Christmas Charity Drives Help Monroe Kids This Christmas
The Good Fellows seek donations of clothes food and life goods for needy children in Monroe and West Monroe. Local supporters like Jack Selig five suits R R Rhimes beef calf C C Scharff dressed pig and S K Heniger 350 pounds of meat contribute. A Paramount theater benefit tonight at 11 10 features KMLB artists with proceeds aiding the charity.
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Good Fellows
Monroe
West Monroe
Jack Selig
R. R. Rhimes
C. C. Scharff
S. K. Heniger
Leathernecks Clash 149 Times With Nicaraguans
Washington reports United States Marines withdrawn from Nicaragua logged 149 contact events with bandits in the last 13 months. Major General B H Fuller notes increased operations across the country amid pacification efforts. Casualties since occupation began: 5 officers and 29 men killed in action. 14 officers and 85 men died of wounds. Transition of control to the Nicaraguan national guard continues with extensive Marine training work.
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Washington
Nicaragua
Central American Republic
B. H. Fuller
U. S. Marine Corps
Nicaraguan National Guard
Marine
Naval Medical Corps
Guard
No So Smart Pear Tree Misidentification Joke
A youthful student teases a farmer about outdated cultivation methods. He claims a pear tree will yield eight pounds of apples, then realizes the farmer replies it is a pear tree, highlighting a mix up in expectations and knowledge.
Rama claims cure for rheumatism and related pains
An advertisement promotes RAMA as a blood and kidney acting remedy for rheumatic aches including neuritis lumbago and swollen joints. Collens Pharmacy urges buyers to purchase a one dollar bottle with a full refund if it does not relieve pains.
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Collens Pharmacy
Storm Delays Transport Across Parishes and Rail Lines
Night storm slows travel with ice breaking a veneer mill line and disrupting utilities. Telco trouble in Tallulah to Choudrant, but mainly minor wire breaks. Monroe sees down poles and wires. Gas service reports frozen meters. few local phones out. Trains and buses delayed. Judge Shell misses session due to frozen car. Ouachita parish school attendance around 70 percent.
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Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Tallulah
St. Joseph
Sicily Island
Ferriday
Sterlington
Choudrant
Alexandria
New Orleans
Monroe
City Electrical Department
South Third Street
McEnery Street
Illinois Central
Missouri Pacific
J. T. Shell
Bastrop
Milton Coverdale
T. L. Tippit
West Monroe
Charles Cason
Ed Cason
Bastrop Sees White Christmas Hopes Amid Sleet and Snow
Bastrop reports a heavy sleet and snow covering on Friday with tractors clearing streets and no major accidents by noon. In Shreveport, first snow since 1929 brings ice on tracks, travel delays, and 21 degree lows as cars stall on dirt routes.
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Louisiana
Caddo
Shreveport
Dee
J. W. Cronk
Shreveport Railway Company
Front Car Breaks Ice on Tracks in Train Stunt
A front car crushes ice on the rails as the following coach is used to push the lead car. The sequence shows a coordinated move on the snowy line with a practical test of coupling.
Weather Turns Cold as Sleet and Snow Cover Wisner Area
In Wisner Louisiana sleet and snow persist despite a steady drop in temperature to a morning low of 29 degrees. The region remains blanketed as the icy precipitation began around 10 PM the previous night.
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Wisner
Winter Sleet Hits Alexandria With Freezing Temps
Alexandria endures sleet and a 29 degree night as tops ice over and streets turn slushy. Unemployed workers clear the newly built ramp to the Red River bridge to keep river traffic moving.
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Alexandria
Red River
Cold Storm Hits Lincoln Parish With Sleet and Thunder
Lincoln parish residents woke to a cold stormy spell as sleet coated the ground and iced trees. The thermometer read 18 to 20 at dawn as livestock lacking shelter and feed faced heavy losses and the sun struggled behind dense clouds.
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Ruston
Lincoln Parish
Icy Grip of Winter Hits Large Area of Nation
The winter storm and freezing temperatures blanket a wide region from the Great Lakes to the Midwest. Chicago reports four deaths and smoke-filled fires as 15 unpaid firefighters are overcome. Milwaukee sees fourteens inmates flee a freezing home for the aged. Ice hazards close harbor navigation as the Corman marks an icy harbor sinking but crew escapes unharmed. Gregory I, a Benedictine monk, reportedly becomes pope in 590.
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Associated Press
East
Great Plain
Middle West
Chicago
Stockyards
Milwaukee
Great Lakes
Corman
Erie
U S Prisoners Brought Here Tried Recently
Three years at the federal reformatory for interstate transportation of a stolen automobile. Leonard Lindemyer, 15, given an indefinite sentence at Washington for breaking and entering a post office. The men were jailed here by Federal probation officer J Noble White with Judge Dawkins and others in Lake Charles this week.
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Federal Reformatory
Washington
Leonard Lindemyer
Lindemyer
J. Noble White
Dawkins
Lake Charles
Stand rd Home Demonstration Club Meets for Christmas Gathering
On Wednesday afternoon the Stand ard Home Demonstration club, hosted by Mrs. R Kennison, decorated with red and green and a Christmas tree. Fourteen members and four visitors attended as Miss Fun berg received a scarf and hand kerchiefs for loyalty and participation. Members wore dresses from shorts sacks and old Victrola records were repurposed into bowls and wall vases. Miss Hazel Hendrix and Funberg demonstrated making divinity candy and patterns of dolls dogs and rabbits were shared. Cake and coffee were served to twenty adults listed. Next meeting will be the last Thursday in January hosted by Mrs. W Leach.
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Standard Home Demonstration Club
Hazel Hendrix
Funberg
Divinity
Mesdames Brantley
Streetman
A. C. Buffington
W. Harper
C. T. Woods
M. Hindman
R. Smith
W. T. Hammock
W. Leach
Allen S. K. Phillips
H. E. Winkler
H. P. Minard
Ray Hilderbrand
G. Hilderbrand
J. L. LaCaze
Lessie Belle Gough
Memorial Services for Judge Sandel Set for Tomorrow
Memorial services for Judge Percy Sandel, who died November 25, will be held by the Fourth District Bar association in the court room tomorrow at 10 o'clock. No motion hour will be held due to the service. The session was called by Judge J. T. Shell, fellow judge.
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Percy Sandel
Fourth District Bar Association
J. T. Shell
Sandel
Christmas Folk Dishes From Georgia to Louisiana
The article lists regional foods such as Brunswick stew from Georgia, hoecake, Florida chicken pilau, Creole gumbo and crawfish bisque from Louisiana, and local hams from Arkansas. It describes ingredients, basic preparations, and serving notes in a classic newspaper style.
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Georgia
Florida
Louisiana
Hi Jackers Obtain Only Carrots at New Orleans
Five bandits hijacked a carrot laden truck driven by Sam Licciardi a 33 year old farmer in New Orleans after forcing him at gunpoint to drive toward the city outskirts. They dumped him as they fled in separate cars.
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New Orleans
Sam Licciardi
Sam
Rivers Rise in Delta Country Flood Spree
Heavy rains yesterday brought high water across Delta Country with temperatures dropping. The Coosa River fell at Rome Georgia while Alabama cities reported little fear of rising rivers despite ongoing downpours.
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Delta
Coosa
Rome
Georgia
Alabama
Opeloousas Store Robbed of Night’s Sales
A thief broke through a wired glass rear door of the Morgan Lind sey chain store in Opeloousas Louisiana and escaped with the day’s sales totaling over $100. The manager, away for dinner, found the robbery upon returning to close up.
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Opelousas
Morgan & Lindsey Chain
Louisiana Public Service Commission Hearing Sets 44 Cases
The Louisiana public service commission heard testimony on rail freight rate adjustments motor vehicle passenger and freight operations and station status changes in 44 cases. Rice mills seek lower rail rates from Louisiana to Crowley Rayne and Kaplan with cases before Chairman Harvey G Fields and Commissioners Wade O Martin Francis Williams. Some bus and truck matter cases were dismissed.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Crowley
Louisiana
Mississippi River
Rayne
Kaplan
Bastrop Mills to Be Featured on Radio Broadcast
Bastrop and its paper mills will be highlighted in an industrial broadcast by Missouri Pacific over KMOX Friday night at 7. A brief tour of the Bastrop paper mills will be described, with Bastrop Kiwanis officials notified the mills will also be part of a Louisiana paper exhibit in St. Louis after the new year.
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Bastrop
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
KMOX
A. 8. McMeans
Bastrop Kiwanis Club
H. McReynolds
Missouri Pacific
St. Luis
Bastrop Paper Mills
Kiwanis Club
St. Louis
Man Fined For Goat Theft In Toledo Case
In Toledo Ohio Joe Modsynski 41 was fined 50 dollars plus costs after allegedly taking Joe Pruss's goat along with an aluminum snuff box two cloaks one watch a shotgun and six chickens. The fate of the items and motive remains unclear while charges mention goat theft.
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Toledo
Ohio
Joe Modsynski
Joe Pruss
John
Joe
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