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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1910
Page
4
Opinion piece extols Monroe free salt water Natatorium in Forsythe Park as a civic triumph. It highlights attendance figures on weekend travel by streetcar, municipal ownership of utilities, and plans to enlarge the pool and offer band concerts. It urges continued progress to make Monroe a model city.
A Natchitoches Times reflection notes that every boy can become a gentleman through trustworthiness, honesty, and daily effort. It stresses that fun has value but character forms a solid foundation built on reverence for God, obedience to parents, and respect for elders.
A Louisiana movement seeks to relocate the Southern University for negroes from New Orleans to Alexandria. The News-Star endorses the shift and urges efficient use of a yearly 10 000 state appropriation to fund an industrial education for negros rather than coeducating in New Orleans. It argues most students come from Orleans parish and claims limited job prospects for graduates, urging the focus on industrial training instead of higher education.
An article advocates relocating the University from New Orleans to Alexandria to better educate African Americans in practical trades. It endorses Prof. J. B. Lafargue as a model for correct views on black education and urges more from the race to pursue such educational progress.
A reprint from the Progressive Farmer and Gazette urges South region farmers and youths to seize rising opportunities in crops livestock and soil. It highlights potential values, such as $100 per acre land worth in years, big corn crops, two bales per acre cotton, and hogs sold above cost. It cautions that those who neglect farming education and effort cede gains to others and calls for immediate action to improve farming practices, stock, seeds, and soil fertility.
A Pittsburg warehouse nearing completion follows a larger facility at Waverly New Jersey and other depots are planned near St. Louis and New Orleans. The plan aims to corner the iron and steel jobbing market by selling Steel Corporation products wholesale.
The United States and Mexico discuss a treaty to register all aeroplanes and airships like ships and cars. It aims to curb unlicensed traders viewed as smugglers and pirates and is to be sent to the Senate for ratification before Congress adjourns.
A Cosmopolitan Magazine anecdote recalls two men at a deaf and dumb asylum dance. One uses finger signaling to ask a girl to dance, she agrees, then quips that she has the dance with the dummy. A Success Magazine reflection notes human self deception and the idea that a ship comes in only after it is sent out.
D C Hill challenges a local colored group to cite legal authority for a June emancipation celebration. He notes Lincoln’s January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed over four million enslaved people and asks for an official date besides January 1, 1863. He seeks documentary support for any June observance.
Banks in Monroe will close tomorrow due to a legal holiday. Institutions include Ouachita National Bank Central Savings Bank & Trust Co Union Bank & Trust Co and Bank of Monroe.
Richland parish resident T. H. McGregor enters the race for Congress in Louisiana's Fifth District. He seeks the Democratic nomination, pending primary action.
Joseph E. Ransdell of East Carroll seeks re election to Congress in the Fifth Congressional District subject to Democratic primary action.
Ford Levi Stationery Co Ltd offers office supplies book cases filing cabinets loose leaf ledger outfits and typewriter ribbons. Includes duplicating supplies adding machine rolls carbon paper and any up to date office necessities.
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