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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1910
Page
5
Sugar's Theatre lists January attractions including My Cinderella Girl on January 10 House of a Thousand Candles on January 15 Graystark on January 16 Billy Clifford on January 17 and Three Weeks starting January 31.
Last night at Sulgar's Theatre Clyde Fitch's production titled The City impressed a large audience with an excellent cast led by Norman Hackett as George Rand Jr and Geoffrey C Stein as George Frederick Hancock. Susanne Villa and Dora Booth delighted as Cicely Rand and Eleanor Voorhes with curtain calls after the second act.
Patrons at the Lyceum are urged not to miss seeing the Pathe film. The notice emphasizes the feature as the main draw for audiences attending the theater.
Films offered include The Cowboys and the Bachelor Girls by Melies, A Deog's Instinct educational by Pathe, Isis mythical by Pathe, The Tale of a Hat Vitagraph comedy, The Maid of Niagara Indian story by Pathe. Hudnal's Orchestra plays nightly 7:30 to 10:30. Admission 10c adults 5c children 3:30 matinee 7:30 night doors open 30 minutes prior.
A dramatic advertising offer promises a prescription for nervous debility and weakened manhood with a claim of rapid home cure. Dr A. E. Robinson from Detroit invites requests by mail, stating the recipe is provided free in a plain sealed envelope and urging men to avoid patent medicines.
The Maid of Niagara features Indian games customs and myths with Niagara Falls scenes including a maid going over the falls in a canoe. Manager Sperling will run it again tonight at patrons' request along with The Cowboy and the Bachelor Girls A Dog's Instinct Isis and A Tale of a Hat. New pictures tomorrow.
Conductors and trainmen on fifty railroads around Chicago received a 10 percent wage increase after a month of negotiations. The raise affects 75,000 members of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors and will cost the railroads about 5 million dollars more per year.
Negotiations began November 28 with A W Trenholm of the railroads, A B Garrettson of the conductors, and W G Lee of the Trainmen. Canadian Northern employees, initially reluctant, will also gain the increase. The plan, already agreed by management, covers lines in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and nearby areas.
West Monroe Louisiana Ouachita parish bank report to state examiner shows assets liabilities and deposits. Loans total 1 000 secured by mortgage 13 118 41 other loans 29 369 10 overdrafts and banking house 88 07 73 due from banks 25 723 02 checks 140 silver and coin 928 30 national bank notes 5 123 9 total 84 772 64. Capital stock 25 000 undivided profits 1 475 07 deposits 58 817 57 total 84 772 64. President W R Mitchell and cashier I Q A Hester swear to accuracy on December 30 1910.
Monroe Louisiana Ouachita Parish reports year end bank statement for December 28 1910 with resources of 980827.52 including loans, deposits, and capital stock. Uriah Millsaps president and I Travis Oliver cashier certify truth of the figures sworn December 31 1910 before Notary Noel H. Beard.
An advertisement promises that buying books or stationery and other office supplies from the sender guarantees value for money and absolute satisfaction with every purchase. It stresses benefits and customer assurance.
The Rev Irl R Hicks Almanac for 1911 is ready and sold for 35 cents prepaid. The companion Rev Irl R Hicks Magazine Word and Works offers both for one dollar per year. Send orders to Word and Works Publishing Company, St. Louis, Missouri.
In Sharon Pennsylvania on December 31 Isaac Rayen and wife who have lived for 30 years on neighbor charity were told they must go to the county farm. The wife gathered cash from an old washstand a wall cavity and a baking powder can storing particularly large bills and gold coins before leaving.
Christian Science Society annex hall offers services at 11 a.m. with the subject God and a 7 30 p m service on Wednesday. Public is invited, Sunday School held at 10 a.m. A reading room at the same address is open Tuesday and Friday at 7 30 p.m. Free to the public.
Corner Grammont and Catalpa streets announces Sabbath services at 11 a.m. and 7 30 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30. Pastor Rev C S Newman D D. Sunday school at 9 30 a.m. every Sabbath, J Arthur Smith Supt. Strangers and visitors are welcome.
St Matthew's Catholic Church lists Sunday events with first mass at seven, high mass at ten, catechism at four, and evening service with benediction at six thirty. Parish calendar notes regular worship and instruction times.
Sunday School 9 30 a m preaching 11 o clock B Y P U 63 46 BD me evening service 7 30 Prage meeting Wednesday 7 30 ie on p m Strangers cordially welcomed to all services J A H WHARTON Pastor
The Grace Church notices list the Festival of the Circumcision on January 1 with Holy Communion at 11 and Evening Prayer at 7 30. Sunday School starts at 9 30 and the evening sermon discusses Confirmation. Friday marks Epiphany with Guild and Brotherhood of St Andrew meetings on Tuesday evenings.
Carl Walker declares severance from Walker Bros. Grocer Co. Ltd. and states he will operate from Monroe Furniture Co. after January 1, 1911. He thanks patrons for past favors and wishes a happy New Year.
Major Charles N. Barney Medical Corps U S A was placed on the retired list today upon his own application. He is from Ohio and served as first lieutenant and assistant surgeon in the Fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the war with Spain. He became assistant surgeon in 1901 and reached major last January, recently stationed at Fort Worth New Mexico Territory.
A brief item from Monroe notes increased whiskey drinking in the town last week, described as exceeding any prior occurrence. The writer reflects on how drink erodes judgment and leads to brutish behavior, mentioning an observed period in Monroe over the weekend and a walk through town on Saturday afternoon.
Better Than Spanking claims a constitutional cure for bed wetting. Mrs M Summers of South Bend Indiana offers a free home treatment with full instructions to any mother and says it also helps adults with daytime or nighttime urine difficulties without charging money.
An eyewitness account describes wandering DeSiard and Grand streets and finding one intoxicated man. The author notes attending Sunday school with a generous orphans collection and a full church sermon. The piece adds a stat: women comprise one-half of 1 percent of U.S. commercial drummers.
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