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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1912
Page
8
Local brief items include Phoenix Drug Store advertisements for vanilla extract and remedies, Deputy Sheriff Jesse Mitchell in Shreveport, community notices on hog selling, wagon making, and livestock dipping by B Sacksionie. Several visits by judges and attorneys, and parish school board plans for high school teaching staff.
An employee of the Crocker Wheeler Company at Ampere New Jersey was seized with hiccoughs. Various remedies were suggested but none were of avail. Capt A Myatt left this morning for a month visit to San Antonio and other Texas points. He will visit Mr J A Wells near San Antonio.
A worker at the Ampere plant, covering twenty five acres, endured hours of throat spasms and fatigue before touching a 250 volt generator. He steadied himself, then collapsed rigidly, but recovered and returned to work. The incident underscores hazards and the strain of repetitive attacks.
A bathing party from New York led by Miss Charlotte Van Cortlandt Nicoll at Long Beach ends with a man delivering a miniature three foot tea tray in a rowboat. The group pauses their swim to sip Russian tea and sample sandwiches aboard the floating table.
A sales pitch claims Electric Bitters restore nerves, memory, and cheer in a woman. It links peach bloom skin, ruby lips, restful sleep, and energetic movement to pure blood and health. The ad asserts relief from indigestion backache headache faintness and dizziness and cites 50 cents at druggists.
Gotham hosts visiting fleet sailors amid joyous crowds and lavish entertainments. Enlisted men blend with American friends in large gatherings described as a long holiday honoring the Kaiser's sailors, whose reception is called the wettest in the city’s memory.
New Orleans market report shows 12 1 4 spots retreated to 12.41 12.29 11.88 11.76 with closes near 11.90. Sales volume recorded at 70 bales with high and low values listed amid fluctuating prices.
Market report lists spot prices with multiple figures including New York at 11.80 and 11.85 for RG and kg categories. Several entries show around 11.7 to 11.9 with occasional dips to 11.39 and peaks to 13.72. The data appears in a terse, numeric ledger style with few contextual labels.
Liverpool references show turnover of 18 000 sales with prices around 6.48 to 6.54 and 6.71 in the quoted range. Prospects include Mbe and PUAPOAMENEL movements with limited bid activity and uneven demand across items.
Windes reports from Monroe dated June 17 1912 describe a widespread break in a dry spell as beneficial rains reach west and northwest Texas and Oklahoma. Rainfall totals include Ardmore 1.90 inches Chandler 1.10 Holdenville 1.20 Oklahoma City 1.80 Abilene 1.70 Spur 1.52 and other readings with showers forecast west of the Mississippi. The market opened higher on heat warnings and rain prospects.
June reports note weed and disease pressures easing while condition indices rise from late May. Fertilizer use spreads in the Mississippi delta and southwest Texas with Arkansas sales reaching 1 000 tons this year. Curt Wiehe resigns Lyceum orchestra post though praise remains for his leadership. The new police jury plans a June 20 meeting to organize and elect officers. N E Calhoun, post operative, returns home improved.
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