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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1928
Page
3
The article notes LSU will emphasize marketing for agriculture, guiding students and extension agents toward selling crops with demand. It argues schools statewide, especially rural high schools, should offer farm marketing courses to raise efficiency and help farmers get better prices.
The article argues Andrew Mellon from Pennsylvania influences the Republican nomination, defining him as a Fat Cat who uses wealth to mold politics. It claims Mellon's endorsement favors Hoover and preserves top power in the East, shaping the party's path toward the November election.
Hazy theories discuss natural gas supply as a driver of industrial development. The text notes North Louisiana learning by experience that gas is relatively insignificant as a raw material factor. It mentions a Saharan gas field as valueless and hints at regional figures like Richland parish and daily gas output estimates.
Radio listings show programs across major stations including WJIZ KDKA KYW WEAF WRC WGY and more. The lineup features vocal programs, vibraphone performances, orchestras, popular and semi classic numbers, and evening dance music across multiple time slots.
The piece denounces industrial ageism and pension requirements that bar older workers, citing a 79-year-old parolee unable to find work and a 70-year-old Bowery man. It argues society must underwrite old age and provide security for life’s extremities, criticizing moralizing about unemployment.
The piece contrasts dynamic and static forces in physics with human minds in business and life. It argues dynamic types drive action while static types provide judgment and resistance, shaping careers, crises, and even family dynamics across history. It notes education should follow divergent paths, with imagination for dynamic minds and knowledge for static minds.
The Cabin Reports use a playful analogy to describe the legislative hopper where bills are placed for processing. The piece likens it to a cement mixer with claws, noting it sits below the speaker’s desk and consumes bills without debate, while lawmakers gesture and speak before tossing measures in. It closes with political forecasts about Dawes and Hoover nominations.
A medical piece notes that nearly 7000 pounds in Chicago indicate heart disease as a leading death cause and chronic myocarditis. It cites age, infections, overeating, and lack of exercise as risk factors, explains how left heart failure leads to lung congestion, then edema in the abdomen liver kidneys and legs, and suggests rest diet restriction and heart tonics as relief with periodic exams to prevent trouble.
Miss Emma Oswalt traveled to Boulder Colorado for the summer. Miss Viola Simpson of Texarkana visits Cliss Lattie Williams at Logtown. Miss Eastley of Alexandria stays with sister Mrs J L Adams. Mrs Maggie Richardson heads to Ruston for a summer normal. Mrs Sublett of Yazoo City visits Mrs W N Potts. Mrs Joe Littlepage of Basco visits her parents. Olivette Broadway plans a Mansfield visit to Miss Eva Bradford. Mrs J H Ingram returns from Houston. Miss Mamie Dell McWilliams returns from Delhi. Mr J Hirsch visits with Mrs Hirsch and Dr I Hirsch family this weekend.
H B Thompson was fined five dollars for drunk and disorderly conduct. Mrs Y B Gates H C Outman J E Pope and John F Kelly were fined one dollar each for parking over time.
The article argues that industrial profit in the gas field region depends on raw materials rather than fuel. It contends outsiders misread the area’s growth, noting industries were drawn by raw materials. It cautions lawmakers about injustices from proposed severance and occupational taxes in the Louisiana legislature.
Citizens of Brule Wisconsin prepare for President Coolidge to spend his vacation among them. The piece argues the American creed treats all men as equal and suggests letting the president behave as an ordinary citizen during holidays. It voices a provocative call for informal democracy and hints at anarchist sentiment within the party.
The Department of Commerce reports Iceland seeks American radio sets phonographs and musical instruments Columbia cement rice and barbed wire Mexico incubators hospital beds and sewing machines Germany magazines tobacco and hand driers Nova Scotia fire brick wagons and washing machines signaling strong foreign interest in U S products.
The piece argues that all citizens deserve respect equal to the President and urges improving community surroundings to reflect that equality. It warns anarchistic extremes and stresses elevating culture and respectability at the local level to make America a paradise for the average man.
Mrs C Sevier of Belzona Mississippi and Mrs Watts of Selma hosted by Mrs H P DePriest in Rochelle. Several residents visited Alexandria and Jackson for summer plans and family time. Attendees included Misses Charles Turbow Meeks and Roberta Jackson at a Selma play, and multiple couples visiting relatives in Shreveport Pollock Oakdale and other nearby towns.
Thirty business and professional women in Ruston heard Miss Gertrude Dillenberger of the state federation in Shreveport and Miss Ruth Rich of the national federation discuss gains women have through cooperation. Harmonica Harmony by Associated Press. Tulsa report notes eighteen children at a nearby rural school forming a harmonica band.
A dense listing of radio stations across the nation with call letters and program blocks. It covers Chicago Cleveland New York Dallas Portland and more detailing Republican Convention coverage and musical programs through afternoon to late evening hours.
A compact humor column by John P. Medbury features quips on aviators and the Atlantic, a window loving wife, paint the town red with water colors, and playful lines about efficiency experts and vaudeville. It closes with a Xylin? fable-style joke and a 1926 King Features Syndicate copyright note.
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