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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1918
Page
3
President Wilson spends Christmas day in Chaumont France with Allied commanders and American troops. He reviews guards greets doughboys and receives an address at Hotel de Ville expressing lasting Franco American friendship and gratitude.
The American Forestry Association urges planting living memorials by transplanting trees for Christmas symbols. Memorial trees will stay growing for future celebrations and honor heroes who died for freedom. Governors back the idea as a shift from stone statues to living tributes in cities, parks, and boulevards.
The state will plant 440 miles of trees at 40 foot intervals to honor war fighters. Mostly Victory oaks, 116000 trees will line the Jefferson highway from north to south, with other species in suitable areas. Arbor Day spirit grows as memorial forests aim to aid bird life and beautify towns.
The first American heiress European marriage linked to Jerome Bonaparte, occurring in Baltimore on December 24 1803, drew wide attention. Elizabeth Patterson, daughter of Maryland merchant William Patterson, married Napoleon’s brother after a year’s courtship, traveled across the U S, then sailed to Europe where Napoleon barred landfall in France. Jerome later wed another woman, and the pair lived apart for years, reuniting only casually later.
A wartime letter to the St Pancras Tribunal critiques the Medical Board decision placing the writer in Grade II. The writer claims strength and health and requests an appeal to challenge the ruling.
A dense roster lists Woodrow Wilson’s cabinet and key U S officials and state offices. Names include Secretary of State Robert Lansing, Secretary of War Newton Baker, Attorney General T W Gregory, and postwar appointees across agriculture interior labor and more. It also catalogs Louisiana officials such as Governor Ruffin Pleasant and state health and education officers.
The document lists the state supreme court justices including Chief Justice Frank A. Monroe and associate justices Charlies A. O Neal C O Provosty and W B Somerville. The text appears as a partial roster of the court with multiple associate roles.
A condensed list of officials and institutions including D Boyd LSU W Roy State Normal J Keeney Louisiana Industrial Inedl ick L Stephens Southwest Louisiana Industrial Institute Wade Bynum Deaf and Dumb Institute Institute for the Blind H W Moore Louisiana Training Lestitute Court of Appeals D N Thompson Charles V Porter Rob ert B Dakwine Fifth District Court Ben C Dawkins KF M Odom District Attorney Parish Officers Senators and Representatives and various ward officials and city officers.
In Richland Parish Louisiana the Dixie Securities Corp versus J W Hemler suit number 4746 triggers a writ of seizure and sale. Sheriff T A Grant will offer the Studebaker Six 18 Series Touring car with motor 24767 and car 224535 for cash at the Monroe courthouse front steps on December 28 1918.
Stop Itching Eczema Never mind how often you have tried and failed you can stop burning itching eczema quickly by applying a little zemo furnished by any druggist for 35c Extra large bottle 1.00 Healing begins the moment zemo is applied In a short time usually every trace of eczema fetter pimples rash blackheads and similar skin diseases will be removed For clearing the skin and making it vigorously healthy always use zemo the penetrating antiseptic liquid It is not a greasy salve and it does not stain The E W Rose Co Cleveland Q
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