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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1916
Page
4
A local columnist argues cranberry prices jump from ten to twenty cents per quart in Monroe, blaming scarce supplies and wartime demand. The piece accuses dealers of gouging and urges boycotts of price gougers while noting New Orleans costs rose only one cent.
A call to action on public health urges focus on preventing infantile paralysis and tuberculosis. The message notes no cure yet for paralysis but suggests knowledge exists to prevent and treat consumption, urging action in this crisis and appealing to readers to decide what they will do.
A reflection on how true sympathy fosters happiness for individuals and others. The piece notes that those who naturally radiate genuine understanding ease pain and smooth faults, while recognizing that not everyone expresses or feels sympathy with equal ease.
A reflective piece on sympathy and reading hearts to gain happiness. It argues inner worth lies beyond first impressions, urging open inquiry to discover beauty in people and nature, noting biases limit judgment and that true insight comes from seeking value beyond appearance.
For 20 years these genuine liver stimulants have aided thousands of families in the State and Southwest for headaches biliousness constipation dizziness sour stomach pimples and other conditions from an inactive liver or bowels. Small mild safe effective inexpensive. One pill at bedtime. 25e at all druggists.
An essay-like meditation contrasts inner beauty with surface value, urging seeing beyond veneer through music art and literature. It urges seeing with understanding and sympathy to avoid failure, while noting social shifts like Chicago women resisting high clothing prices. A Washington dispatch adds a note on a proposed two and a half cent coin.
This date in history lists events from 1816 opening of the first savings bank in Philadelphia to 1914 Austrian capture of Belgrade and other war notes. Also notes the 1902 Ottawa Catholic University fire, 1899 Samoa trade treaty, 1892 Jay Gould’s death, and a 1912 Supreme Court anti trust ruling on the Union Pacific merger.
The item lists prominent figures with birthdays: Carolina White, Florence Barclay, Dr. George A. Hoadler, Louis Cramton, Frederick E. Farnsworth, and Irene Vanbrugh, noting ages and brief career highlights. Also mentions Po-Do-Lax ad, a clerk’s office notice, and Dr King’s New Discovery cough remedy with age deltas and brief bio notes.
Mrs Hugh Cook of Scottsville NY reports that about five years ago while in Garbutt NY she treated two of her children with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. She says it promptly stopped their coughing and cured their colds faster than anything else she tried. Obtainable everywhere.
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