14 Nov 1923
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1923
Page
1
A Monroe city council refines traffic rules to improve safety as paving nears completion. Citizens are urged to embrace driving rules, with emphasis on stopping before right of way streets and cautious motion through altered alleys. The project signals prosperity and civic vigor.
Izzy Einstein, famed as prohibition enforcer, left Mobile after a three week incognito visit. He described a vast shinny joint network and a booming bootlegging market, noting a wide variety of brands and elaborate disguises used to blend in with dock workers and cigar dealers.
A fragmented weather note questions forecasts and urges caution. It hints at clouds and possible rain while doubting repeated accurate predictions. The tone warns against overreliance on tips and suggests dressing for uncertainty.
Dubuque Iowa November 14 Increased transportation costs are blamed for the current high railroad rates. 8 M Felton president of the Chicago and Great Western and chairman of the Western Railway committee on public relations spoke in Dubuque today outlining cost pressures.
Prohibition agents Einstein and Peter Reagan, aided by E C Yellowley, arrived in New Orleans after Mobile and registered under assumed names. They tailed their operation to a Royal Street cabaret, where witnesses say drinks were served to all after a harmonica performance. The raid followed.
Chicago reports the most luxurious private car in America is being built in Pullman shops for Henry Ford. The car will include tiled bathrooms, bedrooms, a drawing room with phonographs, a radio set, and an electrical kitchen, plus offices and servants’ compartments.
Mayor Bernstein and the Monroe city commission say Huey P Long's stance on the depot case disappoints those seeking adequate Monroe depot facilities. The city chamber and Traffic Bureau filed for a Union station or alternatively for MP railroad train sheds and a relocated passenger station, with MP offering to build the improvements without a hearing.
More than 250 citizens from five North Louisiana parishes joined as charter members of the Caucasian-American League at Eros. Senator Stuckey called the Klan a cancer to be cut out and urged league members to use ballots to oppose masked mobs. Speakers included Parker, Davenport, Richards, Sheriff Jones, and others as the meeting outlined a draft constitution.
Washington reports Northwestern University physical culture director Professor J. G. Krantz leads a campaign to correct coeds walking habits. He instructs students to toe in wiggle toes and discard French heels while emphasizing proper weight on the outer soles. He believes steady practice will improve gait and posture.
Berkeley cities and University of California professor Dr. Warner Brown notes that motion pictures and radio are replacing alcoholic leisure time, aiding prohibition enforcement by reducing demand for drinking in society.
John C. Lathrop of Boston lectured at Monroe City School auditorium on Christian Science The Religion of Right Resistance He spoke of Mary Baker Eddy and his eighteen months in her household as he traced the religion’s beginnings The talk highlighted the founder’s life and the faith’s early development Continued on Page Eight.
Two bank messengers were murdered at the Fifth Street station on the West End line in Brooklyn as bandits stole 430,000. They fled in a car after firing on the workers, while police issued a fifty mile radius alert. A spate of crimes followed in the 24 hour period including a gun attack on a druggist and a subway cashier robbery.
Cologne dispatch says Leon Deckers separatist leader was arrested at Verviers near the Belgian border based on advices from Aix-la-Chapelle.
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