Monroe Steamer Ouachita Sets Cotton Shipments Record
The steamer Ouachita, commanded by Captain L V Cooley, loads 612 bales of cotton and linters from Monroe destined for New Orleans. The cargo breaks a twenty year river shipment record, with much raised in overflow east of Monroe.
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Monroe
Ouachita
New Orleans
L. V. Cooley
Pine Street
Camden
Ark
Herbert A. Millsaps
Cooley Line
B. F. Tatum
Louisiana-Arkansas Service
Millsaps
Bastrop Gas War Drops to 12 Cents a Gallon
Bastrop motorists enjoy a price war as filling stations cut gasoline quotes from 18 cents to 12 cents per gallon. The Snyder Oil company led the cuts with a drop from 18 to 15, then 14 and 12 as various stations matched the new low by noon.
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Bastrop
Snyder Oil Company
Thompson Invites Prompt Replies To America First Drive
Chicago oct 29 a cash of George M Cohan grand old flag and a touch of decatur plus opera bouffe flavored Mayor Thompson s America First appeal drew varied replies from mayors and congressmen Alfred M Phillips Jr Stamford Conn asked fee or free while Emmanuel Celler Brooklyn mocked the campaign Thompson urged patience and urged not to use intelligent in signatures. continued on page three
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Chicago
George M. Cohan
Stephen Decatur
Thompson
America First
America First ” Foundation
United States
Alfred M. Phillips, Jr
Stamford
Conn
Emmanuel Celler
Brooklyn
N. Y
America First Association
Campbell House Burns at Bastrop Landmark
Campbell house a Bastrop landmark nearly destroyed by fire at 1 am with only a small detached part intact. Loss estimated at 10 000 dollars partly insured. Fire started in the kitchen. guests escaped with clothing and personal effects. Next door hardware merchant A l a Thomas home caught fire but was controlled quickly. Owned by Miss Tina Collins and sister Mamie Collins.
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News-Star
Bastrop
Campbell
A. la Thomas
Campbell House
Tina Collins
Mamie Collins
Prince Could Beat Mayor Walker in Ring Says Prince Could Beat
New York October 29 In Madison Square Garden an expert says the Prince of Wales would defeat Mayor James J. Walker in a boxing match George Mason who ran the gym on the Berengaria says the Prince could outbox the mayor He notes a grievance with Sir Harry Lauder over a staged incident aboard ship after a prior mock fight
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New York
Madison Square Garden
Albert Edward
James J. Walker
Prince of Wales
George Mason
George
Harry Lauder
Harry
Three From Monroe On Normal's Annual Staff
Monroe students Eva Fowler Emelyn Cason and Anthony Buttitta take editor in chief literary editor and business manager roles for the 1928 Potpourri Louisiana State Normal College annual. Prof R L Ropp credits Monroe with supplying editors for years and predicts the Potpourri will be among the college's best.
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News-Star
Eva Fowler
Emelyn Cason
Anthony Buttitta
Monroe
Louisiana State Normal College
R. L. Ropp
Slaying of Dentist in N Y Mystifies Police
Police probe the death of Dr. Jacob Gross in a West Side office found slumped at his dental chair with a dental chart and small mirror in hand. No robbery or narcotics theft occurred. theories range from a patient rage to bootlegger or drug addict motives as detectives assess motives amid a $100,000-plus wealth and small practice.
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Associated Press
New York
Jacob Gross
West Side Negro District
Timothy Healy
Gross
Martin Gross
Executions of Three Rich Russians Reported
Three former Russian millionaires Vladimir Prove Cyril Prove and Korepanoff were executed for military espionage after being found to have supplied secret data to Edward Charnock of the British mission. Two associates received two-year terms. Korepanoff denied knowledge of espionage. The tribunal labeled the British mission a persistent espionage center since 1921.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Vladimir
Cyril Prove
Korepanoff
Edward Charnock
Britain
Russia
Supreme Court
Charnock
Provo
War Commissariat
Sir Robert M. Hodgson
Sir Robert
Man Burned to Death at Louisiana Retreat
New Orleans coroner stated J. P. Mann a 40 year old inmate of the Louisiana asylum died from burns in a fire at the retreat yesterday. The blaze began in a locker and caused little structural damage to the building.
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New Orleans
J. P. Mann
Louisiana
Mann
Ruth Elder En Route To Paris Plans For Paris Dress Shopping
Ruth Elder, arriving in Paris after leaving Roosevelt Field on October 11, vows to visit chic Paris dressmakers and buy feminine clothing. She hopes to sail November 5 on the Aquitania with a London trip before leaving Europe, receiving warm Parisian reception and a farewell kiss from French minister Maurice Bokanowski.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Ruth Elder
Miss Elder
Aquitania
Europe
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Ruth
Lindbergh
Maurice Bokanowski
Railroad Ticket Vision for Fewer Divorces
New Orleans columnist Dorothy Dix, Mrs E M Gimler, told railway magazine editors that buying railroad tickets for wives to give them vacations would ease marital tensions and reduce divorces, suggesting travel as a balm when marriage feels irksome.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
E. M. Gimler
Dorothy Dix
Railway Magazine Editors’ Association
Hambone's Meditations Open with Grim Grave Claim
A fragment from Hambone's Meditations as by J P Alley shows a speaker seeking to buy a grave lot. The terse dialect piece hints at themes of death and purchase within rural life, with implied humor and social commentary.
Rare 1902 Tech Game Portrait Recalled in Monroe
A Thanksgiving Day 1902 photo from Chase Amman Drug shows Monroe’s informal 1902 football team with players such as Percy Fox and Warren Garrett. The score was 0 0 and several members later became local business leaders or college alumni.
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Monroe
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute
Chase-Amman
Percy Fox
Walter Curry
Harry Mounds
Middiaugh
Peyton Parker
Cartwright
Gordon Michie
Brouler
Warren Garrett
E. L. Neville
Clyde Sanders
Phil Chauvin
Ham Breard
Wiley Bentley
D. Armand Breard
Lynn Trousdale
Ernest Fudickar
Charles P. Hartley
Lake Charles
Warren G. Garrett
Monroe Grocer Company
Breard Motor Company
Charlie Hartley
Broulier
Washington University
Garrett
Centenary
Neville
University of North Carolina
Fudickar
Sewanee
Mounds
Ohio
Breard
Hartley
St. Vincent's Academy
Baton Rouge
Harry Crandell
Tech
James Smitherman
Shreveport
Mississippi Choctaws
Jumper Clue Points Toward Suspect in Local Slaying
A jacket fragment found near the scene of Ross Dobson’s Thursday night murder in Natchitoches, Louisiana, carried a shot-away lapel and sleeve holes. Bloodhounds traced a trail to a water station on the Louisiana and Arkansas railroad near Skidder, four miles from Chestnut, before the scent went cold. car tracks suggest a passing vehicle may have aided the fugitive.
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Natchitoches
Ross Dobson
Skidder
Louisiana and Arkansas
Chestnut
Storm Warning Issued by Weather Bureau
The Weather Bureau issued an advisory noting a tropical disturbance of slight intensity moving west or west northwest, having passed over St. Lucia last night with relatively low pressure south of Cuba.
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Washington
St. Lucia
Cuba
Young Woman Leap to Death in New York Hotel
A 24 year old woman registered as M E Greene of Passaic New Jersey leaped from an eighth floor room in the Hotel Knickerbocker in early today leaving a note for her mother saying she did not love Buddy and the New York life drove her mad Her body landed on a second story roof after a 3 am call to the hotel operator and hotel staff found the mangled remains with empty bottles and cigarette packs in the room.
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Associated Press
New York
Buddy
M. E. Greene
Passaic
N. J
Knickerbocker
Woman risks death to save husband in Louisiana shooting
New Orleans report tells how Sharp Blount a 34 year old farmer was shot twice at a Loranger dance pavilion. His wife leaped at the assailant grabbing him around the waist as a third shot was fired. The attacker fled as bystanders intervened. Blount received a blood transfusion to try to save him.
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New Orleans
Sharp Blount
Farmer
Loranger
Miriam Bohan
Blount
Even Kings Like Back Seats in School Rooms
In Bucharest King Michael of Romania, turning six, attends a home classroom with Princess Helen overseeing eighteen boys. He declines a front seat, preferring to sit in the last row so the teacher cannot easily reach him.
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Associated Press
Bucharest
Romania
Michael
Princess Helen
Mickey
Helen
Sunday golf allowed in Torwyn despite protests and ram
London dispatch reports a judge issued an injunction allowing Sunday golf in Torwyn Wales amid protests by townspeople. The judge noted players could practice their religion without disrupting others on the course.
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London
Torwyn
Wales
Barber Shop Talk Not Always Wasted
In MINEHAD England on October 29 a war veteran recalling Gallipoli told how a bomb beside a man with a belt of bombs forced trench lay. The wounded man with a bayonet scar later revealed the origin of that injury to the companion in the barber shop.
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Minehad
England
Gallipoli
Tech Polytech Fans Rally In Monroe Before Choctaws Clash
Thousands crowd For sythe Park as Louisiana Polytechnic Institute from Ruston meets Mississippi College in a football clash. A massive parade led by the Tech band winds through DeSiard Street with blue and gold uniforms and college spirit, followed by a boisterous pep meeting at the Virginia Hotel.
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Monroe
Polytech of
Ruston
Choctaws
Mississippi College
Forsythe Park
Tech
Forsythe Field
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute
Illinois Central Station
Wigwam
Clinton
College
DeSiard Street
Grand
DeSiard
Five Points
St. John
Virginia Hotel
Victims Buried as Suspect Searched Near Waterfront
Henry Molly, sought in the Vieux Carre double trunk murders, was believed hiding near New Orleans or possibly dead after an excited man matched his description was seen along the waterfront. Molly was charged in criminal court yesterday as police pursue leads on the two victims, Mrs. Henry Moily and the other victim buried locally.
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New Orleans
Henry Molly
Molly
Texas and Pacific
Henry Moily
New Iberia
Criminal District Court
Queen Marie Promised Eternal Youth On Birthday
Rumania marked Queen Marie birthday with religious services countrywide and delegations from peasantry. American diplomats Morris and Cullerton conveyed greetings while King Ferdinand’s memory was honored with a wreath. The palace luncheon included 25 relatives and friends, and the queen joked she must stay forever young.
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Romania
United States
Michael
Ferdinand
Football scores from early games across cities
In Columbus Ohio State trails Chicago 0 to 7 after the first quarter. New Haven sees Yale 0 Dartmouth 0. Cambridge hosts Harvard leading Indiana 7 to 0. Philadelphia hosts Navy 6 Pennsylvania 0. Ohio State 6 Chicago 0. Army 12 Bucknell 0.
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Columbus
Ohio State
Chicago
New Haven
Yale
Dartmouth
Cambridge
Harvard
Indiana
Philadelphia
Navy
Pennsylvania
Army
Bucknell
Basso Chaliapin Seeks Russian Divorce in Moscow
Feodore Chaliapin noted as a world citizen seeks divorce from his Moscow wife Yelle Igna tievna, with alimony offered and eight children in the family. The petition was filed in Moscow as reported by Vechernaya Moskva, with details forwarded via the Soviet consul general in Paris.
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New York
Feodore Chaliapin
Basso
Russia
Moscow
Yelle Ignatievna
Vecherniaya Moskva
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