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28 Jun 1913
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Monroe News Star in Monroe, Louisiana
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1913
Page
1
Gettysburg Semi Centenary Camp Opens for 40000 Veterans
40000 old soldiers prepare to be fed and housed for six days at Gettysburg as the largest post Civil War camp. The 180 acre tented city lies near the High Water Mark with hospitals, ambulances, and doctors stationed for veteran health. Leaders including Chief Justice White and Secretary of War Garrison will address the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Press Association
Gettysburg
Army of Blue and Gray
Army of Army Engineers
Shippensburg
Carlisle
Chambersburg
Lee
Meade
Longstreet
Pleagonton
State of Pennsylvania
National Cemetery Grounds
United States
White
Garrison
Tener
Picketts
Cenetery
Unsettled Weather With Showers Tonight and Sunday
An unsettled forecast calls for scattered showers tonight or Sunday. The approach suggests varying clouds and brief rain chances across the region as a low pressure moves through. High and low temperatures are not specified in the readable text.
Gettysburg Camp to Open for Veterans and Army Units
The narrative describes a large reunion at Gettysburg with Blue and Gray veterans and many branches of the U S military. The Sth Infantry Signal Corps engineers and artillery units provide guard and communications as the camp hosts men from both sides. Union and Confederate veterans occupy opposite camp areas near West Confederate Avenue and the Reading Railway, with six weeks of activities and later maneuvers by War Department officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sth Infantry
Signal Corps
8Th Field Artillery
14Th Cavalry
Gettysburg
War Department
Veterans’ Camp
West Confederate Avenue
Round Top
Reading Railway
One Avenue Left Open in Hall Debt Plan
New Orleans June 28 Governor Hall faces a constitutional hurdle to using a short-term certificate of indebtedness to cover maturing bonded debt without an amendment. Bankers say the plan is illegal absent authority or amendment. The governor contends a solution is under study and seeks legal clarity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Governor Hall
Board of Liquidation
Andrew Querbes
First National Bank of
Shreveport
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Tennessee
Pleasant
Have Reached Agreement on Immediate Dissolution of Railroad Merger
A formal accord has been reached to dissolve the merger involving Great Harriman Railroad. The agreement calls for immediate dissolution processes and layoff or reorganization steps as required by the stipulations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Harriman Railroad
President Harris of Illinois Bankers' Association Calls Farmers Key
President Harris of Illinois urges cooperation between farmers and the Illinois Bankers' Association. He emphasizes the importance of both groups to the state's economy and notes shared interests in credit access and rural development.
Plan to dissolve Harriman merger reaches agreement
Attorney General McReynolds and Union Pacific representatives reach a satisfactory agreement in Washington to dissolve the Harriman merger. Details not public but plan aligns with President Wilson. Plan to be submitted for government approval in St. Paul district court Monday. Estimated exchange of 38 million dollars of Southern Pacific stock for Pennsylvania's interest in Baltimore and Ohio. remaining 88 million to be handled by a trust company under safeguards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
McReynolds
Union Pacific
Associated Press
Washington
Cornish
N. H
Southern Pacific
United States Court For the
Eighth Circuit
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Banking and Currency Reform Urged by Illinois Banker
President B F Harris of the Illinois Bankers Association argues the current banking and currency system is antiquated and favors cash concentration, urging a national currency linked to credit. He cites farmer income, farm sizes, and USDA findings from 1910 to critique prices, capital use, and rural standards, calling for a system that promotes credit and national prosperity.
Tragedy Strikes Maryland Farm as Fire Kills Six
In Lexington D C on June 28 six people died in a house fire at John Jacobs’s farm. The farmer, his wife, and four children were found burned in the ruins. A milkman reported the blaze to the sheriff amid rumors of foul play, though lightning is suspected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
D. C
John Jacobs
Jacobs
Wilson rejects week trip to Cornish to push merger plan
President Wilson cancels a planned trip to Cornish New Hampshire to press for a workable plan to dissolve the Union Pacific Southern Pacific merger under Sherman act constraints. A July 1 deadline looms for court action, with hopes a government backed dismemberment or receivership can be avoided.
Second Largest U S Cotton Crop Reported
The 1912 United States cotton crop was the second largest ever produced, the Census Bureau announced. It totaled 14,313,015 bales of 500 pounds gross, with Sea Island at 73,777 bales and linters at 602,324. seed production reached about six million tons, four and a half million of which went to oil mills. The estimated value is $920,000,680.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
United States
Census Bureau
Sea Island
Stock farming profits rise with capital investment in livestock
The text notes owners on a 161.1 acre farm with an average capital of 27532 earned 60 per month in time and labor after expenses and taxes and 2.25 per month in labor income. It argues that more capital in beef farming increases profits, contrasting it with crop farming as a liability, while beef production has fallen from 450 to 180 pounds per person over twelve years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Senate Debates U S Neutrality Policy in Mexican Conflict
In Washington on June 28 the foreign relations committee was urged to take up Mexico policy. Senator Fall pressed repeal of the neutrality resolution allowing arms to Huerta while barring aid to opponents, sparking counterpoints from Senator Bacon and others about intervention risks and need for order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Mexico
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Senator Fall
New Mexico
Huerta
Fall
Wilson
Republic
Bacon
Mexico City
Smith
Arizona
California
Williams
West Monroe School Election and New $20,000 House
West Monroe voters go to the polls Monday with strong support for the school tax. Four critics may oppose, but bonds will be sold after the election to fund a $20,000 schoolhouse. J. T. Austin and E. S. Eby donated a 400 by 345 foot plot on Natchitoches street, among the town’s largest taxpayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Monroe
Messrs
J. T. Austin
E. S. Eby
Natchitoches Street
Democrats Reject Free List for Woolen Goods Debate
In Washington on June 28 Democratic senators caucused and voted down all proposals to place woolen manufactured goods on the free list. Debate focused on Ashurst's amendment to free list blankets stockings and wool clothing. Many senators supported the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ashurst
Thread Passes Free List After One Vote Rally
A narrow 1 vote margin carried the thread through to the free list amid a protest by the finance committee. The assembly debated the item as supporters urged quick action and critics urged caution on spending.
Senate Democrats Open Cotton Schedule For Free List
The Senate caucus agreed to free cotton sewing thread, adopting all amendments except one to the cotton schedule amid debate over revenue and domestic cost of living. The move followed a contentious finance committee stance on a 15 percent duty and could push the bill toward passage by Wednesday or Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finance Committee
Senate
Pate
House
Simmons
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
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Army OF Peace
Weather Report
GOV. Hall
Harris
Illinois Bankers’ Association
Pres
B. F. Harris
American Bankers Association
Harold Cox
The
Edinburgh Review
Europe
Monroe City League
Protst
Underwood
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