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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1909
Page
8
Local columns advertise Christmas goods at Allen's Pharmacy and Phoenix Drug Store, toys and dolls at Monroe outlets, seeds, fragrances, and candy. The City Bottling Works burns, with losses around $1,500, while officials discuss cockfighting ban and census work.
A notice requests an exchange of a Monroe Business College scholarship for room and board for a gentleman. Contact Steve Burge by phone.
Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman Knapp approved arbitration under the Erdman act for the tug of war between the Illinois Central Yazoo and Mississippi Valley and the Indianapolis railroads and their telegraphers with Labor Commissioner Neill acting as mediator.
Secretary Wilson warns the House Committee on Agriculture that bubonic plague could spread to new areas via squirrels. The Public Health Service asks the Biological Bureau of Agriculture to develop methods to destroy squirrels after infections are reported in isolated cases covering over 300 square miles in California.
Mr Phillips arrived in Monroe to demonstrate his wireless telephone aparatugs this week in a venue opposite the opera house on DeSiard street. Demonstrations run daily from 2 to 5 p m and are free for all residents to attend and learn about the invention.
Washington December 20. The Senate confirmed President Taft's appointment of Judge Horace H. Lurton as Associate Justice. No opposition appeared and the nomination faced no obstacle.
Pictures for today feature The Mountaineer’s Honor a Biograph melodrama set in the Kentucky hills. In Wrong Simms a Selig release follows with the line that everybody knows Simms or someone like him. On the Border showcases exciting scenes along the Mexican border through Selig films.
Vaudeville novelty act featuring Prince and Carothers praised as unsurpassed show performers.
Adults pay lae while children ages 3 and up require a ticket. Children 10 years and younger must have a ticket, and all children over three must be ticketed for entry.
Classified item notes a sale listing in Monroe, attributed to Dr. D H Key. The fragment specifies a property or item sale handled by the physician, with no further details provided.
The Marae in New Orleans reports 15 1-16 steady with 800 bales sold. Prices show high 15.25 low 15.20 with close near 15.24 15.19 15.67 15.61 15.99 15.94 and similar activity through the session.
The report notes quiet activity with prices around 15.20 and 15.04 to 14.95 in New York. It lists multiple close quotes such as 15.03 14.94 15.40 15.32 15.39 15.32 15.69 15.62 15.68 15.61 indicating a stable yet fluctuating session.
The fragment references Liverpool sales of 4000 bales with prices around 7.89 to 7.83 and a note about PRD and WODMMNGTCD. Limited readable names and figures imply a commodity trading brief with price ranges and quantities.
The Dec 13 census shows 9,362,222 bales ginned, below last year and 1907, supporting a 10,098,000 bale growth estimate and likely European acceptance of government figures. Windes notes April futures, spot demand rise, and tighter world supply with higher prices inevitable as mills curb stocks.
Washington December 20 President Taft sent to the Senate the nominations of several ambassadors ministers and consul generals among them Robert Bacon of New York to France Richard C Kerens of Missouri to Austria Hungary and Harry Lane Wilson of Washington to Mexico No decision yet on an ambassador to Great Britain
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