Monroe Residents Urged to Back Local Gas Oil Venture
A reader urged Monroe property owners bankers and business people to invest in Ouachita Gas and Oil Company arguing a local gas or oil well would cut living costs raise property values and boost the economy. The writer cited savings in utility bills and the potential wealth lying beneath Monroe within a 15 to 20 mile radius. He invited skeptics to witness the potential by investing seed money to fund prospecting.
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News-Star
Monroe
Missouri
Ouachita Gas and Oil Company
Shreveport
Desirable Riverside Heights Lot For Sale Near Park Avenue
For 25c CAP-A-COLD notices offer a 100x150 building site in Riverside Heights near Park Avenue. Many nearby lots have sold, new residences rise, and the location ends near the car line and Salt Water Lake at a higher elevation, suggesting rising value. See J. B. Handy.
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Park Avenue
Riverside Heights
Turkey Day Pruit Cake Sale at KAKE SHOP
KAKE SHOP advertises Pruit Cake for Thanksgiving with prices starting at ten cents. Multiple sizes available, urging readers to buy ahead for the holiday.
Old Standard Grove Tonic Promises Health Benefits
The advertisement touts Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic as equally valuable as a General Tonic with quinine and iron. It claims to act on the liver, drive out malaria, enrich the blood, and build up the whole system. Price 50 cents.
New Orleans Denies Anxious Postseason, Monroe Challenges
A Monroe High School challenge to the New Orleans Baton Rouge game seeks a late season showdown for the state title. Monroe demands the winner must beat them to claim the championship and requests the game in Monroe after this Saturday. New Orleans resists postseason play while promising a tough matchup if Monroe earns a title shot.
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Shreveport Times
New Orleans
Boehm
Monroe High
Baton Rouge
Monroe
Boston Store Sale Opens Amid Crowds and Rioting Rush
Boston closes out sale began this morning with a waiting crowd and a rush at opening. Extra clerks worked all day as demand nearly caused a riot. Sale will continue until further notice. Advertising in the News Star seems to pay, locals told.
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Boston
News- Star
Legal Battle Looms Over New Delta County Bribe Case
In Vicksburg on Monday Lieut Governor Theodore Bilbo and Senator G A Hobbs face arraignment on bribery charges tied to the New Delta county bill. District Attorney Thames leads the prosecution with top state counsel, while defense attorneys McBeath Cochran and Sullivan prepare for a fight. Trial likely set for a future date.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Mississippi
Theodore
Bilbo
G. A. Hobbs
Lincoln County
Cheung Court
Warren County
Delta County
J. D. Thames
Gov
Brewer
R. N. Miller
Hazlehurst
Thames
Miller
C. J. M. Beath
R. F. Cochran
Meridian
Sullivan
Hattiesburg
Messrs. McBeath
Cochran
Apear
Robbery arrest in Tallulah ends for Ryan on bond
R. O. Ryan, arrested early this week on a Tallulah robbery charge, was released yesterday on a $500 cash bond. The case appears settled for him as he aimed to leave town at once.
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R. O. Ryan
Tallulah
Ryan
Seminole of Clyde Line in Distress Off San Domingo
The steamship Seminole of the Clyde Line is in distress off San Domingo. One message says she sprang a leak and another that she was beached with cargo being removed. It is believed all on board are safe. The Maritime Exchange posted a notice the ship is a total loss, denied by Clyde Line agents.
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New York
Seminole
Clyde Line
San Domingo
Maritime Exchange
Haiti
Robbery at White Store in Cadeville Targets Jewelry
The John A. White store in Cadeville was broken into Thursday night and jewelry worth about 250 dollars stolen. An attempt to force the safe was unsuccessful.
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John A. White
Cadeville
Railroad Safe Break-In Leaves Clues Behind
The outer hinges were broken and the safe damped but nothing secured. Several railroad spikes were found as the only clue to the robbers.
Nobel prizes to be announced in Stockholm
Washington reports that the Nobel prizes in science medicine literature and peace will be announced in Stockholm on Wednesday the anniversary of Alfred Nobels death. Tagore and Prof Charles Richet are named among likely winners.
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Washington
Alfred Nobel
Stockholm
Nobel
Tagore
Fog costs in London cited at twenty five thousand dollars
The article notes a day of darkness in London caused by fog costs residents 25000 dollars for gas and a large sum for electric light. It adds a remark on Saturdays being named after Saturn from Roman myth and long viewed as the unluckiest day of the week.
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Ness
London
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