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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1914
Page
1
Two sessions scheduled Thursday involve the Ministers Association and the Women’s Missionary Union. Readings and discussions set for afternoon and evening at the church hall with invited delegates from several local congregations.
Ministers will gather at First Baptist and the Woman's Missionary Union at First Methodist in Monroe with morning and afternoon sessions. The event draws a large Louisiana delegation and requires about fifty more host homes. Contact Mrs. S. J. Meek at phone 276 during the evening to help entertain visitors.
Real estate notice lists a five room house on Sixth Street offered by F. D. Gibbs. Property details are sparse in the OCR, with no price or date provided.
The Nordica estate contest moves to court with two wills to be probated tomorrow in Freehold New Jersey. One will disinherits her husband George W. Young, with Nordica having drawn it while in the South Seas at Thursday Island last winter.
Newport News dispatch says a fire on the steamer Rembrandt, carrying eight hundred horses for the British army, began 200 miles off Virginia. Sixty seven horses were burned or suffocated. a guard surrounds the ship and no one is allowed aboard. The captain blames spies on board.
Commissioner W M Taylor filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission a petition seeking combined rail and water rates to Pine Bluff from twenty trunk line railroads. Pine Bluff sits on a navigable river and riverboats already move freight to and from the city, with Memphis as the transfer point to steamboats. The aim is to beat current all rail rates by 10 to 20 percent.
Associated Press reports night rider activity drives farmers to warehouses for safekeeping. The Texarkana Shreveport and Natchez Railway refuses to accept cotton for shipment at Fouke Arkansas due to night waters warnings. many farmers told not to sell for less than ten cents.
Exchange 10 opens as Cotton Trading Corporation organizes to assume existing contracts. The move signals a shift in trading arrangements and potential changes in counterparties and obligations.
New York reports the cotton trading corporation plans to take over December contracts at 5 cents a pound as the New York Cotton Exchange likely reopens early next week. Financing totals $1.59 million with about 200,000 bales under agreement and a 2.50 dollar per contract tax proposed to cover losses.
New Orleans reporting nov ul shows important southern spot markets advancing cotton by one to three cents per pound as Germany imports rise. The dispatch notes 18 cents a pound for cotton in German trade, with regional price shifts and market activity.
In Washington on November 1 officials, led by Secretary Daniels, deny rumors the cruiser North Carolina was blown up in the Mediterranean. Communications with the ship and Tennessee are hampered by faulty cables, but navy officials express no concern and order swift checks with Beirut and Constantinople for any reports.
The State probe body met at noon in New Orleans. Resolutions indicate half a dozen state institutions and public transactions will be investigated, with November 6 set as the start date to hear the bond sale matter.
In Richmond Virginia businessmen subscribed over one million dollars to the cotton loan fund. Richmond's share exceeded its half million quota by thirty thousand dollars within twenty seven minutes at a Chamber of Commerce meeting. The Virginia Carolina Fertilizer Company topped the list with one hundred thousand dollars.
Dr Dalkrimple details a case of foot and mouth disease observed in livestock. The account outlines symptoms, suspected sources, and potential spread risks within the farm network. Authorities urge farmers to monitor herds and report suspicious hoof lesions promptly.
Dr. W H Dalrymple outlines foot and mouth disease symptoms in cattle and humans, noting high fever, mouth vesicles, and swollen feet. Transmission occurs via milk, hides, milk contact, contaminated feed, and indirect spread through vehicles, housing, or people. The article warns stockowners to report suspected cases to the State Live Stock Sanitary Board and discusses outbreak origins and affected species.
The piece warns of foot and mouth disease spread, stressing its contagious nature and impact on dairy and beef herds. It urges stockholders to delay purchases from nearby quarantined regions, exercise caution with hay and animal products, and report any suspicions to the State Livestock Sanitors Board at Baton Rouge.
The Ouachita Parish Police Jury approved a $250 appropriation to build ten dipping vats under government supervision to eradicate cattle ticks. Ten vats will be constructed with free lumber from Lori mer Lumber and sand from Louisiana Sand and Gravel donated, labor supplied by local farmers. The move follows existing vats on plantations and aims to make dipping compulsory after March first, 1915. Other parishes including Morehouse Richland Franklin Tens on and Madison are involved or already tick free. Toronto Bankers meet in Toronto tomorrow.
German advances and fierce fighting reported between Nieuport and Lys with Dixmude captured by German forces. British sources say Prince Franz Joseph of Hohenzollern and the cruiser Emden captain were captured after the ship’s destruction and will receive honors of war. Bulgaria rejects entente terms for Adrianople. A Constantinople conspiracy and Turkish military actions are noted. Food shipments to Belgium remain unchanged per Secretary Bryan.
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