Grocery and household goods price list fragment
A fragmented price sheet lists numerous goods with per unit, per can, or per sack pricing. Items include coffee, lard, beans, flour, sugar, fruit and vegetables, canned goods, oils, coffee substitutes, and cleaning supplies with varied pack sizes and brands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle
Barr
Denna
L. Packege
Cardova
del Monte
van Camp
Price
Durkee
Rumford
Orne
Lee & Perrin
St. Charles
Swift Pride
Aia
Local business notices and transportation ads from Monroe era
Multiple small notices announce horse shop services in Kern and Joe Keen Vent, freight and drag business by Dan Jacobs of Iron Mountain in Alexandria, and personal attention by Fred R. Mitchell in West Monroe. Also insurance inquiries about Harper of New Orleans, Twenty prisoners awaiting trial, Nettie Quill voyage schedule, carpentry union notes, and Eagle Pressing Club renaming with Dollard's establishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred R. Mitchell
West Monroe
Eagle Pressing Club
Finzi
Till
Austin stockholders meet to amend charter on June 27 1914
A stockholders meeting of Austin Trousdale McReynolds and Petrie is called for Saturday June 27 1914 to amend the charter elect officers and address business. J H Trousdale president. Also notices for drawing classes by Mies Jane Dibbs and other local items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Darkens Gray Hair with Q-Ran Solution
When hair shows gray or prematurely gray, apply Q Ran to scalp like a shampoo and let dry overnight. A few applications darken hair evenly and naturally while adding luster, and it claims to prevent dandruff itching and hair loss. Sold for 50 cents by The O yal Store in West Monroe LA and Monroe LA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O Yal
Dr. Beg Calvert
Prop
West Monroe
New South Drug
Chase & Collens
Monroe
Visitors Tour Louisiana Plantations Arrive Monroe July 7
Northern and eastern agricultural editors touring Louisiana arrive Monro e Iron Mountain depot at 11 15 p m July 7. They will tour plantations by car and boat, see Jersey herd hogs and corn crops, dine at Misses Miller’s Colony plantation, visit Natatorium for a salt water plunge, and depart July 9 for Rayville by rail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern and
Ecstern Agricultural
Louisiana
Monroest
Iron Mountain
Alexandria
Monroe
Iron Mountain Depot
Genie
Mamie Miller
Colony
Milier Place
Jersey
Miller
Miller Place
Ouachita River
Phillips Place
Natworium
Riverside Pavilion
Rayville
Wry
Collinston
Financial Data Snippet From June 24 1914 Market Page
A fragmentary June 24 1914 market table from New York shows spot prices and monthly figures. It lists values for July October and December contracts with highs lows and closes amid terse fiscal shorthand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Readable fragments from June 24 1914 sports page
The clumsy OCR records scattered numbers for a June 1914 page with sports and game scoring lines. Italy 79 and various decimals appear amid corn and rye entries, with several BYE and Sept markings and time stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Weather and crop talk from the 1914 cotton market
Windes reports New Orleans wires show cotton values rising on hot weather and poor crop reports in the Southern belt. July notice day nears as heat in the belt and weak germination in Georgia and the Carolinas dampen prospects, with Texas also noting backward crops in central and northern areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
New Orleans
Ameriezso
South Atlantics
Georgia
Carolinas
Alabama
South Carolina
Mobile
Savannah
Augusta
Charleston
The Ingenious Tale of Free Summer Heat and Its Toll
A humorous essay describes heat as a free summer commodity and winter bought by the short ton, its main ingredients perspiration and sunstroke. It notes geographic variation with playful hyperbole about heat in the north and south, plus remedies like showers, ice packs, and light clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ry Howard L. Renn
South
Weathered Notes Say Heat Reaches Peak for Season
The letter from H. and B. Beer argues the extreme heat is the worst ever for the time of year. They claim heat was created to mature corn and to blast Kansas wheat while mocking warmer fashions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. & B. Beer
Chicago
Harman & CO
Kansas
Pavilion Collapse Injures Fifty at Atlanta Park Picnic
Fifty children were injured when a pavilion at a Atlanta amusement park collapsed during a picnic for inmates of a Hebrew orphans home. Two hundred children were inside. none of the injuries proved fatal. Wanamaker, Dartmouth catcher, has another year of college and may not sign with the New York Americans. Nelson Way from Yale, a strong firing line candidate, hails from Manchester New York and prepared at Exeter Academy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Hebrew Orphans Home
Wanamaker
Dartmouth
New York Americans
Nelson
Pie) Way
Yale
Manchester
N. Y
Exeter Academy
Cumberland firm supplies building materials in West Monroe
J E Morgan and Company of Cumberland advertises as dealers in wood coal blacksmith and domestic products concrete lime cement sand and gravel all kinds of building materials located in West Monroe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moore's
Traffic Bridge
West Monroe
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Buster Brown
Ness
L. A. Powers
North Sixth Street
Harks Rraraskesss
Kern's Horse Boeing
Joe Keen
Vane
Dan Jacobs
Itv Today
Ce OY
Sidney Kahn& Co
Mre Insurance
New South
White
Perish
Stormer Nettie Quill
W. H. de Graffenreid
Imo
Mies Jane Dibbs
Jniv Ist
R. H. Thompson
Tupaw
Joe Bell
Feminst
Monroe Hardware
Courtright
Century Plant
West Virginia
Democrats
Parkersburg
W. Va
Nocra’s of
Grove
Misses Miller
Liverpool
Sales Gooo Bales
Aabh
St. Louis
St SN
Windes’ Daily Cotton Letter
Texas
News-Star
N.O. Cotton
N.Y J. Harman & CO
North Louisiana
New York Cotton Exchange
Shreveport
Wayward & Clark
Carpenter, Bageet & Co
Bartlett, Frazier & Co
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
E. Brooks
Harmen
Cumberland
J.e.morgan & Bro
Labor World
Holland
Spain
New York City
Mississippi
International Union of Steam and Operating Engineers
Peoria
French Federation of Workers
British Musicians’ Union
London
Ohio
Ohio State Federation of Labour
Layton
Hall Streets
Sam Danna
Pew
Fiu FF Yy
Ruffies Koredale Are
GEM Smoke
Louis Baur, Jr
Iyyceum Theatre
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