Community notices and social calendar from Monroe
Local society items list church meetings and club events for Tuesday through Friday with names of hosts and locations. Citizens attend dances at Woodmen Hall and West Side events while a byline notes health and civic cleanup efforts. Several residents travel, join schools, or host guests as Father Mahe departs Monroe for Alexandria.
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Twentieth Century Book Club
A. B. Tissington
Catholic Altar Society
T. L. Morris
the Sunbeams
The
Baptist Church
A. Hozg
Louisville Avenue
West Side
Woodmen Hall
Father Mahe
Alexandria
Monroe
Memorial Day in New York as G A R numbers fade
Experts predict hundreds of G A R veterans may no longer parade in Memorial Day events as death claims thin the ranks. Yet New Yorkers pledge to continue annual marches while any battle flag remains.
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New York
Gotham
New York City
Republicans Concede Decline in Taft Roosevelt Support
New York Republican leaders warn of a widening fall in election backing as Taft and Roosevelt split the field. Surveys show thousands of GOP voters may back Hughes or Wilson or abstain, risking an Empire State shift to Democrats unless Hughes breaks from the bench to draw independents.
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Hughes
Wilson
Empire State
Debt suits loom over suburban millionaires alliance
An alliance of angry tradesmen formed in the suburbs seeks court action for thousands of dollars in unpaid bills for meat groceries and provisions. In five fashionable suburbs writs have been sworn out to be served on men who lavish fortunes on luxuries while neglecting to pay tradesmen.
Humble creditors to demand their just dues
A newspaper passage warns that as a crusade progresses many men of millions will be brought to blush for their meanness toward humbler creditors whom they thought afraid to claim their due. The text emphasizes widespread moral accountability for unfair financial dealings.
Strong police drive to curb streetcar rowdies in holiday season
Chicago reports plan by city magistrates and plainclothes police to form strong-arm squads to arrest aggressors harming passengers. A truck driver, Alfred Gebler, crushed two children on a sidewalk at West Thirty-seventh Street and Union Avenue, Nora Crowley losing a leg and Julia sustaining serious injuries. Gebler was arrested but released on his own recognizance. Ambulance crews and neighbors aided victims as an ambulance collided with a street car en route to hospital doors.
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Dixie ‘Girls
W. H. DeGraffenreid
Henry W. Allen
Princess Theatre
Little Dixies
Jeff Davis
Dixie Girls
Dixie
Dixies
Elizabeth Trousdale
Elaine de Graffenreid
Little Band
Governor Hall
Steve Bourke
Mr. Rourke
Law
Nora
Julia Crowley
West Thirty-seventh Street
Union Avenue
Alfred Gebler
Alfred Pick & Co
Julia
Gebler
Crowleys
Provident
Private patrolmen clash with New Yorks old police on Fifth Avenue
New Yorkers resist the private police squad let loose on upper Fifth Avenue. The so called gentlemen bobbies escorting lady shoppers while real street policing remains the job of traditional, crude cops. Gotham honors the plain police workers despite the new patrols.
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Upper Fifth Avenue
Gotham
Phone Hog Improvisation in Chicago Wire Incident
A fragmented Chicago scene shows a caller demanding an ambulance after a girl suffers a leg injury. The exchange includes a thwarted attempt to use the wire and a demand for aid amid a tense, noisy backdrop.
Man credits raw eggs and Thedford's Black-Draught for relief from long illness
Cecilion Maryland resident George Richards recounts twelve years of indigestion piles and money spent on doctors. He says dried peaches and buttermilk worsened his condition while raw eggs provided relief. After two 25 cent packages of Thedford's Black-Draught he reports improved health and strength, urging others to use this vegetable remedy.
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Cecilion
George Richards
Thedford
Thedford’s
Dr King’s New Life Pills End Bowell Congestion Promises Health
A vintage ad copy mocks harsh commands and touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a gentle remedy for bowel issues. It claims the product persuades the bowels to act, delivering health, priced at 25 cents at all druggists.
Elks Honor Ongoing State Convention Visit to Saginaw
Saginaw Michigan on June 4 hosts Purple and White banners as Elks members arrive from Detroit Cadillac Grand Rapids Traverse City Kalamazoo Port Huron Lansing Jackson Muskegon Pontiac Coldwater for the eighth annual state convention. The reunion begins ahead of the main sessions and signals a bustling gathering with hundreds arriving from across Michigan.
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Saginaw
Mich
Elks
Benevolent and Protective
Detroit
Cadillac
Grand Rapids
Traverse City
Kalamszoo
Port Huron
Lansing
Jackson
Muskegon
Pontiac
Coldwater
Freckle Cream Claim Promises Quick Complexion Fix
An advertisement touts Wilson's Freckle Cream promising to remove freckles or fade them within one jar or two jars to cure. It guarantees full restoration of natural beauty or money back. The ad also markets Wilson's Fair Skin Soap and lists several local druggists for purchase.
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Wilson
Wile Son’s
New South Drug Svore
Monroe Drug Co
Chase & Collens Co
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Capt. Wells
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W. A. Myatt
Daughters of the Confederacy
Claud Traylor
Columbia
Effie Goodgame
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G. R. Evans
New Orleans
Monroe Hotel
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Jonesboro
Aude May
Lorena Duckworth
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M. E. Duckworth
Oak Street
van Horn
Parish
Texarkana High School
Marie Miller
Sol Masur
M. D. Swayze
C. C. Malett
Collinston
U. D
Jefferson Davis
J. W. Smith
Mary Smith
John Potts
Alma Summers Potts
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W. F. Cummings
D'Armond Breard
J. W. McWilliams
Maimie Dell McWilliams
Phillis Cummings
Gordon Cummings
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Phillis
Sterlington
Joe Smith
Master Dick, Jr
R. B. Sadler
Episcopal Church
A. R. Price
Richard Buchanan Sadler
West Side Civic League
C. P. Gray
Board of Health
Father van de Gaer
Marie
Vet
Erans
Jack Murphy
Cotton Seed Fame
Morris W. Haas
Chas. G. Breard
Mineral Wells
News-Star
Europe
Atlantic
Western Union Telegraph Company
BION
Walter
Meat Millionaires
Velva
Pemwick
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Life of
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Mr. Richard
Michigan Elks
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