Cow Finance Topic Dominates Ruston Chamber Meeting
At Ruston last night the Chamber discussed forming the Cow Finance Organization led by Glen L Shadow and Frank B Price. The plan seeks 10000 in loan subscriptions with local banks backing 40000 to 50000, to buy more dairy cattle as the parish expands for the powder milk plant planned to open around May 1.
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Ruston Chamber of Commerce
Glen L. Shadow
Frank 8. Price
Commerce Organization
Shadow
Mr. Price
Cow Finance Organization
Starksville
Mississippi
Mississippi A. & M. College
Mississippi Center
A. & M. College
J. S. Moore
Starkaville
Moore
Governor Long backs belt bridge funding with new tax bond
New Orleans March 31 Governor Long declared that if a further tax is bonded by the coming legislature the state will personally ensure the Public Belt bridge remains free to traffic. He spoke for an hour and a half over KWKH Shreveport and WJBO New Orleans using remote control for KWEH, funding the polls himself. He praised his administration, attacked past rulers and chain stores, promoted Louisiana Progress, and urged bonding of the added two cents of the gas tax citing biblical passages to justify wealth redistribution every 50 years.
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New Orleans
Long
KWKH
Shreveport
WJBO
KWEH
Ballyhoo
Louisiana Progress
Governor denounces newspapers and chain store policy
The governor claims newspapers ran the state for 60 years and vows to stop it. He boasts cutting illiteracy from 22 to 10 percent, blames papers for the condition. He praises KWKH owner W. K. Henderson as a great defender of merchants against Wall Street day burglary. He warns of a third party if major parties back chain stores and pledges support for any nominee opposing them.
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W. K. Henderson
KWKH
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Wall Street
Liquidation Board OKs N O Sea Wall Bond Issue
Baton Rouge March 29 The state board of liquidation authorized the Orleans Levee Board to issue and sell 2 200 000 in bonds to finance a seawall on Lake Pontchartrain behind New Orleans The levee board sought 6 000 000 while the board reserved action on 3 800 000 until actually needed The article also notes a separate jury verdict in a Doheny Fall case without further impact on justice.
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Baton Rouge
Lake Pontchartrain
New Orleans
State Board of Liquidation
Orleans Levee Board
Proprietor of Barrel House Lodged In Jail
Robert Moore, a negro proprietor of the Barrel house store and amusement center for negroes, was arrested and lodged in the parish jail on a charge of stealing a table. The table allegedly came from a neighbor who complained to the sheriff's department.
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Robert Moore
Clyde Frasier
Moore
Sheriff's Department
Man Who Pulled Women's Teeth Dead in Bath Scene
Elwyn Bentley sixty wealthy retired bank president famed for pulling women's teeth was found shot to death in a bathtub at his Springfield mansion. His brother Frank Bentley discovered the body with a bullet wound in the head, the result of a personal crisis.
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Springfield
Elwyn Bently
St. Louis
Frank €. Bentley
Sister Veronica, longest serving Sister of Charity, dies
Baltimore reports Sister Veronica, who entered the Sister of Charity at Emmitsburg in 1854, died at St. Agnes hospital aged 91. She nursed during the Civil War and found her brother among Gettysburg’s wounded. In 1929 she marked 76 years at the Emmitsburg Noviate.
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Baltimore
Veronica
Sister of Charity Noviate
Emmitsburg
Maryland
Order
St. Agnes Hospital
Gettysburg
Snow Storm Hits Winnfield in Spring Flurry
Snow flurries began at 1 PM and by 2 30 PM snow fell heavily mixed with cold rain in Winnfield. The rare spring snow threatens gardens crops and fruit, with fears of replanting on green foliage fields. Snow melted quickly after.
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Winnfield
Mar
Drys Know Only One in Constitutional Quiz
A light feature in The Arkansas Gazette invites readers to name the seventeen other amendments beyond the First. The trivia aims to spark interest in the Constitution and civic knowledge with a playful prompt.
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The
Arkansas Gazette
United States
Mrs Gentry Freed Of Murder Charge For Hubby Death
Mrs Bertie Gaentry, 36, was acquitted today of murder in the death of her 24 year old husband in El Dorado Arkansas. The state charged she poisoned him to collect life insurance. The jury delivered the verdict after deliberation, ending a high profile case.
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el Dorado
Ark
Bertie Gaentry
Alchibere
Marriage Licenses Granted in Drayton and Chutuanu
Colored Jiminy Drayton and Chita ant Gurine Minifield at Chuudrant obtained marriage licenses.
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Drayton
Chitaant
Chuudrant
10th Birthday of Suffrage Celebrated in Luncheon Parties
The National League of Women Voters marked ten years of women’s suffrage with luncheon gatherings in Wablinaplon on May 27. Local supporters and members observed the milestone with discussions and community events.
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Wablinaplon
National League of Women Voters
Nationwide suffrage luncheon marks milestone fete
Stretching across the country birthdays were celebrated in 42 states with a nationwide radio hookup. Carrie Chapman Catt, 70, addressed thousands as banners and yellow regalia recalled hopeful days for suffrage. Speakers included Julia Lathrop in Chicago and Alice Stone Blackwell in Boston among others.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
St. Louis
Chicago
The
League
Julia Lathrop
John H. Rosentiel
Detroit
Alice Stone Blackwell
Boston
James Lees Laidlaw
Norman de R. Whitehouse
F. Louis Slade
New York
Gov Long Faces Question on State Employee Donations
Gov Huey Long’s Louisiana Weekly, printed in Mississippi, is reportedly financed by voluntary contributions from state employees. Employees would pay 20 percent of April salaries, with the option to recoup by securing subscriptions at two dollars each, effectively trading payroll deduction for subscriptions. The debate centers on whether any action can be taken to address this arrangement.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Huey Long
Mississippi
Plan to fund Louisiana Weekly via Highway officials
A proposed scheme would pay a $200 monthly salary plus a $40 voluntary contribution while letting a 20 subscription sale profit go to Governor Long's weekly paper. A second version targets Highway Commission employees to support a $60,000,000 bond push. The paper, edited in Louisiana but published in Mississippi, should debut Thursday.
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Governor Long
Mississippi
Louisiana
Ford Receives $35790 Income Tax Refund
Henry Ford obtained a refund of 35790 from the Treasury today for over payment of income taxes in 1925. The over payment was 53005, and the Treasury credited Ford with 17215, the disposition of which was not explained.
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Washington
Mar
Henry Ford
Treasury Department
Treasury
Pupils Entertain At Chapel Exercises At Louisiana Tech
Miss Ella Lea Jackson Miss Alice Larson and Miss Ernestine Elder piano pupils of Mrs Stella Kidd performed at the chapel exercises in the main auditorium of Louisiana Tech this morning at ten o clock Miss Jackson played Romance by Frank La Forge and Miss Larson performed a Waltz The event highlighted student talent in the college music department.
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Ella Lea Jackson
Alice Larson
Ernestine Elder
Stella Kidd
Louisiana Tech
Miss Jackson
Frank la Forge
Larson
Arabesque performance honors students and instructor
Arabesque by Theodore Lack and Miss Elder presented a selection from Concert Etude by McDowell. The audience received the performance well and the effort reflects credit on the performers and their instructor Mrs Kidd.
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Theodore Lack
Miss Elder
McDowell
Kidd
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Ruston, LA
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James Widg
Phone
DR. L. F. Green
Dennis
SUD Jamies
W. P. Simpson
Huston
Fuller Brush Co
A. G. Hornsby
Rep
8. R. Clay
Optom-E-Trist
Ellis Bailey
Sewelery and
Watum
Bam Blaushild
Doheny
Barrel House
Sister of Charity
Drys
Jimmie Rodgers
America
Victor
Jimmie Rodger
Swain
Marbury Drug Co., Inc
Ford
Ruston State Bank
Marbury Drug CO
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