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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1909
Page
2
Social activity in Monroe and nearby towns shows visits and travels by many residents. John Gibbs sails to Winnfield, Miss Luther Worrell ill at home, Ben Dawkins returns from Columbia, and W. E. Dickard visits Monroe from Ruston. Families entertain guests from Grayson to Gulfport and Mobile, with various domestic events, baptisms, and local gatherings.
The FOX GROCER CO Ltd advertises its wide stock mirroring a first-class grocery and promises delivery with seven wagons to serve customers. The notice invites trials to attract new clients at Leaders.
The Georgia Third District congressman William Charles Adamson born August 13 1854 in Bowdon Ga marked his fifty fifth year. He spent youth on farm and hauling cotton between Bowdon and Atlanta and graduated Bowdon College in 1874 before reading law and being admitted to the bar in 1876. He began practice at Carrollton where he has lived since and held various local offices.
The report notes Mrs. Dalton Costello, aged 27, afflicted with acute Brights disease in August 1908. She showed severe symptoms with urine containing high albumin. Conventional treatments failed until Robinson Spring water was administered, leading to relief in about three weeks and a full recovery.
Dr. John B. Elliott of Tulane University New Orleans endorses Robinson Spring water noting ten years of beneficial results for kidney troubles and granting permission to reference him.
An elector in 1892 and elected to Congress in 1897 as a Democrat, he has been re-elected six times with no opposing candidate in the last nomination.
Goldwin Smith, aged 86, honored in Toronto on August 13 for a life of literature journalism philanthropy and public service. Born in England he became an American citizen after leaving Oxford to chair English and constitutional history at Cornell. He has lived in Toronto since the early 1870s.
Boston plasterers petition for a raise to sixty five cents an hour as demand notes. Indiana mining districts show workers not on duty more than half the time. Charles Jr Moyer elected president of the Western Federation of Miners for the eighth time. Brownsville truck drivers form a growing union. Joplin steam engineers and holstermen organize a joint crafts union. Retail Clerks Protective Association eyes upcoming convention.
Reports list numerous union activities including Marine Engineers reaching 11 000 members, Wholesale Dry Goods Clerks joining United Hebrew Trades New York, eightteenth annual AFL convention plans, stage employes convention in Washington, a WTUL national meeting in Chicago, Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers set for Poston Massachusetts, pension reform talks in French parliament, and Seamen Union urging a Congress amendment to prevent undermanning.
Mrs. S L Bowen of Wayne West Virginia writes she suffered kidney disease and could not get out of bed. After using Foley's Kidney Remedy a one dollar bottle and part of the second cured her entirely. D H Key supports the remedy's efficacy.
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