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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1927
Page
5
Clarence Pate of Gulf Refining says a rock dome beneath swamp lands near McElroy hides large oil and gas deposits. A well there blew in last week creating a crater of oily water. operations to resume this week.
Much interest is shown in Tugwell No. 1 test drilling in section 21-22l nine miles north of Farmerville Unidm parish. Cap stock was found 100 feet higher than tests at Oakland. Preparations are under way to rat hole and determine if casing should be set. Days ahead may decide the undertaking’s future.
Solomon Guggenheim, financier, predicts continued prosperity in America as long as political stability prevails. He states wealth here is vast and sees no reason for a downturn, aside from potential political disturbances.
The Dixie college news notes honors among women students. Edith Parker of Gastonia, an Irish brunette, is selected as the most popular co-ed at Duke University in Durham. Rollins College reports overturning the notion of masculine superiority.
Park Fin presents Beatrice Jones as the leading student on campus, a role usually held by men at this co educational school. The piece notes other colleges naming top female students and May Queens, highlighting evolving gender norms in early 20th century higher education.
Tuesday DeWitt Burk was fined five dollars or six days for traffic violations. Wednesday defendants including W D Cann C E Downs Ira Dixon Charlie Kleene and S E Burgoyne faced fines up to twelve fifty or twelve and a half days. Others John Nelson George Maxwell Jim Delay Hood bill for Delays liquor charge plus ten days. Robert Gibson and Mattie Barron vagrancy fines set. Elvie Jones drunk and disorderly fined twelve fifty or twelve and a half days.
Allie Endom driving a touring car struck a sedan owned by Sim Timothy on Jackson Street in front of the Catholic church. The Axhia auto pulled away from the curb and Endom’s car hit the other front fender at about 9 10 in the morning Wednesday.
An old promotional notice touts S S S as a long standing remedy for rheumatism and muscular pains. It includes testimonials from Carl C. Campbell of Johnson City Tennessee and claims the product is a purely vegetable extract from medicinal plant roots sold in two sizes at drug stores.
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