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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1925
Page
4
A 1925 humor column notes changing marriage norms with a sharp satire. It portrays the flapper era, suggesting divorce as dividend income, weddings in banks, and men clinging to cigars while women stockpile supplies, ending with a joke about divided hope chests for dry and wet goods.
Dates recap notable events from 1777 American victory at Saratoga to 1928 Lloyd George welcomed in Montreal. Highlights include George Mason’s Virginia rights draft, Lewis and Clark’s final leg, William Bate’s Tennessee career, Napoleon III’s proclamation, Oliver Wendell Holmes’s death, the Alexander III Bridge foundation, and Russian czar’s Paris bridge milestone.
Admiral Clarence S Williams born in Springfield 62 years ago today marking his new Asiatic Fleet command. Senator Joseph E Ransd er born in Alexandria Louisiana 67 years ago today. General George P McLean born in Gimsbury Connecticut 68 years ago today. Pro billiards star Welker Cochran born in Manpan 28 years ago today.
President Coolidge spoke at the American Legion convention in Omaha urging tolerance as the basis for international peace. He warned against intensifying racial and religious prejudice and called on World War veterans to help weld a united America. He noted immigration reductions and the rapid Americanization of immigrants, then framed future debates as city versus country and class versus class. He urged freedom for the individual as essential to lasting democratic progress and predicted a long road before new attitudes are fully accepted.
A traveling tent show toured the city, paid a license, and performed on a vacant lot near a highway. Afterward the Jet left resembling a city dump with scattered papers and refuse. The paper urges limiting tents closer to downtown and supporting a stricter licensing ordinance.
Col. William C. Procter described raising funds in 1920 to nominate General Leonard Wood and proposed selling a candidate to the public via heavy publicity. The piece argues the public wants genuine achievement, not a commercial sales approach, and mocks Procter’s soap marketing analogy.
The piece notes gradual improvements in film production with some outliers. It argues Americans should use common sense when choosing films for themselves and their children to balance patron and producer interests. It likens movie choice to selecting books, urging informed viewing.
A reflection on the law of compensation using a sailing bellows joke and examples from Spanish conquest. It argues perpetual motion and get rich quick schemes fail because action and reaction balance. nations that settled colonies gained lasting wealth while Spain fell behind.
The death of Captain H D Vaughn of Collinston shocks Monroe friends. Funeral at Bastrop with honorary pallbearers J S Handy and T E Flournoy. Vaughn, famed steamboat captain on Ouachita and Black River, mourned by Many. Also covered are a park track match won by C E Maroney on horse For, Knights of Columbus Catholic mission at St Matthews, and the marriage of Miss Edna Walker to J W Mangham at the Methodist parsonage.
The Begum of Bhopal, the sole female Muslim ruler within the British Empire, visits London drawing attention. Her domain, Bhopal, is a central Indian mountain state founded about 200 years ago by Dost Mohammed Khan. She ascended the throne in 1911, enforces veiling, and is described as educated, musical, and a painter who speaks English and has written books.
A year ago today the U S Navy dirigible Shenandoah departed Lakehurst New Jersey on a 17000 mile round trip to Washington and return.
The article argues patrons exercise taste and discrimination in choosing films just as readers pick books. It praises actors like Lon Chaney and notes a shift toward genuine character acting over flashy pomp, predicting better industry quality as audiences demand substance and reject thin plots and medicine show style.
An advertising notice for Velvet Ice Cream produced by Monroe Ice Cream and Candy Co Inc. Promotes flavor quality and popularity and provides a contact address at 208 So Grand and a telephone number 772. The display includes an enticement line Get the Best and indicates a date 11-25.
The Rev. Dr. George Craig Stewart of St. Luke's Evanston demands against Episcopal entry into the Federal Council of Churches at the New Orleans triennial convention. He supports cooperation via the Episcopal Social Service Commission but rejects joining a pan Protestant program. The meeting opens tomorrow in New Orleans.
Edwin W. McCormick issues notice to the public that a mortgage note for $500 dated November 19 1921 endorsed in blank, due October 1 1922 at 8 percent interest, with 10 percent attorney fees, paraphed Ne Varietar before John Scholars deputy clerk Sixth District Court, asking the public not to negotiate or trade the note. Dated September 26 1925.
Notice from Morehouse Chapter Walton League warns out of season hunting by hunters from other parishes and vows vigorous prosecution. Also parole application filed for George Lee with dates October 2 71 10.
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