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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1924
Page
12
Eva Bradford columns record a flurry of social gatherings and club activities. Camp Fire Girls events, Senior Christian Endeavor banquets, bridge parties, and TD I A Division meetings are listed alongside New Year celebrations and missionary society reports, with attendees and hosts named.
A damaged OCR fragment shows New York Camp Fire Girls issuing resolutions during a meeting. The readable text references acts of charity and beauty, with scattered phrases about a creed and organizational undertakings.
Federal troops were withdrawn and civil government re-established in 1777 with Francis T. L. Nols as governor.
All Camp Fire groups met in the City Hall Council Chamber for a grand ceremonial at eight last night where guardians awarded honors and rings. Miss Lera Bryant led the ceremony with a pledge to the flag and a candlelight rite marking Work Health and Love.
Mrs Fanny G Purdy 34 daughter of U S Grant said to be a grand daughter of Ulysses S Grant fell or leaped to death at a hospital in San Francisco California her body found in a court below her room She was despondent recently and her husband Isaac Hart Purdy of Adrian Michigan survives with a son, Hart Purdy Jr Acquaintances note the Purdy marriage had ended in divorce.
John Millard a Ouachita parish farmer aged 63 died at his Chenicre area home yesterday. A Downsville native he was highly respected in the community. The funeral is at his late home this afternoon at 2 p.m. burial follows in the Clark Spring cemetery nearby.
Monroe Louisiana letter dated December 25 1924 from Mrs Walter Thatcher thanks the Good Fellows and Christian ladies merchants for charitable visits during her husband illness. She notes seven children and expresses gratitude hoping donors prosper in their works while mentioning Eastern Star affiliation and M P railroad reading of the new year.
A Washington report to the War Department states U S aviation has moved beyond experiments and can reliably transport mail and goods by air with substantial savings. It notes air traffic grew from 2,086 passengers to about 62,000 in 1924 and projects further miles flown and routes expanding with the war period aviation program.
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