London producers seek to popularize British made films
British cinema push aims to raise British film share from about 15 percent to half on English screens. Royal figures attend first night for a film about WWI efforts while proving the public response. Producers doubt drive US reels from British screens, focusing on boosting home industry.
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London
England
Isles
Prince of
British National Film League
Prince of Wales
Princess Mary
Four Crossett workers injured in gasoline car explosion
Crossett Lumber Company employees Parris Wilson Mose Pierce Walter Kelley and Orie Hornady were badly burned when a box car heated by a coal stove caught fire after gasoline and kerosene spilled during a failed attempt to rekindle a fire. Three workers, Pleas Young White and Ben Murray, died from the blaze and subsequent injuries. The injured are hospitalized in Crossett and are expected to recover, doctors say.
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Parris Wilson
Mose Pierce
Walter Kelley
Orie Hornady
Crossett Lumber Company
Morehouse Parish
Crossett Hospital
Crossett
Pleas Young
R. White
Ben Murray
White
Young
Murray
Closing out sale notice and furniture ads
Do not fail to attend closing out sale. D. L. Cromwell. Let a well chosen gift of furniture make glad her heart at Christmas. Munholland Danwitz Furniture Co. SEE OUR MATTRESSES Comforts bed steads and springs before you buy. L. W. Gresham Mattress Factory, West Monroe, La. Phone 1145.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. L. Cromwell
Munholland-Danwitz Furniture Co
L. W. Gresham Mattress Factory
West Monroe
Singer
Sewlight
Singer Sewing Machine CO
Gas Products Company Increases Capitalization In Louisiana
The Union Gas Products Inc Monroe filed to raise capitalization from 25090 to 500 with the Louisiana secretary of state. Other corporations increasing capitalization or filing charters in Louisiana include Banos Leelare New Orleans Crude Oil Company of Delaware Dover Associated Oil Company of Louisiana Chester Carbon Monroe Lee Baker Dry Goods Shreveport Southern Sales Shreveport Central Gravel Rouge. Total filings and increases in the past week reached 1 482 554 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GAS Products Company
Baton Rouge
Union Gas Products, Inc
Monroe
Secretary of State
Banos-Leelare Company, Inc
New Orleans
Crude Oil Company of Delaware
Dover
Louisiana
Associated Oil Company of
Chester Carbon Company, Inc
Lee- Baker Dry Goods Company, Inc
Shreveport
Southern Sales Company
Central Gravel Company, Inc
Rouge
Two Women Held in Murder Charge in Louisiana
In Bogalusa, Mrs Ed Hleming and her sister in law Mrs Stepp of Jenkins were arrested and jailed in Franklinton on murder charges in the death of her husband a week earlier. An autopsy was conducted and key organs were sent to a lab for testing as authorities pursue clues.
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Bogalusa
Ed Hleming
Stepp
Jenkins
Franklinton
Hlem
Leming
Er Brock
Setech
Primm gas zone eyed as rival in Smackover field
Investigations indicate a Primm gas zone above the main Meekin sand in the east Smackover field. Large gas wells show a reservoir over 12 000 to 13 000 acres with rock pressure around 1 444 psi, while Meekin sand carries salt water in most areas except the Norphlet dome high.
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Dietin Oe Pau
Pag Ri Ts
Primm
Primm Farm
Bureau
Smackover
State Department of Mines, Manufacturers and Agriculture
Little Rock
Ark
East Smackover
Meekin
Norphlet Dome
West Smackover
Prize Orpington Held For Theft Is Bought By Poultryman
In Boston on December 14 Lady Camille a prize Blue Orpington hen once jailed for theft after allegedly snatching a diamond from a ring at the Chelsea poultry show was purchased by Lawrence A. Randall a Boston poultryman for 250 plus the diamond’s market price. The case hinged on criminal law not extending to fowls and the diamond owner paid 100 for potential damages from a medical operation. Randall later accepted the owners’ offer to buy the hen.
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Boston
Lady Camille
Camille
Randall
Munholland Danwitz Furniture Co Gift Noted
A readable fragment notes Munholland Danwitz Furniture Co at 133 and mentions gifts of furniture and jewelry from U S Jewelry Co at 15 11. The text hints at practical attractive gifts and Christmas purchasing.
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Munholland- Danwitz. Furniture Co
Officers search for escaped convicts in Arkansas woodlands
Officers and citizens aided by blood hounds hunted the Jackson and Lawrence county woods for Benny Casey and Charles O'Reith, Kansas convicts who escaped a train at Alicia, Ark, after wounding deputy warden D. W. Burns while being returned to the Kansas penitentiary.
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Newport
Ark
Woodlands
Jackson and
Lawrence
Benny Casey
Charles O'Reith
Kansas
Alicia
D. W. Burns
Kansas Penitentiary
Eleven Men Indicted Over Stuttgart Newspaper Attack
In Stuttgart Arkansas eleven men were indicted in circuit court for the attack last week on the Free Press offices. The case ties to editor R A Berry and assistant T F Lawson. Each defendant faces four charges.
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Stuttgart
Ark
Free Press
R. A. Berry
T. F. Lawson
Gas and Hot Water Well To Be Drilled At Hot Well
Plans announced by Dr. Clarence Pierson call for rejuvenating the gas and hot water well at Hot Well, Louisiana, twenty miles north of Alexandria, after a recent flow stoppage. An additional well will be drilled as part of extensive improvements at the resort.
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Associated Press
Alexandria
Hot Well
Here
Clarence Pierson
Kiddie Cars and Bikes From Mun Holland Danwitz Furniture
A Mun holland Danwitz Furniture Company display features toy flivvers velocipedes and kid sized vehicles. The items include kiddie cars and bicycles as part of a children's playthings showcase.
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Munholland-Danwitz Furniture Company
Curtain Rung Down On Student Life In Greenwich Village
A 1920s feature laments the loss of Greenwich Village as an artists haven. War depletion, Prohibition, and housing costs drove out painters writers and musicians, replacing cheap studios with luxury apartments and closing the open-house culture that defined the district.
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Greenwich Village
New
France
Paris
Park Avenue
14Th Street
Paradise
Bond's Liver Pills Claim Quick Germ Clearance
Advertisement claims Bond's Liver Pills cleanse the system of poisonous germs causing colds fever influenza and other illnesses. One pill at bedtime allegedly brings immediate relief and costs 25 cents at all druggists with a note to refuse substitutes.
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Bond
Turkeys Sold Live at Leon's Cafe
Live turkeys advertised for sale at Leon's Cafe at 35c per pound while stock lasts. Contact phone 193, hours 10 to 6.
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Leon
West Carroll Oil Prospect Promises New Pool Discovery
Orion Oil Company of California partners with Macon Ridge Syndicate of Oak Grove West Carroll parish to drill exploratory wells. First well in township 23 north range 10 east section 23. Promoters Filkins and Hiatt of Bastrop say asphalt found and distant wells suggest a productive field linked to the Morehouse Ouachita gas dome.
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Orion Oil Company of
California
Macon Ridge Syndicate
Oak Grove
West Carroll Parish
Range 10
Morehouse- Ouachita
Orion 0 Company
C. W. L. Filkins
Walter Hiatt
Bastrop
Macon Ridge Syndi ‘Agate
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U. S. Jewelry, Co
Big Crossett
Smachover
Christoas
Orbany
N. B. Mathis
Everett True
New York
America
DeSiard
West Carroll
Jersey
K.S. Eby
Moto Trucks
Younger Motor Company
Bright and Jackson Sts
W. D. Parsons
Miss Lynn’s Business School
Monroe Hotel
Mr. Parsons
North
Grand St
Monroe, LA
White City
Jim Villanti
St. John Street
Dessard
Hudson
D. A. Breard, Sr
E. R. Breard Garage
Walnut St
Ford
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