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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
4
New York City plans a festive welcome to the new year with joyous events and public gatherings. City officials urge residents to celebrate safely while parades concerts and fireworks light up the season.
New York's top hotels plan lavish New Year celebrations with multiple orchestras, brass bands, and vaudeville at venues like the Plaza Astor and Waldorf Astoria. About three thousand guests are expected per hotel as managers predict a grand, champagne filled night. Chicago may curb revelry as Chief Steward prepares to enforce the 1 am closing and limit drunken excesses. Police will monitor all hotels restaurants and resorts to ensure orderly observance of the late hour.
An advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm B B B as a cure for all stages of blood poison and skin diseases. It promises relief from aches, boils, ulcers, and itching, claiming the product purifies the blood and revitalizes the body. Sample bottles are offered free and $1 per bottle is charged. Sold in Monroe La. by West Monroe Drug Store.
The charter forms Fox-Renaud Grocery Co Ltd with a five member board and a quorum of three. Louis Fox serves as President with A Renaud as Secretary and W B Fox as Treasurer. The company, based in Monroe Ouachita Parish, is authorized to buy and sell groceries and real property and to issue 750 shares of $100 each.
San Francisco business interests celebrate a full rehabilitation of the city and plan elaborate events for New Year Eve. Downtown streets will glow with lights and bands at street corners while revelers dance the old year out and the new year in. The parade will feature electric floats used in the Portola festival. Hotels and cafes arrange special entertainment for thousands of revelers.
Brigadier General Winfield S. Edgerly, former commandant of the mounted service school at Fort Riley Kansas, was placed on the retired list for physical incapacity after a board review. Col. Walter Howe of the Coast Artillery at Fort Hancock New Jersey is promoted to brigadier general to fill the vacancy.
The South Carolina school teachers and affiliated groups gather in Columbia for the State Teachers Association annual convention, with the opening program set for tonight featuring addresses and inaugural events.
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