Consolidated Monroe Star Printing Co accounts for collection
AM accounts of the Omacita Printing Company and The Monroe News, and all accounts of the Star Printing Co. made before the 1909 consolidation, are four dollars or unpaid and will be placed in an attorney’s hands for collection after July 1. Statements have been mailed and settlement before month’s end is appreciated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omacita Printing Company, Ltd
Monroe News
Star Printing Co., Ltd
Ouachita Patg., Co., Ltd
News-Star
Monroe
Arkansas
Jackson Street
Unusual Fourth of July Observed by Stock Exchanges
The Fourth of July holiday leads New York and Liverpool markets to close the day before and after the Sabbath. The piece notes this unusual observance as a sign of good fellowship between the United States and Britain. It links the day to freedom taught by the Runnymede charter and envisions peace worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Liverpool
New York Exchange
Runnymede
Monroe Puts 30 Mills Tax Rate On Public Utilities
In a correction the city notes the tax rate is 30 mills not 33. Monroe maintains utilities improves plants and streets and supports strong schools while holding a cash balance over 124 000 dollars. The total rate from city and State is 35 mills as Monroe property owners do not pay parish tax.
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Monroe
South
Citizes
Diversifying North Louisiana Farming Toward Hog Raising
Congressman Joseph E. Ransdell promotes hog raising as a profitable diversification for North Louisiana farmers. He urges shifting from cotton, studies small packing houses, and notes discussions with railroad officials and experienced practitioners to support the plan.
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Joseph E. Ransdell
Louisiana
Monroe urged to build local hog packing plant and boost farming
Starkville Southern Farm Gazette reports a North Louisiana plan to expand hog raising. It argues profits exceed cotton, with small central packers in Monroe and nearby areas, citing labor efficiency, disease resistance, and home market for hogs. It notes small packeries in Arkansas Oklahoma and Texas already pay investors and urges regional farmers to unite to establish a Monroe plant.
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Louisiana
South
Northwest
Bermuda
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Monroe
End the bloodshed in the Southland
A critical call decries frequent murders and urges tougher legal action and impartial justice. The writer condemns unprovoked killings, cites a Shreveport prison escape shooting, and insists courts, juries, and media denounce murder while upholding the right to life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southland
Shreveport
Profitable Hog Feeding Principles and Practices
The modern approach to hog feeding aims to raise young hogs with liberal starting rations to develop a healthy frame then finish quickly for market. In some cases the Southern method may work, but generally total fed over a hog’s life exceeds what’s needed for the same weight in a shorter, earlier market period. It seldom pays to feed beyond meat production goals.
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Starkville
Miss
Southern Farm Gazette
Twin Necessities in Advertising and Reading Ads
A Laurel Mississippi Ledger editorial argues that merchants must advertise and readers must engage with ads. It claims progressive progress depends on both paying for ads and reading them, noting advertised goods are cheaper and save money for the reader.
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Laurel
Miss
Mourning in St Michaels After Eastman Suicide
The article condemns St Michaels residents for a disrespectful burial of Robert Eastman who killed himself. It argues he, though a murderer who died by his own hand, deserved a decent funeral and criticizes the community’s Christian claims as hypocritical.
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St. Michaels
Robert Eastman
Eastman
Christ
Boost Monroe to the city’s growth and development
A message urging continued support for Monroe emphasizes relentless effort for growth and progress. It denounces naysayers, calling for steady action and a positive civic vision to reach a peak in development.
Have you done your share for the Greater Monroe Fair
Prompt residents to participate in the Greater Monroe Fair driving civic effort and support for the community event in Monroe. Encourages volunteering and participation to boost fair success.
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Monroe Fair
What Others Are Saying on Legislature and Law
The Winnsboro Reporter questions whether the next legislature will abolish the game commission and if representatives statewide will uphold or condemn an absurd law. The Alexandria Town Talk editorializes on youth morals, parental discipline, and the looming trouble of divorce, urging plain people to shape the nation’s future.
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Game Commission
New Orleans
Winnsboro
Alexandria
Civic duty and free opinion urged in wartime and politics
A New Orleans paper extols jury service as urgent public duty and compares it to defending home and country. It stresses tolerance in politics, urges calm respectful debate, and notes the broad value of freedom of opinion in a republic.
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New Orleans Picayune
Evangeline Banner
Debates on race justice and farming life in early letters
Letters from St Helena Echo and Junction City Democrat discuss racial disparities in jailing of Black workers versus farm laborers, urge policy action to curb costs to taxpayers, and advocate diversifying crops away from cotton toward independent farming and local meat and feed production.
Letters From The People On Farming And Cannery Prospects
A Monroe reader details tomato and potato farming in Arkansas and Mississippi sees potential cannery operations. Truckers discuss markets credit, and how growers must find buyers and scale up to supply canneries. A hill country cannery program shows profits and credit obstacles.
Death of Mrs. Mildred L. Clarke in Mobile
Mrs Mildred Logan Clarke wife of Hon Norborne R Clarke died after a spring automobile accident near Pensacola left her with a broken limb and head injury. She lingered two months as the community mourned and the funeral will be held at Christ Church with interment in Pine Crest Cemetery.
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N. BR. Clarke
Mildred Logan Clarke
Norborne R. Clarke
Pensacola
Gonzalez
J. M. Muldon
Clarke
Mobile
Sallie Wall Richardson Logan
Louisiana
Monroe
Inanelarke
John Ewing Garner
Nashville
Tenn
Lamkin
Christ Church
Pine Crest Cemetery
Mobile Register
Drink Robinson Spring Waters for back pains
Advertisement notes that Drink Robinson Spring Waters relieves back pains and is available at all drug stores and soda fountains.
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Robinson
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THE
Monroe News-Star
the News-Star Pub. Co., Ltd
W. Smith
C. E. Faulk
St. Helena
Chicago
Kansas City
Kansas
Junction City
Liniments
Ballard
Liniment
ARD
Aish
Amese Ballard, It Co
Allen’s Pharmacy
Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Lynch Burgy
Americus
Jeffersonian
Clansman
Westlake
Westwood
Gum Stump
Thunderer
High Point
Dixie Girl
Virginia Creeper
Roxie Ward
Wittonia
Witt
Model Shoe Store
Hays & Co
Props
Witt Shoe Co., Manufacturers
Lynchburg, VA
Columbia
Joe Renwick
S. J. Meek
Fox Grocer Co., Ltd
Monroe Drug Company
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