Fresh country eggs and local notices reflect small town life
Local items report stock taking at One Horse Cash Grocery on Dec 30, 1910. Chas Rochester promoted Monroe Commercial College in Rayville. Western Union hours set Jan 1 1911. Notices mention assaults, a crap game arrest, boarding house demolition, and a planned small park around the V S and P depot. Hanukah events at Temple Sinai noted with children’s programs.
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Antiochus Epihanes
Temple Sinai
Synagog
I. Heinberg
Hearing in Express Rate Case Before Louisiana Commission
Secretary E W Anderson attended the Baton Rouge session of the Louisiana Railroad Commission to represent Monroe's interests in the large express rate case. He carried two years of data and expected to present strong arguments to influence the commission's decision.
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E. W. Anderson
Baton Rouge
Louisiana Railroad Commission
Commission
Anderson
Monroe
For Rent Five Room Cottage at Pine and Sixth
Five room cottage located at Pine and Sixth streets with modern conveniences. Apply Mrs. Mary McDonald at 407 Pine Street or call home phone 462. Also available a five room house in West Monroe. Apply Dr. H. D. Catlett at 29-1f.
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Pine and
Sixth Streets
Mary McDonald
Pine Street
West Monroe
H. D. Catlett
Market report for New Orleans and New York cottons
The Markets column for Thursday December 29 1910 notes New Orleans spot cotton at 14 7 8 steady with 1800 bales sold and prices across the board for future months. It lists March December and May futures with intraday highs lows and closes and brief New York spot remarks at 14 95 quiet with similar futures pricing.
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New Orleans
New York
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
First National Bank
Shreveport
New York Cotton Exchange
Union Bank & Trust Co
Chicago Board of Trade
Ouachita National Bank Central Savings Bank & Trust Co
Anly
Liverpool Market Prices Report Scarce Cotton Sales
Liverpool 8.10 shows sales of 8000 bales with MEMPOUATIE prices around 4s. Secs 4540s. Prices printed 7.90 to 7.86 and 7.90 to 7.87 in the amid market notation. The excerpt reflects fluctuating cotton values and trading activity.
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Liverpool
Rain spreads as Texas sees growing cotton receipts
Windes reports widespread rains across Texas and the Mississippi valley with Texas totals led by Taylor and Palestine. Receipts at ports run high, 47,000 today versus 25,000 last year. The market remains supported as the world's visible supply grows and new crop prospects firm.
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Monroe
New Orleans
Texas
Mississippi Valley
Arkansas
East Gulf
South Atlantic
Fort Worth
Taylor
Palestine
San Antonio
Abilene
Waco
Dallas
Gainesville
Sherman
Paris
Texarkana
McKinney
Oklahoma
Weather Bureau
Brownsville
del Rio
Galveston
Houston
Corpus Christi
New York
Police raid surge targets immorality in Shreveport
Shreveport records show Chief Locar intends to enforce the Hunsicker concubinage act and city ordinances on immoral houses. In 48 hours fifteen charges were booked as raids continued between 2 AM and daylight. J O Wright, jailed for assaulting a detective during an arrest for concubinage, was fined and transferred to district court. The act carries up to two years in prison. At Hamilton, Ont., Mr Ussher resumes railway service with Canadian Pacific after prior roles.
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Shreveport
the Times
Locar
J. O. Wright
T. D. Price
Blanchard
Patrons thanked by local jeweler for 1911 wishes
J E Larkin Jeweler thanks patrons for liberal patronage during the past year and holidays. He wishes all a happy and prosperous year 1911 in a brief note signed J E Larkin.
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Espec
J. E. Larkin
Charles E Ussher Birthday Remembers Railway Leader
His Fifty-Third Birthday honors Charles E Ussher a leading Cana dian railway official born December 29 1857 at Niagara Falls Ont He began as a clerk at Great Western railway at 17 and stayed six years before moving to the Wabash Saint Louis and Pacific railway in search of greater responsibility.
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Charles E. Ussher
Canada
Niagara Falls
Ont
Great Western Railway
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway
Neutralization of war aeroplanes to be debated
Information from The Hague says a peace tribunal will consider neutralizing aircraft in warfare within a year an international humane agreement. The Italian government will push the plan, allowing defensive weapons but banning bombs and pressure for Geneva provisions to align with the new measure.
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Washington
Hague
Marquis Cusani Confalonieri
Stte Knox
Dead or Alive Arrest Warrant Issued in Montgomery
Deputies in an automobile were dispatched with orders to arrest a white man and a Negro woman in Montgomery Alabama on December 29, as part of a fledgling manhunt or warrant pursuit extending through the area.
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Montgomery County
Frank Eubanks
Dick Folk
Eubanks
William Frizzle
Picot
Montgomery
Ala
Two Negroes Killed In Clarksdale Shootout
In Clarksdale Mississippi on December 29 two Negroes were killed and three wounded in a gun battle between a sheriff's posse and a band of eleven Negroes believed to include the men sought for the ambush killings of W. W. Kirk and L. D. Kessee. The pursuit near Fitzhugh in Sunflower County involved bloodhounds and resulted in several casualties among the attackers while officers suffered none. Two suspected assailants were later arrested and jailed.
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Clarksdale
Miss
W. W. Kirk
L. D. Kessee
Parchman
Fitzhugh
Sunflower County
Kirk
Panhandle Hit by Rain and Snow Overnight
Heavy rain and snow swept the Texas Panhandle last night, followed by clear cold weather today. A further drop in temperature is forecast for tonight.
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Panhandle
Fort Worth
Texas Panhandle
Weather Forecast Shadows Gulf Coast Tonight
In New Orleans on December 29 weather officials warn of strong northwesterly winds along the Mississippi and West Florida coast. The disturbance was centered over Southern Texas earlier today.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
West Florida
Texas
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T. M. Parker CO
Chas. Rochester
Rayville
Monroe Commercial College
Western Union Telegraph Co
F. M. Norman
G. L. Norman
Natchitoches
Kern's
Joe Kern
Willie Ray
Madison Prish
Parker
Handy Carson
Biggar
Carson
Merry Christmas
SIG Haas & Sons
Sig Haas
D. Aubrey Haas
M. W. Haas
Yatyva
Grain and Provisions
Chicago
ST. Louis
Det Boek
Windes’ Daily
Bargain Week
Northeast
Louisiana
The
Monroe News - Star
News-Star
News-Star Pub., Co., Ltd
Monroe, la
Post Office
Hamilton
Ussher
Canadian Pacific
Winnipeg
Hague Tribunal
S.J. Harman & CO
H. R. Speed
Hayward & Clark
J. 3. Bache & Co
Carpenter, Baggett & Co
Bartlett & Patten
Clarksdale, Miss
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