Quadruplet Mona Keys Wedding Sparks Cupid Victim
Oklahoma City report details Mona Keys wedding to Robert W. Fowler, oil company accountant. Mona’s identical twin Roberta served as maid of honor with Leota and Mary as bridesmaids. The quartet, born June 4 1915, famed in local life, graduates of Baylor University 1937 and planned Texas teaching careers.
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Oklahoma City
Cupid
Mona
Robert W. Fowler
Oil Company
Leota
Mary
Roberta
Fowler
James B. Weary
W. B. White
First Church
John Ler
Bloomington
Ind
Baylor University
Waco
Tex
Marshall
Texas
Poultry Leaders Meet at Camp Grant Walker
One hundred sixty one poultry leaders from fifty parishes attended the fourth annual short course at Camp Grant Walker near Pollock. Represented from Catahoula parish were Mrs Henry Peniston Mrs W S Peck Miss Willie Woodward and John Randall of Sicily Island Mrs John Wurster of Jonesville Miss Martha Rebecca Whitaker and Elda Noel farm security home management supervisors and Miss Fae Roark home demonstration agent. Nationalism noted as Balkans history with Romanians once mistaking rulers for Greeks.
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Fae Roark
Catahoula Parish
Rabbits Multiply Trouble Around Pearl River
About six dozen Texas cotontail rabbits released near Pearl River after stock failed to claim them have swarmed the area. They are chewing crops on nearby farms, following shipments to W. C. Forbess for stock on 10 000 acres of swampland. The Louisiana Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ordered the bunnies released, and farmers report daily crop damage.
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Pearl River
Texas
W. C. Forbess
Geme
Mr. Forbess
R. H. Alexander
Clyde A. Crawford
Louisiana Society For Prevention of Cruelty To
Crawford's
Louisiana House Certifies Zero Opposition to Loan Rate Cut
In Baton Rouge on June 18, the House passed a substitute bill reducing small loan interest from 31 2 to 2 percent per month by a vote of 89 to 0. Rep Wellborn Jack, author of two original anti loan bills, still favors a 1 percent cap and hopes it will be added as an amendment.
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Baton Rouge
House
Banks and Banking Committee
Wellborn Jack
Courtless Loan Shark Bill Seeks Lower Rates in Senate
Rep Jack champions a 1 percent amendment but the committee set a 2 percent cap for monthly loan shark rates. He notes hostile unsigned letters and promises to push the measure in the Senate while fighting delays by loan company reps. Separately House Bill 266 proposes higher wine liquor taxes to add about 2 million dollars in revenue, with no beer tax change.
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Senate
Jack
House
Jones
H. H. Huckabay
Caddo
G. C. Womack
Catahoula
Twin Cities to Host Third Chamber Clearance Sale
Chamber of Commerce merchants committee plans a July clearance sale in the Twin Cities. Merchants will offer tremendous stocks of summer goods at value prices, aiming for a spectacular event this year. Chairman Dave Silverstein endorses wide consumer participation in the sale. Egypt exports cotton and related products, sugar, cigarettes, onions, eggs, phosphates, rice, and gum arabic.
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Twin Cities
Chamber of Commerce Merchants Committee
Dave Silver
Chamber Committee
Silverstein
North
Louisiana
Egypt
Codex Fernandez Leal Found in San Francisco Vault
Anthropologist Dr. John Barr Tompkins of the University of California unearthed a 500 year old codex in the Crocker bank vault in San Francisco. The nine foot fragile document, possibly made from wild silk, depicts a Mexican Indian migration and rituals. The codex will be turned over to the Bancroft Library in Berkeley.
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Berkeley
Calif
John Barr Tompkins
University of California
Crocker First National Bank
San Francisco
W. W. Crocker
Bancroft Library
Herbert J. Priestly
Bancroft
Tompkins
Guatemala
Tehauntepec
Oaxca
Sierra Madre
Mexico
W. H. Crocker
League records back in Geneva after May move to Vichy
Valuable records of the League of Nations returned to the league palace in Geneva this morning in a special Swiss moving van from Vichy. The files had been sent to Vichy as France courted peace amid German advances. Officials said the league will probably stay in Geneva for the war’s duration.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Vichy
France
League
Republic
Switzerland
Joseph A. C. Avenol
Old Bethel Baptist church gets new pastor and building
Rev. Lee Brooks of Rinehart is called to pastor the Old Bethel Baptist church one mile west of Clarks. He will preach the fourth Sunday monthly at 2:30 p.m. The church recently dedicated a $5,000 building funded by cash gifts and local labor. C. C. Sheppard chaired the finance committee and J. L. Monk supervised construction. The site has church history dating to 1831 with grave markers from 1817. An annual graveyard work day keeps the community connected.
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Clarks
Lee Brooks
Rinehart
Old Bethel Baptist Church
C. C. Sheppard
Louisiana Central Lumber Company
J. L. Monk
Standard
Nazi Prison Camps Swell with Allied Captives Across Reich
Berlin reports hundreds of thousands of Allied prisoners from the western front crowd German camps. Jefferson Patterson says influx rose after Dutch and Belgian defeats, with prisoners housed in schools, barracks, and even castles. Norwegians and Dutch mostly released. Polish prisoners work on farms. Muslim inmates build a minaret near Berlin for daily prayers.
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Preston Grover
Berlin
Western Front
Jefferson Patterson
United States
Low Countries
Netherlands
Belgium
Flanders
August the Strong
Saxony
Poland
Germany
Reich
Patterson
Allah
Mohammed
Ferriday Names New City Officials After Primary
Ferriday Louisiana officials announced the results of the municipal primary held Tuesday. Mayor E W Vogt was defeated for reelection by A B Crothers by 54 votes. Elected to the city council were Joe Pasternack, T B Jones Jr A E Stuart and William Meyer with others to take office July 1.
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Ferriday
E. W. Vogt
Board of Aldermen of
Vogt
A. B. Crothers
Joe Pasternack
T. B. Jones, Jr
A. E. Stuart
William Meyer
Annual program details for local civic event and trip
The 11th annual X Y Z Business Men's club celebration is set for June 19 at Macedonia Baptist Church. An excursion to Vicksburg will depart Monroe June 30 from Tabernacle Baptist Church at 6 a.m. An emancipation program at Macedonia on June 19 at 7 30 p.m. features Elbert Collins of the NAACP speaking on cooperation.
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X. Y. Z. Business Men's Club
Macedonia Baptist Church
Vicksburg
Miss
Monroe
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Macedonia Church
Elbert Collins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Hen Lays 15 Eggs in Four Days
Mrs. Chris Olsen reports her Rhode Island Red hen laid eight eggs on Thursday, rested Friday, then laid two on Saturday and five on Sunday at Bellevue Washington. She notes the hen has a private pen to herself and insists there is no mistake.
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Bellevue
Wash
Chris Olsen
Rhode Island
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