23 Oct 1920
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1920
Page
1
Multiple local items report church and auxiliary activities, visits, illness updates, and social events. Names include Mrs W Twe, Mr Wal Ba, E C Montgomery, Beth Alexander, Mrs H D Higginbotham, Oswald infant, and J F Harrel. Meetings noted for Eastern Star and missionary circles. birthdays and dances celebrated for Laura Montgomery and guests listed with numerous attendees.
The text outlines a November shift to circle meetings on the Great and third Tuesdays with a dedicated second session for regular meeting and mission work and a special day on the fourth Tuesday. It notes circle one hosting duties and invites ladies to attend promptly. Various local social items follow including visits and guests among residents, and a cemetery association meeting announced for Sunday at 3 PM.
Miss Wilba Peak leaves tomorrow to visit her sister in Sacramento California and will spend the winter there. Miss Fannie Bell Phobos of Jones is spending the day in the city with friends.
The narrative surveys Ugo Foscolo as a popular early 19th century Italian writer famed for Italian prose and poetry. It details his youthful loves including Countess Arese and Antoinette, his emotional fervor, and his rise to fame with the tragedy Il Tieste and the romantic poem Sepuliri after a military retreat.
A report notes lobsters can be hypnotized by cheek stroking causing them to balance on heads or tails. They resume ferocity only when thrown into water. The phenomenon was studied using a device called creacograph by Sir Jagadis C. Rone, an Indian savant, observed by a group of Lon ea ascients.
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