This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 20 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1925
Page
8
Cotton futures in New Orleans closed with a net advance of 40 to 55 points. Prices opened higher on the strength of cables and cold belt weather, with January up 40 to 79.40 at one point before easing. March May and October also rose, though gains narrowed toward noon amid weak mill takings and a bearish visible supply report.
A brutal cold front pushes across the South with unofficial readings at 1 pm showing Birmingham five degrees, Atlanta ten, New Orleans thirty, Miami fifty four, and values ranging from zero in Bristol to thirty four in Columbia. Weather borders include Knoxville and Memphis among many cities.
Shreveport records 17 degrees the coldest since 1917 as pipes freeze with no major damage. Alexandria hits 17 after an 18 degree night, Baton Rouge reports a new winter low of 20, Jackson sees 13 degrees amid high winds.
New York cotton futures closed firmer with gains of 40 to 83 points after a morning of steady opens. January and March led the advance, with Liverpool cables supporting purchases and a larger weekly report showing an 83,507 bale rise in world visible American cotton.
Liverpool reports a quiet cotton market with prices steady. American grades show strong middling values with 4,200 bales sold ante and total sales at 5,000. receipts reach 44,000 with American 43,20 futures closing firm and notable shifts from January to October contracts.
Trading opens with broad buying as wheat scales a fresh seasonal peak. Foreign demand, notably Buenos Aires, drives the early advance while heavy Argentina rains dampen harvest hopes. Corn and oats follow wheat with mixed gains and some retrenchment, hogs lift pork and lard values slightly.
Macon experiences the coldest December reading at eleven degrees above zero, besting the previous Macon record of 11.1 degrees set December 21, 1961. In Texas the Rio Grande valley suffers winter frost with lows near ten degrees in Amarillo and 28 in Galveston, damaging citrus and garden crops. Brownsville records 26 degrees. sleet falls in Brownsville and Laredo.
Lake Charles reports a 63 degree high dropping to 24 by morning, a 42 degree fall in 48 hours. San Francisco notes a synthetic cold snap with frigid night and mild day contrasts across the West. Gulfport records 15 degrees, matching a 1924 cold spell, with no damage estimates yet.
The Jewish Teachers Association opened its annual two day convention at Temple B n ai B rith in Monroe with Dr Abraham N Franzblau of the Hebrew Union College delivering a keynote on stimulating thought and the teacher’s role. Delegates from Shreveport Baton Rouge New Orleans Lake Charles New York and elsewhere attended with sessions on curriculum planning and classroom technique.
Police report a small white dog with a lemon spinal bite injured several people last week and appear agitated. A veterinarian will examine the log to decide if rabies is present and if bitten individuals need treatment. C. W. Fackler, wanted for forgery and auto theft, will be returned to Monroe from Columbus, Ga., after waiving requisition.
Week end automobile accidents reported to police totaled five. Nath Gresham was jailed on three charges after using rail tracks as a highway and crashing into a box car. Other crashes involved T. N. Burns and Dan Sanford on Oak and Catalpa. Miss Louise Thomas and M. Hattahaw at Catalpa and Layton. a Yellow cab and a Ford at Sixth and Oak. Ed Long driving a Ford and Jennngs Creek in a cab. and a Dodge touring car hitting J. W. Fare’s Ford on St John and Bryant streets.
U S grain exports for the past week totaled 1 141 000 bushels, down from 1 238 000 the week before. Wheat and oats saw sharp declines, while corn held higher. Canadian imports from U S ports fell to 4 772 009 bushels as North American wheat flour shipments dropped to 140 000 barrels.
Five alleged members of a counterfeiting gang were arrested by federal agents. The group printed and distributed fake stock certificates and counterfeit federal reserve notes. The operations extended into Canada with assistance from the Royal Mounted Police.
Paris reports dainty time pieces in jewelry form dominate trends. Tiny enamel and jewel studded balls and dials appear as necklaces cords and cuff accents. Pearls remain the preferred centerpiece for necklaces cuffs and trimmings with emeralds and sapphires in jeweled clasps.
The fire department checked four fires over the week end and one today, preventing major damage. The worst loss was a house at 211 North Fifth Street, damaged $150 with contents $159 from a overheated gas stove. The Weaks Supply Co owned home, occupied by R. M. Badgett, was insured. A chimney sparked a blaze at 208 Sixteenth Street, owned by Albert Britten and occupied by Lottie Williams, with about $25 loss. A rooming house at 206 Walnut Street, owned by A Keller and occupied by H L Thomas, had a small roof fire, insured. Two grass fires Saturday at Thomas Street Levers Lane and at St John and Plum Streets caused no damage.
Sheriff Milton Coverdale received from Judge J F Stephens an order to hold Joe Hardly in jail. Hardly, a presumed slayer, was brought to the parish jail for safe keeping by Sheriff Currie. Also confined are inmates linked to prior cases including a condemned man and several murder charges.
In Urania Louisiana the extreme cold stops oil field work as pipelines freeze and a saw mill stalls. Freeman Beckman No 4 Urania experiences oil overflow from the casing at 509 barrels per day while attempts to set a finer equipment continue amid sand intrusion. Beckman and Freeman report a good oil well if they can complete the operation.
The Natural Gusang Fuel shows promising progress with a bail test at No. 1 Tullos in section 28 10 1E. Surface casing completed at Love Bros Gould Syndicate Titos No. 1 in section 28 10 11 yesterday. A. E. Hudson as receiver has leased 80 acres from Urania Lbr Co in SE of SW 1 4 section 1 and NE of NW 1 4 section 12, with drilling to begin immediately.
Two extra plain clothes men join the force and a detective is assigned to alley watch in the business district to curb store robberies. Sit Hans men’s furnishing store was robbed Christmas morning with losses estimated between 1890 and 2200 dollars. A break in at 1301 Olive Street occurred early Christmas morning. a watch and pocketbook belonging to George Smith and a small amount of change from J W Connis were taken.
Lester Wallace, a Choctaw Indian burned at Columbia last week, is reported improving at St Francis sanitarium though his burns cover nearly his entire body and keep his condition serious. Wallace says he is the son of a Choctaw chief on a government reservation at Stilger, Oklahoma. Holmes Wright, a patient at St Francis for nine months with severe burns, returned home yesterday after recovery. He was burned last April when a lighted match was tossed into a gasoline can.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.