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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1913
Page
6
Seventy one marriage licenses were issued from the clerk’s office during December up to noon today. Joe Kern, proprietor of Ern's Horse Shoeing Shop, notes this milestone in the local notices.
Delhi post office safe raid on Dec 13 led to the guilty pleas of Blanchard and Everett. They were transported to Shreveport last night by Marsha Ingouf and P O Inspector Kinzel. Local notices include holiday adverts and community updates from Monroe 1913.
CAP A COLD FOR 25c. The Hammond Sheet Music Co. offers to play your selections over before purchase at Monroe Drug Co. Orders filled game day received and shipped.
A fragment references performances and songs including Goodbye Rose There is a Girl in the Heart of Maryland the Rose Good Night and Peg O My Heart with a numeric tag 89-51 at Monroe Drug Co.
Notices include marriage licenses, property foreclosures and sales, and fines from Monroe Louisiana court records. Also listed are mortgage releases, timber sales, and discharges with names such as Hemsler Flynn Pierce Jackson Hawkins Hood Hobbs Levi and Wilford. Public notices call parties to present claims by January 1 1914 and a sale of household goods is set for January 10 1914.
The rush on the city registrar’s office continues unabated with 457 voters registered by noon today.
Readable fragment mentions Peg O My Theart at Monroe Drug Co. suggesting a small classified or notice item about a person and location.
A still warm body found in a trunk on Pitt Street is identified as John Kramenz, a Russian Pole from Charleston, West Virginia. Autopsy cannot confirm death cause. strangulation cited, neck likely broken during trunk confinement. ropes, gag, and a woman’s petticoat used. No arrests yet.
The New Orleans Picayune recounts the arrest of two private detectives Warren McComas and William Hutchins for theft tied to jewels stolen from Street Commissioner Heap. Sheriff Parker of Ouachita Parish plans to send them back to Monroe for trial with confession and recovered gems worth about $200.
The St. Louis grain market shows bids for Wheat Oats and Lard with various futures months and prices across May July and December. The page lists several contracts and price quotes including Wheat at 3 4 to 6 1 2, Oats around 1 4 to 3 8, and Lard near 10.50 to 10.92 in Jan and May months.
Windes Daily Cotton Letter reports about 50 000 January deliveries in New York and several failures dragging prices. Early trading showed strength as notices were halted then circulated, causing liquidation of January contracts. Wall Street selling followed reports of receivers being appointed for large firms. Exports to Europe have fallen, with 59 000 bales shipped last week versus 126 000 year ago, signaling weaker demand amid global turmoil.
Robbers dynamited the safe in the Bank of Gillette last night, secured four thousand dollars, and fled. The report continues with a note from Windes in Gillette Arkansas about trade expectations and Crep buying, but the only clearly readable event is the bank robbery and its $4000 haul.
The parishes of DeSoto Sabine and Vernon have a resigning judge who will return to law practice. The governor will call an election to fill the vacancy. Also reported Pittsburgh teachers meet for the 64th annual convention to press for higher pay and pension funds with Superintendent Harman presiding.
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