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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1917
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR text appears to be a notice about second class matter in the Post Office at Louisiana with subscription terms and carrier delivery details for News-Star.
The article condemns rich subscribers who refuse Liberty Bond purchases while urging universal sacrifice to fund the war effort. It cites a one dollar weekly payment plan, lauds those who have already joined, and warns of German atrocities reported by ambassadors and officials. It laments autocracy and warns of further German war crimes including cannibalism and desecration of corpses.
A Monroe reader from Ashwood, La. endorses Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney weakness and nighttime urination. The ad recounts back pain and fatigue improved after six boxes, praising Foster Milburn Co. and Buffalo origin. It links Liberty Bonds support to patriotic spending.
The article denounces religious groups evading military service, claiming such sects undermine patriotism. It criticizes those refusing duty as unfit for God, home, and country and warns of future movements evading taxes or other obligations.
Edgar Saltus American writer is 59 today born June 8 1858 in New York from distinguished ancestry descendant of Ad miral Cornelius Evertson educated in Europe at St Pauls School Columbia Heidelberg Sorbonne author of Balzac study 1884 and prolific essays short stories novels criticism Vizilantes Roosevelt era group member with sword defense of America Also honored birthdays of Kliewer Holcombe Shekis Brackett Adams Brackett Canaca and others and an unrelated medicinal ad is included.
Results yesterday show Houston over Streveport 5 to 4, Dallas 1 over Fort Worth 6, Waco unknown score, San Antonio 4 over an unspecified opponent, and National League games Brooklyn 5 over Pittsburg 3, New York 10 over Cincinnati 1, St. Louis 9 over Boston 4. Philadelphia at Chicago postponed by rain.
Detroit and Boston rain disrupt a slate of games as Washington defeats Chicago 1 to 0 while St Louis faces Philadelphia. Cleveland battles New York in rain and Detroit games get postponed by rain.
Memphis outlasted Chattanooga 6 to 5 and Birmingham defeated Mobile 2 to 1. New Orleans topped Atlanta 2 to 1 while Nashville beat Little Rock 4 to 3.
A chronicle lists events from 1781 to 1916 including French troops at Boston joining Rochambeau at White Plains, British Parliament funds for Loyalists, deaths of George Whyte and Andrew Jackson, Quebec cholera, Sullloway and Sand, the Ontario parliament, 1912 Columbus statue, Shackleton rescue, Monfalcone, Greek army demobilization, and Allied advances in German East Africa.
Advertises Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general tonic with quinine and iron. Claims it strengthens the liver fights malaria enriches blood and builds up the system. Fri. ad.
Tomorrow the Lyceum Theatre presents The Undying Flame in two parts. In ancient Egypt the Pharoh’s daughter loves a shepherd doomed by rank, who splits a scarab to reunite souls in an afterlife. In modern Egypt Grace Leslie, daughter of an English officer, continues the tale.
During their visit to London Grace accompanies him to view the event. A polo match unfolds and Grace hands the ball to young Captain Paget, an officer who already attracts her notice. She feels a strange sense of déjà vu as if she has done this before.
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