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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1915
Page
4
The Monroe News Star lists terms for daily and weekly editions with annual and six month prepaid options and carrier delivery in the city. It names J W Smith as president and C E Faulk as a company figure.
The News-Star extends a cordial welcome to the Louisiana Press Association in Monroe. Officials praise the association as a beacon for progress and urge all state newspaper workers to join and contribute to Louisiana’s educational, industrial, and agricultural advancement through a personally generous, peaceful visit.
A reflective essay urges readers to pursue a better life through steady effort and daily focus. It argues that ambitious individuals can nearly attain their goals with persistent labor, practical wit, and belief in eventual success, turning ambition into a treasure guiding all faculties.
The passage urges perseverance and self belief, arguing that progress comes from continuing to pursue goals. It contrasts doubt with action and suggests that success grows as one shifts from despair to conviction, challenging the reader to end long held limiting beliefs.
A poetic piece by Jim Dodson the Riverside Club steward welcomes the penmen and pledges to write fair, praising good deeds and avoiding bragging while inviting judgment of the city as equal to the rest.
Mrs Grace L Hangen seeks 25000 damages from Buckingham Hotel after a waiter spilled hot bouillon on her back at a Rotary Club banquet. Doctors and witnesses testified about burns and alleged TB connection, with depositions flanking the courtroom prep for tomorrow's Circuit Court settlement.
An ad hawks Foley’s Honey and Tar for cough relief from summer bronchial irritation and kidney pills for renewed kidney activity. A New Orleans report outlines the dedication of the John N. Bonner Home, a $200000 plus project funded by Mrs Leila Bonner Dwyer, with Alabama donor Elize Gladney Pierson. The Home aims to care for aged and needy men and women with a self-sustaining farm and orchards on a plantation setting.
A chronology notes Khouli Khan’s assassination in 1747, French troops joining Rochambeau at White Plains in 1781, a 177TSS fiscal note, Paine’s death in 1809, Adams and Jackson milestones, Natchez tornado loss, North Carolina’s 1861 move, Austria’s Francis Joseph, Duke of Connaught in 1847, and the 1914 Paris trade congress opening.
The New South Drug Store in Monroe promotes Ross Dead Quick spray offering ten dollars per bug for bedbugs ants fleas mites roaches and other insects it does not kill It also claims to kill and free homes of mosquitoes and is safe to spray on beds and furnishings.
A timeless summer remedy promises relief for colic cholera and diarrhoea. The note urges every family to have this medicine on hand and vouches for its reliability based on user experience. Available widely.
Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg, famed U S Army surgeon now retired, is 77 today. He heads the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in Washington and cites tuberculosis as a major death cause and economic loss, noting infections often begin in childhood. He was born June 8, 1838, in Otsego County, N Y, studied at Columbia, served in the Civil War and Spanish American War era medical service, and became brigadier general in 1893. He is joined by other notable birthdays including Hon. William W. Canada, 65, John Marshall Holcombe, 77, Hon. $4 A Brackett, 75, and Hon Cyrus A. Sullowy, 76.
A historical notice describes bilious attacks with liver dysfunction and stomach upset. It claims Cham berlain's Tablets tone the liver and cleanse the stomach, easing nausea vomiting and headache, with a price of a quarter and availability everywhere.
Homescoming Week features a grand reunion of pioneer steamboat men in Taylors Falls Minnesota today. The event highlights the St Croix River navigation history since Palmyra arrived in 1858 with former Governor S R Van Sant among the pioneers attending.
Prominent Louisiana writer and publicist W A Chevis dies in Rayne after acute indigestion. A former editor of the Daily States and organizer of major state campaigns, Chevis devoted himself to public service and the upBuilding of Louisiana.
An old advertisement urges readers to treat daytime pains and nighttime bladder weakness by restoring kidney and bladder function. It promotes Foley Kidney Pills from New South Drug Store, claiming to keep kidneys in sound, active condition and advise against postponing treatment.
Two Euripides plays will be staged today and tomorrow in the University of Pennsylvania amphitheatre Philadelphia. English performances feature Granville Barker Lilith McCarthy and a notable company, presenting the tragedies on an expanded American scale.
The Trojan Women and Iphigenia in Tauris will be produced. College students from many institutions attend the performances, held in an amphitheatre seating 10,000 erected in the university Botanical Gardens.
Advert reads a neuralgia relief claim for Sloan's Liniment. It promises relief from pains in face head arm shoulders chest and back after applying a few drops. The copy urges buying a bottle at druggists with penetrating action without rubbing.
Fifteen thousand acres are today opened to settlement by the United States government as the fourth unit in the local reclamation project. About 125 farm units will be eligible to entry under the reclamation homestead laws. The lands are described as better than the average.
An old advertisement touts Citrolax as a remedy for constipation sour stomach and sluggish bowels claiming quick relief from headaches and thorough cleansing of the system Promoted by New South Drug Store with emphasis on a cleansing effect and pleasant healthful outcome.
J Gell advertises sheet metal work of all kinds and Blue Flame oil cooking stoves. It notes a cash business with no bookkeeping and small profits. Contact P O box 632 or phone 152 13-lm lewa-Star Want Ada drink resulta.
From Johnson promotes top seed varieties for planting including Seed Corns Soy Beans Cow Peas Mexican June Corn Native Grown Lagumia Corn Millets Lespodera Katir Corn Milo Maize Feterita Sudan Grass Spanish Peanuts and Sugar Crowder Peas plus Ribbon Cane Seed. He urges nitrogen inoculation for peas beans and clover.
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