Memphis Cotton Exchange seeks freight rule revision in Arkansas
The Memphis cotton exchange urged carriers to revise rules on cotton concentration storage and transit in east Arkansas. They argued changes would aid small merchants and farmers by enabling smaller cotton purchases and more competition for better grower prices. Arkansas merchants and bankers countered that the plan would drain east Arkansas and hurt local markets, accusing Tennessee rivals of greed and aiming to extend Memphis reach into east Arkansas.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Memphis
Arkansas
Memphians
Tennessee
Memphis Cotton Exchange
Fat Girl Laughs and Grows Slim Through Marmola Tabs
A vintage diet advertisement claims fat loss without starvation or strenuous exercise. It credits a gland imbalance as the cause and promotes Marmola Prescription Tabs and Mil Nona from a medical lab as the weight loss method, urging readers to buy from a druggist.
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Starvati Benaoe
Leche Sets Quick Special Primary in Shreveport
Leche declares a special primary by proclamation and pledges to honor the public verdict in Shreveport. He says filing for nomination will be brief and the campaign short, avoiding a runoff and appointing the candidate with the most votes in the first primary.
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Shreveport
100 Persons Take Babies Treatment At Charity Hospital
New Orleans records show about 100 people under treatment for dog bites over weeks while pathology reports reveal 13 of dogs examined over three days had rabies. A stray dog attacked a pedestrian at the federal building and was killed by a watchman. its brain sent for tests.
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New Orleans
Charity Hospital
Federal Building
Mrs Shuster Remembers Civil War Narrow Escapes and Life
Mrs Shuster recalls Civil War era escapes and life in Monroe after 1865. She describes the Bry home near Monroe Steam laundry, flax shirts for early Monroe firemen, and cotton fields north of the Illinois Central tracks. She notes a sixties wedding, later moves to Farmerville where her husband was postmaster for 37 years, and returning to Monroe after his death. Her six of ten children survive today in several cities.
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Shusters
Monroe
Major Henry Bry
Robert Endom
Illinois Central
John Nelson
Nelson
Farmerville
Bracey
Tom Atkinson
Nettie Wise
Chicago
Eugene Stern
St. Louis
Joe Shuster
Gilbert Rose
Asheville
N. C
Heavy Rain Bathes Dust Bowl Region Boosting Crops
In Amarillo Texas on May 27 a rare five year drought relief rain drenched a 5000 square mile area from southern Kansas through Oklahoma into Texas. Dalhart reported the heaviest fall with up to 2.64 inches and other towns like Etter Boise City Guymon Texhoma Mallett Texline Rehm received substantial precipitation. Wheat and corn prospects improved as rain extended into New Mexico Tucumcari recorded light showers.
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Amarillo
Tex
Kansas
Oklahoma
Panhandle
Texas Plains
Dalhart
Etter
Boise City
Okla
Guymon
Texhoma
Mallett
Texline
Rehm
Texas
Texas Panhandle
New Mexico
Tucumcari
Liberal
Kan
Confederate veteran J. R. Keener dies near Homer Louisiana
J. R. Keener born December 2 1846 in Barber County Alabama died at his plantation near Homer Claiborne Parish four miles from town He was a second lieutenant in Price's company and one of the last Confederate veterans in the parish His funeral at Mount Lebanon Baptist Church followed by burial in Arlington Cemetery leaves a widow four sons and one daughter as survivors
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Homer
J. R. Keener
Claiborne Parish
Mount Lebanon Baptist Church
Arlington Cemetery
Mr. Keener
Barber County
Alabama
Price
Here
A. Y. Rhodes
T. D
E. F
A. Y
E. D. Keener
Rice Millers Open Three Day Convention in New Orleans
The Rice Millers' association opened a three day convention in New Orleans with 250 delegates from Louisiana Arkansas and Texas attending.
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Rice Millers
New Orleans
Rice Millers’ Association
Louisiana
Arkansas
Texas
Bonnie Burge to Sing in Georgia State College Recital
Miss Bonnie Burge a contralto soloist from Georgia State College for Women Milledgeville will be presented in a voice recital Thursday night by the college music department.
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Bonnie Burge
Georgia State College For Women
Milledgeville
Music
Adjourning Wage Bill Debates In 1938 Session
The article outlines plans for an adjournment in the 1938 congressional session with voluntary accords among manufacturers under an independent administration from the labor standards board. It notes a two week window for wage and hour bill hearings and a clash over diverting part of next year’s relief funds to projects like city loans and flood control. Rayburn argues earmarking $1.5 billion would wreck relief, while a coalition says it won’t affect the relief program.
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Congress
Labor Standards Board
House
Rayburn
Texas
Bayou Yelling Contest Draws Supporters in Amite
Lawyer Mr Doyle notes growing interest in a regional bayou yell contest with participants from Amite and St. Tammany areas. A Dr Glenn Smith of Amite challenges north Louisiana yellers to enter a delegation and prove their prowess in the event.
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Doyle
Bayou
Glenn Smith
Amite
North Louisiana
St. Tammany
Hearing finishes on Zeps tragedy at Lakehurst
Federal board closes hearings into the Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst New Jersey after nearly three weeks with experts noting possible fire origins as very remote. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, final witness, says investigation has focused on accidental or unpremeditated causes and offers no public theories. The board plans private sessions with German observers and technicians as sessions end.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Hindenburg
Charles E. Rosendahl
Naval Air Station
United States Department of Commerce Board
Federal Board
Louisiana Governors Praise Harmony and Library Movement
Governor Leche and Lieutenant Governor refute rumors of a rift and stress unity in state affairs. Leche praises a new Louisiana Citizens Library Movement unit in the fifth district and urges public support for library facilities to boost citizenship. He planned to depart Monroe for Baton Rouge on Friday.
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Leche
Louisiana Citizens Library Movement
Fifth
Congressional
Louisiana
Citizens’ Library Movement
Monroe
Baton Rouge
Rockefeller Buried After Short Rites in Cleveland
John D. Rockefeller was buried today at Lake View cemetery in Cleveland after a brief ceremony. Relatives and household members escorted his body from Tarrytown New York where services were held yesterday. Rev Willard S Richardson of New York officiated at the committal as a short processional moved from East Cleveland station to the Forest Hills estate burial site. The funeral party then lunched with Cleveland relatives before returning home.
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Cleveland
John D. Rockefeller
Lake View
Forest Hills
Rockefeller
Tarrytown
N. Y
Willard S. Richardson
New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
East Cleveland
Impersonator found strangled in New York apartment
Edward F. Dolan a 57 year old dancer and female impersonator was found beaten or strangled to death in his House of All Nations apartment after a night of alleged fighting noises. Kenneth Reese a hospital orderly living with Dolan reported missing clothing and a suitcase.
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New York
Edward F. Dolan
House of All Nations
Milton Helpern
Boris Pashcowich
Dolan
Joseph Migliori
Miglior
Kenneth Reese
Flowage Options Urged by Mills in Louisiana Flood Area
Washington May 27 Representative Newt V Mills of Monroe Louisiana asks residents in the Eudora floodway northeast Louisiana to offer flowage easements rather than in fee. He warns government ownership would cut tax revenue and harm school road and bond funds in East Carroll Madison Tensas Concordia and Catahoula parishes.
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Washington
Newt V. Mills
Monroe
Eudora
Louisiana
East Carroll
Madison
Tensas
Concordia
Catahoula
Arctic explorers map positions for polar mission
Russia's 42 Arctic explorers mapped positions by radio and planned to unite three camps near the north pole as ice conditions allow. Twenty two from the aerial expedition stayed at the main base on a drifting ice floe 70 miles from the pole, with supply planes nearby and a third ship locating the winter camp for data on a Rus sian North American air route.
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Moscow
Russia
North Pole
Pole
Rudolph Island
Wassily Molokoff
I. P. Mazuruk
A. D. Alexieff
Arctic
United States
Four Die As Charter Plane Crashes Near Santa Maria
A chartered monoplane faltered on takeoff and burned in an alfalfa field near Santa Maria airport, killing two women Mrs. C. W. Whitney and Mrs. D. B. Fauntleroy of Carmel, Calif, oil operator Harry F. Emme of Los Angeles, and pilot Rod Keenan of Burbank. An eyewitness said the high wing stalled about 100 feet up before crashing. The pilot was killed in the impact and burned beyond recognition.
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Santa Maria
Calif
C. W. Whitney
D. B. Fauntleroy
Carmel
Harry F. Emme
Los Angeles
Rod Keenan
Joe Lewis Air Service
Burbank
L. Ball
Lockheed
Emme
Otto J. Emme
Curiosity Traps Cat Head in Can in Springfield
A cat stuck its head in a small can while hunting for food in Springfield New Jersey and was rescued by a sympathetic man. Inside the can were three baby mice, making the episode both humorous and costly to trace a family tree with two centuries of lineage costing up to 150 dollars per line.
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Springfield
Nazi Speeches Mock Catholic Leaders as Goebbels Prepares Reply
The Schwarze Korps attacks Cardinal Mundelein and Catholic leaders as religious resistance grows in Germany and Chicago. Goebbels plans a public response in Deutschland Halle Friday night after Mundelein denounces Nazi trials and atrocity propaganda.
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Germany
Paul Joseph Goebbels
George Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
Hitler
Goebbels
Cardinal Mundelein
Deutschland
Halle
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