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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1910
Page
4
A special Dayton News edition marked its 102nd birthday with a 210 page issue weighing 3.5 pounds, showcasing Dayton buildings and scenes. The sample highlights the paper’s enterprise and optimism for the region. It also notes broader social views on crime and selfishness as societal issues and remedies.
The article extols a looming canal revolution linking Atlantic and Pacific routes within years. It cites massive earthworks at the Culebra cut, expanded excavations to 104 million and nearly 80 million more cubic yards, and vast locks and Gatun dam enabling ships to rise eighty five feet.
The St Louis Post-Dispatch argues for a radical public cleansing of national life and assigns Congress to the Democratic party. It lists alleged GOP misdeeds including sugar frauds Panama press suppression tariff abuses and imperial costs while warning Democrats to fulfill the fumigation contract if elected.
The Panama Canal is hailed as a monumental achievement carved by US effort with the Culebra cut and Pedro Miguel and Miraflores locks enabling ships to reach a sea level lake. It is praised as a feat of endurance and engineering surpassing natural upheavals, a testament to national prowess and indomitable courage.
Louisiana papers merge to form larger consolidated titles, including Minden Democrat and Webster Signal into The Signal-Democrat under J. P. Kent. Other cities like Monroe Lake Charles and Donaldsonville follow, with claims of improved papers and benefits to readers and advertisers.
Washington June 27 Hon Joseph E Ransdell of Louisiana gains a pamphlet edition of his Congressional speech On to Dixie The appendix by Ed wards and other sources argues Southern progress over fifty years with figures on petroleum output lumber and education and shows rising Southern commerce from 1899 to 1909 urging national readers to study the Souths role in national strength
Delegates from nearly all the middle and western states attend a three day session that opened in Peoria Illinois for the annual convention of the Association of Grain Insurance Companies of the United States.
The announcement states T. H. McGREGOR of Richland parish as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Fifth District, subject to primary action.
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