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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1918
Page
2
Local classified notes promote Triumph Seed Potatoes with delivery, New crop Sweet Pea Seed, Hargeinth and Narcissus bulbs from Monroe Seed Co. Also advertise Ear Corn for sale and various farm supplies. A War Savings Stamp pledge reminder and a meat market listing appear among the notices.
Congressman Riley J. Wilson announces Department of Agriculture seed distribution in the Fifth District. Ninety hundred quart packages of new cotton seed will be sent to interested farmers for preliminary tests, with half bushel back-up seed for next year upon proper reporting. Requests must be written to Wilson at the House in Washington, D.C., while supply lasts.
C. S. Dunn offers typerwriter repairs for all kinds. Phone 1045. Classified ad dated December 31st. 5-17t.
Notice posted by W. Dp. Fairbanks Jr. forbids hunting or trespassing on land owned by him at Fairbanks Louisiana. The sparse clipping mentions contact details for A. Beatle, physician, and various unrelated lines about sewing and phone numbers.
Advertises purchase of precanceled postage stamps from Monroe New Orleans Metairie and Shreveport areas. Pays face value for stamps in good condition. Mail to B W Murray addresses in Monroe and Helena Arkansas with explicit contact details.
Public hauling service offering prompt work with a good truck. FRANK MASLING advertises accepting hauling of any kind and reasonable prices. Contact via Phone 721 or GS.
A remark notes the challenge for Rhineland residents as clocks are set to French time, highlighting the cultural and administrative strain of harmonizing with Paris.
John W. Barnes of Calhoun reports a 18 month Poland China hog dressed 5560 pounds and weighed 550 pounds dressed after 550 days. He also owns a seven month old hog expected to dress 250 pounds, all pure Poland China stock. Barnes says his hogs are the best in the parish and argues blooded livestock as money makers.
London December 28 marks the birth of Alexander John Forsyth the Scotch clergyman who invented the percussion lock changing firearms history. He solved bird losses by flash from flint pieces by adding a sidehair lock, and work began in 1805 with a patent two years later aided by James Watt. Napoleon offered him 100000 but he refused to aid Britain. Official tests followed 27 years afterward at Woolwich before a regiment was armed 32 years later and used in war.
At the Sorbonne a Wilson letter read in honor of Alsace Lorraine freedom expresses gratitude for the society sending an artistically bound message. The president notes his lifelong heart with expatriated Alsace Lorraine natives and his youth when the provinces were seized from France.
Stockholders of Monroe Grocer Co Ltd will meet at its Monroe Louisiana office on January 8 1919 to elect a board of directors for the ensuing year and to transact any other business before the meeting.
Notice announces a new repair shop at the corner of Fourteenth and Washington Streets for talking machines. Service includes pick up and return of machines. phone 1025. Also notes North Sea fishing area of about 300,000 square miles.
Readable items show a broad grocery lineup with prices on cherries sugar cured bacon peas salmon beans okra hominy sweet potatoes and more. It notes bulk Worcester sauce aluminum ware catalog requests double coupons fresh produce and daily rolls bread cakes and coffee plus various oils and jellies.
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