Christmas Catalog Highlights for Edison Phonograph and More
A period catalog lists an extensive range of products from Edison Phonographs and full disc records to Globe-Wernicke book cases and filing cabinets. Also offered are fireproof safes, bicycles, electric vacuum cleaners, portable units, furniture like ladies desks and sewing cabinets, accessories, textiles, rugs, glassware, china sets, and kitchenware. The list emphasizes high grade home goods, storage solutions, and affordable cost items.
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Edison Phonograph
Globe-Wernicke
Special for the Children Offers Wide Toy Selection
A local ad promotes a broad range of children's items including doll beds wagons velocipedes rockers hair articles bassinetts and go carts. The seller invites visitors to see the offerings and mentions tailoring choices to customer interests.
Shoulder Arms A Chaplin War Comedy at Lyceum
Charlie Chaplin stars in Shoulder Arms a First National release about a doughboy rookie’s comic trials from drill to trench life. The film follows Charlie’s struggle with the manual of arms mishaps shellfire fear and a cheese outranging German troops with a camouflage tree spy sequence.
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Mar Pramas
Hun
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie
No Man’s Land
Elixir of Youth Leads General to Lovers and Loss
Lyceum program shows a General in love with Dr. Sylvia's daughter as he seeks the elixir claimed to reverse age. He promises to settle the doctor's loan if successful, but a Spanish girl abandons her baby, prompting a pursuit. The doctor returns to find the baby in the General's coat and the General missing, believing the elixir transformed him.
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Sylvia
Some Baby at the Grand in Macon
The Macon Telegraph lauds Some Baby a three act farce by Zellah Covington and Jules Simonson at the Grand. Viewers praise its novelty and strong construction with barrels of laughter from curtain rise to finale. The plot centers on an elixir of youth alleged by Dr Frederick Relyea and his enticement of old man Burbeck to test the experiment.
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Some Baby
Zellah Covington
Jules Simonson
the Grand
Macon
Macon Telegraph
Frederick Relyea
Cleneral Burbeck
American Casualties Report From American Expeditionary Forces
Washington reports casualty figures from the American Expeditionary Forces. Killed in action 5 died of wounds 34 died of accident and other 26 wounded severely 1802 wounded lightly 1404 wounded with undetermined degree 4 likely totals reflect wartime losses and injuries.
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Washington
WaEe Es Ae
Wartime Casualties Listed From Local Parishes
The list records Missing in Action Killed in Action and wounded personnel from Louisiana counties including McDonoughville Donaldsonville White Castle New Orleans and Shreveport. It notes 2000 German aircraft surrendered to the Allies and cites losses among airmen in the current year.
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Torreyy A
Joseph Roman
McDonoughville
Gordon L. Gisclard
Donaldsonville
Wellman Whaley
White Castle
Daniel J. Juisti
New Orleans
David T. Land
Shreveport
Frank Bailey
Woodland
Benjamin H. Pitts
Colfax
Whitney Herbert
Thibodeaux
William A. Pierce
Arcadia
Joseph A. Guilbeau
Arnaudville
Urban P. Prestenbach
Berwick
Maurice W. Watson
Keensboro
Mitchell A. Montgomery
French Settement
Joseph W. Budge
Morgan City
Albert Alvarez
David L. Maas
Hartley
Leon Montrose
Trees
James M. Smith
Pearl River
Ear
Jack Wright
Hammond
Adolph Faust
News
Walter Coleman
Caster
James B. Billac
Louis King
Fred Sternberger
Edward T. Hudson
Britany
Albert Armagnac
John J. Duffy
Paul Benlet
St. Patrick
Ben M. Downs
Lapine
Maron D. Arrington
Alfax
Wiley B. Gray
Hammond la
Charles B. Mitchell
Grain Prices Fall in Paris While U.S. Markets Rise
Prices of American grain in Paris have dropped fifty percent, while in the United States the general trend is upwards for grain and other commodities.
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Paris
America
United States
Europe
Calcerbs Calcium Tablet Promoted As Health Builder
A tonic and health builder named Calcerbs claims to remove warning coughs or colds and strengthen the body to combat illness. Available in boxes for a price of £0 from druggists or Eckman Laboratory in Philadelphia, manufacturers of Eckman’s Alterative.
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Eckman Laboratory
Philadelphia
Eckman
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the Peters Furniture
Lyceum
Lyceum Theatre
AEA
Bellans
Opera House
Valier
Becaues
Reggar Bros. Wholesale Distributors
Monroe
Vernon LL. Ewing
Abbeville, la
Miles Smith
Evans, la
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Caruso
Metropolitan Opera House
Carus OS
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