Banquet Draws Sixty In Ruston Traveling Men Group
More Than Sixty attendees gathered at Hotel Ruston Saturday night for a banquets of local traveling men and their wives. Poole Robison presided as Lee Hardware Company’s long-time territorial representative. Honor guests included B. H. Rainwater, Mayor Charles Gayne, L. O. Gahagan, H. L. McKnight, and Miss Bernardine McKnight. Veterans of North Louisiana travel sales were named, with younger drummers showing promise for future records.
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Poole Robison
Ruston
Knights of the Grip
Lee Hardware Company
Shreveport
B. H. Rainwater
Chamber of Commerce
Charles ©. Gayne
L. O. Gahagan
Retail Merchants Association
H. L. McKnight
Bernardine
Sanford Dies Suddenly at Washington
Justice Edward Terry Sanford of the supreme court died at his home in Washington on March 8 after a sudden illness. He had been in apparent good health, sat on the bench yesterday, and became ill after a tooth extraction at his dentist. His physician Dr. J Lawn Thompson reported uremic trouble as the cause. The death came unexpectedly with news of illness only a short time before.
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Washington
Edward Terry Sanford
Supreme Court
Justice Sanford
J. Lawn Thompson
Landslide in Madeira Kills Children at Beach Carnival
A massive landslide from a cliff above the sea swept into a beach carnival in Funchal on March 6, killing at least 14 people including several children. The rockfall sent shock waves along the shore, dragging fishermen and washer-women into the water at Ribeira, Vigurclo, and Camara Lopes as the sea surged.
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Mar
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Vigurclo
Camara Lopes
Tech Students Plan Bible Sales During Summer Vacation
Twenty Louisiana Tech students signed agreements to sell Bibles for a Philadelphia publishing house. Rudolph Falk, of the book company, will visit colleges in Louisiana to recruit salesmen. Contracts run about 6400 for 75 days, with a $140 guarantee for 72 days, though no Louisiana Tech student has yet committed. Falk will travel to Ruston within three weeks.
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Queen's Float Burns At Biloxi Carnival
Fire destroys the queen's float during Biloxi Carnival parade drawing hundreds of spectators. The blaze started in the downtown section as the right pageant team celebrated, with emergency crews responding and spectators watching as the float burned.
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Amateur Fings Comet Sighting Report
Observations at the University of Chicago confirm the discovery of a four man comet in the northern sky by C. Peltier of Gelphius Oba using a telescope. The note describes the discavity and indicates initial confirmation of the sighting.
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Nstewr
Siull
Taft dies. Hoover proclaims 30 days mourning period
Washington March 8 President Hoover announced the death of William Howard Taft at his home in Washington and proclaimed a 30 day national period of mourning with flags at half mast. The proclamation called for appropriate honors and noted Taft's long service from judge to chief justice.
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William Howard Taft
United States
Fatt
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Sore Lrow
White House
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
United States of America
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Jonesboro Hodge Road Closure Announced for Tuesday
Jonesboro Hodge Road will be closed to traffic Tuesday for paving between Jonesboro and Hodge a distance of three miles. Crews Thovey and vfanes manage the project with completion expected within three weeks. Traffic detours route via Euston and Winnfield and Chatham fold.
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Jonesboro Hodge Road
Jonesboro
Marriage Licenses For Ruston Couple and Others
White a D Lagarus of Ruston to Juline b Sturdevant of Franklinton Colored Learly Anderson of Ruston W Maudie May Wimherly of Ruston.
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A. D. Lagarus
Ruston
Juline B. Sturdevant
Franklinton
Learly Anderson
W. Maudie May Wimherly
Registration Books Closed To City Until After Primary
Parish registrar Mrs Roy JD Glover announced that Ruston registration books will close until after April 8 the date of the City Democratic Primary. The closure follows a legal rule that voters must be registered at least thirty days before an election. The registrar observed many residents registering in the past week to meet the deadline.
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Roy JD. Glover
Parish Registrar of Voters
Ruston
Spillway Progress Above New Orleans Flood Control Unit
A. D. Danziger reports progress on the spillway above New Orleans, the key unit of the $325 million flood control program. Of 11,000 piling, 6,000 driven. over 50 percent of 600,000 square feet of steel sheet piling in place. more than 20 percent of 135,000 cubic yards of concrete poured. Levees about 17 feet high flank the spillway, under rapid construction. The spillway will have 350 gates, each 20 feet wide, handling 275,000 cubic feet per second. Completion is targeted for March next year.
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New Orleans
A. D. Danziger
New Orleans Association of Commerce
Danziger
Lake Pontchartrain
Niagara Falls
Bogalusa Plant to Employ 1200 This Spring
Bogalusa news reports J L Smith manager of Dorgen McPhillip says the canning plant will hire about 1200 workers starting in early May for several months. Crops under contract total 2500 acres this year up from 1100, prompting a plant expansion. Truck growers will be paid 75000 to 90000 dollars for beans and about 10000 for spring turnip greens, boosting local earnings.
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Bogalusa
J. L. Smith
Dorgen-McPhillip Corporation
Smith
Woman Witness To Killing Weds Killer
Dallas March 4. Bernice Gladden Conway's wife now, she married L W Conway yesterday in the county jail. Conway, convicted of murdering deputy constable J L Broome last December, faces a 99 year sentence. Under Texas law a defendant's wife cannot be compelled to testify.
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Dallas
Tex
L. W. Conway
Bernice Gladden
Conway
J. L. Broome
Texas
Boy Runs Amuck at Baylor Hospital in Dallas
On March 4 Alfred John son a 17 year old North Dallas high school student ran amuck on the Baylor hospital fourth floor attempting to attack several nurses with a knife and then jumped from a window. He died minutes later after his skull was crushed on the sidewalk outside the hospital. He had been in the hospital since February for treatment.
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Dallas
Texas
Baylor Hospital
Alfred Johnson
Atlanta Indicts Six City Officials
Atlanta authorities today announced grand jury indictments against six city officials and several other individuals in a sprawling graft investigation into municipal government. The defendants, including both men and women, denied charges as a new grand jury was convened for further organizational steps and a Chicago business plan valued at 1,000,000 was noted in the private crime inquiry.
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Maren
Uouf
Boliviter Cieneraul
John A. Boykin
Chicago Business New Plan
Woman slain and body burned in deserted lake cabin
The mutilated body of a young woman was found in a burned cabin on Deep Lake near Lake Villa Illinois. Police believe the victim was murdered and the fire set to destroy evidence. Investigators suspect gangsters known to haunt the winter resort. The body was discovered by Antioch firefighters at the burned cottage after caretaker Edward Schram summoned them.
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Deep Lake
Here
Antioch Fire Department
Edward Schram
Girl Shoots Woman For Mother's Sake in Georgia
Almo Ga March 5 Miss Grace Mc Daniels 26 Chauncey Ga in serious condition after being shot by Miss Marion Builard 18 a high school senior authorities say she claimed the wounded woman took her father away Officials quoted I’ll wreck another home after the shooting at a filling station run by F I Bullard Miss Bullard fled the scene with two shots fired but only one hit McDaniels Sheriff H N Sears released the youth to go home uncharged Bullard’s father stood nearby as the shooting occurred and the mother of the shooter runs a hotel in town Bowed by a pending divorce suit the case highlights a family feud turned violent</S>
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Almo
Grace Mc_ Daniels
Chauncey
Marion Builard
Miss Butlard
Miss McDaniels
Bublin
F. I. Bullard
H. N. Sears
Miss Bullard
Sears
Louisiana Banks Progress in 1929 No Bank Failures
Louisiana state banks reported sound progress in 1929 with no bank failures and no depositor losses. Total deposits across 191 banks reached 240.99 million, down 4 percent from 1928, while savings deposits totaled 110.95 million. Reserves stood around 32 percent of demand obligations, with capital and profits up about 1.5 million and rediscounts at the Fed down by 1 million.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
J. S. Brock
Brock
Federal Reserve Bank
Restoration of church in Maritime building rebuilt with old features
The rebuilt church preserves the bronze main altar from the 1868 Paris exhibit and the Immaculate Mother of Christ statue from 1849, with iron pews, stained glass, and exterior towers. It required 127 working drawings and 14,009 square feet of drafts plus 175 pages of specifications.
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Maritime
Mother of Christ
Louis Philippe
France
Royal
One Word Ceremony Latest In Weddings
Denver date reports a one word wedding rite where Anacleto Ines and Maria Rita Salagar stood before Bishop Frank H. Rice as the officiant. The ceremony concluded with the word Married as the legal act. Film star Mabel Normand is reported to have died in Monrovia California.
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Denver
Anacleto Ines
Maria Rita Salagar
Frank H. Rice
Liberal Church
New Jesuit Church Rebuilt to Appear Like Old Building
New Orleans, La. The new Jesuit church was solemnly dedicated Sunday March 2 after being rebuilt to look like the old structure. The old building was found unsafe seven months ago due to constant construction noise from nearby skyscrapers, and renovation proceeded to restore the church’s dignified exterior.
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