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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1919
Page
6
Trading notes indicate pots 22.13 with steady sales totaling 1 044. The Vesty July contract quotes 32.85 high 31.28 low 32.38 close 31.23. October data 31.76 30.02 31.24 29.92. December 21.50 29.66 30.98 29.55.
Market ticker shows New York pricing with several quotes including 33.60 steady and Bee at 30.28. Other figures include 31.94 and 31.67 with small spreads and a 1.43 premium noted.
Fragmentary data shows a 19.46 reading cited at Liverpool with a 5 000 sales figure and other unclear values. No coherent event or names clear.
Light to moderate showers in the cotton region with more rain expected inland. The market remains firm at high levels amid strong demand and anticipated acceptance of large cotton tenders. Prospects point to higher prices if peace is signed and wet weather hurts labor and field conditions.
The Senate voted 55 to 11 to defeat an exemption for beer and wine from the wartime prohibition law. A motion by Senator Phelan to apply the law only to distilled spirits was tabled, signaling opposition to permitting beer and wines under wartime rules. Continuous debate followed as House actions loomed on related amendments.
Classified items include government clerk recruitment with July 19 exams and 82 dollar monthly pay, a clerical stenographer position, a restaurant for sale in Iron Mountain, immediate lumber yard laborer vacancies with Saga Lumber Co, a lost bay mare near Urania with Felix Marino contact, and a job seeker alert at XYZ care News-Star TF St. Listings mention dates like 19-01 and 19-71 with terse contact details for each item.
Representative Gard of Ohio sought an amendment to authorize the president to suspend the wartime ban on beer and wines. The committee rejected the amendment and recommended enforcing Prohibition through the internal revenue commissioner rather than a special prohibition commissioner.
Washington June 19 Census Bureau reports cotton seed crushed in the ten months ending May 31 reached 4 222 499 tons, up from 4 124 701 tons the previous year.
The piece notes the London School of Medicine for Women founded in 1874 and the Iowa Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs based in Des Moines. It discusses women’s rising role as orators for upcoming national campaigns and highlights Mrs. Robert Lee Morrell as a pioneering lawyer and bankruptcy referee.
A collection of curious statements on natural history and travel details. Ostriches hatch in incubators in South Africa while whales swim at ten to twelve miles per hour. Greenland icefields reach half a mile thick. A pig pigeon coos without opening its beak. Funeral pallbearers in England receive gloves. Shark jaw oil provides lubrication. Paraguayans drink tea by sucking through a long tube. Napoleon wore a large diamond in his wedding sword hilt. Wild Arabian horses reject tameness. South American horses lure domestics away.
Secretary Wilson and labor officials urged cooperation between the federal government and the states to minimize unemployment at a joint Senate and House Labor committee hearing on Senator Key fon’s bill to establish a permanent United States employment service.
Brussels reports Foreign Minister Hymans expressed Belgium’s gratitude for American war relief and for the American army’s gallant service during the last months of World War I. He paid tribute to Herbert Hoover Brand Whitlock the American press and American women.
In Paris a landlord allows tenants to live rent free for three months after the birth of a baby. The United States Naval Academy marks its seventy fifth anniversary in 1919 after being founded in 1845 by George Bancroft. Buddhists in India pray by electricity via prayer wheels turned by hand wind or water. The government requires electric companies to power the wheels during dry seasons at no charge to natives.
The Bi-State Automobile Dealers Association will begin with a convention in New Orleans on July 10-11 led by A. H. Borden vice president of the Shul- firm. The movement started a month ago to unify dealers across states.
An auto supply firm and the secretary of the New Orleans Automobile Dealers Association announce a joint bi state organization to develop Louisiana and Mississippi. It aims to improve the industry, build better highways, oppose harmful motorist legislation, promote advertising, and adopt modern business methods.
Both chambers vote to end the daylight saving measure set during World War I. The House returns a repeal bill for the last Sunday in October while the Senate adds a repeal rider to the agricultural bill. Debates cite farmer and worker wishes versus city daylight benefits. Senator Lafollette and Senator Calder lead the repeal discussion.
Memphis Tennessee June 18 Allott ments of the 10 Southeastern and Southwestern cotton producing states for the American Cotton Exports Finance Corporation were announced. R Brinkley Snowden says the executive committee will activate the firm after 25 million in stock is paid. Texas leads with 7.5 million followed by Louisiana 3.96 million and Georgia 2.5 million. Alabama Arkansas Mississippi and Oklahoma expect 2 million each. Tennessee and South Carolina 1.5 million and North Carolina 1 million.
W A Arrington and Selik Krieger of Houston recruited a wagon with a false hay top to move 16 cases of whisky valued at 652 dollars toward Texas. They bought a wagon and a gray red horse, loaded the 16 cases at Max Miller Supply Co, and hid liquor under hay in a false bottom. Authorities tipped off arrested Arrington, Krieger, and Miller near New Orleans. The men claimed they could fetch 15 dollars a quart in Texas.
The Federal Board for Vocational Education retrains war disabled men with no upper age limit. A 48 year old with a knee amputation studies bookkeeping and law, while a blind former worker learns typewriting and dictation to become a telephone salesman earning up to 150 dollars weekly. Information available at 260 New Jersey Avenue, Washington.
Tax Collector notices all public autos and drags to secure licenses immediately to avoid penalties and costs. Free dray tags offered for all licensed drays in the city. Call to obtain. P. A. Poag Tax Collector and B. K. Fluker Assistant. June 19.
Sam Inzina, proprietor, announces discharge from military service and resumes operation of Your Meat Market. He solicits patrons and promises service and quality for customers, offering continued meat market business starting 1931.
The first eight day session of the State Epworth League ended with a Mansfield College banquet. Fifty seven delegates from across the state attended along with faculty. Officers were re elected headed by President James G. Grambling. The gathering included lectures and a steel foundry visit with a Bellewood park picnic. A swimming pool project was proposed and next session slated for ten days with special speakers.
Governor Pleasant urges all Louisiana parishes to enroll soldiers and sailors in a War Service Record Canvass. He emphasizes house to house visits, the goal of a lasting memorial, and seeks parish directors.
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