08 Dec 1915
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1915
Page
1
Social Department notes report church and club events across the city. Residents attend meetings at Grand Street and River Front while others visit in Vicksburg Alexandria Starkville Meridian and Millhaven. Widespread greetings include births recoveries and holiday plans amid society circles.
Miss Myrtle Young offers permanent hair waving and dyed hair restoration at 108 Calypso Street with AJL work guaranteed. Mrs R J Cosper promotes floristry including Christmas arrangements, wreaths, cut flowers, and custom orders. Chase and Collens Co. advertises truss fittings for hernias.
Grove's tonic promotes health with quinine and iron. It touts liver benefits and malaria relief, claiming to enrich the blood and build the whole system. Price listed as 50 cents.
Sixth District Court of Ouachita Parish orders public auction of the east half of Sumpter Plantation, a 427 acre tract, to pay debts of the Bernhardt succession. The sale, cash only, min two thirds of appraisement, set for January 15, 1016 at the Monroe courthouse.
A New York fashion scene report from December 7 1915 notes the social season opening with elegant audiences at the Metropolitan. It highlights prevailing pale pink blue and white gowns with black and emerald accents, sheer veils of tulle and fine net, and elbow-length gloves. Daytime horse show wear favors tailored suits and three quarter length coats in fur or cloth with belt and varied trim. Leather costumes appear as novelty items unlikely to gain general popularity.
The article highlights dark green russet gowns at social events with matching accessories like large ostrich fans and fox fur details. It also reports on educator notes from New York to Minneapolis, detailing school visits, immigrant education efforts, and upcoming conferences.
New York railroads weigh a broad embargo on goods consigned abroad as foreign freight congestion worsens. Managers report armed guards at terminals and widespread picketing as they push for expanded shipping facilities to handle war supply inflows and avoid export traffic shutdowns.
A major banker forecasts that within twenty years ten million people will live within Greater New York as emigration from war torn regions and relocation of workers surge. He notes that retail, theater and wholesale centers have already moved outward and population may shift to outer reaches of the island in ten years.
Hotel men in New York report record guest numbers as buyers, visitors, and tourists flood rooms and restaurants. Clerks struggle to find beds while tables fill early, with hotel hosts asserting the rise in commercial activity proves a buoyant economy despite gloom.
Detectives say thousands of pan handlers grafters and confidence men have followed Henry Ford as crowds swirl around his peace joy ride headquarters. They warn many crooks seek to attach themselves to the voyage to tap its till or stage a large confidence scheme. Veteran sleuths urge Ford to hire extra detectives to safeguard the tour.
The proposed police glee club at headquarters is set to provide real recreation as hundreds of officers train for serious singing, replacing idle pinoche games and gossip in the section room. More officers listen to the choral rehearsals, and any joke about the project is silenced in range of the night stick.
New York December 8 Edison and fellow Naval Consulting Board members held their second meeting in the city. They discussed advancing proposed navy research laboratory plans and the location and management needed to maintain secrecy at the workshop.
A narrator recalls a bizarre sequence of accidents that injure his nose in a crowded, comic tale. A hornet stings, a Persian vase topples, a rubber ball strikes, and a wall plaster fall damages him as boarders and onlookers react to his misfortunes and rambling complaints.
At Vincennes Indiana officials led by Governor Samuel Ralston and visiting governors from nearby states will attend the three day centennial celebration marking Vincennes as the territorial capital and the site of the first white settlement in the Northwest Territory. The event honors Vincennes role in the creation of Indiana and other midwest states.
McGowin merchants in Morehon parish post notice forbidding AJL hunters to hunt on salg land under penalty of prosecution. Carpenter and Calhoun noted.
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