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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1925
Page
4
A humorous column notes severe coal shortages in eastern cities forcing families to improvise heating. People heat with hot water bottles, car tires, electric toasters, waffle irons, and even a bed stove while sleeping with coal and fur coats.
Brief list of historical anniversaries noting births and deaths of Hans Sachs Charles Chauncey Alexander Campbell Richard J. Oglesby and key events including the Continental Congress session in New York 1787 Fonseca declaring dictatorship in Brazil 1918 and Albert province liquor control decision 1928.
Dr. William Oxley Thompson retires as president of Ohio State University on his 70th birthday. A noted educator, he began after Kinglum College with Western Theological Seminary studies and later held posts in Iowa before taking up college leadership.
A convention speaker on short line railroads urged completion of the U S and P consolidation now under way and called for changes in ICC procedures to group lines and align smaller roads with major firms. The V S and P plan and Kansas City Southern links are discussed, with Illinois Central favored to operate the road in the Louisiana area. Monroe and nearby territory push for Illinois Central control as mergers proceed despite potential state and rival challenges.
Public health officers announce next week’s pupil physical exams, urging parental support. The piece cites long term gains from health surveys, noting declines in New York City death rates from 28.3 to 11.8 per 1000 since 1875 and life expectancy rising from about 40 to mid-50s. It argues health work is a major driver of improved outcomes.
The piece argues that intolerance is overused and misdefined, proposing "non-tolerant" as a clearer label for those who reject societal evils. It contrasts tolerance as exceptional with the natural tendency toward intolerance and calls for precise language.
A reader from the anthracite region notes most workers do not own cars while some laborers with lower living standards ride to work. He contrasts minorities such as Italian, Polish, Czechoslovakian, and Lithuanian workers who may part own cars due to frugal living with sparse funds for food and clothing, highlighting underlying poverty despite overall car abundance.
The piece notes Barney Garlan, Waldorf Hotel elevator man in New York, completed twenty three years on the job and traveled seven thousand three hundred seventy five miles up and down. It argues that travel alone does not expand the mind but thinking does and uses Beethovens deafness and the Indies proverb to illustrate carrying knowledge. It suggests investing in stock would have yielded wealth, a contrast to barneys intellectual gains.
The Monroe Progressive League has sent out a car for members and directors to meet in the League room at 7 30 Monday evening November 7. Matters of great importance to Monroe and North Louisiana will be discussed and disposed of as population shifts toward the South and Southwest unfold. Mr David P Stevenson longtime resident and financial correspondent for Union Central Life Insurance Company died at his son's home at 6 this morning. Funeral services were held at 4 30 this afternoon.
Col. S. W. Hill, Ouachita parish's oldest resident, is cheered by friends on his 89th birthday as he begins his ninetieth year. He made his customary annual visit to this office, a moment long awaited by all.
Sheriff L C Gahagan traveled from Ruston after deputies arrested Jim Jenkins for bootlegging and Haywood Washington for shooting with intent to kill. The suspects, described as negroes, were taken into custody yesterday. Also noted is a separate social event, the Young Matron's Embroidery Club gathering at Mrs Clark Faulk.
The defense of the right of the poor man with an income of five thousand dollars or less to pay an income tax was likely not well received by the poor man himself.
The report claims Chicago has forged ahead of New York in a crime bill totaling not less than 600 million dollars annually. The assertion emphasizes Chicago’s larger spending on crime related measures and public safety.
The incident mentions police dumping whiskey valued at about a million dollars into the harbor. The text questions the fate of exposed fishes and jokingly asks if they became communicative and declared wealth, comparing to intoxicated land animals.
Berlin reports Richard Breiting editor of Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten says anti German feeling in the United States has subsided but not every American is pro German. He notes young people educated during the war show some anti German sentiment while front line soldiers and Hindenburg are viewed as strong opponents of Bolshevism. He discusses American business life, tariffs, Wall Street versus industrial capital, and German superiority in some professional aspects.
The piece argues that top business roles go to Germans and Irishmen, cites student laziness and low medical pass rates, notes wartime propaganda damaged German papers, and claims German Americans must improve influence and educate Americans about Germany while assimilating.
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