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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1927
Page
4
The News-Star urges a robust clean up plan to improve the colored section and vacant lots in Monroe. It praises the city’s parks and river parkway proposal by Mayor Bernstein as essential to civic beauty and long term worth.
Experts expose high pressure publicity agents using free advertising schemes to push client stories. A flood control conference sheet teased flood content but promoted a Mississippi boat race and a trade name. Newspapers fight back to protect the public and legitimate advertisers and curb fraud.
Indications show Louisiana tobacco tax collections for the first year in force will reach 1.5 million dollars with annual receipts near 2 million thereafter. The levy is praised for funding uniform education and weathering hardships, with parallels drawn to gasoline taxes and the user-pay principle embraced by other states.
Monroe disclaims a Shreveport newspaper claim that the Spirit of St. Louis and the Bellanca Columbia were developed at Smootfield to Monroe. The article asserts Louisiana leads in the emcee of the two flights, but the Monroe note says none of the stated facts are true.
Professor Samuel J Record notes the confusion of terms across languages and professions. He argues that words fail to convey meaning without shared intent and suggests speaking with the heart to bridge gaps in understanding.
Proceedings summarized before Judge Hughes show opponents arguing the canal lowers Great Lakes levels and helps cause Mississippi flood damage. Experts note multiple factors besides the canal, which is said to contribute only four to five inches of level decline. Defenders cite federal policy encouraging the Lakes to Gulf waterway and a long history of canal development.
A humorous social welfare sketch notes three million American families facing hunger. It parodies poverty with a talking wolf visiting poor homes, joking about dog biscuits, lent, taxidermy, hot dogs, and the lack of wolves to share among the poor.
Robert Elliott Speer, a Pennsylvanian educated at Princeton and Princeton Theological Seminary, is appointed moderator of the Northern Presbyterian General Assembly. Though he has not served as a pastor, his reputation rests on administrative work for foreign missionary interests and his eloquence as a speaker and author. He has led youth propaganda initiatives in Protestant Christianity abroad and worked with the student volunteer movement and Northfield conferences.
Dr. C. C. Owen explains x ray basics and medical uses from shadow images to detecting fractures and hidden infections. The piece also lists local social updates with Miss Daisy Strong and several residents planning visits and moves.
Mrs J W Elder hosts sister Mrs Cecil Thurman of Ruston. R A Moore travels from Wardville for a weekend with family. Z L Everett visits Ruston for a week. Mrs Art Nichola leaves for Springfield Missouri to visit Nichols relatives. G W Emery of Grayling Lumber visits Calhoun relatives. Mrs G W Copeland and Miss Zadie Copeland go to Euston to visit relatives. Mrs W E Howell and child depart for Winnfield on a ten day visit. Anna Sutcliff of West Side ill but improving. Kirkpatrick of Ouachita visits W A Kirkpatrick on West Side. Mrs Clark Faulk leaves early.
A mosaic of quotes and allusions laments truthfulness and faithfulness across history. It weaves Greek and Dante phrases with Shakespeare and King Edward I, linking honest conduct to universal duty and warning against betrayal as a social vice.
Physicians endorse Calotabs as a weekly purge to cleanse the whole system. The ad claims purifying the body restores vitality and health, offering a family package with directions for 35 cents at drug stores.
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