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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1915
Page
8
Various small items note visitors to Monroe and Carthage Texas and local ads. Mention Peter Mindineo visiting after months away, a lost stolen dog tale, farm and shop services by Brewrd-Walker Gro. Co. and Kern horse shoeing, Chautauqua recuperation for Miss Hettie Jane Dunaway, Rev. H. W. Ledbetter at Seashore Camp Grounds, photography and framing by Griffin Studio, and medicine and shop notices including Aqua Vitae and Black Tea.
Palm Beach suits cleaned and pressed for 50 cents at Union Woolen Mills located 127 DeSiard Street with phone 73. Also includes ad content for Muscadine Punch served at fountains and pharmacy notices from Allen's Pharmacy LTD and Rexall prices. Additional entries mention butter, a barber service at Hotel Monroe, and Buster Brown hair cuts by N Reed.
Wood and coal dealers advertise a broad range of building materials including blacksmithing items and domestic supplies. They offer concrete lime cement band and gravel and related goods for construction projects.
At a Devonshire House Quakers meeting in London the chief speaker urged abolition of armed forces as the only safe policy. He argued a nation without arms could not be attacked and called for ending Britain’s army and navy to strengthen global pacifists, while critics called it lunacy.
A bolt of lightning killed one man, Jim Struckey, and seriously shocked three other Black men who sought refuge in a barn near Flora, about 20 miles from Jackson. The same flash killed several dogs and about a dozen chickens. The men were part of a Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad section gang. A Braxton telegraph reported an auto party abducting J. O. Teasley’s ward. arrest near Georgetown followed, with return to Braxton pending.
In Jackson on June 25 a committee under Gov. Brewer proclaimed United States Senator John Sharp Williams as Mississippi's most distinguished statesman at the request of the Panama Pacific Exposition president.
Messrs Richard Prichard and Ernest Breard survived a late night accident on the Bastrop road when a blown tree forced a ditch turn in a Ford runabout going about thirty. The car rolled but was cushioned by a pine and both men suffered only minor bruises. They repaired the vehicle and returned home.
National Stock Yards Illinois June 23 cattle receipts 4200. Mixed cattle including heifers cows and bulls with calves and yearlings sold at varied ranges. Hogs 9000 top at 7.125. bulk of Southern hogs over 130 pounds sold around 7.45 to 7.50. Market steady to lower versus last week with steers steady to ten lower. National Live Stock Commission Co.
The record displays labeled wheat, corn, and oats futures with July and September prices across multiple lines. No explicit event or narrative, only numeric price quotes for the commodities in July and September.
Lost a pair of nose glasses with a solq chain. Reward offered for return to Mrs. W. FP. Cummings. 25 31.
J V Windes & Co report a depressed market amid six thousand July notices in New York and 1500 tenders locally. Liverpool demand rises with 15000 middling sales, while India acreage expands 40 percent though fields may shift to food crops. Weevils threaten Texas and nearby regions as weather improves in the south. Berlin hints at scaled submarine warfare if US guarantees avoid seizure of U boats.
A dense cut of a vintage grocery page listing items and sale prices such as Catsup 25¢, Pan Cake Flour 10¢, Lemons 20¢, Pineapple 2-lb cans, Coffee by the bucket, Pure Lard 5-tb bucket, and various canned goods and staples. The fragment shows multiple brands and unit prices with no clear date or store name, typical of early 20th century newspaper inserts.
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