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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1925
Page
4
A sharp humorous piece warns that gum mirror machines threaten to remove mirrors as women gaze too long. It jokes that looking glasses reveal truth about beauty and that some may react with vanity or shock after testing many machines. Copyright 1925 King Features Syndicate Incorporated.
The British Society of Arts grants the Albert Medal 1925 to Sir David Prain former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew for his work on quinine production. He organized cinchona plantations to supply quinine globally, saving countless lives. Prain, a Scottish native, educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh, joined the Indian Medical Service in 1884 and led the Calcutta Herbarium and Botanic Survey of India.
Benito Mussolini born in Forlia Italy today is 42 years past his birth. John H Haw and George Haw of Virginia celebrated as the oldest surviving Civil War twins born in Valley Va 87 years ago today. Booth Tarkington’s list from abroad notes celebrated events aging milestones.
The article lauds William Jennings Bryan as he delivers his last public speech posthumously. It asserts his anti evolution argument will strengthen religious faith and calls his final oratorical effort masterful. It notes Bryan’s life began with powerful oratory and ended similarly, leaving a heritage of militant Christianity.
The piece reflects on Robert La Follette and William Jennings Bryan as bold Westward leaders who drove reform and challenged capital interests. It notes their eloquence and large followings, their flaws including Bryan’s disputed judgment, and ponders who will inherit their legacies and leadership in American history.
The Monroe News-Star reprints a New Orleans Item column describing severe drought in Coldwater Mississippi with water shortages, stock losses, and failed pastures. It contrasts that hardship with Orleans and Louisiana farmers, who enjoy rain, crops, and plentiful water, and notes mosquitoes and late Thanksgiving.
A French philosopher urged that to be liked one should speak to please others in one’s company. He asserted this truth is known to all the world and forgotten by many, implying social virtue in communication.
The New York World notes growing use of proxy grooms for weddings in Mexico City. It questions the trend while acknowledging practical benefits, citing self-assured male movie stars as possible stand-ins for bridesgrooms who cannot attend in person.
An indignant correspondent argues against labeling a banjo concert low art. He notes crowds at fights and the folly of majority opinion. The piece laments education gaps and praises minority insight that raises taste and judgment.
The two story frame structure on DeSiard Street opposite the city cemetery, previously a wagon factory and later a storehouse, was leveled by fire at 3:30 this morning. Owner George G. Weaks insured for 1,000. E. L. Webb insured losses minimal on three autos. C. E. Maroney faced losses over 500 with no insurance. Cumberland and Home telephone cables each suffered about 250 loss. Nearby building sustained scorch damage. The piece notes Monroe’s building boom in early 1910 with permits totaling 157,670 for the first six months, far above 1909’s 39,385, and lists several local residents visiting or traveling.
The piece discusses public objections to two dollar bills as unlucky and traces it to Spanish pirate superstition. It argues the government must print surplus one dollar notes costing a million dollars yearly, a burden on taxpayers, due to these beliefs.
Victor Berard, a noted French Homer authority, argues popularizing the Iliad and Odyssey via film. He envisions an original Mediterranean setting, contending Hollywood producers could be persuaded the Greek classics would be profitable if the project could capture the Mediterranean atmosphere.
Mrs Gouveneur Morris, wife of an American author, dressed as a toreador and entered the ring in Spain. She failed to kill the bull described as small, yet her act served as a dramatic protest against bullfighting and Spain's picturesqueness.
Senator Hiram W Johnson, renowned for his political battles, completed a 5,000 mile yacht voyage from Key West to San Francisco with his son and daughter-in-law. He dreams of Pacific crossings while maintaining a Calvert mansion life near Washington with family presence and a love of dogs and baseball.
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