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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1917
Page
6
A collage of ads and notices shows Kern’s horse shoing shop, Blanchard Automobile Service, Ideal Lawn Mower Grinder, the New Stan Meat Market, Saminzina Provision, music teacher Ennis, piano tuner Rolleigh, and travel notices. Also listed are marriage licenses, land transactions, awnings and tops, clothing deals, hair services, and wartime sewing efforts for Coranany DP members.
Civil cases listed include Mercantile Bank versus B A Tronsdale J B Clawson versus A E Fredericks Rakn Canallas versus Ruby Canallas.
The Monroe Military Aid Society has funds to buy baseball gear for Company D including uniforms and equipment. Soldiers excel in baseball in European campaigns and training continues at camps. Key players Dick Daughtry and Tom Brooks push to stay in form to support future front lines.
Friday June 1917 stock figures showSpot prices 25.40 with quiet trading. Vesty contracts for July October and December display mixed readings with highs and lows including 83.08 and 92.01, indicating modest activity and price shifts across futures maturities.
New York cert stock under 12,000 fuels a sharp rally in cotton, as New Orleans reports a strong market with ongoing potential for further manipulation amid wartime demand. Prices for wheat oats and corn show mixed moves in Chicago trading.
The Racket Store promotes thousands of yards of laces and embroideries with easy matching, wide flouncing for skirts, and a selection of lawns, dimities, and mulls at old prices. It highlights flaxons Voiles organdies and mulls in white goods, plains and cheeks, inviting customers to shop now.
Reports show forecasts of mixed rain and sun across the cotton belt with heavy rains in Arkansas and Tennessee and drought in the Gulf states. Weevils are appearing in Alabama Mississippi and Arkansas. The New York cotton premium stays strong as stock levels rise, while political factors and crop conditions keep buyers cautious.
Wanted notice seeks room and board or furnished Bowen with congenial couple for summer or permanent. Prefer garage access and not too close in. Contact details incomplete. Hoax No 28, City. Also listings for an experienced sales lady at Krox Co and a Singer sewing machine offer. Lost horse described with identifying marks, owner Lewis Smith. Notify BR. W. McClenden, West Monroe, La.
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