Local Firms Offer Broad Auto and Sign Services
Mills & Olcott at 201 North Second St operates a complete one stop automotive service. Lanham Electric Co at 110 Jackson St installs electric signs of every kind. Monroe Craft Shop at 509 Ouachita Ave renews furniture of every description. The bass fishing contest sponsored by Miller-Guerriero Hardware Co at 337 DeSiard St runs until August 15.
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Mills & Olcott
North Second St
Miller-Guerriero Hardware Co., Inc
DeSiard St
Lanham Electric Co
Jackson St
Monroe Craft Shop
Ouachita Ave
Royal Handles Canning Supplies Of Every Variety
Royal Feed and Seed Store in Ouachita offers complete canning gear for the season. They stock pressure cookers 18 to 25 quarts and automatic sealers, No. 2 and No. 3 plain and enamel cans, No. 2 C-enamel for corn, and a range of jars including square-topped exhibition jars. The No. 2 can allows heat penetration and reuse of all cans up to three times, with sealers for reflanging emptied cans. Corn requires No. 2 C-enamel to prevent discoloration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouachita
Louisiana
Royal Feed and Seed Store
DeSiard Street
Royal Feed and Seed
Mills Furniture Slashes Prices in West Monroe Showroom
Mills Furniture of 323 Trenton Street West Monroe advertises dramatic price cuts across its stock. Bedroom suites discounted by 20 percent with used sets starting at 17.50, plus refurbished gas ranges from 5. All new Spartan and Zenith radios for rural homes reduced from 44.95 to 39.95 for table models and 59.95 to 49.95 for cabinet models.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Mills Furniture Company
Trenton Street
West
Monroe
Neon Sign Co Inspects Fans Free Of Charge
Neon Sign Manufacturing at 504 506 Walnut street offers free at home or office fan inspections. If repairs are needed, an estimate is provided at no cost. They carry Emerson fans with a five year guarantee and sell various household electrical supplies. Call 3510 for service.
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Neon Sign Manufacturing Company
Walnut Street
Emerson
Missouri Pacific Booster Tour to Mexico City Invites Vacationers
Monroe area residents are invited to join an all expense two week Mexico tour offered by the Missouri Pacific Booster Club of Monroe. The $115 package includes round trip rail, hotel, side trips, and guided sightseeing from July 2 to July 14. Agent S A Moss urges early reservations due to limited seating and notes a special diner lounge car on the train. Tour visits include San Antonio Laredo Monterrey Queretaro Mexico City and Xochimilco with stops at Obregon Toluca and Teotihuacan among others. A tourist card is required for entering Mexico.
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Monroe
Mexico
Missouri Pacific Booster Club
S. A. Moss
Moss
Missouri Pacific
San Antonio
Tex
Laredo
Monterrey
Maximilian
Mexico City
Toluca
Villa Obregon
Alvaro Obregon
Xochimilco
Basilica of Guadalupe
San Juan Teotihuacan
Egypt
San Luis Potosi
Houston
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Monroe Foundry Makes Good Casts in Grey Iron and More
Monroe Foundry at 1814 De Siard street offers casting services in grey iron aluminum and brass. Owner-manager W M McKeithen can produce manholes ventilators sash weights corner blocks and curb inlets plus machine and wood stove parts. He took over Stevens Foundry three months ago and has been in the trade since 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe Foundry
DeSiard Street
W. M. McKeithen
McKeithen
Stevens Foundry
Monroe
We Too's Service Prompt opens late for summer dining
We-Too's Sandwich shop at 1602 De- Siard street stays open nightly until midnight to serve patrons. It offers all kinds of sandwiches including barbecue and hamburgers with potato salad. Barbecue plates range 25 to 35 cents, hamburgers a dime, ham 35 cents. Cold beer 10 cents a bottle, Coca Colas 3 cents. Catalogs distributed in Monroe and West Monroe list sale items. contact Western Atto Associate via mail or phone 4034.
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We-Too
De-Siard Street
Monroe
West Monroe
Louisiana
Western Atto Associate Store
Prices Slashed By Western Auto
Western Auto Associate Store at 419 DeSiard Street runs a Red Tag sale from Saturday through July 2 featuring deep cuts on seasonable merchandise. Offers include free Davis DeLuxe tires with tubes, 20–27 percent off tire prices, Penns oil from 58 cents per gallon, a 39 plate Wizard battery for 2.69, a 110-volt fan at 1.19, Rocket flashlights 92 cents to 1.75, Western Flyer bicycles 19.95, and radios, tools, and-tent deals across the catalog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Auto Associate
DeSiard Street
Penn
Pennsylvania
Western Flyer
Facundus Builds Office Furniture in Monroe
Facundus Furniture Works offers custom office furniture crafted to customer specifications in Monroe at 206 Bright Avenue. The firm draws plans from ideas provided, builds the pieces, and can match factory prices while also repairing refinishing and reupholstering older pieces. Restoration of antiques is a specialty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Facundus Furniture Works
Bright Avenue
Atliques
Station To Give Away Fine Bike
The Louisville and North Third station of the Cooperative Dairies will give away a genuine Bel-Knap bicycle on July 15. To receive the gift you must be present as a customer of the station or at the Cooperative Dairies plant at 2407 South Grand Street. Rules are available at the station and plant, or from the drivers’ milk trucks. Station phone 415. plant phones 2600 and 2601.
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Louisville and
North Third
Cooperative Dairies
South Grand Street
Smallest Postoffice in Sugartown La Claims Tiny One Room
Residents of Sugartown Louisiana claim their post office is the nation’s smallest, a compact eight by ten feet one room structure. Postmaster H. B. Spears works seated in the center and handles most tasks without rising. Mailboxes face the highway enabling patrons to drive up and fetch mail from their cars.
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Sugartown
United States
H. B. Spears
Allbritton's Electric Fixture Stock Availability
Allbritton Electric at 197 South Grand offers a complete line of electrical fixtures for homes and commercial jobs. Prices start at 65 cents with options to suit any budget and lead times minimized for made to order fixtures. The firm provides installation, chandelier and interior fixtures, crystal and opal glassware, rustproof porch fixtures and Lumiline hatch fixtures.
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Allbritton Electric Company
South Grand Street
Try Mel-O-Toast Sandwich Buns
Advertising copy for Mel-O-Toast buns from City Bakery touts their use for ramping trips picnics and barbecues. It claims buns are as delicious as Mel-O-Toast bread and promotes convenient wax paper packs sold at grocers or City Bakery at 320 North Fourth Street.
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City Bakery
North Fourth Street
Parlor City Lumber Promises Low Prices to Builders
Parlor City Lumber company at 00 Mississippi Street offers estimates for building materials and claims to save customers money by operating its own sawmill planing mill and millwork factory. It functions as manufacturer to consumer and as a jobber in other materials, promising high quality merchandise and service for residential and commercial construction.
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Parlor City Lumber Company
Mississippi Street
Time To Vaccinate Pullets At Hand
Time to vaccinate pullets against fowpox and diphtheria through the first week in July per Tyner-Petrus company in West Monroe. Vaccinations must be timely as outbreaks in late July and August decimate flocks. Free vaccination service available, vaccine cost only. Older chickens less at risk. proper housing and feeding boost profits from poultry.
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Tyner-Petrus Company
Trenton Street
West Monroe
Tyner-Petrus
Nature
Air-Conditioning Inaugurated By Three Mile Inn
The Three Mile Inn on DeSiard Street announces the addition of air conditioning to the Forest room and cafe. Proprietor Jack Angell says the system keeps patrons cool and healthy by circulating thousands of cubic feet of refrigerated air each hour, ensuring comfort for diners and dancers all summer.
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Three Mile Inn
DeSiard Street
U. S. Highway 80
Jack Angell
Forest Room
Peters Industrial Life Insurance Policy Protection Offered
Essential protection is provided by Peters Industrial Life Insurance Company with home office at 564 South Grand Street Monroe Louisiana. It is a stock company offering funeral benefit policies and is safeguarded by securities deposited with the Louisiana state treasurer. Policyholders receive free ambulance service within two miles of Monroe hospitals and use of Peters Funeral Service chapel at 504 South Grand Street. Representatives will call at designated places.
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Peters Industrial Life Insurance Company, Inc
South Grand Street
Louisiana
Monroe
Louis Peters
J. E. Peters
C. R. Tidwell
Newton Perdue
Peters Industrial Life Insurance Company
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Westinghouse
Zenith Radios
Trenton St
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Twin City Motor Co
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Miller-Guerriero Hardware Company, Inc
J. B. Brown Lumber Company
Calhoun
Kilie
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Bernelle
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Harry Stough
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Neon Sign Manufacturing Co
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G. W. Couch Electric Refrigeration Service
Dayton
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Pan-Am Products
Harrison St
Monro
Ouachita Ice Cream Company, Inc
South Grand St
Lee Rogers
Chevrolet CO. Incorporated
Lorge
London
Electric & Musical Industries, Ltd
Middlesex
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Narge
Passman Equipment Company
St John Street
Facundus
Monroe Steam Laundry
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M. Kaplan & Son
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Allbritton
Parlor City
United Electric Service, Inc
North Third St
Fourth St
Phene
Tel
Western Auto Associate Store
Underwood
J. G. Bell
Tyner-Petrus CO
Dodge and Plymouth Automobiles Sales and Service
Monroe Alto & Supply Co., Inc
L. J. Hart
Ouachita National Bank
Catabins
Dairies
Auto Supply
Washington and
Third Sts
Gregg & McKenzie Insurance
Barrivon Street
Monroe, Louisiana
W. J. Riley Plumbing & Heating Company Incorporated
P. O. Box
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Mississippi ST
Monroe LA
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