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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1941
Page
5
The article notes cotton's rapid drying due to fiber structure, its suitability to southern climates, and the fact that cotton becomes stronger when wet. It emphasizes washable cottons as essential in the south, claiming cotton fibers withstand countless launderings and resist shrinkage and dye fading.
A hitchhiking soldier in Ruston rode with Rev. A. S. J. Neill of Clay to Monroe then DeSiard street. Neill later found his own suitcase missing with a valuable letter. the soldier opened the bag last night to discover khaki clothes and tobacco, and Neill planned to deliver the mislaid suitcase to the News-Star-World office.
In Belcher Islands Hudson Bay a court hears murder charges against seven Eskimos for killing nine others over beliefs that Christ would walk again. Testimony describes gunshots beatings and children left to die in the cold as part of disputes over divine power and Satan’s expulsion.
In Harlan Kentucky on August 20 two International Harvester mine workers Marion Hall and Frank Hill were shot at near the Benham mine and lightly wounded. Company officials report 75 to 80 percent operation with 250 pickets at gates amid a ongoing jurisdictional dispute between unions.
A R Wisenbaker of Ouachita parish cotton industry committee says cotton clothing suits Southern climates best. He cites comfort health and high absorption of perspiration, noting cooperation with the Surplus Marketing Administration and USDA to boost domestic use of 100 percent American cotton products.
At a local restaurant on 4ul DeSiard Street J B Gallion 18 jumped through a door frame and was hospitalized after a glass panel hidden in the frame fractured his right leg. He received treatment at St Francis Sanitarium for deep leg wounds.
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