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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1911
Page
3
Washington spotlighted the Metropolitan Club as attention centers on its good humored snobbery. The piece notes the club as a citadel-like space where wives are taught by servants when husbands attend, reflecting social dynamics of the era.
Readable fragments show a grocery price list valid until noon June 5 offering items like Spaghetti Puffed Wheat Rice and various flours, with extra deal: spend $2.50 for 20 pounds sugar at $1.00. The text includes multiple brands and unit prices across canned goods cereals oils and staples.
An old advertisement touts Bond's Pill as mild and effective for headaches biliousness and torpid liver. It warns against harsh purges claiming they sicken and waste time and money, endorsing Wake Up Well as a gentle alternative from all druggists.
A long critique portrays the Metropolitan Club as a rigid enclave in Washington with frigid decorum and strict rules. It notes recent resignations after high profile rejections including Congressman Levy of New York for being Jewish, and mentions former rejections of Littleton and Justice Hughes. The piece paints the club as a “Liberty Hall” hostile to women and public scrutiny, detailing surveillance-like telephone etiquette, secretive staff, and strict limits on betting, reading material, and social contact.
Nearly all leaders of the American colony in Paris including Ambassador Bacon and Consul General Mason travel to St Die in the Vosges for a Franco American love feast marking the 400th anniversary of the Cosmographiae Introductio which first named America. The program features a military review a historical pageant and the installation of a tablet noting the first written name America. A obelisk foundation for Americ as Tower will be laid on Mount Ormont in the Vosges forest.
Texas members of the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers Association depart Dallas by special train for New York for the annual meeting. The event promises the largest meeting in the association’s history with a banquet at the Hotel Astor where President Taft will give the principal address.
Scores of Congregationalists from California Washington Oregon and other states converge on Portland for a seven day Pacific Coast Congregational Congress with prominent missionaries. A concurrent note announces the Interna Boot and Shoe Workers union convention planned in St Paul this month.
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