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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1918
Page
6
Adjutant General McCrory urges 18 year old registrants to return military questionnaires to Local Boards. Many parishes report high noncompliance and belief that returns are unnecessary since the war ends. Delinquency could lead to deserter status. records sealed December 10 call for full compliance and proper classification.
The president's third day shows notable health improvement as his cold eases with treatment. His voice strengthens and he attends to comforts of companions while personally ensuring orders are carried out aboard the George Washington.
Eight hundred soldiers from camps Nichols and Mertin, all within 400 miles of New Orleans, were mustered out this morning. The discharge marks a significant relocation of personnel as authorities finalize postwar demobilization plans.
A short classified notice in the News-Star highlights the value of cheap want ads for fast responses. The item emphasizes affordability and effectiveness for buyers and sellers seeking swift transactions.
Reads as a scattered stock data fragment with high and low close values and numeric codes, lacking readable context or identifiable entities. The text appears to show prices and indices but does not form a coherent report or recognizable company names or dates.
New Orleans reports revival in spot demand and growing export. private crop estimates suggest higher tonnage. Government Dec 11 report will set crop size. last Oct forecast predicted 11,831,000 bales. Weather bureau notes generally favorable conditions for a later top crop in November.
The report suggests 800000 or more values signal a temporary dip, while 11500000 or less points to market advance. Linters excluded from government estimates. post bureau release, trade faces an official footing for judging production size. Exports may rise as shipments on U S ports total 160000 versus 135000 last year, signaling larger European shipments ahead.
A local classified listing offers an eight room house for rent or sale by Mrs. Levy with contact via phone 198. Also items for sale include two sets of sectional bookcases, a plantation brokered sale near Bonita Louisiana with flexible terms, a nearly new Ford car for cash, and assorted household goods including a gas range logs shades a baby cart and a bed with contacts H O Clay and Mrs M F George.
The report shows cotton in August at 3,007,000 bales, down from 3,047,000 a year ago and well below the 4,384,000 bales reached in 1916. H. and B. Beer are credited in the source.
An ad fragment promotes Christmas post ecards for one cent from a company identified by the initials Fetc Levi n Staty Co Ltd, with a date line showing 6-21.
A special meeting of the Monroe Anne is set for 3 p m Sunday December Sth in their hall. All members are urged to attend due to business of utmost importance. A J Lambert, President. 7 11. aca wt.
London reports that Great Britain will demand 8 000 000 000 pounds sterling in reparations from Germany for the war. The Daily Mail notes Prime Minister David Lloyd George will outline the demand in a Leeds speech, stating the war cost British taxpayers 4 000 000 000.
The Daily Mail reports French claims for reparation as infinitely larger than Britain’s, citing German payment figures and implying a substantial gap in postwar compensation expectations.
London reports that councils of Livonia Estonia and Doverland appeal to Allied and neutral governments urging intervention against Bolshevik invasion. Bolsheviki forces have entered parts of the provinces killing burning as they advance and fugitives await ships for protection.
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