25 Mar 1913
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1913
Page
1
In a period where Americans broadly oppose dollar diplomacy, public sentiment shows strong resistance to promoting economic influence abroad. The piece highlights wary attitudes toward international incentives tied to national interests.
The piece argues dollar diplomacy harmed U S standing and warns that ending it would push European lenders to deepen ties with Latin American republics. It critiques Taft era practices, reveals graft in loan negotiations, and notes Knox proposed foreign business strategies.
Unsettled conditions bring rain tonight or Wednesday. Cooler air moves in by Wednesday with lower temperatures and lingering clouds.
The article argues that American mistrust of the big financial houses undermines dollar diplomacy. It notes Morgan Aldrich and Rockefeller branding as thistles, explains the lack of U S branch banks in Latin America harms trade, and urges a banking reform with trusted foreign distribution of bonds. It contrasts German government promotion with American individualism.
The Monroe Louisiana and Gulf Railway Company charter is filed with the clerk. Capital stock set at 1,000,000 dollars, domicile in Monroe, officers J M Parker president T J Shelton vice president Percy Sandel secretary and treasurer, directors include J L Thomas and W B Clarke. Plan to build from Monroe southwest to Winnfield with New Orleans connections and seek a river bridge bonus from Monroe and West Monroe.
State Superintendent D. T. Brown of the American Sunday School Union spends two days in Monroe promoting Sunday School work. He notes the union’s regional mission has organized 102 Sunday Schools in eleven months with 433 teachers and 3572 scholars, aiding 27 more schools and logging 5258 family visits, 1060 sermons, 1335 Bibles, and 6096 conversions.
Judge Mangham presided at a busy city court session disposing fourteen cases and postponing four to the afternoon. Seven of the offenders were negro women cited under thevagrancy law.
Columbus reports floodwaters from three days of heavy rain sweeping Ohio. Major cities including Dayton Columbus Delaware Findlay Akron Mansfield and Cleveland suffer widespread damage with dozens of drownings and thousands displaced. Levees breached and trains halted as Governor Cox mobilizes National Guard to patrol flooded districts.
Information from the State Capital reports forty people drowned in the Dayton flood. The news item notes a major railroad bridge ordered blown up amid the rising waters. Further details are sparse in the available text.
Columbus reports Delaware a town of ten thousand inhabitants twenty five miles north suffered a levee break flooding the area. Mayor Lea and twenty citizens drowned. Wire communication failed and efforts to learn details were futile. An appeal for help came to Mayor Karb of Columbus.
Akron residents flee as the big State reservoir south of the city fails after heavy rains. Water from Long Lake swells toward levees, threatening to flood Akron's business district if the levees give way. Horsemen carry word to nearby sections.
A major cloudburst floods Middletown Ohio causing evacuations as the great Miami River dam breaches. Rail lines are submerged and about 200 homes are flooded with a six foot wall of water reported en route from Dayton.
Flood conditions across Indiana are the worst in thirty years with an estimated fifteen hundred families left homeless. Four deaths by drowning are reported and several remain missing as the White River levee in Broad Ripple, a suburb of Indianapolis, broke and drove three hundred families from their homes. Only rooftops of some houses remain visible in the suburbs.
New Orleans dispatch reports a new high wind storm centered over the Rio Grande Valley set to sweep the Texas and Louisiana coasts tonight with no damage yet from the prior night’s winds.
Reports from Phoneton to Cincinnati describe Dayton flooded with seven feet on main street and fourteen feet in nearby regions as the Miami river breaches levees. The Larami reservoir failure worsens conditions while Indianapolis notes loss of power and fire protection. A Western Union operator reports looting and refugees fleeing Dayton, with casualties feared as chaos spreads. A separate Big Four train wreck near St Paul due to a washout adds to a day of widespread disaster.
A Pennsylvania wrecking train en route to West Liberty fell through a washed out bridge into a creek near Urbana Ohio. The crew numbered thirteen. no one was killed in the passenger wreck though a Pullman car and the engine went into the creek.
A new Mississippi River rise hits New Orleans as Memphis reports a three foot increase in the last twenty four hours. Officials warn of rising water levels and possible flood impacts along the river.
Omaha reports a deadly storm with hundreds in wrecked homes seeking dead and injured. More than 150 killed in Omaha and over fifty in nearby towns. Snow exceeds three inches and the blizzard rages as relief funds reach over fifty thousand dollars raised locally.
Sixteen more bodies were recovered from the negro pool room making 31 dead from the same building after the twister wrecked it and fire cremated the victims. A further sixteen bodies were recovered from the nearby Diamond Moving Picture Theatre.
A cyclone struck Clarksville Arkansas early today. Several houses were blown down and Miss Ida Brazelle was killed in the destruction.
A message from Leslie Arkansas says a tornado near there last night killed eight to ten people and caused extensive property damage over sixty miles north of Little Rock.
Fifteen people were killed when a tornado struck Makanda Illinois about one hundred miles south of here last night. The storm damaged the town and surrounding area.
Governor Hall is alleged to favor a compromise in the Tensas land fraud case as investigations continue. The dispute centers on land transactions and alleged misappropriation with political considerations amid state scrutiny.
New Orleans March 25 The Daily States reports the Tensas Levee Board backed by Governor Hall pressed for a possible out of court settlement with Henry Bernstein and Edgar H Farrar for the Tensas Delta Land Company case. Attorney General Pleasant refused to join any compromise talks, stalling progress as board members and lawyers weighed differing settlement figures centered around about 50 to 60 thousand dollars versus a board demand of 100 thousand.
An unsuccessful attempt was made Sunday night to rob the Bradley Gun and Hardware Company on DeSiard Street. A hole was burned in the rear door near the lock, but the would-be thieves were frightened away before they could proceed.
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