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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
8
Larrie Henry announces a summer shirt line featuring fancy colors and soft collars with patent fold back cuffs. The ad notes a complete Arrow collar collection and includes the age 6 3t.
Have your lawn mower sharpened on an Ideal Lawn Mower Grinder and it will cut as good as new. I also offer an electric tool grinder for all kinds of grinding. Mower, sickles, disks, hedge shears, scissors, knives, hoes, shovels, scratchets. Cash, satisfaction guaranteed at 204 North Fourth Street, S-Ima.
Gasoline advertised at fifteen cents per gallon by Faulk Brothers at Ballon Sidewalk filling station.
P. W. Rogers announces a new general delivery business at O. O. Clark's Barn offering各种 hauling services. He pledges personal attention to all orders and invites patronage, with phone number 567 for contact.
A period promotional piece warns against calomel and touts a vegetable substitute named CARSWELL'S LIVER AID. It claims to cleanse liver kidneys and bowels without shock and offers a 50 cent bottle with money refunded if unsatisfactory.
Louis Loche wed Laura James and David George married Minnie Wa ter as recorded in the marriage licenses column.
Filings include mortgages releases and sales of land or interests. Transactions involve T H McMillan Peoples Homestead Assn to Joe Kern Jr. and American Christian Missionary Society to First Christian Church of Monroe, plus releases for Monroe Building and Loan Assn and others.
W H Cooley discharged for drunkenness. C F Green fined 5.04 for begging on streets. Chas Covington fined 10 for drunken and dis orderly conduct. Sale promotion for Awanta flour by One Horse Cash Grocery. 1-tf.
Town Marshal Novaworthy of Mer Touge arrested a mule believed to be involved in thefts in Mer Rouge and returned it to the city on the northbound train. Notices advertise Riverside pavilion nightly dancing led by Leon Hammonds orchestra with private parties, mayoral visit from A D Terner of Minden, and local contractors at work on the new airdome. Also listed are private tutoring offers at 213 Wood Street starting June 6 and local supplier ads for builders and coffee products.
The Boston pitcher Dutch Leonard delivered 41 consecutive scoreless innings before Cleveland Naps tallied a run and stretched the contest into a close finish.
The piece describes Alexandria hosting a large political gathering for the General Assembly with a grand banquet and travel by train and car. Speakers pledge civic vitality, while tensions with Baton Rouge surface over Capitol removal and legislative attention. Also noted are health and utility bills, the YInternal Bath device promotion, and the Powell commission bill debates before parish assessors and sheriffs.
Washington June 3 House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee favors the Dupre bill authorizing Arthur McGuirk and E L Cortell and associates to sign to build a bridge across the Mississippi near New Orleans The panel adds that the project must have Louisiana State consent and begin within two years and finish within three The War Department backs the two year/three year timeline and notes the scale requires longer planning and funding
Notice is given to creditors and interested parties to show cause within ten days why the final account of H. A. Moore as curator should not be approved and funds distributed accordingly. By order of the Sixth District Court in Ouachita Parish Louisiana dated June 2, 1914.
The Ruston Leader reports Ruston will soon have a modern opera house after C W Perkins and G A Adams, plot owners, awarded the contract for about twelve thousand dollars. Edward L Mitchell won the bid, construction to begin soon on land near Vienna street and Mississippi avenue. Also noted is P M Endom leaving for Colon via New Orleans and a Pittsburg-Boston outfielder Vincent Campbell making a comeback with the Indianapolis Federals.
The Boston Red Sox signed Fred Ostergren a standout first baseman from Holy Cross baseball. Ostergren regarded as a crack player joins the major league roster.
Cumberland phone 332 J E Morgan and Bro Deakerson Wood coal blacksmith and domestic concrete lime cement sand and gravel all kinds of building material West Monroe.
Alberta Luckey, a young woman, stabbed Burt Johnson with a seven inch blade at Congo and Washington streets in Fast End after a jealousy dispute. Iner Shepheard is also implicated. both are jailed awaiting parish custody. Johnson died instantly from a heart wound.
Will Roberts, who stabbed George Massing Saturday night, was re-arrested this afternoon on a warrant charging assault with intent to kill. A $200 bond was set as Judge Dawkins held court in Bastroy. Massing was moved from the sanitarium to his home and is recovering.
About twenty Louisiana sheriffs gathered in Baton Rouge to set up a permanent group and outline a legislative program. They expect the governor to assure the Butler tax commission bill won’t affect sheriff emoluments and plan to back a Dupre bill setting $150 maximum fees for sheriff sales. They oppose fee reductions including the Schwing bill and discussed the Powell Perish commission bill with little formal action.
Annapolis Md June 4 President Wilson will present diplomas to Naval Academy seniors tomorrow at graduation day. Visitors observed infantry drills flag competitions torpedo and gun drills and engineering exercises concluding with a dress parade and colors presentation.
Berlin June 4 Dr Hermann Paasche first deputy Speaker of the German imperial parliament departed today for the United States to deliver political and sociological lectures at the University of California. He plans to spend most of the summer on the Pacific Coast studying the economic and racial situation in that region.
A roadside merchant hawked goods and offered samples but passersby ignored him. At dusk another trader notes the failure stems from selling wares the seller makes himself. The first merchant packs his stock and vanishes into the forest, having tried to sell Experience.
The item lists trading notes dated June 4 1914 from New Orleans showing spot prices and closes for various cotton futures and bales. Prices include 19.97 19.58 12.50 for July and 12.68 12.60 12.83 for December, with large bale counts such as 62349 and 59220.
Market brief lists varied spot prices with figures such as 13.65 and 18.22 alongside other values including 123.05 23.15 and 13.12. Mentions 3 RES 12a 12.66 12.72 fe Deu. and a 98.93 12.88 13.67 22.74 sequence.
Liverpool market note shows June 4 figures with a sale of 4000 bales and price ranges for July to August and August to September. Mentions 06 and specific crop period indicators with minor typographical marks. No named buyers or sellers appear beyond the market context.
Market notes show July and September futures with bids and bid ranges. Prices quoted include corn and oats futures with small shifts, reflecting early summer demand.
New Orleans wires report improved weather in the south west with scattered showers in the central and eastern cotton region and more rain likely east of the Mississippi. Liquidation appears near its end, a modest price recovery occurs, and covering by shorts grows as wet weather fears rise. Dry May conditions east of the Mississippi boost cultivation though some areas still need rain and replanting continues.
A brief note from H. and B. Beer warns Texas farmers that grain harvests require immediate attention, risking neglect of cotton lands in western and northwestern Texas as buying periods approach.
A Progressive Farmer column urges early destruction of boll weevils to protect cotton squares and increase yields. It emphasizes training hoe hands to identify and remove weevils and notes plantations using the method report higher harvests. Written by C. E. Woolman, Parish Demonstration Agent.
The V., 8. and P. firemen's excursion to Dorcheat today drew a large crowd of pleasure seekers. The train carried eight coaches and many were to join the Monroe crowd at stations along the line. Theodore Bonnet wrote a new play A Friend of the People to debut in San Francisco. Minnie Dupree travels to London to arrange with Alfred Sutro for her next season star debut.
Joseph Santley is slated to appear next season in a stage production by Philip Bartholo mae and Beyard Veiller.
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