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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1916
Page
2
The Monroe social column lists a busy week of church meetings and club gatherings from Monday through Saturday. It notes numerous society events, visitors, and upcoming engagements including a large miscellaneous bridal shower for Miss Lollie Bonar with gifts, poems, and a celebratory salad after.
A vintage notice promotes Bell-Ans and a kiddie paper craft line by J. M. Dillard, with a Louisiana court sale advertisement by Hubert F. Thomas, Receiver. It details a Fi Fa seizure of undivided half interests in real property in Ouachita Parish, to be sold cash on December 23, 1916, at Monroe Court House.
The Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association holds its annual two day meeting in Minneapolis to decide the legislative program for the upcoming session. Officials propose a law akin to Illinois granting women the right to vote for presidential electors.
Washington DC December 4 The Council of National Defense formed under the national defense act met at the War Department to perfect its structure and set plans. The council includes War Navy Interior Agriculture Commerce and Labor secretaries with civilian advisors Julius Rosenwald Bernard Baruch Samuel Gompers Daniel Willard and others to coordinate wartime activities nationwide.
President plans to present his annual message to Congress later in the season and favors action on high living costs when opportunity offers. He will address Congress in person Tuesday, host Bryan and Mrs. Bryan at lunch Wednesday, and dinner Thursday for Vance McCormick. McCormick’s visit signals inauguration committee plans and early nominations to tariff, shipping, and federal employee workers’ compensation boards.
Miss Jeannette Rankin Montana congresswoman elect receives offers of money and a car for smiling photos and using her name in advertising. Miss Jessie Spafford, Rockford native and Vassar graduate, rises in Illinois women’s clubs and Haineis education circles. Kansas reports 151 women elected to county offices with majorities in Republican and Democratic races. Empress Zita of Austria Hungary, born 1892, and Archduke Karl Franz Josef’s romance captures Viennese interest as the couple rule. San Francisco appoints Mrs Jeanne Greaver as prosecutor in the police court and inaugurates a women’s night court. Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association funds a $12,263 Harvard astronomy fellowship for women to study stellar photographs at Harvard Observatory. Women’s astronomy stature grows with honorary Royal Astronomical Society ties to Harvard observatory leaders.
In Greensvore North Carolina on December 4 members of the Smiths alleged moonshiners of Patel county Virginia were arraigned in the U S district court for the western district of North Carolina. They were captured August 24 after a running bottle shattered during the raid injuring a reven ue agent seriously.
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