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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1913
Page
6
Local business notice offering custom wagon making at Kern's horse hoeing shop run by Joe Kern. Also mentions KAKE SHOP phone, Dr J G Bell, sheet metal work, brick repair, pressed brick mantles, and a Phoenix Drug Store advert promoting FEMINENA for female troubles.
List of marriage licenses and filings for record. Jas Stanley and Annie Belle Colston. P O Reily to Mrs Fannie O Reily donation interview. P O Reiley to Mrs Taletha Downes sale of lot. Mortgage releases and sales of lots by various parties including Monroe Building and Loan Association. Several defendants fined for weapons violations including Sam Heston and Jake Jackson. Pink Jones described as dangerous and suspicious.
A London committee led by Lord Northcliffe and including T. P. O Connor and C Arthur Pearson plans a dinner for next week in celebration of journalist John Morgan Richards and the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Richards. Richards, American by birth, has lived in London since soon after the Civil War.
A special election is set for January 30, 1914 in Monroe to decide whether the city should be organized under Act No. 207. Voting will use white ballots with two options and polling will occur at six wards with designated commissioners and clerks under Mayor A. A. Forsythe.
The Markets column notes New Orleans spots at 12 disin steady with total sales 665. Price data for several items appear with high and low values and closing figures for the day, including multiple fractions and notations such as 12.80 12.62 and 12.79. The text contains scattered figures and seems to summarize commodity activity on that Saturday.
The item shows fragmented market data from New York dated a Saturday in 1913 with inconsistent figures such as 12.60 and 18.00, plus stray codes and unreadable text. No coherent event or outcomes are discernible.
Liverpool remains closed from Saturday December Zt 1913 and reopens on Monday as announced by local authorities.
Windes notes March cotton rose to 12.67 on short-covering after lows earlier in the week. Citing New York inventories near 65 000 bales, he says northern stocks are mostly low middling or better and that a census report on ginnings could shape the market after Jan 1.
Spring wheat markets held a firmer tone despite larger receipts at Minneapolis and Duluth than last week. Corn fell 3 to 8 cents after heavy short selling and weak cash markets, with expected easing in movement and improved demand. Oats declined with continued weakness in May and short selling in July.
The December 128 ginning tally shows 8650 bales produced in Ouachita parish from the 1918 crop through December 13, compared with 10266 bales by December 18, 1912. The year over year decrease is 1616 bales.
Couple seeks furnished rooms at 508 St John Street. No children. Apply in person. reference to 27 st vay bee remains.
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