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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1913
Page
2
An advertisement insists bulk coffee cannot match French Market Coffee. It touts a secret blend, old time slow roasts, and sealed can packaging as unique to French Market Mills, urging readers to test French Market Coffee at meals to prove its quality.
Social items recount gatherings of the Young Matrons Embroidery Club and Mothers' Club in Monroe with meetings at the Parish High School and local homes. Also details the church wedding of Marion Lee Russell to Wilson Williams at First Methodist with reception at Mrs. H. H. Russell Sr. home and plans for a Shreveport New Orleans honeymoon.
Notice for Ouachita National Bank of Monroe Louisiana stockholders meeting to elect a Board of Directors for the ensuing year and conduct any other proper business. O B Morton cashier. 18 tf.
Special notice invites shoppers to the Racket Store for a wide doll assortment up to 3.50 and other festive items. The ad stresses quick service and community presence at 17-21 Smith Bros. Ltd with phone 122 in the Old Armory Building.
A chronology lists key moments across years: 1799 Washington’s remains moved to Mount Vernon. 1807 first Roman Catholic orphan asylum in Philadelphia. 1812 Bonaparte returns to Paris from Russia. 1813 Navy Secretary Stoddert dies in Maryland. 1820 Alabama passes act to establish a state university at Tuscaloosa. 1865 Thomas Corwin dies. 1899 Lord Roberts becomes commander in chief in South Africa.
The text notes Archduke Francis Ferdinand born December 18, 1865, as heir presumptive to Austria Hungary, details his lineage, 1900 marriage to Countess Chotek, and possible attempts to block his children's succession. It also mentions others marked by birthday notices including Dr. Lyman Atto tt, Vinson Walsh McLean, Nathan B. Scott, and Francis Burton Harrison.
Mrs Walter Vincent of Pleasant Hill North Carolina writes of severe summer headaches prostration and back pains. After three months on Cardui the tonic restored strength appetite and energy. Cardui described as vegetable and gentle with a long history of helping women.
General of the Philippines aged 40 today. Sir Joseph Thomson a famous British scientist aged 57 today. Ty Cobb outfielder for the Detroit American League baseball team aged 27 today.
A Monroe sheet metal workers union scribe defends wage scales and apprenticeship oversight. He accuses Dr Bell of employing underpaid, unskilled labor and urges public awareness, better wages, and safer contracting practices to protect journeymen.
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