Campaign drive offers Ford prize in five day contest
A daily campaign push runs through Saturday with 14 hopefuls eligible for a 1914 Ford Touring Car as top prize. Subscriptions and daily club formation determine winners with diamonds and watches as district prizes, plus cash for second place. Ten percent commissions apply to nonprize finishers who stay active.
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J. Lowe
Soltair
Youngblood
Foster
Elgin
Larkin
Daily News
Star
President Wilson Defends Business Friends for Federal Reserve Board
President Wilson released a statement praising Paul Warburg of New York and Thomas BD. Jones of Chicago as nominees for the Federal Reserve Board. He argued it is unfair to view the Democratic Party as an enemy of business and urged Warburg to accept and predicted Jones would be confirmed.
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Democratic Party
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New York
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Chicago
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Monroe paying bill passes after tense session
Mayor Pro Tem Downey received a telegram from Mayor Forsythe last night advising that the Monroe paying bill, once in doubt due to the treeness of the session, had passed and was ready for the governor’s signature.
Party Deserters Asked to Quit Positions in Louisiana
The State Democratic Central Committee adopted a resolution urging parish and state committee members who joined the Progressive party to resign from Democratic offices. Nonresigning state members who switch party allegiance may be removed and successors elected. Horace Wilkinson became chairman. primaries for the Second Railroad Commission District and Circuit Court of Appeals were set for August 27.
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Caldwell
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Progressive Party
Horace Wilkinson
West Baton Rouge
Thos. H. Lewis
Louis Leborgeois
St. James
Wilkinson
Second Railroad Commission
Circuit Court of Appeals
Thomas
Caddo
Eighth Congressional District
Vacancies Filled at Primary and Central Committee
All vacancies at large will be filled on that date. Vacancies in parish membership of the central committee will also be filled at the primary election under a separate resolution. Mobile Alabama July. The Chicora and Northwestern Railroad from Robinson's Junction on the Mobile and Ohio to Clara Mississippi ten miles was opened for traffic this morning. Big Meeting of Real Estate Men in Pittsburgh. Hundreds of real estate men from every state and Canadian provinces attend the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges convention opening today. The sessions will run through the week with programs on city planning subdivisions rentals home building and community duties and opportunities for realty men.
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Robinson's Junction
Mobile and Ohio
Clara
Miss
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Canada
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Mass
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France
Germany
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Panama Canal
Ingleside
Magenta
Misses Genie
Marie Miller
Happy Home Plantation
Public health agency to probe gulf coast plague threat
Surgeon General Blue announced from Washington that the public health service will thoroughly study several gulf cities to prevent bubonic plague spread. Dr W H Rowan Mississippi sanitary chief toured Mobile on July 8 to lead a rat control sweep along the coast between Mobile and New Orleans.
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Washington
Blue
The
Public Health Service
Treasury Department Today
New Orleans
Gulf Cities
Mobile
Ala
W. H. Rowan
Mississippi
Two Oil Well Shooters Die In Nitro Glycerine Blast
Findlay Ohio July 8 Charles Armstrong and P B Longsbaugh oil well shooters were instantly killed by a nitro glycerine explosion. The blast destroyed the car axle fragment and wrecked several nearby houses with thousands of glass panes broken.
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Associated Press
Findlay
Ohio
Charles Armstrong
P. B. Longsbaugh
Jamaica ginger ban upheld by Kansas Supreme Court
Topeka July 8 Jamaica ginger was banned as intoxicating by the Kansas Supreme Court. Drug stores selling it may be prosecuted under the prohibition law. Lemon vanilla extracts cologne camphor and similar tinctures are also classed as intoxicants if they actually intoxicate.
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Topeka
Kan
Jamaica
Kansas
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court Bill Revised To Create New Court Judge
A revised measure to establish a new court judge position moves forward after amendments. The proposal aims to expand the judiciary and faces potential approval in the legislative process.
Legislative Graveyard Ready to Receive More Interments
In Baton Rouge July 7 a shift in House sentiment may allow Senator George Wesley Smith’s Supreme Court bill to pass, despite opposition over extra judicial salaries. The House also shelved Butler’s charity board bill, while many measures face death on the call calendar known as the legislative graveyard.
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Arguments Begun in Bilbo Bribe Case
Jackson July 8 Arguments in the trial of Lieutenant Governor Bilbo charged with soliciting a bribe began this afternoon. The case likely will be submitted to the jury by noon tomorrow. The court spent most of the morning on instructions for both sides. Testimony ended after the defendant and Senator Hobbs testified in rebuttal, contradicting Chicago lawyer Samples who said he was approached with a scheme to extort money from the Chicago Lumber Company.
Constitutionalists Likely to Reject Niagara Conference Offer
Laredo Texas July 8 An unquestioned source says the Constitutionalists are unlikely to accept the Niagara conference offer for a meeting with Huerta representatives.
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Texas
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Saloons License Revoked by Council in West Monroe
At a West Monroe town council meeting last night a saloon license, not the new operation expected to be granted, was revoked from a saloon now in operation. The motion passed unanimously as part of a broader liquor control action.
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Saloon License Debated in Monroe District Council
Northern visitors report in Monroe as opponents led by attorney Carl Mettenry gather to block J. J. Webb’s license. The council, after reviewing the Gay-Shattuck law, finds J. W. Wheelis Saloon No. 2 in violation and votes to revoke its license, to take effect in sixty days.
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Carl Mettenry
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J. W. Wheelis
Louisiana Benefit Seen From Agricultural Editors Tour
Alvin T. Steiner of Rock Island Lines says Louisiana will gain from the present tour of agricultural editors. He notes editors plan yearlong coverage and articles reaching hundreds of thousands of northern farmers. Steiner also commends Monroe hospitality and the tour organizers led by Justin F. Denechaud for a successful visit to major plantations.
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Alvin T. Steiner
Rock Island Lines
Alexandria
Monroe
T. J. Shelton
Justin F. Denechaud
Immigration
Northern agricultural writers visit Monroe and Ouachita parish
A party of northern agricultural journalists and railroad men toured Monroe and Ouachita parish visiting historical sites and modern farms. They toured the court and Don Juan Filhiol relics, viewed locks, dams, and local industries, and stayed at Miller home for a large dinner at Happy Home Plantation after a day of sightseeing and farming demonstrations.
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Louisiana Territory
United States
Don Juan Filhiol
Fort Miro
Monroe
Aaron Burr
Morehouse Parish
Ouachita
Ouachita Park
Ouachita River
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Louisiana Wagon Wood Stock Manufacturing Company
Ouachita Parish
Negro Is Arrested Money Recovered in Mississippi Holdup
Mose Johnson, held in connection with the Gilchrist-Fordney Lumber Company pay car holdup near Stevens, Mississippi, June 27, directed officers to a sink hole where most of about 2300 dollars buried was recovered. The shotgun used to kill the paymaster and wound two others was found. Johnson is guarded to prevent violence.
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Associated Press
Bay Springs
Miss
Mose Johnson
Gilchrist-Fordney Lumber Company
Stevens
Todey
Johnson
Third Trial Refused Must Hang
Harold F. Henwood, sentenced to death for the Copeland killing, had a third trial denied by the supreme court. Copeland was fatally wounded when Henwood shot Sylvester Von Phul, a St. Louis aviator, in a Denver hotel.
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George E. Copeland
Supreme Court
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Henwood
Sylvester von Phul
St. Louis
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