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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1936
Page
3
A Rayville man Roosevelt Edwards about 33 underwent successful spleen removal last Thursday at Dr Mosely’s clinic on Wood Street. The case is only the second of its kind Dr Mosely has handled with authorities listing only 12 known cases in medical history.
At the Paramount John Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan star in Tarzan Escapes a jungle romance with thrilling battles against giant bats elephants and crocodiles directed by Richard Thorpe Benita Hume Rita and Herbert Mundin support. At the Capitol The Captain's Kid a First National comedy romance centers on May Robson Sybil Jason and Guy Kibbee with songs Drifting Along and I m the Captains Kid.
An ad touts BC headache and neuralgia medicine as quick acting and reliable for headaches neuralgia muscular aches and simple colds. It claims over 25 years of use and offers 10¢ 25¢ sizes or dose at fountains.
Postmaster J. R. Wooten says the holiday rush began Monday and will rise through the week. A second parcel post window opened to prevent delays with more windows planned as volume increases. Shippers are urged to wrap securely address plainly and mail early to ensure timely delivery.
A galvanized iron building at 2390 De Siard Street cost 1820 dollars and will house a mattress factory with John Catalina as contractor under city inspector Sam H. Awl. A second permit of 250 dollars covers combining two sandwich shops at 2700 De Siard Street for a single shop. Charles Simon Blaha and Sophia Blaha seek to change their name to Blake in Gary Indiana Superior Court.
The Louisiana state board of education sponsors a WPA program to repair and rebind discarded school books, creating about 700 jobs and extending the life of tens of thousands of texts. Units will open in New Orleans Shreveport Lake Charles Baton Rouge Lafayette Monroe and Alexandria with parish superintendents sending books for repair and binding.
An ethical treatment claims to relieve rheumatic pain by draining poisons and acids from the system. The originator, a famous doctor, asserts thousands of cases benefited from the formula and offers two bottle sizes with a money back guarantee.
Extra sets of books will be kept on hand to reconstruct missing pages. A New Orleans crew sorts books reads for pages then passes them to a cleaning crew that erases pencil marks and dirt. Outside pages are sanded for a clean surface before assembly and rebinding. The program is a white collar effort to employ men and women, teach a trade, and will later extend to school library books. This marks the first state wide rehabilitation project in Louisiana.
A fire of undetermined origin destroyed the R. R. Taylor home at Talla Bena plantation eight miles north of Tallulah Friday night. The house and its contents were valued at $11,000 with the family away in Tallulah.
Students at Estee Junior High School Gloversville New York are voluntarily having their fingerprints taken and filed with the Department of Justice through local police.
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