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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1920
Page
5
A letter from readers asks for guidance on keeping houseplants free of aphides. The piece emphasizes prevention, quarantining new plants, washing stems, and regular soapy baths. It lists tobacco water and tobacco dust, kerosene emulsion, whale oil soap, and home-made soaps as remedies, with step by step usage and cautions on timing and leaf undersides.
A reader requests a dark fruit cake recipe and color guidance for braided wool or rag rugs. The cake uses butter sugar raisins candied peel currants eggs milk flour spices and molasses with steaming and a long curing time. Another note asks for a childhood poem fragment now unknown.
Washington reports prison escapes are common but not alarming. Dr. Dud ding of the Prisoners Relief Society notes 4,006,000 inmates and annual escapes near 500, yet most escapees are retaken quickly. Advances in transport and publicity aid pursuit and many return voluntarily after counsel.
The article recounts how escaped inmates contact Dr. Dudding of the Prisoner's Relief Society to gain guidance and release from state custody, noting his success in convincing them to accept pardons and return to confinement. It reviews famous escapes from Casanova to 18th century prisons and a Connecticut Newgate incident, contrasting romance with modern guards and security.
The USDA releases a two reel film Good bye, Boll Weevil detailing the pest and the calcium arsenate method to save cotton growers millions. It shows lab work in Tallulah Louisiana and Washington and features demonstrations of arsenate use, bogus exterminator detection, and field scenes with substantial per acre savings.
Racing events in New Orleans Havana and Tia Juana. Pinehurst hosts the midwinter golf tournament. Davis Cup challenge round ends in Auckland. University of Toronto faces Cleveland in hockey.
One year ago today Norman Hapgood former United States Minister to Denmark faced denial of charges alleging friendship with Lenine and Trotsky. He disputed the accusations and remained in public service discourse amid the controversy.
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