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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1916
Page
1
Dr Truett and his 10 members will conduct a series of revival services at the Baptist Church. The event aims to attract local parishioners and strengthen community religious outreach.
The Monroe Baptist congregation begins a two week revival starting Sunday with George W. Treett as main preacher arriving Monday. I Wolflage l will lead music and FH Parrington plans two opening sermons urging full attendance. Evening services have drawn growing local interest.
Dr Truett, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas Texas, will conduct the revival and is widely noted across America as a leading religious figure.
The Teutonia drive against Roumania progresses with German forces reaching Hirsova and advancing along the Dobrudja border toward the Constanza line. Reports from Petrograd claim Austro-German gains near Campulung and a strong push in Dorna Watra, while Berlin notes several heights captured in Galicia and Poland.
In the Western District of Louisiana a federal court ordered the Texas & Pacific Railway into the hands of receivers. J L Lancaster and Pearl Wight of New Orleans were named co receivers with bonds set at $100 each. The judgment against Texas & Pacific totals $448,599.11 on seventeen notes, per attorney Sidge Rufus EB Foster and Bush of St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern railway.
In Birmingham a religious revival unit is praised, led by Rev. F H Farrington who extols Dr Truett as a great preacher likened to Spurgeon. Singer E L Wolfsangel is praised as a leading evangelistic to energize services at First Baptist Church amid city welcome. The piece also notes federal farm loan board deliberations and Wilson Day events with keynote remarks on peace and progress.
Synopsis of the president's address delivered at Shad Ow Lawn in Torbay outlines policy priorities, economic aims, and diplomatic notes. The speech emphasizes national unity, infrastructure investment, and regional cooperation, with calls for fiscal reform and social program support.
Both parties enter the final week planning to outdo all previous efforts with unprecedented outreach. Campaign teams mobilize across districts to maximize voter contact and message reach before election day.
New York October 28 Apathy faced by General Anathy as opposing managers unleash heavy artillery for a final week. Democrats Republicans Prohibitionists and Socialists plan nightly rallies across towns and cities with torchlight processions and mass meetings in New York City including thousands of meetings in the five boroughs by midnight Saturday. President Wilson and Mr Hughes schedule speeches in Buffalo Madison Square Garden and Ohio Indiana and New Jersey as Roosevelt and Taft join the closing rally in New York.
E L Wolslagel and other nominees plan appearances on the platform. Taft closes the campaign week in Michigan with a Tuesday Philadelphia stop, then speaks in Columbus and moves to New York. Roosevelt to tour New York City, while Hrgan campaigns in Illinois for the Democrats before returning to Nebraska.
Texarkana Oct 28 Reliable authority reports the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Company has purchased and will take over the Black River branch of the Iron Mountain on January 1. The line runs from the Black River to Concordia Junction, La, connecting with L and A at Wildsville Junction. L and A offices and principal owners are in Texarkana. Iron Mountain officials in St Louis say the railroad commission has been asked to approve the sale and approval is expected by January 1.
Reports from New York and upstate indicate Wilson is rapidy becoming the betting favorite for the state, with odds tightening to even money. West to midwest bettors show little appetite for Hughes, and many expect Wilson to hold an odds-on stance by week’s end.
Police anticipate arrests of several individuals connected to a plotted conspiracy. Investigators say the case involves coordinated actions and potential nationwide implications. Officials declined to name suspects or specify locations.
Washington reports say General Pershing commands about 12,000 troops garrisoned across Chihuahua and along the border. Secretary Baker and Secretary Lansing deny any plan to join opponents with bandits in Mexico while noting the information remains sensitive. The War and State departments guard details to keep channels open for Mexican affairs and await arrests in the alleged conspiracy.
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