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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1911
Page
4
Public health note urges sweeping fly control by locating roosts and eliminating filth. Emphasizes cleanliness, window screening, and prompt disposal of refuse to stop fly propagation. Recommends lime and oil deterrents and basting flies to end their career of danger.
The Meridian Dispatch notes Tom Tynan argues released prisoners deserve financial support on discharge. George Creel, in Success Magazine, quotes Sim urging a daily salary for the last sixty days of sentence to ease reintegration and prevent relapse. The piece notes growing humane treatment of inmates and calls for opportunities for ex-prisoners.
The article extols the ceaseless labor behind a real daily newspaper, noting reporters and staff must be constantly on duty. It emphasizes constant readiness to pursue any possible news item and manage countless detailed tasks.
The article describes the newspaper business as a cross section of society, with editors reporters and printers each bearing hard duties. It notes the need to select and shape news, maintain accuracy, and keep the cycle moving from edition to edition despite constant heartaches and financial pressures.
The piece riffs on Mother Goose verses and stray news notes from Chicago Tribune columns. It questions newsroom shifts from big fights to local intrigue and mentions a racial tension tale involving Masonry in Conway Arkansas and Ruston.
The Chicago Tribune notes a wooden horse scene as a conservation error and reports on Miss Grimm a suffragette from Illinois. It also covers a Lansing church riot involving pepper and a shotgun between Congregationalists and Latter Day Saints and a dispute over the word applause in a Fowler Illinois speech.
The Good Government League of the state selected Judge Luther E. Hall of Ouachita for governor and Henri L. Gueydan for lieutenant governor at its New Orleans convention. Iberia parish delegates attended Loreauville meeting. John T. Michel is the most popular Iberia candidate for governor, with Aswell gaining early support and possibly challenging Hall later.
The News-Star condemns the Goo Goog method to solicit signatures for a petition pledging support to unknown candidates. It likens the tactic to buying a pig in a poke and defends signing petitions only when objects are clear. The paper notes Albert Baldwin's political ties and contrasts his stance with John M.'s party jumping.
A humorous exchange jokes about choosing a name Maurice Updyke Throgson and the playful response of M. 2.3. The excerpt also notes John D. Rockefeller drilling wells deep for oil, selling refined product at ten cents per gallon, and mineral water bottlers charging forty to sixty cents per gallon, with a stray aside about a discussion of a different fellow.
Mrs LeBurtis will be at home to her numerous friends after the honeymoon at the corner of Dundas and Oxford streets Woodstock Ontario as reported by the Woodstock Sentinel.
Field recalls Thackeray’s lively first American lecture tour. The London Chronicle notes his success with packed halls and his flamboyant antics as he rode to the venue with uproarious shouting and a theatrical carriage display for eager ticket holders.
The Louisiana press faces upheaval as former Louisi ana Press Association president J. Lacey of Point Coupee enters the race for the legislature. Ex-president Charley Schwing is already in law and politics, raising questions about the fate of former leaders.
After a rain the Walnut street stretch from the W S and P passenger depot to DeSiard street becomes a lake. Property owners have laid down proper banquetts. others should follow. The vacant lot by the News Star office between Walnut and Second Street is an eyesore inviting mosquitoes and malaria.
A Boston judge declares it lawful for a man to get drunk on his birthday. The remark leads to amused comments about monthly celebrations. A Monroe grocer advertises fresh items but notes clerks are missing. In Wheeling West Virginia robbers are implied to be desperate. A church treasurer loses the Sunday collection while counting funds in the pastor’s study. The robber’s ease contrasts with the church’s usual average take.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, a leading figure at the Imperial Conference and coronation events, sailed home on the Empress of Ireland. He leaves Ottawa preparation for parliament reassembly, forfeiting much of the Colonial premiers’ entertainment.
A brief notice notes a boiling works operation in the Ouachita Valley area, mentioning a product labeled sweet cream and a quantity described as 20 tf. The unclear OCR fragment implies a small industrial entry or advertisement.
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