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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1916
Page
4
A grand dinner for over 150 attendees, including many Monroe visitors, showcased a farm produced meal that impressed attendees and prompted The News-Star to commend the event as a model of farm life preparedness and social interchange. It urged united parish support to spread the concept and foster harmony between town and country.
General A. B. Booth asks the General Assembly to appropriate funds to complete and publish Louisiana Confederate veteran records. Booth cites extensive photographic copies, alphabetical parole and service rolls, and thousands of card records from Washington, arguing the work serves descendants and public libraries demand and justify continued support.
Progressive residents of Ouachita Parish Fourth Ward organized a community fair to unite neighbors and discuss farm issues. June events at Charleston Plantation fostered talks on farm credit roads dairying marketing schools and creamery plans amid the Good Roads tax momentum.
The Bethlehem Steel Company cites circulars to Congress members opposing a National Government armor plate plant. Chairman Schwab and President Grace argue production quality and price should be set by Navy needs and the FTC, asserting government control over armor plate and ore supply risks. They question spending $11,090,000 on a government plant and warn of wartime dependence on restricted regional sources.
The Manufacturers Record presses Bethlehem Steel on armor plate, iron and munition plants, arguing national welfare requires new plant locations not dependent on Lake Superior or foreign ore. It warns that current site choices risk a collapse of armor plate and munition production, urging government action to reassign plants to the Central South or Southwest.
A call across the South during April and May promotes community clean-up days to remove litter and restore farm and home appearances. The piece argues front lawns should be kept neat, woodpiles moved, junk removed, and grass planted, linking order to character and farm pride. It then shifts to a literary excerpt about Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, describing his travels, reputation, and studies, as a contrast to rural order.
A fragment from Washington Irving describes Greensburgh or Tarry Town on the Hudson near the Tappan Zee. It moves through a tranquil valley and includes a small brook and distant quail whistles, painting a peaceful rural riverside scene.
A compact list traces historic dates such as James the Third of Scotland executed in 1488, John Winthrop arriving in Massachusetts in 1630, New York City’s incorporation in 1665, and fires in St. John’s Newfoundland in 1846. Other entries note Iowa territory creation in 1835, Louis XIV crossing the Rhine in 1672, Ghent taken in 1745, and William Cullen Bryant’s death in 1778.
On June 12 1851 Penhall England born Sir Oliver Lodge world renowned physicist philosopher and author turns 65 He led British psychical research and edited several occult works including The Substance of Faith The Survival of Man and Reason and Belief He studied at University of London and chaired the University of Birmingham since 1900 Knighted in 1902 for services to science other notable figures marked birthdays today include Laurits Selmer Swenson Sydney A Fisher Victor D Brenner Harry Johnston James H Brady and Winthrop E Stone with varied careers in diplomacy exploration agriculture and education.
Multiple probate and sale notices from Ouachita Parish Sixth District Court dated June 1916. Creditors urged to show cause within ten days why final accounts by Frank F Robbing and John W Doyle should be approved. Writs and sheriff sale list describe land parcels in section nine township seventeen north range three east totaling 223 acres to be sold for cash.
A feature of the post office and customs house at Newbern North Carolina is a clock with a revolvable dial on each of the four sides of the building’s tower. Instead of numerals the faces are studded with opalescent globes that are electrically lit at night. The dials are rotated to show time.
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