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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1922
Page
3
In Belfast in June 1988 crowds face high tension after the London assassination of Marshal Wilsom. Special precautions were put in place as military and county police fired on rioters in disturbed areas.
A vintage appeal cites backache and weakness as kidney signals and promotes Doan’s Kidney Pills as a tested remedy. Mrs. W. Dalton of Til Calypso Street testifies the pills eased back pain and freed her kidneys to act normally after using Chase Amman Store supplies.
S E May of Caldwell parish appeals to the public to find his two sons Clyde 15 and Merion 14 who disappeared from home Tuesday afternoon. They were last seen boarding a northbound Missouri Pacific train near Columbia Louisiana. May asks Monroe and Alexandria police to watch for them and detain if found. He suspects a neighbor may have influenced their departure.
A local classified item in the News-Stnr offers renters a chance to find available rooms. The notice highlights proximity to amenities and invites inquiries from interested tenants.
Farmers at Ouachita parish hog meetings agree hogs profit with proper care and crop rotation. A. J. Huffman cites hogs as his farm’s sole recent profit. discussion covers soil fertility, soybeans, cowpeas, clover and velvet beans. Demand for feeder hogs is high, with 19,630 shipped from Fort Worth yards to California and Illinois. Parish Agent Strahan aims to boost local hog production for markets and cooperative central shipments.
John M. Parker calls former Governor Blanchard a strong public figure with a long record of service from Speakership to constitutional conventions. Both houses adjourn to honor him as committees are named to attend the funeral in Shreveport.
Reports from Herrin and Marion Illinois describe a deadly miners riot at a Lester Strip mine that left at least 27 confirmed dead with many more missing. Wounded include eight in Herrin hospital and several fatally injured, with bodies found in ponds and woods as residents fear the violence may exceed forty fatalities.
After a deadly clash at the mine, miners split on reopening the pits. C K McDowell, superintendent of imported workers, is among the dead. Dozens of wounded were left on roads and fields as crowds viewed mangled bodies in morgues. Officials vow no mine reopening until the strike ends.
In Washington on June 23, Wayne B Wheeler and the league he taints with vast funds were said to have spent 100 to 150 million dollars to back prohibition. Rep Tinkham charged DOJ inaction under the corrupt practices act, while Rep Gallivan faulted Haynes over liquor sales aboard ships.
An ocean-going steamer arrives or departs at the port of New York every twenty minutes of daylight every day.
Classified notices list five to six keys on a S B Hicks Motor Company ring with a reward for return. Also lost are a black silk hand bag between Chase Amman’s and Lee Avenue cars on June twenty second. Warnings include requests for a filer dealer bookkeeper stenographers and laborers. Furnished rooms for light housekeeping and rooms with board offered at 715 Grammont. A three room unfurnished unit is available at 401 Ludwig Avenue West Monroe. Also a request to buy a closed in motor heater around twenty four feet. Contact Monroe Bureau or Boreo Produce Co. for details.
The June 23 1922 market notes show futures for wheat corn and oats with July Oct and Sept contracts on a volatile path. Cotton signals bullish end of week despite liquidation in New Orleans with evidence of better weather aiding crops and concern over boll weevil pressure.
C A McKelvy proprietor of Blue Goose Cafe West Monroe reports two months of artesian water use with 100 percent customer satisfaction. Water bottles are for sale at 25 cents each. contact via phone numbers 73 or 266.
More than 70 members of Lafayette parish agricultural clubs will travel to Baton Rouge for the State Short Course July 30 to August 5. V A Guidroz reports the event and says Miss Caroline Boudreaux has aided club girls with expense ideas. A Swedish government farm colony project is also being considered to address unemployment.
Figures from the U S Interstate Commerce Commission indicate more miles of railroad are being abandoned than built, signaling a net reduction in rail infrastructure.
Hilton Hugh Goodwin and Beverly Carter, Monroe youths barely 21, return from Annapolis for a June visit. They, lifelong friends, joined the Navy the same day in 1918 and will be assigned as ensigns after vacation. The page also reports Kiwanis convention leadership, local baseball outcomes, concerts by Charlie Butler, and plans for a Better Baby Clinic under the Red Cross in July.
Mrs Thomas A Edison told the General Federation of Women's Clubs meeting in Chautauqua New York that movies mislead the public and that politics in the United States are pretty bad She complained about Edison's questionnaire being published without her answer and urged staying away from political matters Meanwhile a proposed uniform marriage and divorce law would set four grounds for divorce limit marriage under sixteen and eighteen for girls and boys require parental consent for under eighteen and grant custody to mothers with other provisions on medical certificates loans and related issues
Mrs. J. H. Martin of Jennings grows a new Spanish pimento pepper variety imported last year. Demonstrated by Mrs. E. O. Stafford, home demonstration agent, the peppers mature earlier and show resistance to wilt and diseases, says garden specialist Henry Clay Smith of the extension division at Louisiana State University.
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