Startling Theories In Williams Case Revealed
Columbia reports new details in the Lacey Williams murder at Standard Lumber Company. Joe Price is implicated after a ten dollar bill with Lincoln’s chin and Jackson’s brain was linked to the victim’s death. The bill also connects to the rifle shot on Tuesday afternoon. Authorities in Standard and Jena hold four suspects.
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Columbia
Lacey Williams
Standard Lumber Company
Standard
Williams
California
Joe Price
Abraham Lincoln
General Jackson
Lincoln
Jackson
Price
Jena
Battle to Win Fight Against White Plague Being Gradually Won
Washington December 17 The tuberculosis battle is being gradually won Census Bureau data show deaths per 100 000 in 85 percent of the population areas declined from 150 in 1918 to 97 4 last year The yearly drop slowed in 1922 Louisiana totals 2198 with white 789 Negro 1409 Mississippi totals 1924 white 414 Negro 1512
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Washington
Census Bureau
Louisiana
Mississippi
Librarians to Meet in Chicago for Midwinter Sessions
The American Library Association holds midwinter meetings in Chicago from December 31 to January 2. Council, library commissions, universities and colleges along with various committees will participate. President Azariah S. Root of Oberlin College will preside over bibliographical meetings with addresses by middle western college librarians on books for college students.
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Chicago
American Library Association
Association
League of Library Commissions
University, College and Normal School
Bibliographical Society of América
Azariah S. Root
Oberlin ‘Tallege
Oberlin
Unusual injunction issued in Shreveport
Federal Judge Rufus E. Fster of New Orleans issued an injunction against U. S. Meyer, Shreveport jeweler and Twenty-four Carat Club president, restraining interference with auctioneer Herman G. Briggs hired by A. Goetsche. Meyer must show cause why the injunction should not be granted in New Orleans on December 22.
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Associated Press
Shreveport
Rufus E. Fster
New Orleans
U. S. Meyer
German loses home then Joe Munster lecture axed
Prof d Ester, a rare German journalism lecturer, quits work after his home collapses. In Marshfield Oregon a light clung to the stranded schooner C A Smith at the harbor entrance, nine lives lost yesterday.
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German
Joe
Munster
d’Ester
Housing Commission
Marshfield
Oregon
C. A. Smith
Traffic Fatalities in New Orleans Reach Record High
In New Orleans the 36 hour fatalities rose to seven bringing the year total to sixty nine, the highest in city history. Victims include Harvey Herbert 23 a Tulane graduate, Mrs Rachel Blumenthal 72, a Julius Wise Home resident, and a Negro victim aged over 70. Also Mrs John Slaughter 73 Miss Marie Desommes 70 Daniel Farrell 72 and Ootto Winkler 25.
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New Orleans
Harvey Herbert
Tulane
Rachel Blumenthal
Julius Wise
John Slaughter
Marie Desommes
Daniel Farrell
Ootto Winkler
Louisiana Spanish War Veterans Organized
Louisiana state department of the Spanish American War Veterans has been organized with Police Captain J M Dmitry named state commander and J St Clair Favrot of Baton Rouge named junior vice commander.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Louisiana State Department of the
J. M. Dimitry
Department
J. St. Clair Favrot
Baton Rouge
Training Institute Reports Record Agricultural Yield in Louisiana
The Louisiana Training Institute under Superintendent W. J. Gill posted its largest yearly crop since founding. The farm produced 2 300 barrels of corn 1031 3 tons of hay sixty bushels of peas for seed 436 gallons of cane syrup 640 bushels of sweet potatoes 80 tons of silage and other outputs including eighteen cows yielding about sixty gallons of milk daily. The institute plans 1 000 pecan trees with Fred Peters and Guy P Stubbs donating trees for the grove.
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Louisiana Training Institute
W. J. Gill
Institute
Fred Peters
Guy P. Stubbs
Monroe
Berger Bill Urges Credit for Germany
Representative Berger introduces a bill in Washington proposing a $1,000,000,000 German food credit to be provided by the U S government. The measure aims to aid Germany’s masses during current economic strains.
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Berger
Germany
Washington
Wisconsin
Gold Rush Follows Warm Winds Across Alaska Hills
In Anchorage, warm chinook winds melt ice revealing auriferous gravels and triggering a stampede of prospectors who stake new placer claims above Turnagain Arm. Avalanches cut into soil, three quartz ledges appear, and spring work plans rise as long-time residents note climatic shifts.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Turnagain Arm
Hills
Southern Division
Alaska Railroad
Reluctant Winter Delays Heavy Snow in Southwest Alaska
In southwestern Alaska heavy snowfalls melted quickly this season as winter hesitates to take hold. Meanwhile in Japan, thirty miners were entombed in a coal mine at Kasniya, Fukuoka prefecture, trapped by war workings, with reports reaching Tokyo on December 17.
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Alaska
Tokio
Kasniya
Fukuoka Prefecture
Japan
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Tom
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DeSiard St
Arrow
Wilson Bros
Cheney
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Larrie Henry
H. L. Wood
Goodyear
Taylor-Nash Automobile Co
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Hare
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Coty
Azurea
Floramae
Mavis
Arley
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Colgate’s
Palmer’s
Melba
Harriet Hubbard Ayers
Marinello
Elmo
Chu Ching Chow
la Valliere
Kodaks
Norris
Elmer
Collens’ Pharmacy
Christ
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DeSiard and Second Sts
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DeSiard
Krex Department Store
Dixie
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