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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1932
Page
3
The article argues against central dipping vats for cattle shipments as delaying tick eradication. It notes Louisiana sweet potatoes expanding markets with high prices. Export markets shrink due to tariffs, affecting home supply and prices. It stresses improving local marketing and production, urging prudent farming practices and cost control.
This week’s cotton market shows fluctuating Open High Low and Close figures across New York and New Orleans exchanges from March 24 to March 30, 1932. Data include futures for Mar May July Oct Dec contracts with daily highs, lows and closes, reflecting volatile trading in early 1930s commodity markets.
A garbled local notices page mentions Greenwood residents Mrs N Martin and Mrs Gea Wilder with social events at Baptist Church in Vina and gatherings at home. It lists names like Miss Towella, Mr Quid, Neva Neilson, and Joss Beard, with weeks of activities and prayers.
Spence Tomlinson, now 61, recalls buying his worn-out 120 acre Ruston area farm in 1894 with credit and hard work. The family grows meat and feed at home, runs Jersey cattle, 40 to 50 laying hens, and two traveling sons. an orphan girl is now Mrs. Sarah Sims. The article urges readers to invest or barter to move business, citing The Progressive Farmer Ruralist on rising prices and economic recovery.
A collage depicts a dark skinned youth helping a girl with blonde curls after school while traffic, trains, and street life unfold. A red haired boy admires a yo-yo, others head to a basketball game, and rural sights mix with urban streets in a brisk, hazy scene.
Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie Skinner age 47 who died at the Ruston Lincoln Sanitarium at 2 15 this morning after about a weeklong illness were held at the family home this afternoon at 4 with Rev H L Johns officiating She is survived by husband W Carl Skinner of Ruston four sons Clay Emmett Henry Carl Jr and two daughters Bernice and Mrs Helen Golf Interment was in Vienna Cemetery B F McLure and Company funeral directors The coal industry in Missouri had a better than average year in 1931 despite the mood.
Mary Ray a 20 year old Knoxville school teacher offers to marry for a $7,000 banked in her name. She demands suitors supply complete financial moral and physical information plus references. She does not set an age limit.
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