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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1923
Page
5
The News Star outlines its policy for letters from readers. It states the newspaper accepts no responsibility for reader views and prints letters for general interest. Readers are welcome but must sign letters, and the editor may abridge to fit space constraints.
A Monroe News-Star exchange from December 1923 includes a critique of a reader’s vaccination stance, praising the Irby brothers newsboys and debating religious views on medicine. The letter references vaccination, divine healing, and public health, urging tolerance and Christian ideals in health debates.
F C Flowers Supt La Baptist Orphanage expresses gratitude for last week’s broad help. He notes rail towns sent provisions by car including Riverton Columbia Grayson Clarks Kelly Standard Olla Urania Tullos Rochelle Georgetown Selma Pollock Tioga and Monroe. He also mentions a funded water well and announces opening hours at The Palace.
Drilling in Ouachita parish Monroe gas fields reports three small wells completed. Core No 1 Fortuna Oil company section 85-204 yields 5 174 million cf daily at 2164 ft. Collens No 1 Hesterman Interests section 31-19-5 yields 2 907 million cf daily at 2213 ft. Chester Carbon reports a small well at section 22-19-5. Production activity noted with two locations where drilling started.
Thursday at The Palace D. L. Cromwell advertises Duofold Union Suits in a closing out sale priced at 3.29 dollars with date 19-3t.
Judge Charles Schulze reports a fifty percent drop in traffic accidents since Monroe adopted new rules that took effect October 14. Wednesday court sessions show 30 to 40 offenders per day for violations, with minimum penalties of five dollars and stay of sentences pending future behavior.
King George and Queen Elizabeth, obeying the government, departed Athens aboard the steamship Daphne at 4 45 am for Romania.
In North Carolina, Mrs. Berton S. Tucker, 85, and her younger husband left the Belvedere Hotel in Southern Pines after a man claiming to be Frank Welsh, a clerk, phoned from a long distance to relay the information. The report notes the hoax led to their early departure.
Lieutenant-Governor Hewitt Bouanchaud begins a tour through Union Morehouse and Ouachita parishes. He spoke at Farmerville today and plans Mer Rouge Bastrop appearances tomorrow with mayoral hosts introducing him. He travels from Alexandria via Bernice to Monroe finishing with a theater address Friday.
Vienna markets overflow with partridges and pheasants as winter sets in. The hare drive is in full swing with large ring drives using up to 50 guns, and hares weighing six to 12 pounds are a staple food. In one day around 1,000 hares can be killed in massive drives.
London reports a studio copy of Titian's Venus and Adonis in the National Gallery is revealed as the painter's first experimental version. The work shows Titian's transition between Bacchus and Ariadne and the later Mother and Child, differing from the Madrid piece.
Bi Sai Publishers urge government aid to offset postwar newsprint costs 50 percent higher than prewar levels. They cite labor expenses as adding to financial strain on Vienna newspapers.
Berlin reports many German schools close or relocate as the economy tightens and living costs drop in rural districts.
Manila reports 634 candidates took the bar tests with 270 asking for English law exams. The English section produced the highest pass rate, but only 196 candidates ultimately passed.
U S marshals arrested Sheriff Paul Cazelas former sheriff W H Holcombe Jr deputy sheriffs and F W Boykin in Mobile for alleged liquor law violations. Indictments accuse Cazelas Holcombe and Boykin of conspiracy to violate prohibition law with charges including bribery and resisting a federal officer. Four deputy sheriffs Walter Blackman Fred Hudoff G L Donaghue and John Moore are charged with conspiracy to violate the prohibition law.
Mobile chief H J OShaughnessy was arrested in New Orleans on a federal indictment tied to liquor traffic disclosures and returned to Mobile in custody of two U S government operatives. The arrest followed a telegram from Mobile district attorney Aubrey Boyles.
The Civil Service Commission certified Teake W. Dardenne and James W. Rhorer as eligible for postmaster at Plaquemine Louisiana.
Washington reported December 19 that winter wheat sowing reached 40.191 million acres, 12.6 percent below the revised previous fall. Crop condition on December 1 stood at 88.0 percent of normal, higher than 79.5 percent a year ago and above the ten year average of 86.5.
The Ulster government buys Hillsborough Castle in County Down as an official residence for the Governor General the Duke of Abercorn. Baron’s Court nearby is too remote from Belfast, and Hillsborough Castle is famed as a historic Downshire mansion.
Public record in Ouachita Parish Louisiana states D L Cromwell involved in liquidation of business fixtures and store lease. charter millsaps Realty Co Inc listed. Notary public attested on the date with witnesses present, noting sale and lease actions.
The Millsaps Realty Company, Inc. is chartered in Monroe Ouachita Parish Louisiana for a fifty year term. It aims to acquire and sell real estate and farm property, own livestock and machinery, borrow money, issue notes and bonds, and operate as a general trading corporation with a five member board of directors.
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