Senator Leon Smith Backs Monroe School Amendment
Senator Leon Smith endorses a Monroe school amendment in a Shreveport VPTOR News Pro report. The item notes support for an educational measure and hints at the political context and local impact.
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19 Oct 1914
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Monroe News Star in Monroe, Louisiana
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1914
Page
1
Amendment to add judge for Caddo parish urged by state leaders
State Senator Leon R. Smith and City Attorney J. Foster, named by the Shreveport Bar Association, plan a New Orleans trip to drum up support for constitutional amendment No 15 to add an additional judge in Caddo parish. They meet Rapides and Jefferson parish delegates in New Orleans, aiming for an audience October 26 with city leaders. The Friar expands on the need to reduce criminal and civil docket backlogs, praising the Ceddo oil field funds and Monroe mayor Forsythe’s utilities program as examples of local progress to sway voters ahead of the November election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shreveport
Times
Leon R. Smith
J. Foster
Shreveport Bar Association
New Orleans
Martin Behrman
Robert Ewing
Rapides
Jefferson Parishes
Messrs Smith and Foster
Caddo Parish
Smith
Movement to Buy a Bale of Cotton Gains National Support
The patriotic Buy a Bale of Cotton movement expands among business leaders as Regal Shoes pledges to buy cotton for every sale in sixty days. The letter pledges storewide cotton purchases and publicity while Harvard athletes open settlements for local youths and aid foreign arrivals. A Southeastern and Southwestern Passenger Association meeting in Memphis on October 24 will discuss rail traffic arrangements across the South.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South End
Kk. J. Bliss
Regal Shoe Company
South
Regal
Memphis, Tenn
Southeastern and Southwestern Passenger Association
The Monroe School Amendment No 3
A fragment references Amendment No 3 for The Monroe School noting a tribute to a friend who authored a related memory fragment. The readable text centers on a memorial dedication tied to the school and a former writer.
Royal Baking Powder Co Promotes Cotton Buy Ahead of Southern Sales
The Royal Baking Powder Co writes to Southern wholesale grocers praising five year sales gains in the South and announcing a plan to buy and store cotton bales in response to customer requests. The letter notes that every representative has been instructed to buy a number of bales for the company's account and to continue the plan across pages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Baking Powder Co
Southern Wholesale Grocers
Royal Baking
Monroe Trade Carnival Week opens with traveling amusements
A large traveling carnival company arrived from Fort Worth to furnish all amusements for Monroe's Trade Carnival Week and Dollar Day. Tents go up on vacant lots west of the Iron Mountain depot as trains. lines carry visitors to the shows starting tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Fort Worth
Texas
Iron Mountain
Democratic praise highlights Wilson achievements
A public event lauded President Wilson and his administration, praising policy successes and reforms. Speakers emphasized economic progress, social improvements, and wartime leadership, framing the administration as delivering steady governance.
Wilson vows Democratic unity and anti monopoly move
President Wilson writes to House Majority Leader Underwood praising Democratic unity and detailing a legislative program for the next session. He argues the party alone can accomplish reforms, praises tariff and currency measures, anti trust bills, and calls for destroying monopoly to maintain competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson
Underwood
House
Congress
America
Governors Endorse Cotton Pool and Acreage Reduction Plan
Memphis October 19 governors of cotton states endorsed a $154 006 096 cotton loan pool and urged a 30 percent cut in 1914 acreage. They backed marketing aid and cooperative farmer education, while Tennessee Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi and North Carolina approved the resolution. South Carolina opposed it. Governor Hays urged cooperative marketing as the best relief strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Conference of Governors of the Cotton States
Union
United States
Tennessee
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
Cole Blense
South Carolina
Charity response helps farmer to save his home
The News-Star appeal for a farmer living below Monroe on the east side of the river drew one donation Saturday and is expected to bring in more in the next day or two. A surprising gesture from Lem L Bouta, a day operator at the V S P ward office, reached Judge Mangham this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News-Star
Monroe
Judge Mangham
Lem Ll. Bouta
British Navy forms right of Allies long battle line
Report outlines allied naval cohesion and extended line to protect convoy routes. Mentions charitable cotton donations and local figures including Judge Manghem and Mr Boutz as examples of support for distressed farmers. Also notes a derailment near Broussard with injuries but no fatalities and suspected sabotage by train wreckers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broussard
Southern Pacific
Tragic Unloaded Pistol Accident Claims 11 Year Old
Bernice Woodward eleven daughter of Mr and Mrs T J Woodward died after shooting herself with a pistol believed to be unloaded The weapon was found with one cartridge at the Woodward home in Pesach and Jackson streets The shooting occurred shortly before eight oclock and the girl lasted ten minutes after the gun fired She was a pupil at City School friends and classmates prepared flowers in her memory later that day An appeal from General Bibb Graves urged cotton states to act on the cotton situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernice Woodward
T. J. Woodward
Bernice
Allied forces press on sea clash as German minelayer seized
London dispatch reports Allied ships tightening contact with the British navy along the coast. German torpedo boat destroyers move south toward the Dutch coast possibly convoying submarines to contest control of the Belgi an littoral. A German minelayer was captured in the North Sea. Details on Przemysl and other fronts remain unclear as fighting stretches from France to Poland and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lied
Germany
North Sea
Przemys
Belin
Vienna
Goeban
Breslau
Turkey
France
Poland
Perkin
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Shreveport Vptor News
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A. A. Forsythe
le, Sytt
Forsythe
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Boston
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Harry A Murray
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Ireland
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Trinity College
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Astronomical Society
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England
Berlin
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Democratic Party
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Monenery
Busi
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I Governors
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Joe Manghem
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Alt
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Alabama Democratic Executive Committees
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London
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Great Britain
Portugal
South Africa
India
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Odia
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S. Rankin
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Cortlandt Ven Deusen
Captain Webb
Vitagraph
New Road
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GG. M. Andersen
Billy
Lyceum
Selig Comedy
Moving Picture Cowboy
Chick Evins
Sweedie
Hearst Selig Princess
Tworeel Helair
Pathe Eesanay
Selig
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