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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1925
Page
4
A satirical piece rails at postholiday bills and the January blues. It lampoons debt, collectors, and pricey gifts, noting many families still owe Santa and jokes about cash and carry, pay-as-you-enter chimneys, and a long December-to-January cost spike.
Read list of notable anniversaries spanning 1771 to 1923. Highlights include Washington defeating the British at Princeton in 1771, Douglas Jerrold born in 1803, a 1857 death in London, 1850 royal commission for London exhibition, 79 grant of Dublin to Ulysses Grant, 1886 ship Jabez Howes voyage, 1909 archbishop Pitaval, 1910 death of D Ogden Mills near San Francisco, and 1923 Governor Smith urging wine and beer appeal to Congress.
In Day's News the Boston-born leader Richard Henry Dana is celebrated on his seventy fifth birthday. He is famed for long leadership of the National Civil Service Reform League and for shaping civil service law and the Australian ballot statutes in Massachusetts. Dana, son of the elder Dana, remains active in charity, education, and municipal governance circles.
Monroe residents are urged to unite in a spring campaign to improve the city’s appearance. The Ouachita River banks should be cleared of trash, paving expanded, and homes planted with trees and shrubs to enhance curb appeal for both Monroe and West Monroe.
The article condemns the high legal fees for defending two student slayers, estimating Darrow and Bachrach at 150000 dollars. It argues wealth influences justice, noting the judge relied on evidence, and calls for systemic change to ensure equality, a notion the public resists due to worship of money.
The piece warns that many powerful groups endorse a child labor amendment, risking a nation of voters swayed by organized collective opinion. It argues individuality and critical thinking are vital, lest citizens become rubber stamps lacking conviction.
The Spectator traces Dr Charles W Eliot's opposition to intermarriage while arguing for the value of cross breeding among races. It cites beliefs rooted in religion and nationalism, contrasts human and animal breeding, and praises the minds of Irish Jewish French German British and Scandinavian peoples as best advanced through mixing.
Monroe News brief summarizes a week of union prayer at the Presbyterian church with Rev J A H Wharton, upcoming Baptist church service by Rev A Low, and a talk by Rev A B Currie. It also notes a large Sugar's Theatre matinee by the Matinee Girl company starring Dan Russell, local business moves by Haas and Son, a Dutch supper for firemen, hotel and city hall projects, and a week's schedule of local society events and club meetings.
A compact guide lists steps to solve cross word puzzles by filling sure answers first. It provides numerous clue examples and abbreviations across bird names, colors, objects, and common terms, highlighting how crossing letters yield further solutions.
Yesterday's crossword puzzle correct answer appears as ENITIE. This brief item notes the completed fill or theme word tied to the puzzle clue or title.
The Monroe fire department earns praise in Chief Frank J. Roddy’s annual report, noting a record year for fires due to extreme drought. Grass fires numbered 113 of 268, yet property loss totaled $56,000, a low figure given population growth and drought. The News-Star congratulates Roddy and the department for strong preventive work and aims for continued safety in 1928.
Former Secretary of War Newton D Baker is presented a bound volume of letters and articles defending his war record from critics in an unfriendly encyclopedia entry. General Pershing’s testimonial praises Baker’s policy and support in France as decisive and unswerving amid charges of pacifism and inefficiency. The telegram notes nonpartisan regard for his character and service in a republic needing decisive action.
A short notice advertises Old Fashioned Corned Beef at Green s Market and Grocer with unclear details about quantity or price. The fragment implies a grocery listing or promotion from a local market.
The text complains that critics lament the public's taste and that intellectuals are swayed only by pessimistic indecency in fiction. It argues excessive spending on commissions with little result and questions the justification of establishing a Federal oil conservation board.
The Ouachita National Bank of Monroe calls a regular annual stockholders meeting at the bank domicile on Tuesday January 13 1925 to elect a board of directors and address other business as may come before the meeting.
An old advertisement promises relief from colds neuralgia laguope and influenza with Bond's Pills taken at bedtime. It claims the remedy keeps bowels open to drive out poisons and germs and offers a 25 cent bottle at any drug store.
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