Tioga Girl Wins Dress Contest At LSU 4-H Meet
Miss Melba Rees 4-H Tioga Rapides parish wins the dress contest with a cotton sacking creation costing under $1.50 earning a free trip to the national 4-H congress in Chicago. Marion Rhodes Crowley and Anne Lancaster Waterproof place second and third. Other results include party dress, seed corn, meat cutting, crop and livestock judging with teams from Claiborne Rapides East Baton Rouge and Webster parishes. France’s Courrières mine disaster of 1906 noted with 1,099 deaths.
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Baton Rouge
Melba Rees
Tioga
Rapides Parish
Chicago
Rees
Louisiana State University
Marion Rhodes
Crowley
Anne Lancaster
Waterproof
Tensas Par
Lessie Tullis
Grant Parish
Laura Munson
Cheneyville
Reba Waller
Dodson
Claiborne Parish
Martin Griffin
Hugh Greer
C. C. Willard
Brodie Pugh
Rapides
East Baton Rouge
Grant
LaSalle
Claiborne
Vernon
John Pharis
Willie Dee Warner
Theron Price
St. James
Livingston
Lafourche
Webster Parish
Help for Wives Use Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
A historical notice urged tired wives to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound claiming 100 women reported benefits. It promotes the tonic as restoring strength during hard times and urges purchase from a local druggist.
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Magemmng
Lydia
Finkhara
Safe Kruschen Salt Diet Claims Weight Loss
An advertisement features Mrs B C Terry of Tampa Florida stating she lost 39 pounds in three months using Kruschen Salts. The copy promotes fat loss from areas like double chins and hips, claims increased vitality, and offers a money back guarantee after one 4 week jar.
Hen With Maternal Instinct Adopts Kittens On Farm
A hen on Dub Bearden s farm near Farmerville took charge of a pair of two month old kittens after spotting them with a mother cat. She defended the felines from the cat and later sat on them to feed them while the cat fed the brood, ending in a truce and unusual maternal care from the hen.
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Dub’ Bearden
Farmerville
Bearden
Pepper Mill Opens in New Iberia After Closure
The Frank Brothers Pepper mill opened Thursday with a large workforce after a December shutdown. Buyers estimate more than 100000 dollars of supplies will be distributed to tobacco and cayenne pepper farmers over the next four months. About 2500 acres of peppers are under cultivation, the largest in years.
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Pepper Mill
New Iberia
Frank Brothers
Death after night fight at highway work site
Vaughan dies after an altercation linked to heavy drinking. Autopsy cites acute dilation of the heart from alcoholism. He was taken by taxi from Tony Falleta's store to a private clinic where he died despite medical efforts. Survived by parents, three brothers, two sisters and an aunt. body to be sent to Shreveport.
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Vaughan
Caugh
Mengis
Buddy Taylor
Tony Falleta
Breard Street
Everett
Henry C. Vaughan
Ben Vaughan
Shreveport
Walter Vaughan
Little Rock
Edgar Vaughan
Woman’s Slayer Object of Hunt Near Hempstead
Miss A L Jones of a farm seven miles west of Brookshire was found beaten to death near a creek after leaving to round up cattle. Her body shown four skull fractures and signs of a grim struggle. A posse and bloodhounds joined the search but failed to locate the killer, a colored man.
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A. A. Jones
Here
Brookshire
Hempstead
Slaying Probe Swells as Officers Seek Second Suspect
Cincinnati authorities question Henkle's confession in the Bailey death and search for a possible accomplice. District Attorney Dunn doubts the fist fight tale, suggests a blunt instrument and robbery motive, with a woman possibly involved. A second suspect is being sought and a tip links an ex Ohio convict to Tennessee. Dudley Outcast vows a fast fair trial.
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Henkle
Brown
Baily
Dunn
Cincinnati
Meridian
Ohio Oil Company
Dudley M. Outcast
Hamilton County
Ohio
Cleary
Outcast
Alleged Slayer Returns Home in Cincinnati Case
John J. Henkle a 16 year old Cincinnati juvenile ward was arrested in Meridian Mississippi after attempting to exchange a spare tire for gas. He purportedly confessed to killing Oliver S. Bailey in Cincinnati after a confrontation during a ride and drink, and was sent back to face first degree murder and robbery charges alongside a pending grand jury indictment. Bailey was the son in law of Jesse Lippincott, a prominent stockyards figure.
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Meridian
Miss
John J. Henkle
Cincinnati
Ohio
Oliver S. Baily
Baily
Henkle
Robert Dunn
William Cleary
Jesse Lippincott
Cincinnati Union Stockyards
Dunn
Purification Health Tonic Promises System Cleanse
Physician endorsed Calotabs claimed to purify the entire system by cleansing the blood and stimulating the liver kidneys stomach and bowels. A course taken weekly for several weeks was advertised to restore vitality with 10 and 35 cent packages available through all dealers.
Telephone Calls Preceded Fatal Visit Of Doctor
Dr Kennedy died after an emergency appendicitis operation on a child. His wife Mrs Kennedy won custody of their four year old daughter Annie Margaret and alimony of 160 dollars. District Attorney Jordan weighs motive of remarriage as possible cause in disputed poisoning. Mrs Kennedy flew to Jackson but arrived hours after his death.
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Annie Margaret
Kennedy
Jackson
Dr. Kennedy
Dean
Jordan
Neyland Named to Avoyelles Drainage Board Post
Governor Oscar K Allen appoints Lawrence Neyland to the Avoyelles drainage district No 8 board of commissioners to fill the late P H Couvillion. Joseph Roy is named constable of ward 3 in St Martin parish to succeed Louis Roy.
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Baton Rouge, la
Lawrence Neyland
Oscar K. Allen
Board of Commissioners
Avoyelles Drainage District No. 8
P. H. Couvillion
Joseph Roy
St. Martin Parish
Louis Roy
U S Ambassador presents peace plan to Cubans
In Havana a conference session gathered eight senators and eight Machado liberal party members to discuss mediation A second round included Ambassador Welles Secretary Ferrara liberal congressmen and a mixed congressional panel Police precautions were stepped up after a Thursday bomb explosion near a bakery The incident followed broader disputes over Cuban leadership and U S mediation efforts with Senator Fernandez signaling cross party support for Machado but warnings against outside interference
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Machado
Liberal Party
Welles
Ferrara
House of Representatives
Bertha Skirving
Cable Company
Cuba
Luciano Lopes Ferrer
Wilfredo Fernandez
Senor Machado
Congres
Associated Press
Pedro Goderich
Textile Industry Adopts Two Shift Forty Hour Week
Record shows construction in the south sustained by a shift to a forty hour week in textiles. July contracts for church buildings reach $565,000, far above June, with July industrial and engineering awards totaling $9.47 million. Textile mill expansion drives much of the awards as Tubize Chatillon of Rome initiates a $2.8 million plant expansion.
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Tubize Chatillion Corporation
Rome
Brewery expansion plans across multiple states unfold
Plans outline new breweries and plant construction across several states as voters decide on beer sales. Projected build costs include Fort Worth 1,000,600 dollars Tulsa 500,000 Baltimore 400,000 Nashville 250,000 St. Louis 200,000 Oklahoma City 700,000 Charlotte 500,000 Miami 400,000 Columbia 200,000 with sites secured for the first of five plants pending approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Texas
Tulsa
Okla
Baltimore
HOBO A Time Tested Remedy Promises Acid Relief
An ad touts HOBO as a remedy for nighttime awakenings backache joint soreness and nervousness. It claims the product combats acids causing functional kidney disorders and provides soothing relief making users feel younger and more energetic for both men and women. Sold everywhere with advertising copy.
French Troops Stationed On German Border Again
French troops were stationed Thursday on the German frontier near Mulhouse as a precaution against Nazi aggression. They guard the bridge at Huningue where brown shirts held an anti-French demonstration in February. Troops deployed at border communities' request.
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Mulhouse
France
Huningue
Hitler
Gunn Named Elder for Lake Charles District Appointment
Rev Elmer C Gunn pastor of First Methodist Church Lake Charles has been appointed by Bishop Hoyt M Dobbs to fill the vacancy created by the death of Dr W Winans Drake presiding elder of the Lake Charles district His term runs until November and he will also remain as pastor here.
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Courriers
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lever
Thomas Jefferson Davis
Army Chief of Staff
John B. Sherman
William T. Sherman
Davis
Cid
Usar Department
Washington
Missouri Pacific
New Virginia
Missouri
U.S
Brenton
Record
South
BLATZ
Monroe Beer Distributing Co
S. Fifth St
Monroe
The
American Tobacco Company
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