Armistice Day to be Nationwide Holiday and Armament Talks
Armistice Day to honor America's unknown soldier will be a national holiday with a presidential proclamation soon. The American Legion convention will hear resolutions urging world arms agreement and U S chemical industry growth as wartime preparedness steps. Other measures seek Grover Bergdoll's return, debate Debs' release, and tuberculosis seal drives in Fifth District with New Orleans and Baton Rouge ties.
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Legion
United States
Associated Press
Washington
America
Arlington
Senate
Kansas City
Germany
National Convention of the American Legion
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Legion convention backs immediate compensation for ex servicemen
In Kansas City the American Legion adopted the legislative committee report urging immediate compensation for ex service men without delay. The same dispatch notes dignitaries honoring the olive drab forces and America’s three year gift, with continuation on page six.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
National Convention of the American Legion Today
Legislative Committee
America
Petitioners Seek Police Jury Tax Reduction Support
Petitions are being signed in Monroe and will be presented to the police jury at its next session asking the jury to maintain the parish assessment as prepared by the assessor and approved by the parish board of review which calls for a reduction from last year. Petitioners predict an overwhelming majority of taxpayers will sign and the jury is certain to support a reduction.
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Monroe
Parish Board of Review
United States
Longshoremen at New Orleans Absent Without Leave
In New Orleans officials refuse to discuss mass no show by about 2,800 longshoremen amid a strike claim connected to new overtime provisions. In Washington a Senate amendment to keep railroads operating one year after abandonment permission was introduced by Senator Harris of Georgia.
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New Orleans
Associated Press
Dock Board
Lonshoremen’s Union
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate
Harris
Georgia
National Committee fight aims to place Marshall nomineee
St Louis, Nov 2 Former U S Senator J Hamilton Lewis says the McAdoo Cox fight for Democratic national committee chairmanship is profitless like a mutiny over a dress parade. He also notes Cordell Hull as new chair promoting the committee as the militant efficient body and spreading criticisms of the current administration to the public.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
United States
J. Hamilton Lewis
Witnois
McAdoo
Cox
Democratic National Committee
Forther
Marshall
Lewis
Cordell Hull
National Committee
Baptist Ladies Banquet To Be Held In New Basement
A Baptist ladies banquet is planned for Thursday evening November 3 at 7:20 in the new basement. Ben R. Johnson of Commercial National Bank Shreveport will speak. Rev Frank Tripp arrives from New Orleans. Fifty tickets remain with committees overseeing invitations to guests from Bastrop Rayville New Orleans Met Rouge Oak Ridge and West Monroe.
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First Baptist
Ben R. Johnson
Commercial National Bank of Shreveport
Southern Baptist Convention
Baptist Sunday School
Frank Tripp
New Orléans
Bastrop
Rayville
Met Rouge
Oak Ridge
West Monroe
O. B. Morton
Geo. H. Lowery
Pipe line project moves forward from Monroe to Alexandria
Southern Carbon Company plans a pipeline from the Monroe gas field to Alexandria early next year pending arrangements. Attorney H D Briggs of Briggs and McHenry is in Baton Rouge representing the project. City officials have reviewed the Alexandria contract and all terms are set for early implementation as towns along the right of way prepare to petition for taps.
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Southern Carbon Company
Monroe
Alexandria
H. D. Briggs
Briggs & McHenry
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Missouri Pacific Railway
Washington Legislature Consider Funds for Memorial Building Stars
Washington state legislators will be asked to appropriate funds to cover their share of four million stars to decorate the National Victory Memorial building. Plans are underway to lay the cornerstone of the structure.
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Washington
National Victory Memorial
Bids Opened Today for Monroe Sewer and Paving Project
More than 100 bidders from Chicago St Louis Kansas City Cleveland Cincinnati and other cities submitted bids for Monroe s half million sewer and drainage project and Third and Walnut street paving. Bids opened at 11 am and tabulation by City Engineer Reynolds will take at least three days.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Monroe
Third
Walnut Streets
C. S. Reynolds
Monroe Chamber mobilizes factory protest against license tax
The Monroe Chamber of Commerce circulates resolutions among manufacturers urging opposition to a proposed state license tax on manufacturing plants, warning it will hinder industrial growth and future opportunities. Many manufacturers are expected to sign and send the protest to the legislature. A separate note reports a bill to tax beer and light wines at four percent to fund the soldiers bonus, drafted for the American Legion convention.
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Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Monroe
Louisiana
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Brennan
Michigan
American Legion Convention
Kansas City
Washington President Celebrates 56th Birthday at White House
The president marked his fifty sixth birthday at the White House with no formal program, receiving scores of letters and telegrams from admirers and well wishers.
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Washington
White House
Mozart Impressario Delights Monroe Audiences At City Auditorium
Opera at the City Auditorium presented by the Monroe Dramatic Club drew many music lovers for Mozart's Impressario a four act light opera. The performance showcased strong vocal talent brilliant costumes and fitting scenery under Sam Franko and William Wade Hinshaw with an all American cast.
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Mozart
City School
Monroe
Monroe’ Dramatic Club
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Henry Edward Krehbiel
Percy Hemus
Sam Franko
William Wade Hinshaw
Society of American Singers of New York
Schicaneder
Vienna Opera House
Emanuel Schickaneder
Phillip
Francis Tyler
Thomas McGranahan
Madam Hofer
Regina Vivarino
Milé
Dorothea Uhlic
Linz
Hazel Huntington
Schickaneder
Gladys Craven
The
Impressario
Char
Coal Diggers Walkouts Hit Sixteen States Leaders Warn Strike Inevitable
Indiana coal fields stop nearly all work as 20 000 miners across about 300 mines walk out. United Mine Workers officials say telegrams calling union dues check off changes could break existing agreements and spark widespread walkouts in sixteen states with reports due from coal districts.
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Indiana
United Mine Workers
Associated Press
Indianapolis
Ind
Terre Haute
Strife Over Railway Seniority Set for Federal Court
Houston docket set for tomorrow as receiver and officials of the International and Great Northern railway clash over strikers returning with full seniority rights. Indiana dispatch notes a nationwide coal miners strike looming if injunction on union dues is enforced, with leaders Lewis Murray and Green signaling resistance to any dues check off. The telegram recounts a 1920 agreement via a government appointed commission, noting it cannot be altered before its March 31 expiration across multiple states.
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Houston
Texas
International and Great Northern Railway
Indianapolis
A. B. Anderson
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewis
Philip Murray
William Green
Union
Mine Workers of America
United States
United States Bituminous Coal Commission
Governemtal Authority
Bituminous Coal Commission
New York City
Joint Commission
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Illinois
Indiana
Missouri
Kentucky
Michigan
Iowa
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Wyoming
Montana
Washington
Kiwanis Club Underwrites Monroe Community Service Drive
The Kiwanis Club voted at its noon meeting to share underwriting of the Rockefeller Foundation Community Service proposal in Monroe, in cooperation with the Rotary and Lions clubs. The move aims to assure a recreational and service project, with civic leaders optimistic about progress. Rev. Frank Tripp urged inviting Louisiana Baptists to hold their 1922 convention in Monroe.
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Kiwanis Club
Rockefeller Foundation
Rotary Club
Lions Club of
Monroe
Monroe Department Club
Frank Tripp
First Baptist Church
Baptists of Louisiana
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Kate Gordon
Louise M. Schroeder
Fifth Congressional District
Mies Fern Shannon
Kansas City, Mo
Foch
Diaz
Jacques
Beatty
Pershing
Marshall Party
Arnold Bernstein
H. R. Speed
P. A. Pong
Bernstein
Speed
Citizens
Chamber OF Commerce Behind
City Auditorium
Genasco
Lake Trinidad
Ouachita National Bank
Weaks Supply Co
W. E. Bailey
Kiwanis Clubs
Kiwanis
Bailey
B. M. Wakefield
Elmer Richards, Jr
Ralph Baldwin
Kiwaniana
Lowery Jefferson
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