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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1923
Page
9
Agricultural club members in Ouachita Parish are urged by home demonstration agent Mrs. Jewell McQuiller to prepare now for canning season. She stresses selecting best vegetables, keeping equipment ready, and following strict canning methods for market ready products.
Admiral Robert F. E. Coontz, Alvin M. Oweley, Richard Straus, Mme Julia Slausen, and Howard V. O'Brien all celebrate birthdays today. Coontz, Denton Texas, and Hannibal Missouri natives are recognized as national leaders in the Navy, American Legion, opera, literature, and music.
Multiple court-ordered sheriff sales in Ouachita Parish Louisiana. Items include Monroe Furniture Company property and residential parcels under writs of seizure and sale. Auctions set for June 23 1923 and July 14 1923 at the Monroe courthouse with cash payments and no appraisement. Sheriff T A Grant and J D Madden oversee.
Several events mark today with national and regional significance. Tributes to Virginia governor James L. Kemper born in 1830 are noted alongside MIT installation ceremonies for Dr. Lemuel W. Stratton and conventions in Detroit Hamilton and Washington.
London reports the May 22 expiry of the Wright brothers patent and September 18 for J J Montgomery may trigger large payments. If Montgomery is sustained the US government could owe royalties on thousands of wartime and postwar airplanes.
An editorial set piece records Governor Smith defending states rights against Bryan over alcohol policy. It argues Mr. Bryan misreads federalism, condemns the Volstead Act as dishonest, and asserts a push to amend it, noting the depth of Siberia soil as a closing oddity.
New York observers predict broad bipartisan support within a year for the United States joining the World Court as President Harding urges. Democratic and Republican leaders say party lines will align on the issue, easing public debate and shaping the 1920 campaign. The signings by Al Smith on prohibition stir further political reaction.
Town leaders and chemists depart for Wilmington where the government suit seeks to recover German held patents. Officials insist keys to progress remain with American chemists while asserting eventual return to owners would hinder U S chemical science and industry. A Rhine trust chief company has sent an assistant to testify for the Attorney General.
Reports from El The stores show brisk public buying despite vacation season. Shoppers crowd counters from morning to night in a bustling summer, with New York visitors and excursionists expected to flood Coney Island sands before fall. L. W. Gresham Mattress Factory advertises mattresses from three dollars and twenty-five cents to seven dollars and up.
The text describes postwar Amsterdam addressing housing shortages with efficiency economy and beauty. Government subsidies raised from 1000 to 125.06 per unit as cheaper materials and careful planning transformed the city. Architects focus on low cost, high aesthetics, expanding from 20,000 homes since 1914 to broader suburbs.
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