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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1916
Page
2
A crowded schedule from Monroe lists Christmas events at the Riverside and Elk’s clubs, cotillions, and cards for Mrs A Renaud’s entertaining circle. The section also notes visitors and locals returning home for the holidays, a birth announcement for Ruth Eloise Johnston, and the death of Mrs T W Pipes with funeral arrangements.
Mrs J B Whittaker of McDuff Virginia credits Thedford's Black-Draught with preventing sick spells in her family. She says the purely vegetable medicine regulates weak stomachs and aids digestion, with over 70 years of use and over a million beneficiaries. Drugstore price 25 cents.
Classified style notices advertise wood and coal delivery services from THE PEOPLE'S WOOD YARD in Monroe, offering 4 6 or 8 foot cut wood, coal deliveries by the ton, and various oak wood products with cash terms and quick city delivery. Also promotes Bond's Pills as a remedy and Po-fe-Lak liver regulator with druggist availability.
A Christmas service at the Episcopal church featured carols including Hark the Herald Angels Sing and It Came Upon a Midnight Clear. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sadler was christened there with Rev. Arthur Randel Price officiating. Mrs. Morgan F. George hosted an open house on Christmas Eve for guests Irma Russ and Laura Merrill among others, with lavish decorations and a formal receiving line. A Christmas dance at the Riverside Pavilion drew over a hundred couples, continuing late into the night.
Dr J T Edwards of Feyerville Georgia a leading physician backs Tanlac claiming remarkable results across the South He cites a Fayetteville case where a woman bedridden for three years due to pellagra improved quickly after using Tanlac Edwards notes weight gains and relief from indigestion catarrhal conditions and organic discovery He praises Tanlac as a vegetable tonic and system builder sold in Monroe by Allens Pharmacy and Calvert's Drug Store
Parlor murder case shocks residents as investigators chase a clue from a few associates. Reeves, 68, and his wife, 34, were found dead amid the Christmas gifts their children left on the kitchen table. Three black men jailed in Minden suspected in the double homicide. two Reeves children died after transfer to Shreveport Charity Hospital.
A claim asserts that a tonic labeled Tasteless chill Tonié from The Old Stahdard Grove is valid as a General Tohié because it contains quinine and hon. The wording suggests promotional language and nonstandard product naming.
The library will be open only during the holidays on Pidsday Wednesday Thursday and Friday afternoons from 2 40 to 4 30.
An ad notes nervousness caused by constipation can be relieved quickly by taking Chamberlain's Tablets. It claims the tablets aid digestion and are obtainable everywhere.
Notice of stockholders meeting at Monroe La to elect a board of directors and transact any other business. Secretary W M Washburn notes meeting date January 1917 at the office in Monroe.
Notice is given that ERLING bobrreY has filed a petition under the law to obtain a permit to operate a liquor store and drinking saloon at 205 South Grand Street in Monroe Louisiana. The application is submitted to the Mayor and City Council of Monroe. The notice date appears as 22-10t.
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