and educated at Amherst College.
The list recalls Andrew Johnston born 1808 in Raleigh died 1875 in Tennessee, William Gladstone born 1809 in Liverpool, Jacques Louis David born 1748 in Paris, the Imperial Winter Palace fire at Petrograd, Leavenworth chosen for a national prison in 1873, Jameson raid in 1895, Nordic support for Wilson in 1916, Michelson's 1920 measure methods from Chicago.
One year after the event a public proposal was issued to convene a world conference of financial and economic experts to determine how much reparations the Germans could pay.
Today honors include Sister Hill youngest in the sixty eighth congress born 27 years ago. Kentucky governor William J Fields born in Carter county 49 years ago. Actress Charlotte Walker born in Galveston Texas 45 years ago. General William Mitchell born in France 44 years ago. Jess Willard born in Pottawatomie county Kansas 36 years ago. Southern Yacht Club New Orleans celebrates 75th anniversary January 10.
Census Bureau figures show 261 large cities spent 51.41 per resident in 1922 while revenue averaged 57.58, leaving a per capita deficit of 2.0 from operations and a total net indebtedness of 93.42 per person. New York posted a 182.72 per capita net debt despite a small revenue surplus. Chicago ran a 46.36 per capita net indebtedness. Philadelphia showed a 9.95 per capita deficit and 92.20 debt.
Classified note announces Gibson’s finely engraved New Year cards from Ford Levi Stationery Company. The brief item lists a catalog reference 27-21 with no additional details or pricing.
Frederik Moller, a former school teacher who, starting in 1890, campaigned to improve Danish egg quality and production, died after months of illness in Copenhagen. He organized producer circles with stamp-backed traceability, imposed fines for first offenses, and expelled violators from the circle. His cooperative Danish Anders Egg Export turned over 4.701 million crowns in 1926.
An old ad promotes Blue Star Remedy for eczema itching tetter cracked hands and other skin conditions. Sold by Collens Pharmacy.
The piece recalls old wintertime sore throat remedies like kerosene and slippery elm tea, plus notes on home practices such as neck stockings and haystack comfort. It argues against exposure as a cause and defines sore throat as a mucous membrane inflammation with pain, swallowing difficulty, and possible fever.
Readers learn of a new Mah Jongg game at the Phoenix Drug Store with a 15-tf note indicating timing or availability.
General von Ruedgisch Pasha died in Berlin at age 69. He had lived in Turkey for years and trained the Turkish cavalry at Constantinople Tripoli and Damascus. For this service Sultan Abdul Hamid conferred the title of pasha and awarded the orders Osman and Masehidge first class.
A playful blunder appears in today’s want ads as a model blunder joke about why auto owners go mad. The gag suggests the clue lies within the day’s advertisements and hints at a humorous misunderstanding.
Berlin reports stunning results from the Em peror William II stamp collection sold in Paris. A Baden stamp with only three known copies sold for 120000 francs and a mid eighteenth century Spanish stamp brought nearly as much. Over 12 million francs have been realized. The collection was bequeathed by a son of the Duchess of Galliera and seized by the Entente powers after the war began.
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