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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1917
Page
6
Local advertisements list Kern's blacksmiths for wagons and shoeing, Selig and Russell Inc meat market and laundry pickup, Blanchard Automobile Service, and millsaps wagon company. Also notes lawn mower sharpening, a paint shop, Odd Fellows notice, furniture repair, meat market delivery, Barrett’s produce, and hemstitching services with mail orders.
Legal filings include Mrs Mary C Bynum et al versus Thomas N Conner Jr et al and People s Investment Co versus Bankers Truste L W Quick receiver Bank of Monroe garnishee. Marriage licenses Arthur Long Jr and Ada Downa Servent Donalds and Nennie Peyton. Documents for record Clara B Guthrie to Produc ers Oil Company oil and gas lease. Boy Scouts meet at court square Friday night with full attendance urged for important business.
A circulating report that Monroe Ice Cream Co is bankrupt is false. The firm says it has ample funds, honors all contracts, plans to continue operating, and offers low priced milk and prompt delivery by phone order.
In the Sixth District Court of Louisiana a writ of fi fa leads to the seizure of all defendant Cyrille Pecastaing’s property at 117 DeSiard Street Monroe and the lease through July 21 1918. The sale takes place at the courthouse front door on June 30 1917 with cash terms and appraisal. Sheriff T A Grant announces the notice.
On Thursday June 28 1917 the cotton market shows spots at 26.00 with a steady tone. Sales total 1146 while the high low close figures trend around 25.89 to 26.51 with July and Dee values noted in the day’s activity.
Historical price rundown lists futures and spot figures for metals and commodities with various tickers and June contracts. Entries include values for Silver Solv, Oct and Dec contracts and related indices across multiple price points. The data appears as a sequence of numeric quotes without narrative context.
New Orleans reports a softening tone after record highs as scattered rains raise expectations of relief in the belt. Traders liquidate ahead of the Monday government report while Liverpool futures show mixed buying and local spinners selling July and August.
Sheriff sale notices list two proceedings in Monroe Louisiana. One sale on July 7 1917 includes a Saxon Automobile a White Steamer and related items with cash terms and appraisement. The second sale on June 30 1917 covers lots 3 through 11 on a specified block on Jackson Street and Holly Avenue with appraised values and cash terms.
By order of the Sixth Judicial Court I will sell on July 7 1917 at the Monroe courthouse western front door the estate of Isaac L Haas deceased Including a runabout automobile and office furniture Cash not less than two thirds of appraisement to pay debts of the succession A L Green Clerk Administrator
Six women convicted of obstructing the sidewalk with suffrage banners near the White House chose jail over a fine. They will be released Friday after serving three days. Inside the jail, Mabel Vernon led a song service as 40 inmates, black and white, attended a suffrage meeting.
An OCR fragment records a confrontation involving Bessie Jones a Black woman charged with larceny shouting from bars and picket obstruction charges noted with trial dates pending. The text also mentions suffragists making announcements as events unfold.
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