Negro problem Bobs up today
Washington December 29 charges by the association for the advancement of colored people that negroes were unlawfully kept from voting in the south sparked sharp exchanges at a House committee hearing on the congressional reapportionment bill. Southern members contended there is no discrimination in state laws and urged the association to seek court action.
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Washington
Association For the Advancement of Colored People
South
House Committee
Association
Congress
Aswell
Louisiana
Handy Home Help from a Friendly Letter Club
A reader asks for affordable houseware gift ideas under 30 cents and practical items for the home. The exchange shares catalog purchase options, safety tips, and simple fixes such as felt pads on furniture feet to protect floors, plus a note on mailbox mail-order sources and practical craft advice.
Tribute to Uncle Joe Cannon Marks Longest House Service
The House of Representatives plans a tribute of an hour or more to "Uncle" Joe Cannon, honoring his record for longest service in Congress. A round of addresses will form the tribute as the chamber pauses its consideration of appropriations and taxation.
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Associated Press
Washington
House of Representatives
Joe Cannon
Congress
Harding Busy in Brief Coherence Sessions
President-elect Harding spent December 29 in short coherences, addressing a miscellany of subjects. He arranged time slots so callers could present topics of particular interest.
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Marion
Harding
Bia
City to Paint All Cars Yellow and Red
Plans outline repainting the Municipal Street Railway Company fleet in a uniform yellow and red color. Work on car number two has started and ten or twelve cars will follow at Forsythe Park car barn under Hodges, former V. R. & P. coach painter.
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Municipal Street Railway Company
Hodges
Forsythe Park
Centenaries of 1821 born achievers noted in 1921 list
New York dispatch details a century of births in 1821 across fields including literature, science, politics, and invention. It highlights Gustave Flaubert, Charles Seiber, Frank Leslie, Breckinridge, Forrest, Longstreet, Latta, Yale, Storrs, Cooke, Vanderbilt, Hutchinson, Grinnell, and others. Also reports New Orleans arrests: seventy six hobots seized with twenty five jailed thirty days.
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New York
Gustave Flaubert
Charles Secriber
House
Frank Leslie
John Coc. Breckinridge
United States
Joseph E. Brown
Hia
United Statate
New Orleans
Sunny South Handicap set for Houston trap shoot
About half of the world diamonds are owned by Americans. Road life averages fifteen years. The Sunny South Handicap, the premier event in Southern trapshooting, will be staged in Houston in February.
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Houston
Mrs. Annie Hicks Dies at 87 in San Antonio
News from Shreveport reports the death of Annie McDougal Hicks at her San Antonio home. She was mother to S. B. Hicks national Democratic committeeman of Shreveport and had strong Presbyterian ties. Funeral planned in San Antonio. she was born in 1834 in Paulding Mississippi and moved to Shreveport with her parents.
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Annie M. Hicks
San Antonio
Shreveport Times
Texas
Anne McDougal Hicks
S. B. Hicks
Shreveport
Frank H. Walke
J. A. Boring
F. M. Hicks
Marshall
Yale Hicks
Arthur Jones
C. W. Lawrence
Longview
Lawrence Rogers
Dallas
Hicks
Presbyterian Church
Paulding
Miss
Officer G. S. Eads Returns From Vacation
Policeman G. S. Eads, highly regarded member of the force, has come back from a Christmas vacation in Baton Rouge where he visited relatives. Friends express pleasure at his return.
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G. S. Eads
Baton Rouge
Mr. Eads
Appropriations Cut In Sundry Civil Bill
The house appropriations committee reported a sundry civil bill totaling 383,611,960 dollars, 420,914,000 less than requested. It first of the big supply measures completed. A 147,000,000 reduction hits the shipping board emergency fleet corporation and the justice department liquor suppression request of 300,000 dollars was eliminated.
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Washington
Government Departments
House Appropriations Committee
Shipping- Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Department of Justice
City to study jobless relief as workers project-eyed plan
Chicago faces a measure to appoint a commission to combat unemployment with a program to restart municipal construction. The plan aims to address over a hundred thousand out of work and to unleash large scale public works in the city.
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Chicago
Thompson
Market Snapshot New Orleans and New York 1920
New Orleans and New York stock figures show mixed activity with December 29 1920 data. Highlights include Quiet sales totaling 12 50 and 15 in New Orleans and New York respectively, with Mech and JAN listings showing varied high and low readings and near term closes.
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PRCA
Alioa Serinimos
Liverpool Quiet Sales Trigger Eight Point Seven Zero
A partial OCR fragment notes a Liverpool item with a figure eight point seven zero and references to sales activity. The text is incomplete with garbled phrases surrounding monetary values and names, but indicates a financial or sales figure tied to Liverpool.
Notable Women Born in 1821 Are Highlighted for Centenary Ties
A Chicago column lists Clara Barton Mary Baker Eddy Elizabeth Blackwell Rachel Felix Clara Anegra Macirone Elizabeth Rowell Thompson and other prominent women born in 1821. The piece notes their influence on social moral and intellectual progress and that centenaries will be observed in the new year.
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Clara Barton
American Red Cross Society
Mary Baker Eddy
Christian Science
Elizabeth Blackwell
America
Rachel
Elizabeth Rachel Felix
Clara Anegra Macirone
Babylon
Elizabeth Rowell Thompson
Ann Gilbert
New Classified Advertisements and Requests
A compilation of local notices: WANTED to rent four to six room houses in Monroe or West Monroe by Jan. 1st with box 766. Furnished apartments for rent at 1900 Jackson Street, all sizes with private baths and kitchens, garage privileges. WANTED to rent four to six room cottages. call 169 or visit 1010 North Fifth Street. WANTED by a couple two furnished rooms close in by January 1st. Rent reasonable. phone 461. LOST: bunch of keys. return to News-Star office for reward. FOR RENT: furnished rooms with or without board. also light housekeeping room. Mrs. A. D. Hughes. phone 1105 or 1705 Jackson Street. FOR SALE QUICK: first class fruit store for sale in West Monroe. box 182, West Monroe, La. Moving services offered by Ball Transfer. phone 100. FOR SALE: homemade jelly plum grape Mayhaw. phone 1087. FOR SALE: Standard derricks 112 feet ready to ship. write Flatwoods Lumber Co for prices. Flatwoods Lumber Co., Airbanks, La. FOR RENT: nicely furnished rooms with board in private family. 8 Second Street. phone 1261. FOR RENT: furnished room near Leaceton.
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A. D. Hughes
Jackson Street
Troops Guard Arkansas Penitentiary and Farms
State troops are on duty at the Arkansas penitentiary and prison farms at Tucker and Cummins as a precaution after a governor cited plans for jail deliveries following the Christmas escape of twelve convicts.
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Associated Press
Little Rock
Tucker and Cummins
California Quake Shakes Willows in Early Morning
An earthquake struck Willows California at 2 15 this morning causing no reported damage. Residents were awakened by the tremor and authorities noted the event across the town without further incident.
Palmer cites need for extra funds for prohibition enforcement
Attorney General Palmer urges $300,000 for prohibition enforcement in testimony to the House Appropriations Committee, a request not adopted in the sundry civic bill by the committee.
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Washington
Palmer
House Appropriations Committee
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J. Parker Read JR
C.gardner Sullivan
Joseph Henaberry
Louise Glaum
Barton
Randy
DD. W. Griffith
Ae Marsh
Miriam Cooper
Robert Harron
de Grasse
Walter Long
Clyde Cook
Mae Marsh
Little Fraid
Marjorie Benton Cocke
A. Bropertson-Cole
FOX
Confederacy
Nathan B. Forrest
James Longstreet
War Horse
Lafayette McLaws
Gettysburg
Alvin P. Hovey
Indiana
Linus Yale
Alexander B. Latta
Alleghanies
Richard 8. Storrs
Henry M. Dexter
Gilbert Haven
William Taylor
M. B. Church
Jay Cooke
William H. Vanderbilt
John W. Hutchinson
Rudolf Virchow
Hermann Helmholtz
Samuel Baker
Richard F. Barton
American Red Cross
Chicago Problems
Uniontown
Star Junction
Sixth District Court
Ouachita Parish
M. R. Pinkston
Sixth District Court of Louisiana
Monroe
M. Pinkston
Towit
Ouachita Cotton Mills
Apple and
Liverpool
Charlotte H. Sainton-Dolby
Mendelssohna
Elijah
Isabella Banks
William Black
Charlotte Maria Tucker
England
Lucy Duff-Gordon
Egypt
Graceanna Lewis
Maria White Lowell
James Russell Lowell
Abby Merten Diaz
West Monroe
Percy Sandel
North Fifth Street
News-Star_ office
Ed Ball
Flatwoods Lumber Co
Flatwoods Lumber Company
Airbanks
Second Street
Loulse Glaum
W.V. Hopkinson
Arkansas “Pen
B. M. Wakefield
Bridge
Frank McCormack
J. S. Washburn
Francis Faulk
J. W. Kilbourne
Ouachita Matress Co
California
National Coffee Pany
Houston, Texas
Southern Grocer Co
Sugar Bros. Gre. Ca Distributors
Chase-Amman Drug Company
Rexall
Monrof
Oak and
Grand Phone
Louis H. Cosper Proprietor
Moore
Jersey
Thamp Moore
Farmer’s
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