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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1918
Page
4
Our New Year greeting wishes readers calm reflection and time for work and play. The message hopes for abundance of time for love friendship joy and growth, ending with a peaceful passage into sleep and a bright morning sun.
Fragmentary historical prose reflects on nature’s laws guiding joy and sorrow, success and failure, and the idea that no man lives unto himself. The text opens with a reflective preface about inevitability and shared human fate.
The piece urges individuals to place community and nation first while acknowledging the war’s end and a hopeful peace. It notes a shift from wartime prosperity to peacetime agricultural strength and calls readers to be patriots and good citizens in the new year.
President Wilson is scheduled to conclude his England visit and return to France today. The note marks the close of a wartime diplomatic journey with broad implications for allied coordination and postwar policy.
Gen Tasker Bliss born in Lewisburg Pa 65 years ago today marks a birthday. Albert Sevigny born in Quebec 88 years ago today. Col John T Thompson born in Kentucky 58 years ago today. William Folger Nickle born in Kingston Ont 49 years ago today. Missing in Action Clarence J Delahoussaye New Iberia La.
Dr James L Barton sails from New York today heading the American Committee for Relief in the Near East. A veteran of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, he is a Vermonter educated at Middlebury College and Hartford Theological Seminary.
Washington reports AEF commander lists casualties with numbers in categories. Died of accident and other causes include Murphy F. Durbin and Henry Jones Jr. Died of disease include a list. wounded severely include John H. Williams and Leonard Gillis. killed in action Arthur B. Doheny. Locations cited include Independence La Church Point La New Orleans La Dodson La Lomranger La.
Winter meeting of the Cuba American Jockey Club at Havana Beach is listed. A Show of the Eastern Dog Club in Boston is postponed.
Public health authorities in Washington warn the influenza epidemic is not ending and urge precautions as reports show outbreaks across the country. The piece notes high death counts and touts Tanlac as a strengthening tonic, with claims of effectiveness and sales, and mentions Monroe's Collene Pharmacy as a local seller.
Key anniversaries include 1491 Jacques Cartier born in St Malo first to explore the St Lawrence River and 1738 Lord Cornwallis born in London. Also 1914 Russians held the Carpathians from Bukovyna to Uzsok Pass and 1915 Turks in Mesopotamia sought armistice to bury dead and tend the wounded.
A list honors athletes who died or were wounded serving in World War I. Names include Yale track captain John W. Overton, Frank I. Walker of Penn State, Princeton guard Joseph Duff, Ted Wood, Eddie Grant, Alex Wilson, Mills and Coolidge, Ross and Grant, Shull and Goddard, Curry, Tommy Spence, Chester Roe Howard, Paul Logan Dornbazer, Savage and Paull, among others from Harvard, Penn, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Cornell, Iowa, Mon tana, Princeton assessing their athletic fame and wartime sacrifices.
Mrs M E Smith of Benton Louisiana praises Foley's Honey and Tar as a grand remedy for influ enza grip coughs and colds. The product contains no opiates and is sold by Chase and Collens Co Ltd as a household staple during prevalent illness season.
One year ago today a cathedral in Paola was seriously damaged during a third air raid by German forces. The United States War Department seized the great piers and warehouses of a British terminal in New York City.
J. W. Peck of Coraopolis Pennsylvania says he suffered severe pain and could not lie down at night after trying three doctors. He began taking Foley Kidney Pills three weeks ago and reports a wonderful improvement in his condition. The ad urges Foley Kidney Pills for kidneys bladder trouble back ache and rheumatism.
A year end necrology notes the deaths of Gen. John B. Castleman former president of the American Saddle Horse Breeders Association died in Louisville on May 22 Col Milton Young a Kentucky horseman died in Lexington on May 5 George Bowerman a harness racing figure died in Lexington on Sept 20 Louis Cella a prominent stable owner and promoter died in St Louis on April 29 and David Holland longtime Aqueduct Racetrack president died in Atlantic City on Jan 6.
The column profiles Edward N. Gran and other former major and minor league stars from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noting deaths in 1918. It names Jake Beckley, Oliver P. Tebeau, Silent Mike Tierman, Silk O’Loughlin, Jim McCormick, Jack Crooks, Napoleon Pardee, Chick Farrell, Ned Egan, W. R. Dickson, Larry Pape, G. M. Milliken, George Kaiserling, Frank Arellanes, Charlie Swain, and Harry Glenn among the departed, with brief notes on their teams and roles.
The item honors players who died while in military service and recalls Benjamin P. Latraw who played for several early major league teams. It also highlights Charles Lamar who posted a remarkable 22 game winning streak in 1907 for Decatur in the Three-Eye league.
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