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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1925
Page
4
A 1925 King Features humor piece lampoons fur rugs as fashion, noting absurd scenes with polar bears and leopard skins. The columnist cites domestic chaos from bear rugs in homes, peddling jokes about hunters, collectors, and theatrically angry pets.
Lord Devonport steps down as chairman of the Port of London Authority after sixteen years in the post. A self made businessman and former MP, he built a grocery empire, became a baronet and later a peer, and served in Lloyd George’s Coalition Ministry as Food Controller. He is noted for firm stances against trades unions in key disputes.
Today's list honors prominent individuals born on this date. Crown Prince Christian of Denmark is 26, Franklin S. Billings governor of Vermont is 63, Dr Robert J. Aley Bauer College president is 62, Frank Schlesinger Yale Observatory director is 54, and Bishop James Dickey of the M E Church South is 61, with birthplaces noted.
A fragment from a local page mentions Dalal RUS and a contact at 208 So Grand, with a telephone listing 772 and a cryptic note "-25t" suggesting a partial internal code or time reference.
The piece contrasts postwar German mood with Allied aims, arguing Germans favored Germanism and the old order. It notes Hindenburg’s plurality undercut by a majority against him, and ponders whether the new Germany will outgrow the old or vice versa.
Readers glance back fifteen years to a Monroe area column filled with early 20th century items. It imagines future front page stories such as planed flights while intoxicated fines, a Berlin symphony relay, cigarette arrests at a dance, five story street restrictions near Five Points, and a Ruston farmer with a modern power plant and milking system.
The News-Star argues signs pasted on parked cars violate owners rights and should be curbed by a Monroe ordinance. It cites New Orleans penalties for tampering with parked vehicles and urges early passage to stop windshield and window placards without owner consent.
The article compares Henrik Ibsen’s tragic comic figure Ulrick Brendel with the common failure to start great work. It cites Tennyson, Cervantes, Sinclair Lewis, and Thomas Edison to urge immediate action over deferred aspirations. The message emphasizes seizing the present hour to begin and sustain efforts despite small daily gains.
In the Ouachita valley crop prospects are the worst on record after an early spring, followed by a damaging cold snap that killed growing corn and cotton. No rainfall for three months worsens moisture for replanted crops. Local death notes include M. V. Vaughn expected to reach eighty, survived by a wife and six children. Rev. W. L. Morrow arrives in Monroe for Christian church revival, aiming to rekindle pastoral interest. A youth outing for Mrs. A. J. Herring’s Sunday school class included a park visit and salt water swim. A quip about Henry Ford’s mass production notes parking space. The Cuban president-elect Machado is named. William Gibbs is not Cubanized.
A dense set of crossword clues with numbered across and down entries. It lists definitions for words like chief character in a play and slender fasteners, plus numerous other terms including weather, objects, and actions, in a puzzle clue format.
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