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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1922
Page
6
Trading data list with prices for Westy July 20.55 19.75 20.50 2016 October 20.06 1925 20.00 19.65 December 1983 1 30 19.75 19.40. Updates include Friday sales 1347 and high close figures across several futures months.
Readable figures show high and low prices with vesting notation and dates. The snippet lists July October and December values possibly for stock or futures, but context is insufficient to determine instrument or full event.
L L Smith reports from New Orleans that USDA data as of May 25 gives U S cotton condition at 69.6 percent with a yield forecast near 10 811 000 bales far below the 13 000 000 bales the trade expects for next season. World consumption may be about 12 500 000 bales while stocks near season’s end dwindle toward exhaustion amid heavy rains in the east and scattered showers in the west.
Several short notices advertise for rent furnished rooms with or without board at 413 Grammont and 207 Louise Anne avenue, and a couple seeks a furnished room. A 1920 touring car is for sale through Reed-Lennon Motor Co. Other listings include a six room bungalow for sale, bicycle, and assorted goods from Coty and La Rose Jacminot Extracts.
The report shows total world visible supply 4,822,000 versus 6,440,000 last year with American share 2,867,000 and foreign 1,955,000. Weekly change shows a drop of 76,000 against a 51,000 rise last year, a net loss versus last year. Tomorrow New Orleans Cotton Exchange closes for Confederate Memorial Day. Liverpool closes for Whitsuntide.
Washington reports the United States customs service issued orders stopping all drug traffic until enforcement regulations for the Jones-Miller anti narcotic law are drawn up. The measures are described as drastic, aiming to limit drug use to legitimate medical practice and curb international drug trade.
A nostalgic poem recalls families lining the station gate to greet a wandering relative returning home. The piece contrasts warm welcomes with aging lines and ends with a vision of reunion in the hereafter. It also notes federal drug regulation efforts under the Jones-Miller law and the Hearst press push impacting enforcement.
Washington reports Britain plans to pay one hundred million dollars in interest on its war debt next fall. Officials said the figure appeared in newspaper reports and was not confirmed by the allied debt funding commission.
In Laredo Texas on June 2 Associated Press reports air is full of rumors of a revolutionary outbreak near Nuevo Laredo Mexico but no materialization or activity has been observed.
Cincinnati June 2 railroad workers await a conference next Tuesday. Four transportation brotherhoods may attend along with twelve other railroad organizations to decide action on wage reductions and the welfare of the rail workforce.
A posse in Fort Smith Ark searches the Sequoyah county hills for the leader of a three man gang who robbed a First Nation bank yesterday afternoon. The pursuit continues as authorities review clues from the scene.
The Agriculture Department reports a May 25 cotton condition at 69.6 percent good or excellent versus 66 percent last year. The season’s production forecast remains not yet finalized with limited detail available.
Secretary Hoover urged coal buyers to verify origin and freight costs, compare dealer prices to mine prices, and determine if coal is from contracts or the spot market. He noted contract coal can be cheaper and announced mixed pricing across regions, with emphasis on preventing price panics during the strike.
Flint Michigan June 2 William Buckler a detective is near death from wounds sustained in a gun battle with bank robbers and a sheriffs posse near Hadley yesterday Two bandits were killed by possemen another wounded before surrender The remaining robber was captured uninjured
A telegram from the former president expresses hope that good committeemen are elected locally, in response to a request that the national party engage its executive to back capable Democrats for local committeeman positions.
An account of an airplane tour over Monroe, Ouachita River and surrounding hills. The flight passes landmarks like City Hall Saenger Theatre and Ouachita Bank building. Pilot Robishaw and Mr Cleveland plan exhibitions and flights for locals with a 15 minute ride priced at $10 plus a school of aviation ouverts to the public.
English engineer Sir Mare I Brunel is credited with inventing the circular saw in the year 1790.
Testimony aimed at disproving S. E. J. Cox oil promotion claims in a case accusing him of using the mails to defraud. Dallas and Damon witnesses said a claimed General Oil Company tank did not exist and a Big Spring gusher claim was exaggerated. Letters predicted West Texas field values and a 900 percent stock dividend upon reorganization into a larger trust, which defense had admitted.
Nebraska faces a dilemma as it lacks an executioner for a condemned murderer set for execution in the electric chair. The state asks the Charlestown prison's executioner in Massachusetts to travel to Lincoln to carry out the death.
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