Richland Parish Reports Record Cotton Crop This Year
Special to the News-Star Rayville Louisiana December 2 1925 Department of Commerce census data show Richland Parish up 26 795 bales in cotton by November 14 1925 over the prior year with ginner reports indicating the largest crop since boll weevil era. Gins run full time at Planters Gin Company Rayville Gin and others as farmers harvest corn potatoes and farm products, signaling better times despite weather damage to some of the cotton.
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News-Star
Rayville
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Census
Richland Parish
Richland
Rayville Gin Company
Velvet Ice Cream Ad From Monroe Ice Cream Co
An advertisement for Velvet Ice Cream by the Monroe Ice Cream and Candy Co Inc promotes pure delicious popular ice cream. The piece likely dates around November 25. It emphasizes quality and appetite appeal for shoppers.
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The
Monroe Ice Cream and Candy Co., Inc
Rayville notes on Miss Constance Sneichen in Chicago trip
Mrs. J J Sneichen and daughter Constance depart for Chicago via Jackson Miss joining club officials and Nina Willis for the national club congress. Constance Sneichen is Louisiana’s entrant after winning as the healthiest club girl. Rev Joyner preaches at local Methodist church. an auto crash involving a drunken Negro injures his flivver and damaged Mrs Brown’s car, amid calls for action against drunken driving and unsafe vehicles.
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News-Star
Rayville
J. J. Sneichen
Constance
Chicago
Jackson
Miss
Nina Willis
Baton Rouge
Windy City
Constance Sneichen
Louisiana
National Club Congress
N. E. Joyner
Joyner
R. E. Brown
Prominent Columbia Citizen Dies in New Orleans Hospital
Cicero C. Bridger Sr., 71, longtime Columbia resident and Bellevue plantation owner, died Monday in a New Orleans hospital from a ruptured bladder. He left a wife, four sons including Dr Phil Bridger, and three daughters. He had moved from the plantation to Columbia and retired from mercantile business.
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News-Star
Columbia
Cicero C. Bridger
New Orleans
Bridger
Caldwell Parish
Loula Call Bridger
Phil Bridger
A. D. Bridger
C. Bridger
I. C. Bridger
W. K. Bush
Clarks
Sadie Mecom
Gilbert
Loula May Seal
Ladies High Top Shoes and Household Goods Notice
Advertisement lists ladies high top shoes 85.00 and 6.00 values with 3.48 price. Also mentions Smith Bros 1 2t pace bros home made syrup Green's Market and Grocery 2 2t as supplier items.
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Smith Bros
Pace Bros
Green's Market & Grocery
East Carroll Crop Exceeds Last Year's Record in 1924
Lake Providence La Dec 2 East Carroll parish has surpassed last year's cotton crop record. Through December 1 the parish gin receipts reached 17018 bales with about 3000 more in fields, aiming for 20000. Yields run two bales per acre in many places, but rains damaged over 19000 bales and 1600 bales were lost in September October. The 1925 crop grew in a wet season yet benefited from drainage praised by J R Adams Louisiana Board of State Engineers as keeping East Carroll the best drained parish in Louisiana.
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Lake Providence
East Carroll Parish
East Cars Foll
East Carroll
J. R. Adama
Louisiana Board of State Engineers
Louisiana
Plan Tag Day Here for Prison Relief Program
Permission granted for a Volunteers of America representative to hold a Children's Heart Tag Day in Monroe on Saturday to aid destitute prisoners' families. The VOA led by General Ballington Booth and Mrs Maud Booth is active nationwide in prison relief with Hope halls farm camps and centers assisting discharged and paroled men. President Coolidge endorses their work in a personal note. Local leaders sponsor and organize the event.
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Volunteers of America
Monroe
General Ballington
Maud Booth
Children’s Shoes Priced From 1 98 to 3 48
A newspaper brief notes children’s high top and low cut shoes priced from 1.98 to 3.48 offer. It highlights affordable footwear options for kids.
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Smith Bros
Harvest Bargains in Men's Dress Shoes
Harvest sale features men s dress shoes with $5.00 values marked down to 2 98. Names of brands or stores are not provided but the price cut is emphasized as a limited harvest sale offer.
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Smith Bros
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Howe Sachs
Foley
W. Z. Clary
Rnffins
G. E. Davis
Cole
P. O. Box
N. O. Hospital
Anderson Wells
Grays 1
Grand Floral Company
South Grand 81
Iron Mountain Bakery (Inc
Grammont & Jackson
Sociates
Chichester
Desiard Street
Sik
Near East
Coolidge
J. C. Penney CO
Fifth Ave
New York
Dixie Bedding CO
Armandine Renaud
Dancing
Ned Wayburn
Herman & DeMuth
DeSiard St
Valet
Flower Shoppe, Inc
North Third
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