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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1909
Page
2
Social column items from Monroe discuss upcoming events at the West Side and Baptist church, travels, visits, and family updates. The piece highlights club meetings, charity euchre, a bridal couple in Crystal Springs, book club gatherings, and local society news including illness, travel, and schooling plans.
The armored cruiser Indefatigable, officially described as the world s largest cruiser, was successfully launched at Devonport. Built as the first in a new class, she measures 570 feet long 80 feet beam and 18 000 tons displacement with no funnels and uses combustion engines.
Advertises Botanic Blood Balm B B B as a cure for blood poison and skin diseases. Claims to purge poison from blood, heal sores and itching, and improve overall health. Encourages writing to a Atlanta company and offers home care instructions.
The battleship Mirabeau, a 3027 ton vessel, was launched at Lorient to join France's navy. It carries four 12 inch and twelve 9.4 inch guns, aiming for greater gunfire than the British Dreadnought. She is fifth of a six ship class with completion planned within eighteen months.
Washington October 28 The Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace convened its board of trustees including Chief Justice Fuller Secretary Nagel and prominent figures like John Mitchell and Seth Low for a defining session. Discussions focus on by laws and awarding a prize from the 40000 fund for essays on methods to promote industrial peace. Roosevelt donated the Nobel fund to seed the foundation to unite capital labor and the public with a final binding judgment on disputes.
The anniversary of Simon Bolivar's birth was observed today as a general holiday throughout Venezuela marking the great liberator's commemoration.
More than a thousand educators gather in Minneapolis on October 28 for the forty seventh annual Minnesota Educational Association convention. Delegates from nearly every city and town in the state attend, marking the largest meeting of the association to date in the large Auditorium and surrounding churches.
Chronological notes list key moments: 1681 Algiers bombardment by France. 1701 Philadelphia charter. 1800 Artema Ward death. 1727 birth year. 1851 cotton planters meeting in Macon Georgia. 1886 Bartholdi statue dedication. 1892 Milwaukee fire losses. 1893 Chicago mayor assassination. 1897 birth of Grover Cleveland Jr. at Princeton.
The Michigan State Teachers Association opened its annual meeting in Saginaw with many delegates arriving by train. Noted speakers include Rabbi Emil G Hirsch, H Mace, Finley and Henry S Pritchett, highlighting a strong three day program.
McGuire of West Monroe orders fresh ground 81 en bone for poultry in 2017. The note specifies supplier and year.
His Fortieth Birthday notes Representative Herbert Parsons born in New York City on October 28 1869. A Yale graduate of 1890 he studied at the University of Berlin and Harvard Law School before being admitted to the bar in 1894 and beginning his legal career.
A brief notice promoting Allen's Fever and Pain Powders as relief for headache or neuralgia, advertised by Phoenix Drug Store with a short line about over the counter availability.
J. E. Peters Undertaker and Embalmer offers vault space in the cemetery to hold deceased until final resting place is chosen. Sells and deals in furniture window shades children's carriages wagons velocipedes metallic burial caskets wooden x fins trimmings. Agents for sewing machines pianos organs Globe-Wernicke book cases. Telephones store 12 residence.
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