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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1914
Page
6
Creighton returns from Minden after attending the Davidson Drake wedding as an attendant. Kern's horse shoeing shop offers wagons built to order and meat at 15 cents a pound from Renwick's Market. Midway Cafe reopens after a week closed, serving meals and short orders. Chase and Collens Co. Ltd promote a cough syrup remedy. Larrie Henry's advertises men’s vests and sweaters.
Civil cases listed include Tomlinson Cheir Co. versus Pouchtie and Schulze versus Maror. Marriage licenses issued for Hall Bredford and Augrey Hadley. Real estate filings show transfers and sales among multiple parties. City Court notes include fighting fines for Willie Douglass, Huck Crain, Emma Williams, Ethel Oliver, Minnie Mack, and Louis Crain.
Mr Sam McCluskey leaves the Postal Telegraph office for Western Union. Jurors for January term are being drawn. An artist reports moving to 116 Grand street and promoting Christmas portraits. Notices to claimants against Henry G Dobson and J G Boutz estates are issued.
Farmers hear that progress hinges on funding for the Ouachita Perish Canning Club led by Miss Marie Miller. If money does not arrive the program may end, removing a crucial local service and prompting appeals to the Chamber of Commerce police jury and Parish School Board to support the energetic advocates.
American and English women establish temperance clubs for women and children to offer safe amusements and war news. Lady Henry Somerse plans a chain of temperance public houses with hearings, concerts, and child care. Mrs. Lathrop opens a similar center in Islington offering low cost wholesome food for war widows.
Worcester Mass December 1 The 12nd annual winter meeting of the State Board of Agriculture opened with motion pictures of farm operations in the old Bay State. The films are to be shown at the Panama Pacific Exposition.
The Markets Tuesday report notes middling prices around 75 16 with steady tendencies. Sales reach about 2030 bales as tones stay quiet and firm, with distant futures and autumn notes indicating stable demand and cautious trading.
Market notes from New York indicate spots middling at 7.65 with overall quiet activity. The close and tone are described as steady for the day with minor fluctuations around 7.06 to 7.61 in various readings and labels.
Liverpool market report from Tuesday December 1 1914 shows middling spots at 4.41, quiet trading with some sales. Yately yarn price appears at 4.18 to 4.16, sales at 4.19 to 4.22 for May June and July August contracts.
Chicago Dec 1 Passenger rates rise today across the central United States. Fares advance from 2 1 4 to 2 1 2 cents per mile, following Interstate Commerce Commission guidance on boosting revenues. Long runs from Chicago see roughly a one dollar increase, with similar increases in other Central Territory sections.
A reader reports using Dr Kilmer Swamp Root to cure kidney and bladder troubles in her family including a son treated as a child. She urges others to try the medicine and requests samples and a booklet from Kilmer Co noting the Monroe Daily News Star as the reference.
Harold Bell Wright and Alsbery W Reynolds present a stage adaptation of The Shepherd of the Hills at Suger's Theatre tonight. The production aims to illuminate timeless themes of good and evil, faith, truth, and hope through Ozark characters portrayed as real, relatable folk.
The Photo Drama Company presents After the Bail with Herbert Keleey and Efe Shannon in lead roles. Notable names include Geo H. Adams as the world famed pantomimist valet and William Clark known for Taft likenesses, joined by Clara Knott Edyth Beryn Winone Bridges Edythe Adams Crane Sisters Robert Vaughn and more than three hundred actors. Directed by Pierce Kingsley the six reel photoplay screens at Sugar's theatre for two nights December 3 and 4 with high cost and strong audience appeal.
Manager A. H. Woods will bring the famed Cloak and Suit authors Abe Potash and Morris Perlmutter to Sugar’s theatre on December 5 for a short stay. The pair return from a successful second year in New York City where they drew large crowds at Cohia Theatre.
Essanay drama The Prince Party stars Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne. A Selig fantasy features Charles Wheelock and Lil.
Nan Hayward stars in two reel Imp drama Peg O The Wilds with Violet Mersereau as Pat the Wilds. William Welsh and William Shay head an all star cast as the hermit and lead man. The piece blends drama with wit and vivid mountain settings, praised for Mersereau’s performance and Welsh’s artistry.
An old classified ad details contractors under names Bell & Moor and Moor the Biler Builder offering steel tanks towers boilerwork and metal roofing. It lists prices 65 cents per hour for out of town jobs and includes contact numbers and box addresses 746 618 and 632 with phones 746 and 1432.
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