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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1920
Page
6
The marriage of Edward Fitzgerald famed for translating Omar Khayyam is described as unromantic yet chivalrous. It occurred in November 1856 when he was forty seven. It followed Farnard Barton’s death in 1849 who commended the match.
The piece recounts the marriage of poet Fitzgerald to Lucy Barton a Quaker spinster after her father's death. Their union failed to harmonize as Fitzgerald remained reclusive and sociable but uninterested in conventional life. He moved to Little Grange in 1874 and spent years boating and gardening until his death on June 14 1883.
Mrs J B Gadd of Hixson Tennessee recounts relief from left side pain after using Cardui. She credits the tonic with long lasting improvement and urges other women to try it, noting common signs of womanly trouble and the product’s wide past use.
John Blake argues that dissecting a brain reveals little about thought, while studying living exemplars shows how minds are built. He cites Darwin versus Edison, Marconi, Barrie, and Lloyd George to illustrate that reading, associations, and intellectual effort shape extraordinary brains.
Des Moines welcomes thousands of delegates to the General Federation of Women's Clubs biennial convention. Delegates arrive daily and register at convention headquarters as officers and prominent speakers join the program for a week of papers and addresses. The host city emphasizes a highly organized, elaborate event with a top slate of topics.
At a Trenton tea Governor Edwards argues the Anti Saloon League will learn that banning alcohol drives people toward drugs. He cites teetotal premises implying any deprivation fuels heroin cocaine opium use as a danger of darker vice.
Washington reports May cotton consumption reached 541 080 bales of lint and 31 032 bales of linters per the census bureau.
One year ago today Capt. Alcock and Lieut Browne completed a Newfoundland to Ireland transatlantic flight, marking a historic early aviation milestone.
A bright meteor lit the sky and struck within 200 yards of a car carrying Joe H. Craig and his wife as they drove west of the city. Professor D. Smith of Muskogee explains such fragments originate from a destroyed planet between Jupiter and Mars and burn up on entry. Tulsa Shawnee Bartlesville Oklo and Fort Smith Ark also reported sightings.
The City Marshal of Monroe Louisiana will sell a Buick six cylinder Model C 55 car number 129186 at the Monroe Auto Repair Garage on Hall Street between Wood and Oak on June 26 1920 between legal hours. Proceeds go to satisfy the writ of fi fa and costs with cash terms and appraisal benefit.
A bright meteor fell in a field one mile west of Okmulgee Oklahoma last night after a nearly minute long skyborne trajectory watched by hundreds. Roads to the crash site were crowded with automobiles as the blazing object remained in sight.
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