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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1937
Page
21
Two young women Helen Tippit and Addie Nell Rainbolt urged funding for a public tennis court at a West Monroe Kiwanis luncheon. Rainbolt spoke on health benefits, spurring members to donate equipment costs while T. L. Tippit provided land. E S Wood and L G Hughes outlined local public service work.
Kellogg's All-Bran presents a bulkforming food solution to constipation. It absorbs water to form a soft mass, tones the system with vitamin B and iron, and is marketed as a food rather than medicine. Daily portions and usage ideas are provided.
Jane Froman stars as the lead on a new 13 week Jell-O Summer show to air Sundays at NBC WEAF Red. Don Ross, Jay Lewis, and the Jell-O Trio join as host and performers for the July 4 debut and the subsequent weekly broadcasts.
Rev. Robert Price Richardson brother of Mrs. Bailey will arrive in Monroe Saturday from Tai Chow China. He has served 14 years with the Presbyterian mission board and will stay in the United States for the next 12 months as a sabbatical year with his family.
The article notes bicycles regain popularity with new cycle paths in six cities and parks expanding. It links this trend to renewed home jelly making as a leisure activity, citing vast bicycle sales and a simple short boil jelly recipe using black raspberries, sugar and pectin.
Instructions describe preparing jelly by combining fruit juice with powdered pectin and sugar. The mixture is heated to a rolling boil, poured into jars, skimmed, and sealed. Yields about eight 6 fluid ounce glasses.
Real estate transfers recorded yesterday at Ouachita Parish Clerk of Court show Mr and Mrs C W Williams selling property to a new buyer. The notice lists the transfer as part of court records with details limited in readable text.
Mr and Mrs Louis E Wells sold multiple parcels in township 18 north range 3 east with farm equipment and livestock for 3000 dollars Mrs Altha Brown Duke sold to Evelyn Evans Cobb the northeast section 17 for 900 dollars cash Adel V Saucier sold to Hat tie Saucier the west half of block 38 Crescent Bend addition to Monroe for 2000 dollars Walter N Reynolds sold to Ephriam A Worley one fourth undivided interest in the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of the [incomplete text]
The item lists land description in the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 5 Township 15 North Range 2 East offered for 60 dollars cash. It also reports that the United States exported 34 258 000 more dollars worth of merchandise than it imported during 1936.
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