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Monroe News Star

Location

Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Date

Jun 18, 1918

Page

2

Social and Personal Items Week's Calendar

The notice compiles midweek civic and social events in Monroe. Meetings include St Francis Auxiliary, Book Club at Monroe Public Library, and Baptist Woman's Missionary Society. The piece also lists numerous visits, travel notes, and birthday announcements from local residents and families.

St. Francis C. L. Thomas Monroe Public Library Book Club The Baptist Woman's Missionary Society

Woman Recovers From 23 Years of Illness on Tanlac

Mrs. Linda Peck of 165 Echols Avenue Atlanta says Tanlac cured her 23 year battle with nervous indigestion and weakness. After two bottles she gained sixteen pounds, can cook for many, and suffers no gas smothering spells or sleep issues. She praises Tanlac and notes Monroe Dy Allen's Pharmacy carries it.

Linda Peck Echols Avenue Atlanta Georgia Taniac Monroe Dy Allen Advt

New York Considers Semi Dark City to Foil Air Attacks

June 18 report describes an official move to dim city lights to thwart enemy aircraft. Sleuth squads patrol shadowed streets while crowds stay to lighted highways. Officials seek hooded lighting akin to London to protect pedestrians and obscure rooftops from air attack.

New York Gotham London

Federal authorities strike at German assets and Hoover law violators

Washington backed Alien Property Custodian units coordinate a major drive to seize German assets and curb spy profits in U S industries. Francis P Garvan leads investigators funding by Palmer organization to expose millions in alien property amid wartime shortages. Hoover act enforcement tightens kitchen and retail compliance from Fifth Avenue mansions to tenement homes.

Washington America Francis P. Garvan Jerome Palmer Organization Berlin Germany Fifth Avenue

War time effort to save children as heat hits tenements

Child welfare leaders mobilize workers to shield one million children from coming heat waves. Amid fatherless homes and restricted food, diet kitchens clinics and relief stations brace for a tougher summer to save more than six thousand lives compared with last year.

Street messengers men reclaimed as women’s labor banned

Managers of messenger stations announce return to using male workers after field restricted to female labor. Girls previously sped deliveries with no loafing on corners or fondness for doughnuts. with boys now lauded for tardiness, opponents of women’s rights feel pressured to support suffrage.

Mercury

Wartime Economy Alters European Royal Wardrobe

The wartime economy forces European royalty to change fashion habits. Women members can no longer discard gowns after a single use, marking a shift from prewar customs to stricter thrift and reuse.

Resurrection at Lyceum with Pauline Frederick

Pauline Frederick stars in Resurrection at the Lyceum Theatre on Wednesday. The photoplay, based on Tolstoy, follows a half Gypsy Russian girl banished to Siberia after being falsely accused, whose life changes through love and remorse among stark social divides.

Pauline Frederick Paramount Pictures Miss Frederick Siberia Siberian

Precantional Meeting at Trenton Baptist Church

An educational mass meeting is held tonight at 8 o clock in Trenton Baptist Church. Rev V E Duncan association manager Education Commission will speak on a vital education topic in the wartime era. All are cordially invited. the event was postponed from Monday due to train issues.

Trenton Baptist Church V. E. Duncan Education Commission Dunecan

Plans for credit men convention to aid government

In Chicago the National Association of Credit Men opened its annual convention with discussions on practical plans for business leaders to increase financial support to the Government. Eighteen hundred read as the year in the report.

Chicago Ill National Association of Credit Men

Bankers gather as delegates attend three day convention

Delegates representing 24,000 members attend a three day convention with speakers including John Burke United States Treasurer Paul Warburg vice governor of the Federal Reserve Board and Charles A Hinsch American Bankers Association president A classified ad from Mine News Star offers rental listings for rooms.

John Burke United States Paul Warburg The Federal Reserve Board Charles A. Hinsch American Bankers’ Association News-Star

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