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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1913
Page
8
Local shop offers custom wagon construction and shoeing services. Joe Kern, proprietor, invites orders for wagons of any kind. Located at Kern's shop, ready to tailor wheels and frames to customer needs.
An assortment of 1941 holiday notices lists florists selling carnations roses poinsettias and wreaths with phone numbers and addresses. Stores such as Latham Seed Co Bee(b)son Crowell and Phoenix Drug Store advertise Christmas trees toys cakes and brickwork while urging early shopping and announcing store openings and closeouts.
A preacher denounces modern dance as ruinous to health and faith. He cites Scripture, statistics, and church history to argue dancing lowers morality, leads to drinking and vices, and harms Christians and the church. He urges discipline for offenders and cleansing of reproachful members.
Night watchman Averett heard a gunshot near the Dixie Lumber Company mill around 11 p.m. Saturday. Meyer, a long time Dixie worker, was found dead with part of his head shot off. Coroner’s inquest found no arrestable evidence and noted similarities to a past nearby murder. Superintendent J. N. Shealy visited Monroe yesterday.
Notice states the seller of a restaurant business has sold the business and invites all creditors or claimants to present claims for settlement at the Monroe hotel. The message thanks patrons and is dated 22-11.
Fragmentary 1913 market data from New Orleans includes numbers and codes such as 125-8 and 127.49.20/7247. The text mentions a site Yst y and values like 2240 and £2.68. Specifics are fragmented, with no identifiable events or names beyond location clues.
Fragmentary OCR note from December 22 1913 referencing New York pricing and coded items. Contains scattered numbers and letters with no coherent event, person, or organization to summarize.
Liverpool records 6 92 in sales with 7000 units sold in February and 4 6 4 merchandise figures. Merch-Apr totals show 5 6 65 with 58 686 80 as side figures.
Market notes from Chicago listing prices for wheat corn oats pork lard and beef with date references and varied figures. Reading shows rough price points and daily quotations for agricultural commodities and meats as of December 1918.
Market notes from Saint Louis dated December 22 1913 show grain prices and receipts for the day. The brief column lists bid and ask levels for corn oats and wheat with figures and changes from prior sessions.
Windes reports New Orleans wires noting continued market volatility after the census bureau's Dec 12 tally and mixed European trends. Prices swung with brief recoveries before renewed selling. analysts split on crop size, with bearishs predicting below 14.25 million bales and bulls arguing near 15 million consumption. Police Officer T. Watson dies at 66 from a leg wound suffered weeks earlier.
J E Morgan and Company of West Monroe Louisiana operates as dealers in wood coal blacksmith and domestic supplies plus concrete lime cement sand and gravel. They also act as agents for Gulf Refining Company serving the local building trade.
Funeral services for Mr Watson were held at 3 20 this afternoon with the Meose lotgea in full attendance. Interment was in City Cemetery after a pistol accident three weeks earlier when a bullet from Watsons pistol struck the right knee area and required surgery last week.
Advertisements seek boarders and roomers at the Borden house 205 Walnut Street with reasonable rates by day week or month. Mrs H D Williams also lists for rent an eight room house at the corner of Hall and Calypso streets with phone contact J B Colvin.
John Robinson, a Black employee of Covington & Co., shot Nath Reed on the road above Treveler’s Rest near the Tuyaw bridge after a dispute involving Robinson’s wife. Reed, wounded in the left breast, was taken to a sanitarium. Robinson was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Grant.
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