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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1946
Page
5
Bruno's Electric Shoe Shop at 106 North Second Street has undergone extensive alterations and now serves the public better than ever after 20 years in business.
Located at this address Nicholas Bruno, owner. The workshop and waiting room are separated to give the front room the appearance of a modern office. Shoe cases line the north wall while leather goods and travel gear sit on the south wall. New show cases hold billfolds and belts. More chairs are added to reduce noise and dust and to present an attractive public image.
West Monroe Lodge No. 419 F and A M decided last week to purchase the Mills Furniture Company building at 323 Trenton Street for 15000 dollars. The plan includes enlarging the structure and adding a second story for a lodge room while renting the first floor for business use. The lodge reportedly has about 16000 dollars cash for the fund and officers were elected: C C Peterman worshipful master J E Duffy senior warden D M Frantom junior warden J W Mitchell treasurer Dr J C Stewart secretary B H Dyar chaplain O P Pendarvis senior deacon H L Laster junior deacon O V Ates master of ceremonies R G Sample senior steward F A Brown junior steward N H Knox tyler.
The Paramount Theater in Baton Rouge was robbed of about 3000 dollars by two armed men who held up manager M. A. Jacob and three employees including cashier Rose Alexander. They escaped in a 1942 Buick after tying up staff. one employee freed himself within minutes. Police described the suspects as about 35 years old.
Wesley J. Hodge plans a one story frame dwelling at 407 McGuire Avenue with cost not exceeding 6250 and day labor used. J B Kentney adds to a one story frame shop at 805 Thomas Avenue with total cost not to exceed 50 and the owner will do the work.
Hal Boyle humorously lists imagined future conveniences from a New York department store heated sidewalks to Havana underwritten free trips for millionaires. He riffs on gadgets and absurdities like white carbon tires and self reversing taxes, painting a satirical vision of progress.
Tokyo reports a rat plague as US Army units deploy 6,000 traps and 200,000 poison packages to exterminate Norway-type rodents thriving in bombed ruins. An army surgeon’s office launches a drive to curb the husky brown pests, warned to cause pleurisy and death within hours.
A traveling display of captured Axis secret weapons will open in Monroe at North Second and DeSiard streets Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The trailer shows a Nazi jet propelled bat bomb alongside an Italian diving torpedo and other wartime devices. The Navy Club of the U S A sponsors the exhibit, a non profit veterans organization. No admission charge.
Mrs Annie M Benton found her Calypso Street residence wide open and ransacked after a three hour absence. Cash totalling $38.37 vanished from her and Miss Bess Sharps bedroom contents, with no other items reported stolen. Celery origin noted from selinon the Greek word for parsley.
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