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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1926
Page
2
The notice provides Associated Press branding and distribution notes, agency contacts, regional offices, and subscription rates. It lists weekly and monthly mail rates, regional pricing for Louisiana and Mississippi, and states payment in advance. It also includes telephone contacts for business and editorial offices.
The article urges a large turnout for tonight's Flag Day services at the Elks Club to honor the nation. It emphasizes citizens’ duty to show respect and pledge a brief moment of time to revive American traditions and loyalty embodied by the flag.
A review of H S Jennings’s Prometheus of Biology and the Advancement of Man argues heredity and environment do not solely shape individuals. Experiments with fruit flies show traits shifting with conditions, suggesting heredity provides material that under certain environments yields different characteristics. The piece praises a more nuanced view aligned with recent biological findings.
This piece lauds local business firms for supporting the Chamber of Commerce and promoting a home trade policy. It urges continued loyalty between merchants and the public, noting firms’ contributions to community progress and urging collective cooperation.
A humorous piece on amnesia describing its effects in daily life with multiple anecdotes about forgetfulness. The essay jokes about forgetting names phones groceries and even marriage ties, noting memory lapses in ordinary settings from the butcher shop to the church.
A chronicle of dates marking anniversaries with events in American history and notable births. Entries include the 1777 flag adoption, 1782 Savannah evacuation orders, 1846 death of Henry Middleton, 1855 birth of Robert La Follette, 4988 Eugene Casserly, and other early 19th century figures with birthplaces and death years.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference an assassination and the Macedonian context with vague timing and entities. No clear date or names are readable.
The News-Star backs Senator T L Hood of Ouachita parish as he urges fair financing for lake projects. It argues New Orleans should bear the tax load for bridges and scenic highways, protecting parishes outside the city from overpayment. Hood earns commendation for clarifying the taxation issue amid legislative wrangles.
A World War era epidemic caused far more deaths than war or famine, with 46 million lost to disease since 1914 and millions more in India Africa and Britain. The Red Cross official notes epidemics devastate populations, exposing weak defenses despite modern medicine. Soviet Russia accounts for many famine deaths in the era.
A man in Ward One, Kaliski Brantley, killed his sister Emma Brantley after a quarrel at his home and was jailed. The piece also notes river water decline prompting plans for an underground drainage canal from the river to Calypso Street, plus visits by Missouri Pacific leaders and Camden figures, and mentions two Monroe graduates among four Louisiana Annapolis entrants.
Senator Borah argues the public may push for repeal of the eighteenth amendment yet cannot legally nullify it by daily disobedience. He contends the people have a political right to repeal but not to ignore the law in practice.
Long Island report details a speeding driver forcing Robert Bertschy off the road. Bertschy tried for three hours to get a passing motorist to stop and help lift the car from his wife pinned beneath the wreck. No one stopped amid fears of a hold-up, and the wife died.
Summer is likely to be warm and many children may fall ill or die without care. Summer complaint or intestinal infection causes high infant mortality. bacteria, notably streptococcus, invade via infected food especially milk. Pasteurization of milk became common and widely promoted.
The article urges pasteurizing or boiling milk to prevent summer diarrhoea and tuberculosis in children. It warns of contamination from flies and household factors, stresses testing cows for bovine TB, and cautions against diphtheria and scarlet fever transmission through milk. It concludes with a warning not to neglect details in daily life.
An advertisement urges readers to use McCoy’s Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets to gain five pounds of healthy flesh in 30 days. It promises quick weight gain for men women and children and offers a refund if goals are not met.
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