Typhoid Shots Widely Taken In Ouachita Parish Program
About 1,000 people have received typhoid inoculations as Ouachita Parish Health Unit expands a two week rural and municipal program. Nurses will inoculate at schools and clinics across communities including Ransom, College Point, Lenwis, McHenry, St James, Richwood, and China Grove with doses given in a week apart and free of charge.
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Quachita Parish
Monroe City Hall
Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home
Ransom School
College Point
Lenwis
McHenry’s Place
St. James
Richwood
China Grove
Weather threatens distressed ship Meanticut in mid Atlantic
U S weather bureau and ships report gales and heavy seas around the American freighter Meantiat with 35 crew. The Waukegan stands by but cannot tow toward Fayal due to worsening weather as Rex and Edam report severe conditions near the Straits of Azores.
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New York
U. S. Weather Bureau
Mid- Atlantic
Meantiat
Radiomarine Corporation
Waukegan
Fayal
Azores Islands
Edam
Rex
U. S
Recreation School Delegates Chosen
Seventeen Ouachita Parish Recreation council members were named to attend a recreation school in Bastrop February 9-12, led by W. C. Abbott and W. P. Jackson. The list includes Mrs. G. A. Strozier, Mrs. J. M. Kent, Florine Avant, Miss Geraldine Manning, and others.
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Quachita Parish
J. B. Landrum
L. R. Simpson
Fred Williamson
Ross Golson
L. Sutherland
Lena Hedgepeth
C. A. Coates
L. Stanford
C. B. Hammett
S. T. Brooks
Fix That Cold With Grove's Bromo Quinine Tablets
An old warning urges rapid treatment of colds with Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine. The ad promotes fourfold internal effects, rapid 24 hour action, and sugar coated tablets as safe, effective cold relief available from druggists. The message warns against cure alls and stresses prompt use at first signs of a cold.
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Grove
Relief groups selected for Legion and auxiliary meeting
A joint meeting of L. B. Faulk post of the American Legion and its auxiliary named disaster relief committees for general relief rescue transport medical supply communications and policing. Dr E J Young leads the medical unit and plans for a February 19 visit by national commander Harry Colmery with a luncheon in Monroe. Violin solos by Miss Eileen MacKinnon closed the evening program.
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L. B. Faulk
American Legion
Forsythe Park
C. E. McKenzie
Legion
Ernest L. Hawkins
General Relief Committee
Mr. McKenzie
Sam Rubin
Bill Perhamus
Ernest D. Holloway
James A. Noe
Hugh
Monroe
Legionnaires
Eileen MacKinnon
Mississippi Flood Relief Push Across Delta
Army engineers led by Markham toured New Madrid and Cairo assessing relief needs as the Mississippi flood crest neared. Despite ongoing evacuations, officials expressed confidence embankments would hold and relief operations would be ready at substations in Vicksburg Greenville and Ofale with 3000 workers available.
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Cary T. Grayson
Red Cross
Hickman
Mississippi
Mellwood
Ferguson
Ark
Helena
Markham
Memphis
Weather Bureau
Reybold
Birds Point
New Madrid
Frederick F. French
Tallahatchie
Vicksburg
Miss
Mississippi Delta
Hamp Dogan
Tallahatchie County
Locopolis
Tallahatchie River
Webb- Charleston
Swan Lake
Yavou
Greenwood
New Orleans
R. T. Lindley
W. F. McDonald
Catro
Simmesport
Atchafalaya
Melville
Bonnet Carre
Gulf
Lake Pontchartrain
Mosassippi
Celui
Greenville
Ofale
John A. O'Keefe
O'Keefe
Conference of Relief Workers
Elaine Barrie's Small Part in The Return of Hannibal
Elaine Jacobs Barn Barrymore made two brief appearances in Amory Hare's The Return of Hannibal on the San Francisco West Coast stage. The play drew a modestly filled theater audience who greeted the production with polite pleasure. Jerome Lawler played Hannibal opposite Barrymore as she joined the cast briefly in the famous Carthaginian general role.
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San Francisco
John Barrymore
Hannibal
Littl
Amory Hare
Elaine Jacobs
Barne Barrymore
Jerome Lawler
Alps
B. C
Rome
Scouts Ready to Serve If High Water Hits Areas
Ouachita Valley Boy Scout council leaders are told to stand by for any high water situation. Each community will survey local flood possibilities and prepare to render service to the public if needed.
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Ouachita Valley
Patient recuperating after appendicitis operation at Vaughan Wright Bend clinic
Miss Josephine McCook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. McCook of 2703 Hawes Street, underwent an appendicitis operation Monday and was recuperating satisfactorily on Tuesday at Vaughan Wright Bend clinic.
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Josephine McCook
Vaughan-Wright-Bendel Clinic
R. F. McCook
Hawes Street
New Orleans Describes WPA Funds for City Streets
Mayor Robert S. Maestreau says WPA officials pledged annual federal aid of 12 to 15 million dollars for about three years, to match about 3 million dollars raised locally for street paving and public building reconstructions. He plans to fund the amount by trimming city expenses and avoid bond issues approved by the legislature.
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New Orleans
Works Progress Administration
New Orleanians
Robert S. Maestro
New York
Washington
WPA
Anti-Religious Drive Reported in Spain
Deserters from socialist militiamen report an anti-religious campaign among government forces centered in Madrid front camps. They said communist leaders preside over meetings and pamphlets condemn religion as a dangerous drug, urging militiamen to join Franco’s insurgent ranks at the first chance.
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Avila
Spain
I-P
Francisco Franco
Madrid
Engineer Dies at Throttle in Nashville Area Train
Sixty-year-old James Cannon Auster, veteran engineer of the N C and S L railway, died of a heart attack in a railway engine cab near Pallaheins aboard a passenger train from Chat tanooga to Nashville. Fireman L A Harriss and Austin tried to assist minutes after the sudden collapse.
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Nashville
Tenn
James Cannon Auster
N.C
S. L. Railway
Pallaheins
Chattanooga
NYA Officials Visit Normal in Natchitoches
Three officials of the state NYA inspected 179 students at Louisiana State Normal College and outlined the Louisiana program. A. J. Sartre of New Orleans described the NYA impact with 2,500 high school and 2,800 college participants earning a payroll over $40,000 monthly. Clark W. Booth and D. G. Robinson accompanied Sartre. dinner was hosted by President and Mrs. Albert A. Fredericks.
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Natchitoches
State National Youth Administration
Louisiana State Normal College
NYA
Louisiana
A. J. Sartre
New Orleans
Clark W. Booth
D. G. Robinson
Sarre
Ferriday Scouts Hold Honor Court
Two Boy Scouts were advanced to first class and 15 earned merit badges at a court of honor for Troop 17 in Ferriday. J. H. Monger chaired the ceremony with Olan H. Black and C. J. Fleming in attendance. The group stopped in Winnsboro and Wisner en route for talks on local troop development.
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Ferriday
J. H. Monger
Olan H. Black
Quachita Valley
Wisner
Sympathy telegraphed to Roosevelt over flood relief
London reports King George VI and Queen Elizabeth sent a cable to President Roosevelt expressing sympathy for flood victims in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys. The message came on February 2 as relief efforts continued.
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London
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Roosevelt
Ohio
Mississippi River
All Bran Promises Regular Daily Elimination
Personal testimonial from E N Kring of Fairbury Illinois praising Kellogg s All Bran for regular daily bowel movements. The ad claims the cereal absorbs water to form a cleansing mass and suggests two tablespoons daily, more in severe cases, sold by grocers and made in Battle Creek.
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E. N. Kring
Hickory St
Fairbury
Illinois
Kellogg’s
Kellogg
Battle Creek
Freeze Expected Across Louisiana and Mississippi
The Weather Bureau forecast freezing weather for north Louisiana and inland south Mississippi with a hard freeze in north Mississippi. New Orleans will be partly cloudy and colder with temperatures in the low 40s as January sets a record warm trend alongside Ohio basin flood discussions.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
United States Weather Bureau
W. F. McDonald
Grees
Ohio Basin
McDonald
Ohio
Gulf
Peterson's Ointment Ad Promises Quick Pile Relief
An advertisement claims millions are spent yearly on remedies while Peterson's Ointment relieves piles in minutes. It markets a 35¢ tube and 60¢ tube with a hard rubber nozzle and offers a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
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Peterson
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