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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1928
Page
2
Preparations for a massive Christmas party scheme span a thousand U S cities and thousands more worldwide. The Salvation Army aims to ensure no family lacks a Merry Christmas despite poverty or illness. Donations fund kettles and local programs across Monroe and beyond.
Deputy C L Tarver departed for Meridian Mississippi to extradite Justin Streets wanted for car theft and robbery at a local filling station on the Eros road. Streets, known as Streets or Eros, allegedly stole a car in West Monroe and fled with a small payday.
The Boulder Dam measure moves to the White House after years in Congress. Supporters like Senator Johnson of California expect a possible veto from President Coolidge. Norris of Nebraska doubts passage. The final bill allows government construction of the dam with the option for a government built power plant or private electrical enterprise.
A police officer warns that ignoring nature's signals leads to tickets and doctor visits. He promotes Nujol as a non medicinal, all natural product from Nujol Laboratories to prevent health jams, claiming it keeps things running smoothly.
A vintage advertisement promotes Nujol as a health aid that prevents body poisons and aids their removal. It urges readers to start Nujol today, noting low cost and availability in sealed packages at drugstores.
The passage notes a private enterprise context where the secretary of the interior could select among options, highlighting authority to exercise a particular choice. It outlines how constitutional or administrative powers might govern which path is taken.
In Williams College news the feud over goal post antics after victories appears to be easing as Williams apologized to Amherst for past exuberance. The exchange references the Yale Harvard rivalry and notes a cooling of tensions.
The body of M C Russell a Alabama marine killed in action in Nicaragua last year is being shipped to Hubert Monroe county Alabama at the request of Senator Heflin a military escort travels with the casket to the nearest station the senator will seek full government reimbursement of funeral and interment expenses.
The building inspector issued three permits totaling 1509 dollars. H Myers gets a one story frame house on Jackson between Shotwell and Grayling switch for 1500 dollars. Myers also repairs a Jackson street frame building between Shotwell and Cray ling switch for 100 dollars. Nelson Davis plans a one story frame remodeling on Adams street between Congo and eighteenth streets for 200 dollars.
Jackson Mississippi December 19 Part of the peddlers tax from the recent legislature is ruled unconstitutional by Assistant Attorney General J A Lauderdale The opinion finds section 173 AA violates the Fourteenth Amendment by denying equal protection of the law for peddlers outside their home counties and those acting as agents for nonresidents or nonlocal businesses
J E Lenoir escaped last October from Huntsville Texas prison and was captured in Baton Rouge Louisiana He was returned to New Orleans for transfer and is wanted in North Carolina according to a press dispatch from the Associated Press with details of his recapture and pending extradition proceedings
Police report a man arrested here yesterday after trying to buy narcotics. He is wanted in New Orleans for thefts of typewriters coats and traveling bags. He pawned two portable typewriters and admitted prior imprisonments in Atlanta and Huntsville for larceny, including an escape from Huntsville.
Tom O'Donnell appeared in police court charged with drunken and disorderly conduct. He was fined $7.50.
Joseph Shemanski a Portland merchant has created a $5000 fund to provide rehabilitation loans to men leaving state prison.
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