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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1918
Page
6
An opening night review notes brilliant audience attire and a surge of oriental inspired headdresses. Descriptions cover violet chiffon headbands with pearls, turquoise accents, and Basque velvet gowns with Hercules braid, highlighting Hastern lines, fabrics, and a fusion of Far East and Renaissance influences.
An Admiral criticizes navy contractors who paid middlemen for graft and warns against such schemes. He compares the foolishness to a colored man owed $4 who finds the debt unpaid because interest has accumulated over time.
The National Catholic Service School is established in Georgetown LD to train women workers for reconstruction work at home and in allied European countries amid postwar challenges.
A discussion on the peace challenge after World War I notes that different nations attach different meanings to money and justice. It argues a common ground is needed for a durable treaty, cites German attitudes toward the armistice, and contrasts Allied views with German rhetoric while highlighting new shipbuilding advances using electric welding and potential labor savings.
London reports the British admiralty favors a large part of Admiral Sir David Beatty's fleet visiting the United States after peace is signed. No date is fixed. the visit would precede tours of British dominions once the war ends.
The Electrical Welding Committee of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, with eighty-two metallurgical and electrical experts, endorses rivetless construction. After experiments they propose a 9,300 ton freighter built entirely by electric welding.
A Cleveland based product by The E. W. Rose Co. claims zemo cures acne eczema itch pimples and rashes. The antiseptic liquid supposedly clears skin fast with overnight fade for minor blemishes and does not stain or feel greasy.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad Company will, at 10:00 a.m. January 24, 1919, sell at its Monroe Louisiana freight house five crates and three cases of roasted coffee by public outcry for cash. The coffee arrived January 4, 1918, consigned to O. P. Slack, Monroe, Louisiana, and has been uncalled for. Proceeds pay freight and storage, with any balance held for the owner. H. E. Boyle, Agent. 12-6-St-10d.
Under Act 156 of 1916 the Ouachita Coca Cola Bottling Co. publishes a notice warning that bottles cases trays and related packaging bearing Coco Cola or Ouachita Cola names are property of the company and may be used exclusively by it Monroe Louisiana. The notice lists bottle and case markings and dates of publication with J A BIEDENHARN as president and a 30 day deadline.
Chaplin in his second million-dollar comedy Shoulder Arms at the Lyceum Theatre today. The Doughboy character causes comic chaos during a mock hike and in the trenches as he learns where to place his feet, mixing humor with war parody and action.
In the Seventh District Court of Richland Parish Louisiana Dixie Securities Corporation v J W Heme number 4746 a writ of seizure and sale directs Sheriff T A Gint to sell at the courthouse front steps Monroe on Saturday December 28 1918 a Studebaker Six 18 Series Touring car motor 24767 and car 224535 in cash without appraisement to satisfy the writ and costs.
Charlie is gifted limburger cheese and biscuits by someone back home in Shoulder Arms and misreads it as enemy bait, halting a Hun assault. The Chaplin comedy is scheduled for today at the Lyceum Theatre.
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