Battles, rail and oil loom in Ouachita reports
Reports describe a heavy battle meeting planned in West Ouachita for Tuesday. Gasoline shipments and refinery activity surge as Southern Carbon Company expands storage and tank cars, with Ouachita river transportation talks led by Monro e and Little Rock chambers.
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West Ouachita
Eonroe
Chamber of Commerce
Ouachita
S. M. Collins
Adolph Felsenthal
Carson, Ark
Arkansas- Louisiana Navigation Company
Camden
Arkansas-Louisiana Navigation Company
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Collins
Ouachita Valley
Little Rock Chamber of Commerce Traffic Bureau
Little Rock
Southern, Carbon Company
Monroe
Southern Carbon Company
Southern
Naptha
Swartz
Fowler
Fairbaths
Perryville
Spyker
Goats Victim in Calhoun Ruse Sparks Barbecue Joke
Deputy sheriffs tracked rumors of a killing as Dr. Moseley and Dr. Adams traveled to Calhoun and Monroe. They learned the “victim” was a goat used in a ruse to lure the doctors to a barbecue, ending with happy disbelief among locals.
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Calhoun
Monroe
J. L. Adams
J. Q. Graves
F. C. Bennet
Graves
St. Francis Sanitarium
Pr. C. H. Moseley
Milton Coverdale
Tom Hicks
Sibly
Moseley
Adams
Dr. Moseley
Prohibition Director Resigns in Alabama
Birmingham June 20 The resignation of Chas M Lartein as prohibition director of Alabama has been accepted by Commissioner Haynes Mr Sartain announced here today He said he was disgusted with the whole affair and would have resigned earlier but feared complications The Alabama director s office faced weeks of fire from the Alabama Anti Saloon League with several suspensions later made permanent
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Prohibition
Birmingham
Als
Chas
M. Lartein
Alabama
Haynes
Sartain
Alabama Anti-Saloon League
Essen Food Supply Crisis in Ruhr After Rail Disruptions
German sources report rapidly exhausting food reserves in the Ruhr as rail transport to unoccupied areas collapses due to Allied troop presence and strikes by train workers. Authorities scramble supplies by lorries and trucks amid gasoline shortages affecting workers and civilians. In Jackson Mississippi trap shooters from Alabama Tennessee Arkansas and several Mississippi counties converge for the third annual Jackson Gun Club tournament, running two days under the Mississippi Trap Shooters League.
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Essen
Aaa
Rake Valley
Ruhr
Jackson
Miss
Alabama
Tehnessee
Arkansas
Missiasippi
Jackson Gun Club
Mississippi Trap Shooters’ League
League of Protestant Women Opens State Convention
Alexandria June 21. Before the state convention opens officers report there are 1000 leagues in the state and about 500 delegates representing every league attend. The convention will adjourn tonight.
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League of Protestant Women
Alexandria
Almes
Campaign to stem Negro Exodus discussed in Mississippi
June 20 Jackson Mississippi. Negro teachers meet to plan a campaign to halt the migration of black farm laborers to the North. A state meeting will select delegates to the National Negro Business League in Hot Springs Arkansas on August 15. Plans call for 270 to fund speaking tours and stress better treatment in Mississippi.
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Jackson
Miss
Negro Teachers of
Mississippi
National Negro Business League
Hot Springs
Ark
J.M. Willams
Shelby
National Rural Association
J. J. Rowan
Alcorn College
Confidence in Evans Shown by Ku Klux Klan Meeting
Ananta Ga June 20 report states the Ku Klux Klan endorsed H. W. Evans as imperial wizard and re-elected officers. Resolutions dismissed extravagance charges as unfounded after investigation. A Chicago campaign expense claim was rejected with evidence presented. Also, in Wisconsin Point Fredericks known as Strangler Lewis won a divorce from Dr Ads Scott Fredericks in Stevens Point court.
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Evans
Ananta
Ro Ohutions
H. W. Evans
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
W. E. Thompson
Atlanta
Meriwether
Tulsa
Oklo
Imperial Wizard
Chicago
Wisconsin Rapids
Robert Fredericks
Strangler
Lewis
Ads Scott Fredericks
Stevens Point
Wis
Night dispatches from multiple cities on postwar events
AP reports reopen of passenger service between St Louis and St Paul on the Harry G Dress after seven years. Other items note coal exports halted to Italy and Holland, union offices seized in Dublin, Canadian shipping law actions, a new coalition cabinet in a Baltic state, a refused arson charge in Garden City, a French fighter’s injury delaying a bout, forest fires easing in Quebec, no reply from France on reparations, a Moscow execution, and sugar factory occupations in Ludwigshafen.
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Associated Press
St. Paul
Harry G. Dress
St. Louis
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Valier
Ouachita Flour and Feed Co. Distributors
Monroe, la
Quachita
Megee
Cloverleaf Dairy
Beadle Bros
Orson
Madame Marcelle
Clara ,J
New Orleans
Bond
DeSiard Bt
Italy
Holland
Dublin
Liberty Heil
The
Transport Union
Jim Larkin
Union
Ottawa
House of Commons
Great Lakes
Kign—M. Meirovitz
New York
John M. Larsen
Garden City
S. 1
London
George Carpentier
Beckett
Quebec
New Brunswick
Baldwin
France
Moscow
Ivan Komarov
Ludwigshafen
Frankenthal
Friedsensau
Ofstein
Chase-Amman Drug CO. Ltd
Lockwood
Beadle
Jackson Street
Rerells
Crescent Grocery Co
West Monroe, LA
West Monroe
Cooper’s
Vicksburg
Raymond
Bruce Frizzell
Walnut and
Olive Streets
Marx Hardware Company, Inc
Legionnaire Store
DeSiard St
Sterling Fire Insurance Co
Gregg & McKenzie
Ouachita National Bank
Louisiana
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