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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1925
Page
4
A humorous tirade laments 1925 plates with alphabet soup and complex codes. It jokes pedestrians must master letters, numbers, colors, and origins, urging chalk, erasers, and public stenographers to cope with modern motor vehicle identification.
Brigadier General Lord Thomson, former Secretary of State for Air in Ramsay MacDonald’s cabinet, arrives in America amid many speaking invitations. A prominent British soldier, he served in World War I, advised in Ireland, and later the Ruhr before joining the Labour Party. He will address aircraft commercial development during his stay.
Today marks anniversaries for Prince Arthur of Connaught former Governor-General of the Union of South Africa born 42 years ago. Lord Balfour of Burleigh a longtime British public figure born 76 years ago. Oscar King Davis secretary of the National Foreign Trade Coin born in Baldwinsville New York 59 years ago. Morton Hull representative in the Congress from the Second District born in Chicago 68 years ago.
The Monroe community should warmly welcome the buffalo and elk coming to Forsythe Park Zoo later this week. The additions promise educational value and draw for the city, with ideas for a parade, naming prizes, a welcoming band, and student involvement to engage children and adults alike.
A New York judge and critic argue against purely scientific crime fighting while defending education and juries as the path to reducing crime. They claim ignorance fuels crime, economics and war drive offenses, and that smarter education, juries, and judges are essential.
Observers in France and Germany link Hughes resignation to a potential 1928 presidential bid, while Coolidge pursues a different path. A Paris paper notes Hughes and Coolidge differ on foreign entanglements, highlighting Hughes' European-influenced stance versus Coolidge’s American simplicity and economy.
The page lists horizontal and vertical crossword clues with numbers, covering basic words from to discharge to an insect. It presents a word-fill approach where letters interlock and solutions yield cross clues for adjacent entries.
Rev. D. C. Barr, a renowned Methodist minister, has been chosen superintendent of the Louisiana Training Institute below Monroe. He and his family arrived to prepare for the opening date, with 160 acres to shape for the first boys. Contractor A. Skagg’s crew works on an eight inch sewer to the river as the building nears completion. The Institute’s board includes Dr. R. W. Faulk, Charles Tiche, and S. R. Lee.
Observers describe Siam as a modernizing but unequal realm where opium revenue funds government and taxation is limited by treaties with European powers. Rulers wish to curb the drug but rely on profits from opium and foreign tax exemptions to sustain the state.
The Supreme Court upholds the absolute right to control the Great Lakes drainage into the Chicago sanitary canal under the Constitution and a 1909 treaty with Great Britain. The ruling ends a sixteen year dispute over 864 million cubic feet daily diverted from Lake Michigan, affecting Great Lakes levels, St Lawrence navigation, and electric power. Chicago will pause use and curb flow to two fifths for sixty days with possible further terms by the Secretary of War.
An advertisement offers BLUE STAR REMEDY for skin diseases including eczema and ringworm. It promises a stain free formula and pleasant odor, sold in Monroe by Callin’s Pharmacy.
The article recalls how Chicago's sanitary canal affected a foreign nation and several American states, noting that a long delayed settlement could have sparked war in past times. It emphasizes a peaceful resolution despite tensions and historic stakes.
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