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Newspaper

Monroe News Star

Location

Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Date

Dec 19, 1916

Page

8

Local meat markets and wood yard ads headlined

Classified notices announce meat market deals at The New Star Meat Market corner Eighth and Breard streets with quick city delivery and various cuts. The Temple Aid offers lunch in the Webb building. Wood yard ads promote coal and wood delivery, cash terms, and contact numbers. Also listed are subscription agents and miscellaneous small ads.

New Star Eighth and Breard Streets People's Wood Yard

Chanukah Dance Postponed by Religious School

The Chanukah dance for the children of the Religious School of Congregation Hnar Israel, set for tomorrow night, has been postponed to a later date with more details to be announced in January. The Bible Circle will not meet this week due to Rabbi Pollak's absence. Other notes advertise groceries and photography services in Monroe Louisiana.

Congregation Hnar Israel Pollak Monroe Bible Circle

Christmas Cakes and Bakery Specials at Iron Mountain

Your Christmas Cakes offerings include fruit cakes and assorted cakes ready for delivery. Iron Mountain Bakery advertises low prices and high quality with contact at 7-151 and phone 417. Also notes over eighty lots sold at Terminal Heights Addition with low prices.

Iron Mountain Bakery Terminal Heights Addition

Parish and City Court Records and Local Notices

Civil cases listed including Clair et als vs Fairbanks Union National Bank and Keller Grocer Co and other land sale deeds. Marriage licenses named William Young with Sissie Harr ion and others. Special land sale ads and oil lease at Tichell. Volunteers of America announce Christmas dinner for Monroe inmates and needy, with gift donations sought via Capt. McCarty.

J. W. Golson W. R. Joiner B. Z. Bowers Railroad Lands Co., Ltd

In Memory of M P P Handy and Sadler Bible Class Resolutions

Resolutions honor Mac P Handy who died November 4 1916 and note the Sadler Bible Class sympathy to his family. The item also records a marshal's sale notice in Monroe Louisiana dated December 1918, listing Ben Kendall v Tom Hardy and describing a sale of household goods at the Brown Stave Factory area.

Tom Hardy Brown Monroe

Home of the Good Samaritan seeks Christmas offerings

The Home of the Good Samaritan asks readers to donate for ten adults and twelve children in its care. Superintendent L. H. Swayze frames giving as a wartime service and cites religious examples to urge financial support. Donations are requested through local banks and the Home address at Hex 214.0 Merton, Ouachita National Bank.

Christmas Cheer and City Budget Notes

The social section highlights a Pace Two item on lucky numbers and the Ouachita National Bank Christmas greeting lifting spirits. It promotes a book and Bible shop called The Racket Store with gift ideas. City Council raised salaries for police, firefighters, and the tax collector, and named Central Savings Bank & Trust as city depository receiving half of deposits.

Ouachita National Pankc Central Savings Bank & Trust Company

Calendar Scraps From January to April Notes

Fragmentary OCR hints at dates from January February and March April with numeric values and symbols. No clear event or names are readable to identify a specific item or outcome.

Wheat and market notes from Chicago and New Orleans

Chicago wheat and corn prices are listed with highs and lows for December and May contracts. A Daily Cotton Letter from New Orleans notes selling pressure from fears of Parliament speeches and potential negotiations. The report covers exports, receipts, stocks, and projections as the season progresses, with figures on U S ports and interior stocks and estimates of ginning gains to December 18.

Shackleton Sail From Dunedin On Rescue Run

New Zealand dispatches report Sir Ernest Shackleton will sail the Aurora from Dunedin on his second Antarctic rescue mission. He seeks to reach marooned crew members from the 1914 Ross Sea expedition, including Captain Mackintosh and nine crew, left when the ship broke away in a blizzard.

London Bec New Zealand Ernest Shackelton Saila Aurora Dunedin Ross Sea Mackintosh

Classified Advertisements and Lost Notes Notice

NEW ADVERTisers 815 WANTED Teams to haul hardwood logs short haul good price Apply S C Blackmon 19 31 FOR RENT Two nicely furnished light housekeeping rooms Apply 512 Breard 19 31 WANTED Second hand doll stove large enough to cook on Plane 797 19 31 FOR RENT Furnished room Apply 800 St John or phone 374 1931 LOST NOTES Three certain notes of 1900 each dated May 5 1913 due on the 1st day of July 1915 1916 and 1917 respectively executed by John Lanan and by him endorsed stipulating interest at the rate of per cent per annum from their dates and per cent as attorneys fees all secured by vendor s lien and mortgage on certain property in Ouachita parish have been lost the方 bye is warned against trading to same in any manner Hudson Pole Bernstein Scholars Attorneys for Owner 1916¢

John Lanan Ouachita Parish Hudson, Pole Bernstein & Scholars

Wood for Sale by Ring R C Brown

Local advertisement lists wood for sale by Ring R C Brown with contact phone 111-3 13-6t. Includes request for inquiries and pricing details at the listed number.

R. C. Brown

Georgia Walking Mind Tigers. Atlanta, Ga, Dee 16.

Palmer Pees, Atlanta's famous negro jail bird evangelist, faces a threat from Henry Walker, a Quitman preacher. A list of contraband items allegedly found on Walker includes ten quarts of whiskey, a pistol, and a chicken, amid a scandalous domestic scene.

Atlanta Dee Palmer Pees Quitman Henry Walker

Also Mentioned on This Page

Waltham S. J. Rivotte & Son S. Grand St Monroe, la Pext Kern Joe Kern Saminzina Il Deri Temple Aid Webb New South Drug Store S. W. Ramsey All American Publications Coal and Wood ED Neuwirth J. D. McGee Rarket Store PF. T. Smith McHenry Plantation F. T. Smith Grocer St. Grand Street H. W. Young Ll. R. Powers Wde Wexlers Cigar Store H.R. Speed Monroe, Louisiana New Orleans Cotton Exchange O. O. Clair L. M. Fair Union National Bank H. F. Thomas Vs. Keller Grocer Co the Realty Investment Company, Ltd Frank Tichell William Young and Sissie Harr Jesse Williams Hettie Crosley Edward Hall Laura May Bonar Peters Furniture O., Inc Net of Volunteers of America Capt. McCarty P.O. Box West Monroe M. PP. Handy Mac P Sadler Bllle News-Star Sadler Bible Evelyn Downes B. A. Trousdale J.T. Bryant Marshal State of Louisiana Parish of Ouachita City of Mon Roe Ben Kendall Va Tom Hardy Chas. Schulze Ben Kendall Hugh Biggar Samaritan Jesus Lycer Mary Magdalene Good Samaritan God's Worshop Merton Ouachita National Bank John Breard Central Savings Bank & Trust Co L. H. Swayze Social Department Pace Council New Orleans Jan. Mch May New York Mch Sig Haas & Sons Liverpool Chicago Hf. R. Speed Lford Gegree Apota Europe U. S National Ginners’ Association H. & B. Beer Xmas Shopping Norris Amas Allen’s Pharmacy Dence Palmer South Georgia Pittsburgh Can Pennayl Tadiana McCall Book Winter Quarterly McCall the McCall Company Ser Francisco Boston Atla Toro S. C. Blackmon St. John Georgia Palmer Peas
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