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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1916
Page
8
Multiple short notices advertise meat markets with prices and location at New Star Meat Market corner Eighth and Breard, plus Ker n’s horse shoeing shop and wagon making. Also wood and coal yard ads offer delivery, cash terms, and phone numbers, with a Christmas store hours notice and a few personal service lines from local business agents.
Local ads note extended hours for the Racket Store until 9 pm through Christmas. The Art Studio offers 12 cabinet photographs and one enlargement in a frame for 8.50. Ir on Mountain Bakery promotes fruit cakes and treats with delivery, while specials list prices on lemons oranges toilet soap coffee eggs and raisins. Also promoting infant garments at Mrs. Johnny Smith and wood for sale via R C Brown. Chamberlains Tablets advertised for constipation.
Civil cases include Handy Radley vs Alice Blackman Hadley. Marriage licenses issued for Henry Gibbs and Annie May Kelley. Pairs listed: Joey Kidd with Alice Johnson, Amon Hayes with Rebecca Garthwait, Willie Stewart with Emma Colgin, George Jackson with Ardella Bonner, J W Thomas with Ada Hazlewood, Charles Tidwell with Flora Peters. Property transfers show John Blazier to Ben Blazier and Oza Whitten to T T Jones. Local fines issued for concealed weapons and drunkenness. Classic piano sale notices from Kaliski Music Co. and extensive storefront promotions for Terminal Heights Addition and Mrs Johnnie Smith. Foster Jewelry store decorations highlighted.
Massive piano sale at Kaliski Music Co. Ltd offers pianos from 95 dollars with flexible terms. Holiday gifts include warm clothing and toys. Adjoins Iron Mountain shops at 16 11 Terminal Heights Addition. Ouachita Lodge No. 2 OG O F elects officers for the next year.
Mrs H B Barrett of Republic near Birmingham reports gaining nine pounds after using Tanlac for four years of chronic dyspepsia. She says bread and milk diet left her weak and unable to eat, and that Tanlac improved her appetite, sleep, and strength from the first bottle. She praises the medicine and notes neighbors also seeking Tanlac locally. Monroe stores Allen's Pharmacy and Calvert's Drug Store advertise it.
Reports from Chicago and New Orleans detail irregular wheat and corn futures with mixed cotton notes. Lloyd George speech awaited in Parliament and U S export volumes shape day. traders weigh peace prospects against price declines and Wall Street pressure.
The police force will present a petition to the city council tonight requesting a ten dollar per month raise. They currently earn seventy dollars monthly, arguing that the pay is inadequate given higher living costs longer hours and the associated risks.
Ouachita National Bank announces holiday week payment in new currency and new money supply. Bank offers free rolls with player pianos and weekly payments of 2.50 dollars.
Good pianos priced $78, $97, $117, $147, $178 and up at this piano sale now going on at Kaliski Music Co Ltd. Terms $1.25 a week and up. $450 Used Vose Piano listed. Mr. Percy Endom visiting relatives on three months leave from Panama Canal. Don’t delay get your piano now with terms to suit you.
An old advertisement touts Bond's Pills as a cure for headaches sour stomach dizziness and coated tongue from an inactive liver. It urges avoiding calomel and promises waking up well after taking a single pill nightly for 25 cents sold by all druggists.
Government winter wheat report boosts prelim area estimates by over two million acres with another million settled this season. Prices showed bearish mix yet market tightened as selling cooled. July futures rose 4 cents from day’s low and closed 3 14 cents higher.
Saturday's report cites corn at 2,606,000 bushels with a bullish distant outlook amid visible supply rising. Oats closed strong as corn moves with a near term rise, while a large 50,600,000 figure hints at market heat and forward buying.
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