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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1917
Page
6
A collage of small ads lists Kern’s horse shoeing shop offering wagons to order and a meat market with home delivery in the city. Other entries promote lawn mower grinding, auto painting, dry cleaning, a palm beach suit wash, and various services from contractors to a city ordinance on dog muzzling effective July 1 1917.
Georgia lawmakers begin a 50 day session in Atlanta focusing on wartime related measures and a statewide good roads drive. The Washington report notes the senate agriculture committee approved food control amendments placing copper lead lumber and timber under government control during the war.
In Maison parish resident W. T. Farley faces escalating fines for repeated drunkenness. After a $2.50 fine on Saturday, he returned Monday for the same offense, causing the court to double the penalty to $5. He was warned to leave town or face a hundred days on the streets if arrested again. Separately, Millsaps & Company advertises two carloads of James & Graham wagons as August 1 price increases loom. Court records also show one marriage license issued and one divorce petition filed, keeping the count steady.
Washington June 26. Special rifle making machinery valued at 4 500 000 must be obtained at once for proper equipment of a new army for service abroad. Secretary Baker said a bill to appropriate funds will be introduced immediately. Mongolia Struck Mine. Bombay June 27. Peninsula-Oriental liner Mongolis hit a mine off Bombay Saturday and passengers and crew have arrived in Bombay.
Spot cotton steady at 25.88 with 141 sales. July at 25.70 to 26.10, closing 26.57. October futures at 25.89 to 26.09, December near 25.90.
Legal notice lists seizure under a writ of execution in the Sixth District Court of Ouachita Parish. The property includes a Saxon Automobile a White Steamer four jacks three boxes and contents for auction on July 7 1917 in Monroe Louisiana with cash terms and appraisement.
The New York spot market report dated Wednesday June 27 1917 shows mixed quotations with values around 27.40 for spots, 27.28 to 26.90 for July and 26.55 to 26.44 for October, and Bee os listing 26.68 to 27.70. The data reflects quiet trading and varied month pricing.
Police instructed by Mayor H. P. D. Apgar to enforce the city ordinance banning muffler removal. The measure targets excessive automobile noise which has become a public nuisance due to widespread disregard of the rule.
Headquarters in New Orleans reports two men enlisted at the local station within the last twenty four hours. The recruits are Charles B. Coleman of Chatham in field artillery and Rodney Q. Herring ton of Sumrall in the medical department. Total sent from this district now 142 with 226 still due.
Police Inspector BR EB Heap leads inquiry into the curb market stands disappearance. Only one remains wholly missing while five others were demolished by an unknown person. A white man was seen tearing stands on court square days ago as officers seek evidence for arrest. A classified ad TM in the News-Star offers room rentals.
An Arkansas automobile leaving Monroe last night with fifty quarts of liquor to help residents of the desert land faced a wreck in West Monroe. The nervous driver failed to handle a street corner properly and the car plus cargo struck the curb. The vehicle was towed to a repair shop and the driver plans to refill the stock in several days.
Clay Whippoorwill Mixed Peas Sorghum Seed Mosby Hastings Prolific Corn are listed with plenty available now. Hurry before they are gone. West Monroe La News Star want ads report results.
H R Speed's Daily Cotton Letter notes market strength due to scant rain in the south and bullish crop conditions. Government and private reports project lower acreage and yield for this season, with potential crop declines of several percent, lifting prices to near fifty year highs amid drought concerns.
Writ of fieri facias directs sale of all defendant property in eastern half of building 117 DeSiard Street Monroe Louisiana plus lease to July 1 1918. Cash sale with appraisement. T A Grant Sheriff Monroe June 18 1917. Also sale of Isaac L Haas estate including Hupmobile Runabout and office furniture per June 22 1917 order. Cash two thirds of appraisement. A L Green Clerk July 7 1917.
Local notices list multiple lodges and unions meeting weekly or monthly in Owl hall Eagle hall and city venues. Names include T Baker Chancellor Commander and D V Keeper of Seals along with various secretaries and presidents.
A fragmented puzzle line shows numbered leaves and arrivals suggesting a word or number sequence. The readable parts hint at No 12 leaving, No 1 arriving, and several leaves in a pattern. Interpreting the sequence may reveal a hidden order or riddle in the text.
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