Meat consumption up in 1938 amid export rise and price dips
The Institute of American Meat Packers reports 1938 per capita meat use at 128 pounds, up 3.5 pounds from 1937 but below the 1908 peak. Total meat output reached about 16.5 billion pounds, with pork leading the rise. cash farm income from livestock near 7 percent below 1937. Exports rose to 107 million pounds while imports fell to 135 million. Prices for most meats declined from the previous year.
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Chicago
Dec
Institute of American Meat Packers
United
William Whitfield Woods
Institute
Woods
Pers ia and France break relations over humor insult
The shah of Persia ended diplomatic ties with France after French humor magazines ridiculed his country again. The notice was given to the French minister in Teheran, with officials recalling a prior insult last year over a wordplay comparing the shah to a cat.
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Paris
Persia
France
Foreign Office
Teheran
Fire kills mother and four children in Winnipeg cottage
A mother Mrs. Lyle Robson and four of her children died when a fire swept through their suburban cottage in 25 below zero cold. The husband and two other children escaped as wind swept flames shortly before midnight. The Canadian Press reported the tragedy occurred in Winnipeg on December 30.
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Winnipeg
Lyle Robson
Real estate transfers recorded in Ouachita Parish
Real estate transfers recorded yesterday at Ouachita Parish Clerk of Court show H M McGuire selling Lot 6 in Lakeside road subdivision West Monroe to J S Aulds for 250 dollars and Rufus R McCurdy selling to Donald F E Elliott a plot 200 by 209 by 645 feet in Lot 20 Block 1 of G O Dooley subdivision for 900 dollars.
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Ouachita Parish
H. M. McGuire
J. S. Aulds
Lakeside Road
West Monroe
Rufus R. McCurdy
Donald FE. Elliott
G. O. Dooley
Straw pulp paper to be tested on major presses in Pittsburgh
Dr. F W Hochstetter announced a low cost newsprint from Pennsylvania wheat straw will be tried on high speed metropolitan presses next week in Pittsburgh. About 10 tons of finished paper will be sent to three Pittsburgh newspapers for tests, with straw pulp costing roughly 35 to 37 dollars per ton, significantly cheaper than wood pulp.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
F. W. Hochstetter
Tarentum
Hochstetter
Eight Hurt After Head on Collision Near New Orleans
Eight persons were injured in a head on collision on the Chef Menteur highway near New Orleans. Thomas Morris, 22, suffered a skull fracture and was in serious condition at Charity hospital. Others from the two cars included Ellis Watkins, 39, and wife, Biloxi residents, with multiple injuries, and several Biloxi and New Orleans residents sustaining broken bones, contusions, and other trauma. Police transported the injured to Charity hospital and continued investigation.
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New Orleans
Chef Menteur
Thomas Morris
Charity Hospital
Morris
Ellis Watkins
Marksville
Jake Kornman
John Jelusich
John Arthur Swansine
James McDonough
Biloxi
William Hugh
Postal card reminders on Ouachita seal sale issued
Claude Harrison campaign manager for the Ouachita Tuberculosis and Public Health Association says postal cards will go out within days to all who received seals but did not remit or return them. People should send in payment or return unused seals to fund the coming year’s budget. The association records all sent and returned seals to maintain operation details and budgeting.
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Claude Harrison
Ouachita Tuberculosis and Public Health Association
Harrison
Jinx Skyscraper Residents Flee Paris Bitter Summer Cold
In Paris near Le Bourget the 14th floor of a giant tower burst flooding apartments with thousands of gallons of water. Seven hundred mobile guardsmen evacuated days earlier as the non habitable housing, built two years ago for workers, proved too hot in summer and icy in winter.
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Paris
le Bourget
Argentina Accepts Purchase Of Cordoba Central Railway
The Argentine Senate approved a bill to buy the British owned Cordoba Central railway for 142,000,000 pesos about 35.5 million dollars. The line, already operating under government lease, connects Buenos Aires with the state railways into the interior.
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Buenos Aires
Senate
Cordoba
Mrs Edney Improves After Operation At Local Clinic
Mrs G L Edney of 107 Hill Avenue is convalescing satisfactorily after an operation performed Thursday morning at Dr C H Mosely's clinic. The patient is reported to be improving Friday.
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Edney
G. L. Edney
Hill Avenue
C. H. Mosely
Mother Who Slew Imbecile Son Freed in England
Mrs Kathleen Mumford 40 who faced a death sentence for mercy killing her imbecile son Derek five years old was released after serving nine months. She walked with the boy’s body to the police station and testified she acted because the child was incurable. The sentence was commuted and the home secretary ordered her release amid neighbor testimony of her care.
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England
Dec. W
Kathleen Mumford
Derek
Home Secretary
Derek Loving
Bicycle theft report from West Monroe police
Harry Stratton of 109 Oakland Street West Monroe reported the theft of a blue and red LaSalle bicycle from downtown West Monroe on Thursday. A separate survey notes 87.5 percent of US homes serve tea regularly.
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West Monroe
Monroe
Harry Stratton
Oakland Street
Desorte
LaSalle
United States
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