Frank Burk Awarded 750 From Two Companies
Frank Burk received a 750 settlement from the American Service Company and the American Employer Insurance Company in a district court compromise judgment. He sued for 9.78 weekly for 400 weeks claiming total and permanent disability from an February attack at the American Service ice plant on DeSiard Street. He was struck on the head and face with a pipe by coworker Roy Kirk causing injuries.
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Frank Burk
American Service Company
American
Insurance Company
Yes
Burk
DeSiard Street
Roy Kirk
How Doctors Treat Colds and Coughs
Doctor advised cold relief with Calotabs, a compound tablet that mimics calomel and salts without side effects. Take one or two at bedtime with no water, and by morning the cold is gone and appetite returns. Sold in 30 and 60 cent packages at drug stores.
Settlement Reached Over Worker Injuries and Receivers Appointed
The suit noted an upper lip injury leaving permanent disfigurement. A compromise settlement stated the case was tried but no verdict delivered. Since the incident the American Service Company went into receivership with Harry L. Burk and Charles Ruzicka named receivers. Defendants claimed Burk's injuries were outside his work scope yet offered to pay the specified amount to settle.
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American Service Company
Harry L. Burk
Charles Ruzicka
Burk
Palace Lends Good Fellows Aid With Holiday Events
The Paramount theater will dedicate all proceeds from a Saturday late program to the Good Fellows. Radio Station KMLB artists present the show at 11 10 p m. A December 23 dance by Miss Armadine Renaud at Neville High School benefits the fund. Letters to Santa from needy children flow in daily, with addresses often missing.
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Paramount Theater
Good Fellows
KMLB
Armadine Renaud
Neville High School
Renaud
Monroe
Santa Claus
Demands Rejected in Liberty Insurance Suit
The plaintiff in the Daily Crease case against Liberty Industrial Life Insurance Co. had demanded $165 on a life policy carried by Mariah Luther. The court decision handed down yesterday in district court rejected the suit, citing the policy and beneficiary details tied to Luther who purportedly died on August 16.
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Daily Crease
Liberty Industrial Life Insurance Company
Mariah Luther
Leist Is Named Head Of Y's Men For Coming Year
Monroe Y's Men elected officers at a semi annual meeting at Hotel Frances with John Leist as president and Abe Johnson L H Bennett and Joe Craig as vice presidents. Board of directors includes Fillmore Meadows Arthur Smith Jr John Madden and Howard Willard. Leist succeeds O N McNeil as president.
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Monroe Y's Men’s Club
Hotel Frances
John Leist
Abe Johnson
L. H. Bennett
Joe Craig
William Leber
Fillmore Meadows
Arthur Smith, Jr
John Madden
Howard Willard
Leist
O. N. McNeil
T. L. Tippit
Twin City
Parent-Teacher Association
Deaths rise to six in Ruston week
Ruston records two more deaths as the weekly toll climbs to six with the passing of Mrs. Felix Simonton and Mrs. Grover C. Broadnax. Simonton, from Unionville, dies at Ruston Lincoln sanitarium after pneumonia. Broadnax dies at home on Eastland avenue. Burial plans set Greenwood cemetery. Lincoln parish schools shut due to flu epidemic until January 2, with Hico Dubach Simsboro and Hillcrest already closed.
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Ruston
Felix Simonton
George Hogg
Unionville
Ruston- Lincoln Sanitarium
Tay Hogg
Simonton
The
Baptist Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Grover C. Broadnax
Eastland Avenue
Lincoln Parish
Hico
Dubach
Simsboro
Hillcrest
Village twins reach 95 amid timeless quips
The village celebrates twin siblings aged 95 described as its wonder. A parishioner asks the secret to their longevity and a local retorts that one rises early while the other does not, delivering a wry moral in humorist fashion.
Three Minute Relief From Your Headache
A remedy named B. C. offers quick relief from violent headaches by a blend of several ingredients. The product, prepared by a registered pharmacist, targets headaches muscular aches colds neuralgia and nervous distress without opiates in 10¢ and 25¢ packages.
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B. C
Monroe Surgeon Addresses Rotary on Cancer Threat
Dr. J. Q. Graves told Monroe Rotarians the cancer menace is global and not hereditary or contagious. He urged public education and yearly exams, outlined risk factors from irritations to breast health, and emphasized early diagnosis and treatment can cure many cancers.
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Rotary Club
Cameo
Virginia
J. Q. Graves
Man
India
Rockefellow Institute
United States
Nature
Trial date set in Deputy Walker slaying case
Senatoria Mississippi December 15. Trial of Jesse Williams charged with killing Deputy Jeff Walker Williams set for February 6 at a special Tate County circuit court term. Williams was arrested in Memphis and jailed in Mississippi in an unannounced facility.
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Senatoria
Miss
Jesse Williams
Jeff Walker Williams
Tate County
Williams
Memphis
Mississippi
Rites Planned Friday for Three Victims of Crash
Coroner's verdict issued only for Ronaldson death with no blame assigned. Heider and Talbot were injured and removed from the scene. Heider’s sister, Mrs. A R Perry of Greenville Mississippi, says her brother claimed Talbot drove the car. Heider, 18, was a Urania High School student.
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H. Brown
Caldwell Parish
Ronaldson
J. W. King
Brown
Heider
Talbot
C. L. Mengis
Parish
A. R. Perry
Greenville
News-Star-World
Perry
Urania High School
Southern
M Las
Texas
In His Honor A Wife Honors Husband With Daily Burnt Offerings
A dialogue depicts a wife praising her husband and claiming she places burnt offerings before him three times daily, with the husband acknowledging the practice as affectionate ritual.
Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine Cold Cure Ad
An advertisement claims Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine stops a cold quickly by opening the bowels killing germs reducing fever easing headache and toning the system. It urges buying at drug stores in a handy pocket-size cellophane-wrapped box.
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Groves
Grove
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