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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1914
Page
2
Monroe news lists weddings and gatherings across the week including Fudickar Haendy wedding at Handy home and Tisdale Gibbs nuptials at the First Methodist. Also reported is the death of Miss Aline Young at St. Francis Sanitarium with funeral details and local society notices from Ruston Leader.
A catalog of latest books for summer reading lists titles include Once to Every Man and It Happened in Egypt. Also advertised are new popular copyrights at 50 cents each. Louise Smith decorates a wedding walkway with pink sweet peas as bridal events unfold.
An old advertisement urges readers to soak tired feet in TIZ to relieve corns calluses and bunions. It claims feet will feel lighter, shoes fit better and offers a 25 cent box at drug or department stores. The tone mimics a persuasive, energetic sales pitch.
A promotional piece extols Mother’s Friend external remedy for expectant mothers. It claims benefits toward muscle pliancy and relief from pregnancy strains, noting wide distribution and a forty year advertising history by Bradfield Regulator Co. Also mentions wedding celebrations and social events.
Mr and Mrs R C Sparks hosted an elaborate eight o'clock dinner dance honoring Miss Alice Nelson and Mr James Keith Briggs whose wedding was to be held at five thirty this afternoon at the Baptist. The decor featured gold and white, sunflowers, ferns, white hydrangeas, and a banquet table set for twenty with a six course menu and ivory fans as souvenirs for the ladies. Toasts were given to the bride with sparkling champagnes.
Detroit outfielder Sam Crawford, a leading American League batsman, will be 34 next August while beginning his fifteenth consecutive major league season. The note praises clean living as the answer.
Two former Giants pitchers, Red Ames and Doc Crandall, are excelling this season. Ames helps Cincinnati stay in the pennant race while Crandall wins games for the St. Louis Feds.
Dr. W. Godfrey Hunter of Lexington Kentucky a former congressman and minister to Guatemala and Honduras 1897 to 1902 has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination to succeed the late Senator W O Bradley.
Advertises Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic with quinine and iron as a strong tonic for malaria chills fever weakness debility and loss of appetite. Claims to aid nursing mothers pale children biliousness and nervous mood while boosting liver action and blood. Sold for 50 cents and guaranteed by the local druggist.
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