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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1929
Page
15
Long Beach California reports a 10 million dollar auditorium and eight acre marine park on tide lands. A 2000 foot semicurcular breakwater pier rises into the Pacific to shelter new beaches and host Olympic events in 1932. The civic building will honor World War I heroes with Roman and Greek architectural motifs and a glass dome.
Captain Ralleigh of Company G announces five vacancies to be filled within ten days. Enlistees will join the summer encampment program and are chosen for character and potential to absorb training. Company G is part of the second battalion of the 156th Infantry stationed in north Louisiana with units in Shreveport Minden Ruston and Monroe.
In Plaquemine on June 7 Governor Long dismissed Sam Banana, longtime Iberville parish maintenance superintendent, as part of a political purge against Gegner Schwing and Gueymard. Alfred Gauthreaux named to replace Banana amid protests planned in White Castle and Plaquemine. A separate dispatch from New York notes J P Morgan returning from the Paris reparations talks aboard the Mauretania.
Loretta Young, a 17 year old motion picture actress, may pick a husband before reaching legal age but cannot wed yet. She has signed a contract reflecting this arrangement.
One storm spot along the ocean course disrupted the planned flight of the Green Flash and Yellow Bird toward Europe. Dr. James H. Kimball of the New York weather bureau advised pilots Lewis A. Yancey and Roger Q. Williams that gale winds and rain were 1,200 miles off the coast, forcing officials to halt take-off plans.
In Charlotte to the Union County area a 19th century gold mining legacy is uncovered beneath downtown streets. Geologists report gold particles in ballast rocks and tunnels from early operations that fed regional ore supplies a century and a half ago. The tale links to a long vanished ante bellum mine and a forgotten Appalachian roid rush era.
The region's output waned steadily and then the Civil War delivered a decisive end to its prominence, marking a turning point in local economic history.
Wisner residents and guests filled Sundays and midweek with visits and trips. Z B Montgomery and daughter Joyce Pearl toured Denson Springs Baton Rouge to visit kin. Ensminger and Pool joined trips to Mangham and Monroe while others traveled to Natchez El Dorado and Memphis for family and business matters.
The district clerk’s office yesterday recorded transfers including Mrs Leila E Kennedy to Colonel Notle and other realty transfers.
Pleasant to use ointment and soap relieve itching and heal rash. Tetterine Ointment 6c and Tetterine Soap 25c available at drug stores or from Shoptrine Co. Floom 13 Savannah Ga.
Records show transfers including Lot 4 of Mrs Leila B subdivision with minerals reserved totaling 1606 dollars. In Sugar, undivided one third of properties across lots 1-10, 12-17 and subdivision parts of lots 9, 11, 12, Block 5 Terminal Heights, with debt assumed by vendee. Be Calvert and four minors referenced. Dr B G Calvert’s First addition to Monroe lists Lots 1 and 2 valued at 1759 dollars, with four minors named. Williams: Lots 3 and 4 of Calvert’s First addition valued at 1750 dollars with four minors.
Thousands attended the Marquette debut, the new six built by Buick and Fisher Body. The crowd witnessed a modern, low, long design with sloped windshield, wide doors, chrome exterior fittings, and luxury interior mohair plush. The model line includes closed and open versions with adjustable driver seating and advanced color schemes developed by Buick and Fisher Body.
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