31 Dec 1912
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1912
Page
1
Local notices list meetings at Louisville avenue and the Baptist church on Wednesday and Friday. Reads of guests visiting Monroe from Arcadia and Shreveport accompany a New Year social and a description of festive foods and customs.
President and Mrs. Taft, rested by their Panama trip, plan the New Year’s reception at the White House. The event, the last of its kind under the Taft administration, is set to begin at 11 o’clock tomorrow and is described as unusually brilliant.
A pasted ad copy urges 1913 savings by buying best value from The Palace for Dry Goods and Apparel. A Chicago New Year Eve celebration note sketches a wine infused revival plan with revelry across downtown venues.
New York hosts the 24th annual exhibition of the New York Poultry and Pigeon Association in Madison Square Garden. Exhibits include high class chickens pigeons water fowl and other stock from across the United States and Canada. Legislative activity looms in Michigan as lawmakers schedule a ceremonial session and Governor-elect Woodbridge N Ferris prepares an inaugural message.
In his farewell address the leader outlines weighty measures for the new legislature. Amendments to the workingmen's compensation act and taxation changes join conservation efforts and simplifying primary and election laws. Early session work will include electing a U.S. senator, with Senator William Alden Smith projected for re election in November.
Delegates from Florida districts gather in Ocala for the annual State Educational Association conference. Notable speakers include Jim Permian JH Warne from NYU, Dr Lotte TD Coffinen from Illinois, and Florida’s State Superintendent William ME Trolloway.
Col Edwin P. Andrus of the cavalry, a New York native and West Point graduate of 1875, was placed on the retired list today on his own request after more than forty years of service. He has served his career in the cavalry and was recently with the 11th Cavalry at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
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