Chamber party from Shreveport to visit Monroe
A 100 plus member delegation from the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce will visit Monroe on June 16 for a goodwill trip by train through Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. In Monroe a Lakeside Country club buffet supper and entertainment are planned. S. H. McClary will announce full entertainment details after returning from a chemurgic meeting in Baton Rouge.
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Monroe
Chamber of Commerce of
Shreveport
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Lakeside Country Club
S. H. McClary
West Monroe
Baton Rouge
Richard W. Leche
Bond's Pill Advertisement Promises Bile Relief
An old advertisement touts Bond's Pill as a remedy for biliousness and headaches. It claims the pill starts the bile, drives out poisonous waste, and is sold by druggists for 25 cents.
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Bond
Death of Monroe business leader Sam Sugar at 79
Sam Sugar a longtime Monroe merchant and one of the area’s oldest businessmen died at his home 601 St. John street Tuesday afternoon. The funeral conducted at the residence by Rabbi F K Hirsch drew large attendance from Monroe and West Monroe merchants and longtime friends.
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Sam Sugar
Monroe
St. John Street
F. K. Hirsch
West Monroe
Librarian Miss Jones to Attend ALA Meeting in New York
Concordia parish librarian Miss Sarah I. Jones will attend the American Library Association meeting in New York from June 20 to 27. She will visit Louisiana State University library school and Columbia University while there, joined by Miss Margaret Frances Wiseman. The article also notes La Paz Bolivia as the world’s loftiest capital at 12,470 feet.
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Ferriday
Sarah I. Jones
Concordia Parish
American Library Association
New York
Jones
Louisiana State University Library School
Columbia University
Margaret Frances Wiseman
Hayward Urges Defense of Democracy at Rotary Talk
Rev. E. F. Hayward addressed the Monroe Rotary Club at the Virginia hotel urging Americans to reassert democratic principles amid global trends toward Communism and Fascism. He warned of anti democratic sentiment abroad and within the U S and pressed democracy as a tool to serve all, not the few.
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Germany
Italy
Russia
Hayward
England
America
Carrier-Salesmen Hold Monthly Meeting at Franc es Hotel
A regular meeting of the News-Star-World carrier salesmen gathered Thursday night at the Frances hotel. Carriers spoke about city newspaper delivery and the session closed with a talk from H. B. Murdock, circulation manager, followed by Coca-Cola refreshments.
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News-Star—World
Frances Hotel
H. B. Murdock
Coca-Cola
First Ouachita Cotton Blooms Reported by Planters
W. B. McGee and W. H. Lenard bring in the season’s first cotton blooms from Ouachita Parish. McGee says his bloom east of Monroe on Bayou DeSiard opened recently with a prior bloom withered. Lenard reports a large bloom from the west side of the Ouachita River near the Monroe locks and dam, with another bloom likely a day older.
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Ouachita Parish
News-Star— World
W. B. McGee
W. H. Lenard
McGee
Monroe
Bayou DeSiard
Ferriday Church Leader to Speak at Gordon Avenue
A. B. Hagle a Ferriday Methodist lay leader will preach at Gordon Avenue Methodist Church Sunday at 7 45 p m Special music includes a male quartet and a solo by F S Nelson The pastor Rev J M Alford hopes for large attendance noting the church gained 27 members since January and shows progress under his guidance
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A. B. Hagle
Ferriday
Gordon Avenue Methodist Church
F. S. Nelson
J. M. Alford
Hagle
Alford
Negro Executed in Alabama Electric Chair
Roosevelt Collins, a diminutive Black man, was executed in Kilby Prison for the assault on a White rural housewife during racial disturbances near Anniston, Alabama. He died after two shocks of current at 12:18 a.m. He claimed no force at trial and asked for forgiveness while seated in the chair.
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Montgomery
Ala
Roosevelt Collins
Kilby
Anniston
Alabama
Bell recast after 340 years at Essex church in 1928
A bell hung in a Thundersley church for 340 years was taken down in 1928 and sent to the same London foundry that cast it in 1588 for recasting.
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Thundersley
Essex
England
London
Kiwanis Discusses Business Ethics At Meeting
West Monroe Kiwanis heard a program on The Kiwanis Code of Business Standards at the Thursday noon session in First Methodist Church. Fred William son, former Kiwanis International committee member, urged members to maintain integrity, serve the community, and pursue fair profits. Otis Thompson led singing with Miss Mary Grace Lawn at the piano.
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Kiwanis Code of Business
West Monroe Kiwanis Club
First Methodist Church
W. R. Hatchell
E. S. Eby
Fred Williamson
Kiwanis International Committee On Business Standards
Otis Thompson
Mary Grace Lawn
Post and Auxiliary Will Meet Tonight
Members of the Thompson Wood Lee camp United Spanish War Veterans and its auxiliary will hold a joint meeting at the organization rooms on South Grand street tonight at 7 30 p m Reports on the recent state encampment in New Iberia attended by several members will be rendered A local auxiliary member Mrs Sadie Gossett was elected junior vice president of the department Refreshments will be served at the close of the meeting.
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Thompson Wood Lee Camp
United Spanish War Veterans
South Grand Street
New Iberia
Sadie Gossett
Increase in Louisiana employment rises in May
Louisiana state employment service reports 2 666 jobs filled in May a 16 percent rise from April 1937. Private industry accounted for 1 616 placements up 196 5 percent from May 1936 with Ouachita parish contributing 240 placements including 158 private hires. Director Charlet notes rising use of state offices correlates with more workers returning to private industry.
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Louisiana State Employment Service
B. W. Cason
Philip J. Charlet
Ouachita Parish
R. E. Young
Monroe
Charlet
Louisiana
Season's First Fig Exhibited Friday
Mrs Frank Ticheli of 608 South Grand street displayed the season's first fig from a California tree in her yard. The fruit weighed about six times an ordinary fig and the tree, raised from a cutting, is about ten years old. She expects two more crops before Christmas unless frost intervenes. She irrigates during droughts.
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California
Frank Ticheli
South Grand Street
Man Denies Monroe Arrest Claim After Bond Posted
Ed Anders of 305 North Sixth Street West Monroe said Friday he is not the man arrested in Monroe by sheriff's deputies and released on a 150 bond yesterday.
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Ed Anders
North Sixth Street
West Monroe
Monroe
Sheriff's Department
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W. W. Cooper
Bernhardt Bldg
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Norge
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Passman Equipment CO
Jean Muir
Warren Hull
Beverly Roberts
Capitol
Ouachita
Kiwanis
Birgit
Seagram
Seagram Distillers Corporation
Colfax
Arcady
Los Angeles
Wilshire Boulevard
Rampart
Wilshire District
Hollywood
A.C
Desiard St
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