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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1917
Page
2
Week's calendar lists Methodist and Baptist society meetings through Friday including auxiliary circles and missionary groups. Notables show travel and visits across Longview, Shreveport, Alexandria, Boulder and New Orleans with arrivals, departures, graduations and a theatre recital by Prof. W A Had en's class.
An ad promotes Bond’s Liver Pills as the easy nightly remedy for bilious spells and headaches. It claims the pills stimulate a torpid liver, regulate bowels, and cleanse poisons, with prompt relief and safe, mild effects.
Community events center on a shower for Mrs A D Nichols who has entered Sanitarium nurse training. Red Cross nurse Elizabeth Hudson presented a nurse’s wardrobe and a reception followed with a luncheon. A Bayjust church recital by Mrs W J Smith and Miss Shelby Gibbs benefits Red Cross. Also noted is Miss Mary Byrd’s upcoming marriage to Lt. Joseph Redding in Shreveport. Grace Church Guild treasurer reminders for bazaar funds and Red Cross support.
A sale notice from Ford Levi Staty Co Ltd announces a June 14 event with a variety of items described as small and large gay people and urges purchase before stock runs out.
Doris Kenyon, noted film star and motor enthusiast, co stars with Holbrook Blinn in The Empress at the Picture Garden today. Her winter roadster journeys have earned nationwide attention and fame in midwinter motoring lore. Also, Rt. Francie Auxiliary hosts a card party Wednesday at the Catholic ball to benefit the sanitarium free bed.
Clarks held a Registration Day with 251 registrants as the event proceeded with modest success. The Louisiana Central Lumber Company closed its plant for the occasion and local Woodmen hosted free ice cream and cake for each prospective soldier.
Ruth Law, famed aviator, planned a south west bombing flight to boost Liberty Loan support but canceled due to high winds. An attempt to reschedule the flight will be made.
A Tennessean recalls wartime spirit, praising Eastern Tennessee as it shows patriotism through allotting potatoes in gardens and fields. He notes a kneeling elderly man, a courageous widow and daughters, and a young woman plowing for corn, underscoring faith and grit amid hardship.
The engagement of Miss Mabel Boardman of Washington and Ridgely Bennett Randolph of Cleveland is announced. Randolph sails this month for France with the North Carolina ambulance unit. The piece also notes prominent women activists in Maryland suffrage efforts and historic Russian revolutionary figures.
Fragmentary OCR notes a pace of teams or individuals named Maven and Worcester in a bascern context, with unclear details on event, timing, or outcomes. The text provides no verifiable names, places, dates, or scores to confirm a specific news item.
At the Lyceum Theatre tomorrow Wilfred Lucas plays Robert Powers opposite Lillian Gish as Lillian Vale in Souls Triumphant. A libertine reforms after marriage but a past lover tempts him, a fire endangers his son, and forgiveness and redemption follow amid a Keystone comedy A Maiden’s Trust and Pathe Weekly.
For Liver and Stomach Trouble. A reliable remedy for constipation biliousness and all their train of ills is Po-Do-Lax. It is harmless never failing natural in effect and pleasant to take. No griping pains no bad taste no bad after effects. A large bottle costs only 50c at your druggist.
Washington reports the Boy Scouts of America will visit 10 million homes over four days starting today to distribute Liberty Loan solicitation blanks. About 306,000 Scouts will go door to door in service uniforms, contacting households assigned to them nationwide.
The note outlines subscriptions being reduced across routes with results telegraphed daily to national headquarters. Music teacher Wm B Ennis advertises services at 411 Layton Ave Monroe LA and piano repair by E C Rolleigh. Also mentions Mathuseck Piano Mfg Co rep and a local factory contact. The South Atlantic League and North Carolina League have cut circus from six to four.
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