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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1919
Page
8
Short Pencil Bela argues for strict trade boundaries and three year apprenticeships before union entry. He laments carpenters claiming most roofing and metal work, urges respect for separate crafts and united labor. He shares personal history as a pioneer tin smith and expresses faith in organized labor.
An old advertisement touts blood cleansing cures by Prescription C-2223 from the Memphis Tennessee laboratories. It claims impurity removal restores energy, appetite and sleep and offers a $1.50 bottle by mail with literature C-2222.
Local ad text promotes shingles and roofing services from Bell Barrett and Company featuring 4 in one shingles, 12 squares of Green, 10 squares of Red, and 3 ply everlastic roll roofing. Includes a contact line for Grace FB at Magnolia Inn and a phone listing 478.
Test or mislaid policy No. 650849 of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company on the life of Francis T. N. Pugh. The finder should return it to the undersigned. An application has been made for a duplicate. Francis T. N. Pugh, Box 472 Monroe, La. 20 Gt.e o. d.
The article reports that wood shingle supporters and manufacturers claim the substitute composition roofing fails fire and wear tests, costs more overall, and that anti wood shingle ordinances have been repealed in Dallas and another large eastern city as substitutes fail to show promised results. cedar and redwood shingles remain scarce and prices rise while logs stay limited.
Visitors from across the United States and Canada gather in Ashbury Park New Jersey for the forty first ALA conference. Secretary of the Navy Daniels Brig Gen Munson and Frederick Kepnel outline library roles in morale and wartime service while M Jusserand and Charles Pergler join eminent speakers. Problems of reconstruction and library funding, salaries, and endowment gains prominent in the program.
Forty winters and forty summers have passed since living persons first took Number 40 For The Blood. Number 40, a compound from U S Dispensatory listed for glandular diseases blood poison scorbutic and other conditions. It is claimed to cure sores ulcers nodes tumors and scrofulous swellings that resisted other treatments. Chase Amman Drug Co sells No 40.
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