Widow Edenborn Dies at 89 Heir to Barbed Wire Fortune
Mrs. Drain Edenborn, 89, widow of William Edenborn, died in St. Louis after moving from Shreveport. The Louisiana industrialist built a vast fortune from barbed wire and rail interests, serving as an executive in the Louisiana Railroad Navigation Co and owning holdings in steel and timber. His widow and sisters survive, with his son Edgar Drain related to residence in St. Louis.
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Louisia Railway and Navigation Com
Winnfield
Louisiana
Edenborn
Louisiana Railroad Navigation Company
Louisiana and Arbe Railroad
Illiam Edenborn
Pittsh
Shreveport and
Red Valley
Westphalia
Prussia
America
St. Louis
New Jersey
United States
Steel Corpora
Deaths Henry Felix Roberts and John M. McLemore
Henry Felix Roberts 64 of Route 4 West Monroe died Wednesday at 11 40 AM in a local clinic. He is survived by wife Trissie and children Lena Mae Fletcher Rayville Lucille DeVille West Monroe Grady Roberts West Monroe sister Lula Watson Monroe brother Russell Roberts Delhi. Funeral held at 2 30 PM at McClendon Baptist Church with burial in Smith Cemetery. John M McLemore 42 brother of two Monroe residents found dead in Ferriday hotel room from heart attack. Survived by brother G D McLemore Monroe sisters Mrs W B Elierbe Monroe and Mrs C G Hawkes Ferriday. Funeral services were held at Riverview Burial Park with Rev I J Brooks.
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Henry Felix Roberts
Route 4
West Monroe
Hall Funeral Home
McClendon Baptist Church
Robert Watson
Smith Cemetery
Roberts
Trissie Roberts
Lena Mae Fletcher
Rayville
Lucille DeVille
Grady Roberts
Lula Watson
Monroe
Russell Roberts
Delhi
J. J. Roberts
Otis Brown
Frank Pesk
Archie Jones
Emmett Brown
Charlie Brizzell
John M. M’lemore
John M. McLemore
Ferriday
McLemore
G. D. McLemore
Alabama Street
W. B. Elierbe
C. G Hawkes
Riverview Burial Park
I. J. Brooks
Calvary Baptist Church
Worley Returns With Souvenirs From Pacific War
Pam 2/c Paul Worley U S N is home on leave after eighteen months in the Southwest Pacific. He served with the marine corps and brought back a Japanese flag and a bayonet. Worley attended Ouachita Parish High School and was a News Star World carrier before enlisting in April 1942.
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Pam
Paul Worley
Southwest Pacific
Marine Corps
Worley
Ouachita Parish
News-Star—World
San Diego Naval Station
Great Lakes Naval Station
Quantico
North Africa
New Guinea
New Britain
Cape Gloucester
United States
C. E. Worley
Dick Taylor Monroe
Signs At Ration Office Gate Prompt No Soliciting Sign
Fulton Missouri report notes a sign at the county rationing office gate reading Please No Soliciting No begging Signed officiating and mentions interment at Riverview under the Davis Lawhead Funeral Home direction.
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Fulton
Calloway County
Riverview
Polish Premier Optimistic on Polish Stalin Talks in Moscow
Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk said after a second conference with Joseph Stalin that rival Polish regimes would likely meet again in Warsaw after its capture to pursue a reconciliation. He urged underground Poles to lead and called for a strong independent Poland with Soviet cooperation. He planned to brief London and meet British and American envoys.
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Moscow
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Stalin
Warsaw
Poland
Europe
National Committee of Liberation
Mikolajczyk
London
Sir Archibald John Clark Kerr
W. Averell Harriman
Woth
Club Women Aid Consumer Survey in Twin Cities
Seventy five prominent club women from fourteen Twin Cities clubs met at the Chamber of Commerce office at 3:30 p m Wednesday to assist in a consumer survey sponsored by the Chamber. The session was directed by Mrs A B Tisdale and Mrs Paul Wright with G L Holloway presiding as merchant division chair and Henry Biedenhar leading the Chamber's economic department committee.
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Twin Cities
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
A. B. Tisdale
Paul Wright
G. L. Holloway
Henry Biedenhar
Women to Survey Twin Cities Homes on Postwar Purchases
Dr. Robert W. French outlines a consumer survey by the Bureau of Business Research at LSA. Each woman will contact seven representative Twin Cities homes to learn plans to build or buy new homes after the war and expected postwar purchases of household goods. Forms due at Chamber office by Friday August 18.
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Robert W. French
Bureau of Business Research
Twin Cities
Chamber
K P Knights of Pythias Meeting Announced
Knights of Pythias lodge K. O. P to meet at chapter hall at 8 pm. Class of six to take esquire rank. Dr H C Hughes, local chairman for the new veterans hospital, sent a resolution to state representatives John McCormick and C C Traffic accidents caused 9,406 deaths in the first five months of 1944, up 11 percent from 1939.
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K. P. Stonewall Lodge
Knights of Pythias
H. C. Hughes
Veterans’ Hospital
John McCormick
C. C
Scout Honor Court Meeting Scheduled
The Boy Scouts of the central districts group will hold a court of honor at 7 30 p m Friday in the auditorium of the Central Grammar School George D Holland is chairman. Many awards will be presented to those Scouts who earned awards during the camp season at Camp Ki Ro Li Friday night A technicolor sound picture of Philmont Scout Ranch activities will be shown starting at 7 39 p m and the court will follow immediately after the movie
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Boy Scouts of the
Central Districs Group
Central Grammar School
George D. Holland
Philmont
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Oman
Louis
Santa Claus
North Pole
Chicago
Betty Jane Cargill
Signs OF the Times
Montgomery Werd
Mbontgomery
Third St
S. Arty
Walgreen
DeSiard St
Alka-Seltzer
Success
U.S.P
Walgreen Drug
Sutton
Corinthia
Paris
Oren Payay Sanitary
Wrisley’s
Washington
Woodbury
Ivory
Colgate
Reen’s
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