Texas cotton ban bill follows varied state plans
In Texas and nearby states a debate over cotton production and acreage restrictions unfolds. Governors and legislatures weigh plans to reduce cotton acreage by a third or two thirds to balance supply with demand. The Texas bill moves toward an acreage ban, with a January 15 effective date, as officials in Louisiana and Texas receive the measure and await signatures and implementation details.
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Ibn
Texas
Lowisiana
Isiona
O. K. Irman
Louisiana Commission
Tex
Ross Sterling
Houston
Ruston High Team Plans New Uniforms and Gear
Suits issued ten Hi Team uniforms for Ruston high. Plans call for new suits for all eleven players. Pads shoes and headgear were prepared for carrying positions. Sweat shirts and jerseys noted. Team seeks funds to meet regulation attire.
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Ruston High
Summer Book Releases Stir Readers Across the World
A fragment lists a slate of new books and authors including Diana Pas ture Garden Octave, Edna rd Millay, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Beatrice & Others. It notes some titles are light entertainment while others tackle darker themes, reflecting a lively summer reading scene.
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Diana Pasture Garden
Octave Fatal
Ednard Millay
Amanda
C. Asterley
Goldy
Hawthorn Hurst
Ithor
Christrely
Lively Lady
Th Roberts
Beatrice Tunstall
Elizabeth Hamilton
Mary Roberts
Mary Faith
Beatrice
Woman of Fashion
Rebel
Rowena
Ethel Hueston
Barbara Starke
Rex Jardin
Ty World
Prohibition Debate Spotted in State Legislature
Fragmentary OCR shows a tense session where ten senators and two resolutions on prohibition were discussed. The record hints at arguments for and against, with members listening intently as debate unfolded and references to legislative actions.
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Senate
Legd
Harrison Appointed Deputy Clerk in Dubach Office
In Dubach, Harrison of the Clerk’s Office is named deputy clerk after years of service at the court house. The notes indicate she has been efficient in records and filing as election-related work nears. The piece references ongoing tasks and the upcoming election, with common local context and a nod to Atlanta’s twenty-ninth visit.
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Name Harrison
Dubach
Fotor Co
2Come
Pital
Atlanta
Carrie Lee Green
Anna Green
Winnsboro
J. W. “Friesclund
Little Rock
Arkalisas
Mr. Trieschman
Wierner ‘Trieschman
Pneumona
J. D. Holland
Hospital Notes from Ruston Lincoln Sanitarium
Miss Bessie Stephens of Coushatta was injured Monday afternoon in an automobile accident on the Shreveport road and discharged today. Harry J. Hammet, confined after a tonsil operation, was discharged this morning.
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Ruston-Lincoln
Bessie Stephens
Coushatta
Shreveport
Harry J. Hammet
Nakatus and the Shark Prove Tale of Jonah Whale
Honolulu report tells of Nakatus and Monoru Kamagawa missing at sea while watching military maneuvers. A seven hundred fifty pound eight foot shark hauled to port contained Nakatus remains, with belief his companion perished inside the same shark.
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Nakatus and
the Shark
Jonah
Honolulu
Jona
Sandao Nakatus
Nakatus
Monoru Kamagawa
Hugh Fish
Sale salesman invents self opening gate near Omaha
Alfred KL Ralston a traveling salesman invented a profanity-proof self opening gate for country roads. A driver bumps a bar with the front bumper and the gate swings open and then auto locks after passage. This innovation eliminates mud covered gate handling for motorists and farmers.
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Omaha
Alfred KL. Ralston
DRY RAIDS NET FINE LIQUORS
Corpus Christi reports arrests of a police commissioner and a crown official amid Federal Prohibition raids. The operations seized more than 1 billion of alcohol and imported liquors, with charges expected to be filed as searches of vessels conclude. Also noted are a hospital incubator case for Mrs. Bernet Buckle in Abingdon and Levi Morgan, two, bedridden after a peach tree fall.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Turner
Geyrmar Trelzhter
Annual West Monroe Rodeo Promises Pioneer Day Thrills
The West Monroe Radio Association presents its annual carnival of stunts and wild west performances this Saturday Sunday and Monday at McGuire Park with a new stand and fence, giant lights, imported wild cattle and broncos. Admission is fifty cents and the show features a street parade and professional riders including a wild cow milking contest.
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West Monroe
Five Foot Snake Found in Sewer in City Intersection
A five foot dead rattlesnake with crushed head and missing rattles was pulled from the sewer at the North Trenton and Georgia Avenue intersection by street department workers at eleven this morning. A string around its neck suggests it was dragged into town after being killed by campers or hunters last night.
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Trenton
Georgia Ave
Ruston Municipal Band to Perform Thursday Night at Natatorium
The Ruston Municipal Band directed by Harvey T Nelson will play at the natatorium Thursday night. The program promises fine music and has been praised by summer audience members. During the term Nelson will direct music pupils from Eastland and Hillcrest schools and will maintain a band and an orchestra for the school term with free band direction for Ruston school students.
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Ruston Municipal
Harvey T. Nelson
Nelson
Eastland
Hillcrest
Ruston
September Club Fervor Returns To Old and New Culture Groups
With September comes renewed activity as City and parish clubs restart. Local groups including Pierian Cosmos Child Study and Gottschalk Music plan broader work for the year, with hints of new Shakespearean Book Reading and Dramatic clubs for winter. Students may join Beethoven and Chapin circles as campus life resumes.
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Pierian
Cosmos
Child Study
Business and Professional Woman’s Club
Gottschalk Music Club
Ruston
Planatorte
Unclear ad text on labor law amendments and women in industry
Fragmentary passage references a claldless word and guile devislatur. It suggests opposition to a child labor amendment and favors women in industry but lacks readable details, names, dates, or a clear event. The readable content is too garbled to extract concrete facts or entities.
Marriage Licenses for Eddie Perkins and J H Allen
Colored Eddie Perkins and J H Allen of Rusten obtain marriage licenses in a local filing.
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Eddie Perkins
J. H. Allen
Rusten
Funeral Guests Attend W B Hale Rites In Ruston
Visitors from Monroe and surrounding towns attended the funeral for Mr W B Hale in Ruston. Relatives and friends arrived from El Dorado Shreveport Minden and Jena while many from out of town joined the service and visited with Hale family and friends.
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Louis Langford
Monroe
W. B. Hale
George Jones
Amanda Keyes
el Dorado
Lou 8
Flournoy of
Shrevesort
Ardis Marbury
Lena Wright
E. F. Wright
Belmont
Ark
N. E. Joyner
Natchitoches
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