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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1925
Page
4
A 1925 King Features piece by John P. Medbury lampoons New York supper clubs. It paints crowded dance floors, crushable crowds, steep menus, and high bills. It jokes that riding the elevated line offers more space and cheaper thrills.
The Day's News records Vincent d Indy entering his seventy fifth year as a leading French composer. Born March 27 1851 he pursued law before turning to music studying with Cesar Franck and Liszt. He served as a volunteer in the Franco Prussian War and later conducted in Paris and America, achieving recognition with early orchestral and stage works.
A brief item notes a nun in Oklahoma spent 1000 dollars a year ago and nominated Warren G Harding for political office. The entry preserves minimal names and a single event with date context.
Secretary Weeks praises military colleges as free from unsound ideas while acknowledging colleges foster active minds. He notes both paths shape graduates differently and argues students must choose between the military and civilian college training.
Richland Parish Truck Growers Association members celebrate a successful radish season for northern markets and plan to repeat the program next year. They urge coordinated cropping for bulk shipments and see potential for other crops to boost profits in southern regions.
In a monthly feature Jolson, born in St Petersburg, Russia, recounts a South trip and a Palm Beach visit. He denounces Southern customs and questions his own past perceptions, concluding with sharp sarcasm about New York loyalty and musical limits.
A Chicago court ruling argues that gun play in films harms viewers and should stop. The decision cites The Deadwood Coach and notes the Appellate Court’s view that violent on screen acts can constitute immorality and incite real crime, challenging dramatic depictions across media.
An elephant’s slip on ice is treated as comic yet fearsome, highlighting power and clumsy, infantile helplessness. The scene suggests a humorous, exaggerated danger that surrounds the beast more than danger to onlookers.
The article discusses Dr Ira Wile and his views on childhood, education, and delinquency. It emphasizes the link between physical defects and moral behavior and notes the case discussion method used in his book The Challenge of Childhood. It argues for prevention, environment, and adapting education to the child’s natural bent.
The Napoleon avenue Presbyterian church in New Orleans extended a unanimous call to Rev. Geo. D. Booth of Monroe First Presbyterian. The grand jury reconvened after adjournment and a sensational Lyceum theatre act marveled the crowd. Two cottages on Seventh street burned, Sig Masur owners. loss about $800 insured.
Report recounts Chester an elephant two and a half tons becoming stranded on railroad tracks in Salem Massachusetts after slipping on ice. Trains paused on both sides as passengers passed by while the animal remained until ready to move, drawing ridicule from onlookers. A tale notes curiosity about the color of its breath amid public scrutiny and a whimsical remark about a hat in that color.
A large block of crossword style clues lists numerous across and down hints. The items cover common words, abbreviations, and generic terms for operations, objects, and attributes used in solving puzzles.
A scrambled timeline mentions Texans captured by the Mexicans sent to Goliad and Santa Anna, Burnside leading the Department of the Ohio from Cincinnati, Kansas City’s first street railway franchise, Tillman’s gubernatorial nomination in South Carolina, a 1916 French troop transport loss near Salonika, a 1917 British Palestine clash near Gaza, and Gerald Chapman the Atlanta prison escapee.
The article compares vitamins to spark plugs, essential for activation of nourishment. It states the body requires about three thousand calories daily, but without vitamins the body cannot thrive in health or strength.
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