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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1929
Page
10
Thomas A I of the Arkansas Gas Company reports a three week old gasser fire near Alto still burning with tenacious flames. Incendiary origin suspected as flames reach forty to fifty feet, lighting the sky of Monroe and drawing photographers for National magazine.
Delhi this week hosted visitors from Delhi Rayville and Monroe with local social activity highlighted. Miss Mary Mims spoke on community organization and folk schools at the Lions Club luncheon in Monroe, while Rayville guests including G D Cain and several agents attended.
A Louisiana delegation named by Agriculture Commissioner Harry Wilson will join Southern states to press for higher tariff rates. Members include S. Odenheimer New Orleans A Kaplan Crowley John M Parker St Francisville. They plan to meet June 17 in Washington before the Senate finance committee considering the new tariff bill. They seek higher rates on jute vegetable oils and cotton.
T J McCarty Louisiana rehabilitation officer for the Red Cross during the 1927 flood died suddenly in Porto Rico on Sunday. He had been in relief work since the hurricane last fall and left a wife and family. The body to be brought to the country for funeral services. Details of burial location were not given.
The southeast corner of Jackson and Grammont streets sold for 40000 dollars. Dr. J. Q. Graves bought the lot from Mrs. Eugenie S. Wright. The 75 by 200 foot parcel has three wooden houses and fronts toward downtown Monroe. Local realtor L. W. Mobley handled the sale. A hotel larger than any before may rise on the site, potentially adding a fourth first class hotel to the city.
Hubert Wagoner 11, son of Henry Wagoner of 401 Cy press street, West Monroe, rode a bicycle struck by a Ford touring car driven by a man about 30. He suffered cuts and bruises to the head and body and was taken to St Francis sanitarium for treatment and x rays. He is not in serious condition.
Chicago’s fast life and old time music hall glamour color the film Show Boat with Laura LaPlante, Joseph Schildkraut and Otis Harlan as Magnolia Ravenal in a vivid 25 year ago milieu. Capitol's Sunset Pass with Jack Holt and company filmed near an Arizona trading post echoing the old west atmosphere.
The review highlights Holt as the U S marshal pursuing cattle rustlers in Sun Set Pass based on a Zane Grey story. Nora Lane plays the outlaw leader’s sister and a romance unfolds. Otto Brower directs the Paramount adaptation, following Avalanche. Harry Grant of Hillsborough High extols music as a moral force inspiring disciplined youth.
In Tampa on June 15, a public statement argues that widespread music instruction in public schools will raise the next generation to greatness. The claim ties arts education to societal achievement and personal development.
Bond's Pills promoted as a safer malaria remedy. Advertises cost 25 cents, claims to cleanse the system of bile and poisonous waste. described as small, mild, safe, dependable and prescription only for malarial disorders.
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