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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1932
Page
8
La Societe des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux plans a midnight wreck on June 8 at Monroe. Listed victims include C. C. Hargraves M. C. McGee O. Z. Barfoot Mike Abraham George E. Breece B. A. Trousdale Jr M. S. McLaughlin L. P. McKeller and A. E. Russ.
Monroe police recovered stolen clothing and other merchandise after arresting Willie Copeland. Natchitoches officers retrieved Copeland and the items tied to burglaries there. Tarver confirmed the suspect’s prior prison terms and multiple wanted-ad actions through state identification records.
Readable fragments list a black dress two pairs of shoes and a .32 calibre automatic pistol from Dulme Brothers pressing shop at Natchitoches. The text preserves a sense of a midwestern or southern town setting with locality named but incomplete context.
Three white men and four Black men were arrested by sheriff deputies at a whiskey still about 12 miles north of Monroe near Wall's lake. Eleven barrels of mash were destroyed. Those detained were Robert Agerton 20 G G Aerton 60 E J Hoover 62 and Mose May Percy Robinson Larkin Wade Julius Hanks. They faced manufacturing whiskey charges. The raid was notable for the number of suspects and daytime operation.
Bennie Jacobs was arrested this morning on a charge of stealing a garbage can valued at $2, reportedly the property of E Davis of 1318 Breard Street. The report notes England imports 75,000,000 cigars from Cuba annually.
Recipes for making cake including Cocoanut Layer Cake with coconut garnish and Patty's Birthday Cake with egg whites and pink coconut frosting. Details cover ingredients, mixing steps, layering, baking times, and temperatures for home bakers. The notes emphasize creaming butter, alternating flour and milk, folding egg whites, and decorating with frosting and coconut.
A 16 year old boy was brought to the hospital after an attempted gas suicide. He left a letter to his parents expressing hopelessness and loneliness. The piece stresses adolescence as a crucial period for parental support and urges psychiatric help to form healthy interests and social ties.
Police report that George Brandy was arrested this morning and will serve 50 days. He had previously been fined 100 dollars for carrying a concealed weapon, with 50 dollars stayed for 30 days, a payment he did not make.
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