New model duplex home opens next Sunday in Monroe
A new model two family duplex in Monroe at North Fourth and K streets will be opened for public inspection on Sunday July 3. Sponsored by Slagle Johnson Lumber and Johns Manville with FHA backing, the home showcases affordable, high quality construction. Names for the model will be announced with a $10 cash prize for the winning entry. final submission date is June 30.
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Monroe
North Fourth
K Streets
Slagle- Johnson Lumber Company
Johns-Manville Company
Federal Housing Administration
Slagle-Johnson Lumber Company
W. V. Clark
J. Y. Hamilton
W.W. B. Waldroup
John McCaskie
Johns-Manville
Johns- Manville
Monroe Furniture Company
Montgomery Ward and Company
Jones Electric Company
Laneau, Southall and Bledsoe
Jimmy Cash
Sherwin-Williams
Zephyr Company
Service
Pittsburgh Glass Company
Bailey Glass Company
Waller and
Southern Hardware Company
Superior Lumber Company
Monroe Tent and
Montgomery Ward Company
Jones Electric
Griffin
Help Yourself Buy Your Home Help Yourself Buy Your Home
Home seekers can buy on credit with small down payments and amortization loans offering low interest and long terms. The Monroe Building and Loan Association promotes reconditioned homes and modernization, noting down payments as low as 10 percent and easy monthly payments. Real estate activity rising could tighten terms, so now is a good time to buy. About 500 children are injured annually from blasting caps, with 80 percent in rural areas.
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Louis Buckner
Monroe Building and Loan Association
Homestead Association
Monroe Building & Loan Association
Buckner
Natchitoches college to hold summer commencement exercises
Natchitoches Louisiana June 5 Special With a record seven candidates for the A B degree at the State Teachers college the summer term commencement plans are set Degrees will be conferred for A B and B S grads and diplomas awarded at the annual June exercises President Albert A Fredericks will preside and read the honor roll Ten honor graduates include Chester Young Alma Stayton Howard Smith O C Sills Esther Shaw Grace Stinson Rogers W H Middleton Leo Cowley Melba Cora Brown and Florence Beatty The class memorial voted four subscriptions to The Normal Alumni Columns for the alumni association newsletter.
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Natchitoches
Louisiana State Normal College
State Teachers’ College
State Normal College
Albert A. Fredericks
Raymond Hayden
Lake Charles
Leo Cowley
Mansfield
Roberta Fluitt
Haynesville
W. H. Middleton
Burns
Douglas Williamson
Simpson
Dorothy Linon
Benton
Chloe Crawford
Minden
Alumni Association of
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W. S. Mitchell
Chester Young
Church Point
Alma V. Stayton
Coushatta
Howard B. Smith
DeRidder
O. C. Sills
Clarence
Esther Shaw
Pollock
Grace Stinson Rogers
Arcadia
W. H Middleton
Melba Cora Brown
Florence Beatty Lake Charles
Wage law to reach deep into Louisiana industries
Washington June 25 A study of the wage hour bill shows Louisiana will be affected as the act sets federal minimums for wages and hours with exemptions for ginning and compressing cotton processing sugar cane sugar and other agricultural and intrastate activities. The act broadens commerce definitions and may extend to oil sectors while Southern concessions include regional considerations for wage setting and committee appointments.
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Washington, D. C
Uncle Sam
Louisiana
Congress
Allen J. Ellender
Claude Pepper
Florida
Ellender
Labor Board
Supreme Court
NRA
Permits for West Monroe Buildings in 1938
West Monroe issued numerous building permits since January 1 1938 showing new residences and remodeling. The largest was A R Bates five thousand dollar North Seventh Street residence. Permits include repairs to homes, brick and frame buildings, churches, stores, garages and additions across streets such as Trenton Cypress Crosley Haynes Oakland Ludwig and North Seventh.
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West Monroe
A. R. Bates
North Seventh Street
H. L. Gregg
South Second
Coleman
Tyner-Petrus Company
Trenton Street
Illinois Central and
Railroad Avenue
Louisiana Ice and Coal Company
A. O. Evans
Wood Street
Cotton
Cypress
Assembly of God Church
Crosley
Third
First Methodist Church
Raymond Spence
North Second
Travis
Register
J. F. Block
Oakland
D. C. Thrift
Slack
Trenton
Charles Chisholm
South Fourth
South Fifth
Carey Holmes
Haynes
C. C. Bell
North
North Third
A. W. Cruikshank
Pine Street
W. W. Sullivan
Linderman
Monroe Building and Loan Association
Ludwig
D. E. Morrison
Mill Street
W. H. Jordan
Marlin Hattaway
North Seventh
Mill
Clayton
South Riverfront
South First Street
Sidney Freeman
North Eleventh
North Twelfth
People's Homestead Declares Dividend
The People's Homestead and Savings Association board declared a semi annual dividend of 2 percent on all outstanding shares of record June 30. The annual dividend is four percent payable July 1 and January 1. Official notice will announce the semi annual dividend checks to stockholders.
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People’s Homestead and Savings Association
A. L. Harrington
Monroe Building and Loan Association
Clayton Home Demonstration Club Meets at Mrs Lott Home
Clayton Louisiana June 25 Special Members of the Clayton Home Demonstration club met at the home of Mrs G Lott with Mrs Charie Loomis and Mrs S Robertson as co hostesses Gardens and canning were the topics for the session Refreshments were served to a long list of attendees including Mrs F Quick D Davis C Stevens and others
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Clayton
Clayton Home Demonstration Club
G. Lott
Charie Loomis
S. Robertson
F Quick
D. Davis
C. Stevens
E. L. DeLaach
W. Lancaster
J. Keenan
H. Davis
James Bowman
J. Quinn
E. Ferguson
H. Regan
J. Pickler
F. Scates
L Morris
M. Bird
E. Wacter
S Clayton, Jr
Jim Harper
M. Williamson
V. Rosier
V. Lott
L. Hoover
Memory of Lee to be honored by national observance
President Roosevelt endorses a national Joseph Lee day on July 28 to honor Joseph Lee for his work in the recreation movement. The celebration will mark the 1937 death anniversary, with activities planned on Monroe playgrounds and across recreation centers nationwide.
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Joseph Lee
Roosevelt
John H. Finley
National Recreation Association
Mr. Lee
Finley
Asid
Legion
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Monroe
Fight Made to Keep Mother's Day
Protest spreads across classes against removing Mother's day from Protestant church calendars. Critics argue commercialism taints the observance while supporters recall Mothering Sunday origins and a shared blessing model with clergy distributing cakes to mothers. They urge reclaiming the day’s holy, noncommercial spirit.
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New York Telegram
Burglary at F. T. Smith’s Service Station
Monroe police investigated a burglary at F. T. Smith’s service station on Sixth Street. Detectives said the intruder pried the front door lock, taking $5.28 from the cash register before dawn yesterday.
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F. T Smith
Sixth Street
Monroe
L. G. Parker
Man Arrest Follows Riverside Incident at Sanitarium
Benny Reed of Richland Parish was arrested Friday at Mangham at the request of Sheriff Milton Coverdale. He allegedly confronted a Black woman with brass knuckles at Riverside sanitarium June 17 during a patient visit, then fled to Monroe and was jailed in Ouachita Parish.
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Benny Reed
Richland Parish
Mangham
Milton Coverdale
Ouachita Parish
Coverdale
Riverside Sanitarium
Monroe
Parish School Board Plans New Negro School Buildings
The Quachita parish school board will meet Friday July 1 to discuss erecting new school buildings for African American pupils in wards one three four six and seven at an estimated cost of about 20000. Superintendent T O Brown cites approval of a federal grant for the Fendale school auditorium and gymnasium and plans to begin construction soon pending details guided by Senator Ellender.
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Quachita Parish
T O. Brown
Fendale
Brown
Ellender
First watermelons sold in Choudrant section
Doris Whitman reported 115 watermelons shipped to Crossett Arkansas marking the first sale in the area. The price paid was one and one half cents per pound for the fruit.
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SELLS
Choudrant
Doris Whitman
Crossett
Ark
Whitorted
Ping Pong Tourney Plans Announced
Monroe recreation department announces an annual ping pong tournament at the recreation center on Wednesday at 7 30 p m. Registrations close Wednesday at 3 p m with a 15 cent fee for cup trophy prize. Bob Wharton, a two time champion, will not play but will attend to help run the event. Balls and paddles provided free to participants.
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Monroe Recreation Department
Recreation Center
Lucyle Godwin
Bob Wharton
Miss Godwin
Fourth of July Celebration at Clarks Louisiana
Clarks Louisiana plans a Fourth of July with an old fashioned basket dinner and barbecue at noon. Speeches by state figures will follow. speakers to be announced. At 2 pm Clarks faces Bastrop in a Big Six league baseball game. Louisiana Central Lumber funds band music and park preparations continue at the roadside athletic field.
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Clarks
H. Q O. Cooksey
Louisiana Central Lumber Company
Bastrop
Ruston Legion Banquet Honors Auxiliary Efforts
An appreciation banquet honored the McFarlane post No 2 auxiliary in Ruston for paying off most of the debt on the legion home. Under Mrs W E McBride leadership the group raised 800 dollars from dinners and dances, leaving only 20 dollars of debt. The event drew 10 attendees including officers and guests, with L J Fox as toastmaster and multiple speakers.
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McFarlane Post
American Legion of Ruston
American Legion Home
W. E. McBride
Legion
Legion Home
L. J. Fox
Lockridge
Barnett
White
W. E. McBade
Sam Orchard
Gly-Cas Proclaimed Greatest Ever By Corsicana Woman
Mrs Wane Jones of Corsicana Texas credits Gly-Cas with rapid relief from constipation indigestion and kidney issues after years of suffering She says the medicine cleaned poisons regulated her stomach improved sleep and restored health noting relief began with the first dose Gly-Cas is sold locally by Phoenix Drug Co and nearby pharmacies Adv advertisement
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Mrs. Jones
Phoenix Drug Company
DeSiard
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