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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1918
Page
3
After the war the fashion mood shifts to gaiety and appreciation for returning soldiers. Women favor quiet lines with color, satin and velvet dresses, tailored suits, and practical furs like nutria muskret and leopard skin. Leathers, low heeled tan shoes, and distinctive tailoring express personality while maintaining conservative taste.
Redeem your War Savings Stamp pledge and do not be seen as a quitter. The deadline is December 31st. Reported text urges immediate action to fulfill the pledge.
Mrs. M. E. Smith of Benton Louisiana reports yo u d a cold with a severe cough cured by Foley's Honey and Tar. The advert claims the medicine is a grand remedy for influ enza grip coughs and colds, contains no opiates and should be in every household.
Stockholders meeting of Ouachita Cotton Mills Company Ltd to be held at the secretary’s office on Wednesday January Std 191% between 12 and 4 p m for electing officers for the ensuing year and to transact any other business that may come before the meeting. GUY P STUBBS secretary.
New York December 16 The greatest American humorist says the country would tear up pavement for returning troops and arrest the last contingent for vagrancy. Banker Noble Foster Hoggson urges banks to lead reconstruction by building new premises and publicizing plans to spur broader investment and civic renewal. He argues bankers must show initiative and act now to restore confidence and drive postwar growth.
Get Sloan's for your pain relief with fast soothing warmth for joints muscles and back. Non staining and quick to apply large bottle offers economy and is available at your druggist today.
R B Blanks offers six percent money to lend on improved farm and city business property and eight percent on city residence property. Commissions reasonable. Box 660 Monroe La.
LSU announces plans to return to pre war operations with a three term year. Absentees due to military duty before the second term opening on December 34 receive credit for missed work upon return.
Enrico Caruso stars in a special cinema debut under Art yrvaft auspices in a two role part in the photoplay My Cousin. He plays Cesare Carulli a singer and Mario Nanni an artist who makes plaster cast models in this dramatic program with Chaplin.
Charlie Chaplin’s second million dollar film Shoulder Arms follows a doughboy through boot camp and front line peril. He endures drills, misfires, and a daring camouflage mission before a comic escape and risky disguise win the day with a French ally and a German staff showdown.
Wallace Reid headlines the Paramount feature The Man From Funeral Range at the Lyceum on Wednesday. Producer Monte Katertjohn adapts Ernest Wilkes Broken Threads for the screen, with Katertjohn praising the film as entertaining and well crafted.
A digest of curious notes: Bamboo trees delay blossoms until age thirty, German silver alloys vary. India uses one sixth of quinine. Laplanders can skate 150 miles daily. grape-vine waste used for paper in France. crisped paper undergarments in Japan. Portuguese postmen walk less by Sunday deliveries at churches. Continental Europe churches ask women to wear hats. no animal has more than five toes. steel ships carry 20 percent more freight than iron. Nebrast claims top auto ownership per population. thimble origins trace to thumb. paper mainly from spruce, sources shrinking. starfishes can regenerate lost parts.
A Lyceum Theatre note hints at a rising star. a new electric bath heater promises precise water temperatures. A French chemist proposes a flour substitute from potato refuse. Bareira in Portuguese East Africa features zinc architecture. Copper casting advances use boron to reduce gas impurities. The play ends in total failure amid hisses as a dramatic curtain gesture closes.
Robert W. Chambers mocked the public’s harsh treatment of authors and told a joke about a playwright at a premiere. A critic’s snip of hair in the second intermission underscores the barbed reception writers face from audiences.
Editor H. J. Whigham advised magazine writers to be simple and direct for the Kansas farmer audience. The anecdote about a college-educated son joking about Cornelius Husk's daughter highlights plain diction over classical allusions.
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