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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1925
Page
4
John P. Medbury humor column jokes about moths dining on summer wardrobes. He mocks the idea of banning moths with aids like moth balls and camphor while suggesting taking clothes on summer trips to keep them away from moths. The piece uses playful comparisons and sarcasm to lampoon anti moth campaigns.
Miss Anna A. Gordon longtime leader of the American temperance movement will open the World's WCTU convention in Edinburgh today. A Massachusetts native now living in Evanston Illinois she studied at Mt Holyoke College and served 21 years as private secretary to Frances E Willard. She has led the National WCTU for over a decade and traveled the world as a WCTU official and prolific author and press contributor.
Sir Adam Beck born Baden Ontario 68 years ago today. George L. Olvany born New York City 49 years ago today. Henry L. Mab Governor of Mississippi born Ran Miss 57 years ago. JY Finley B. Shepard and others noted in scattered lines.
The Couch interests merge with mid-South power operators to link systems in three states. Secretary Hoover defends consolidation, arguing centralization lowers costs, improves reliability, and enables wider electricity use while noting strong regulation and public scrutiny. The piece cites North Louisiana’s power system growth as proof mergers aid progress.
A police court sentence for drunk driving is praised as a warning to readers. The article argues Volstead enforcement is unrelated and predicts harsher penalties and stricter safeguards as traffic rises after prohibition.
A Chicago dispatch cites Bishop E H Hughes arguing against the notion of an idle Heaven. He asserts there is no Biblical warrant for resting the entire eternity and that life requires active engagement and intellectual effort beyond brief peace. He contends ultimate happiness includes continual activity and moral struggle rather than perpetual stillness.
Brand Lessing argues efficiency is misdefined as money making. He cites engineers, bricklayers, lawyers, physicians and teachers, noting most pursue profit rather than mastery. A few pursue excellence for its own sake, but they are scarce.
In Monroe on Walnut street the Monroe Grocer Company commissioned a seven-car cold storage plant with seven compartments, cork lined walls, concrete floors, and 33 degree cooling. Arkansas Louisiana and Gulf railroad and Rock Island line plan two library-bouffet cars for Through Trains Monroe to Little Rock, starting about July 1. Rev William Mercer Green of All Saints College Vicksburg will officiate Grace church services tomorrow. Carson travels to Vicksburg to preach tomorrow and attend the archdeaconry convocation at Mansfield next week.
A reader seeks help solving a cross word puzzle with a long list of horizontal and vertical clues. The clues cover membranes of a duck foot pronouns topographical engineer Latin and Persian myth terms and many abbreviations and place names.
Mr. W. R. Chastain made a business trip to Minden yesterday. Mr. J. A. Peek of Ouachita was a business visitor in Monroe yesterday. Mr. T. B. Millsaps returned from Arkansas. Mr. M. M. McLeod of Ruston was in Monroe on business yesterday. A Brooklyn parade of 100000 Sunday school children drew attention to church involvement.
The article notes Mrs. Coolidge may spend up to 50 000 on White House housekeeping amid high cleaning costs. It mentions the hot spell and 250 000 New Yorkers parked overnight, suggesting air quality and Central Park tree deaths. It also cites a 500 000 fund aimed at preserving Monticello as a national monument, nearing its first 100 000 milestone.
The article argues that idle life brings no peace or happiness and fails to exercise faculties or aid others. It cites Bishop Hugues as presenting a logical and convincing critique of laziness.
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