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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1915
Page
1
Colonel Pleasant will depart soon on an extended campaign tour. Desoto Parish hosts the trip with plans outlined for the itinerary and schedule.
Open letter from Colonel R. G. Pleasant reports plans for a speaking tour after the sugar situation ends. He aims to visit DeSoto Parish and sweep through the southwest, including the third district, as supporters claim growing momentum nationwide. Final Barret campaign events set with Dr. K V as master, M D Dimitry presiding.
The Anti-saloon League executive committee addresses F W Price of Ruston La in an open letter dated November 13 1915. It rebukes Price for not paying his subscription and defends league aims including congressional district and statewide prohibition submission. It warns withdrawal of support if Price ceases to fight liquor traffic and questions his method of opposition.
An Louisiana Anti-Saloon League executive committee statement poses questions to a gubernatorial candidate about prohibition votes and ward boss warfare. The text discusses local option compromise, future statewide votes, and how Lincoln parish prohibitionists might align.
About 200 visiting women from across Louisiana arrive in Monroe for the State Convention of the Federated Clubs of Louisiana. Local citizens are urged to entertain delegates and decorate businesses in light blue to honor the event. Residents with cars are asked to lend them at train time to shuttle delegates to host homes.
Police raided a Chicago Oasis capturing a man who had previously defied Mayor Thompson. The operation targeted a known resister amid ongoing city conflicts. Authorities reported the suspect taken into custody without further incident.
Chicago police after a fifty shot exchange arrested George Streeter and 15 others in Streeterville as they seized a fortified district on filled lake land. One woman wounded, 192 cases of beer and weapons confiscated. Streeter had billed the area as the United States district of Lake Michigan and resisted authorities for years.
Booker T Washington noted educator and founder of Tuskegee Institute died at his Tuskegee home after a nervous breakdown. He endured months of ill health and traveled from New York to Alabama to die in the South. He leaves widow, three children, four grandchildren.
A carnival depicting military life opened in New York at Madison Square Garden for WRR citizens. Scenes from barracks reviving grounds and battle happenings will be shown with horsemanship feats by riders from Fort Myers Virginia.
Col Theodore Roosevelt issued a statement expressing mourning for the death of Booker T. Washington calling him one of the most useful citizens of the land and noting his loss.
Officials broaden inquiry into the research by Dr. T. E. Wright drawing wide public and academic interest. Investigators seek data and corroboration amid rising scrutiny from government and scientific communities.
Dr. Rupert Blue will send Dr. R. H. von Ezdorf to Monroe for a four month study of intravenous quinine with Dr. T. B. Wright at St. Francis sanitarium. Wright recently presented on the method in Dallas, drawing national attention and a memo from the Public Health Service. The aim is to evaluate permanent curative qualities and refine application of the treatment.
Washington November 15. A joint request by Arkansas and Mississippi was made to the Supreme Court for an order to appoint commissioners to take testimony in the suit Arkansas versus Mississippi over the boundary at Horseshoe Island on the Mississippi River.
The Supreme Court ruled that a person who ships liquor between states without proper labeling can be prosecuted in either state. The decision emphasizes cross state enforcement of liquor labeling laws.
London reports Serbians retreating from mountain range to range as Austro German forces claim daily prisoner captures and loot. British French reinforcements show small offensives, while Bulgarians seek aid from Germany and Austria. Greek neutrality tense over Saloniki, as Russians halt Hindenburg drive toward Riga and push slow gains west of the Dvina.
Max Randadier at 30 died after a fumigation, while Bert Short narrowly escaped, on the United Fruit liner Arenas in New Orleans. Both men had recently arrived from Los Angeles.
The high Sunday temperature dropped to freezing in Oklahoma western Texas and northwestern Arkansas. The cold wave will push much colder air into the South Atlantic States with temperatures near freezing tonight in the East Gulf States.
Seaboard Air Line stockholders convene in Petersburg Virginia to ratify the merger with the Carolina Atlantic and Western railway. A mortgage totaling 300 million dollars is slated for approval in connection with the consolidation.
London reports an air raid causing thirty civilian deaths and fifty wounded. Emperor William, with Archduke Charles Francis and King Ferdinand, plans to visit Constantinople amid high security preparations. Other war updates include Serbian losses, German gains on the Styr, and Italian liner Ancona sinking toll of two hundred eight.
Rome reports an air raid on Verona killed thirty civilians and wounded forty nine. The tragedy deepens Italy’s bitterness toward Austria. Idea Nazionale calls for prompt reprisals, proposing internment of all Germans in Italy, confiscation of Austro German property, and holding thirty five thousand Austrian prisoners as hostages.
London reports Prime Minister-in-waiting Winston Spencer Churchill stated in the House of Commons that if any war effort in history justified its risks the Dardanelles campaign did. He also traced the Antwerp relief plan to Lord Kitchener and the French government as his reasons for resigning from the cabinet.
St Louis civic and business groups aim to raise two hundred thousand dollars this week to secure the 1916 national conventions of the Republican and Democratic parties in St Louis Missouri during mid November.
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