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Attention! Attention! V ' ' v * j I FIRST ANNUAL ENTERTAINMENT UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE w >,* Vi Minneapolis Branch OF THE ’■, i , National Association for the. Advancement of Colored People COLISEUM HALL Corner Lake Street and 27th Ave. South Monday Evening, June 3rd, 1918 .1- )h McCullough’s 7 Piece Orchestra . x Come oue come all and enjoy the evening Grand Promenade 9:30 Special Street Car Service BROWN 8. SMITH, President V Hennepin Lumber Co. v 226 Plymouth Building. RETAIL LUMBER AND MILL WORK We Finance Buildings. Also all Kinds of Insurance through ARTHUR P. SMITH CO. Office Phones—Main 2869; Auto 36774. Dining Room—Main 2831. Twenty Elegant Steam-Heated and Electric Lighted Rooms. A la Carte Meals at All Hours—Popular Prices. STEWARTS HOTEL 4 \ J. Ed. Stewart, Prop. j Chas. Brody, Mgr, 246-250 FOURTH AVE. S., MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Private Dining and Reception Room for Ladies. Special Temper ance Beverages. Men's Buffet and Grill; Billiards; Barber Shop in Connection. N. W. Main 5040 Ladies’ Work Given Special Attention, livered to Any Part of the City. JAMES E. )# v. ■ CBS 1 TAILORS Our Motto: "PROMPTNESS” French Dry Cleaning, Dyeing, Repairing and Pressing High Grade Work a Specialty. 809 Fourth Ave. So. Minneapolis Minnesota. Spirella (hot me in rroftnY will give you lithe, uncorseted grace yd constant comfort, yet mould ur figure to the present fashion, ey are fitted to your measure in ur own home by a trained corset e—the Spirella way. A telephone 1 or post-card will bring an expert your home to explain the Spirella vice and boning In detail. Spirella Corset Shop CORA B. CARR MS Aurora Avo. tL Paul. Minn. mssm NAVY PHYSICIAN- INDICTED Charged, Together With Wife, With Hoarding Food. Washington, May 31.—Francis S. Nash, a medical director of the navy, and his wife were indicted by a grand jury here on a charge of hoarding food * stuffs. Investigators found more than a ton and a half of sugar stored in the Nash home. Admission 50c COMBS BROS. h a r old c. American Physicians Included In Prisoners Captured. Amsterdam, May 30. —A Wolff bu reau telegram tiled in Berlin, in giv ing an account of the lighting along the Chemin des Dames, briefly men tions that among the prisoners taken from the British were A number of American doctors. R. AUGUSTINE SKINNER, Sec. Work Called for and De- One Day Service. U. S. DOCTORS TAKEN BY FOE Nothing Changed But the f rice Sight Drafts Still the Sams Fine Oil Cigar You'n Always Liked When your dealer asks yon nix cents apiece for vour old friend Sight Draft, don’t get the idea that he is trying to put something over on you. The plain truth of the matter is Mia! oar lat>or and other manufacturing costs have increased so much that ere had the choice of cutting down the size of the Sight Draft cigar, using inferior or raising the price one cent. We believed you would rather have the eamo old Sight Draft quality, the same old size, even if it cost you a penny more. So, from now on Sight Drafts will be six cents. I Try a Sight Draft today. It’s worth six cents, and you experienced smokers KNOW it is. W. K. Oresh & Sons, makers. W. 8. Conrad Co., 8L Paul, wholesale distributors. —Advertisements WORKING-MEN'S SOCIAL CLUB FOR MF.N ONLY 244 3RD AVE. S. . MINNEAPOLIS SYLVESTER W. OLIVER A BENJAMIN JONES Manager* Peterson, The Druggist 1501 WrshiQQion Ave. So. rOILET ARTICLES, DRUGS PRESCRIPTIONS. He Solicits Your Patronage. CHOICE CITY AND SUBUR BAN PROPERTY FOR SALE ON SMALL MONTHLY PAY MENTS. Houses and Flats for Rent. B. N. McDew 802 Sykes Block. N. W„ Nic. 621 Minneapolis T. S. Center 4639. WALFRID WESTMAN Photographer 1425 Washington Ave. So. Minn. Office Hours: Sundays: 2 to* 6 p. m. 10 to 1 p. m, 9:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. R. S. BROWN, M. D. Office 408-9 Tribune Annex 67 Fourth Street Soutr. N. W. Main 2040. T. S. 38191 Res. 608 E; 14th St. N. W. Main 2388 Minneapc!!« Auto. 37032 THE KEYSTONE BUFFET (Formerly “Kid" Mitchell’s) Now under new management of JIMMY SMITH 1313 Washington Ave So. Main 2259 Minneapolis NEW DRAFT CALL IS COMING To Follow Shortly After Registration Washington, May 29. —The provost marshal general’s office Intends to make a sizeable draft call directly af ter the 21 year old men register on June 5. This has developed as one of the steps contemplated In increas ing rapidly the size of the army. America's war machine is now strik ing its pace, and it is estimated that by the end of this year the supply of class 1 men will have been nearly ex hausted, either at necessary war work or in the military' establishment. Already men have been called from classes 2 and 3, men who are skilled in trades or callings that tit into the army’s war work. FOUR BOCHE AIRMEN DOWNED Three American Aviator* Make Short Work of Them. • With American Army in Lorraine, May 29. —Three American aviators de feated four German airmen in a spec tacular battle over the lines today, de stroying one enemy plane and driving the others back behind their lines. The lighting raged for a quarter of an hour, during which the machines constantly were engaged in thrilling maneuvers. Just before the Germans fled the wings of one of their machines was entirely shot away, so that the fusel age dropped like a plummet. 252 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED Washington, May 30.—Allied airmen brought dow* and destroyed 2f>2 Ger man airplanes the week from May It to May 23. The operations incluila only the weatem front. THE TWIN CITY STAR, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. of June 5. MYSTERY OF LOVE ▲ corse, I say, on all laws but those which love has made.—Pope. Love Ims never know a law beyond Its own sweet will.—Whittier. Lov? Is a spark of immortal Are giv en by Allah to lift from earth our low desire. —Byron. Oh, Love I Love! when you get hold of us one may bid prudence adieu. —La Fountaine. Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies, that they themselves commit. —Shakespeare. All thoughts, passions and delights are but* ministers of love and feed his sacred flame.—Coleridge. Love rules men T>elow and saints above, for love is heaven and heaven Is love. —Sir Walter Scott. To love for the sake of being loved Is human, but to love for the sake of loving Is angelic.—Lamartine. True love is a thing to walk with, hand In hand, through the everyday ness of this work-a-day world. —Lowell. Love ie the secret sympathy which can bind heart to heart and mind to mind in body and in soul. —Sir Walter Scott. The pleasure of love Is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.—La Roche foucauld. POPULAR SCIENCE A recently patented toaster holds a slice of bread between two spring clips so that the heat can strike it* entire surface. Ceylon’s pearl fisheries are believed to be the world’s oldest industry, as they have* been carried on for more than thirty centuries. A patent has been granted for a brush and comb mounted on a box in to which they fold for carrying or to protect them from dust. Driven by bicycle gearing and a propeller, a miniature submarine has boon invented in which bathers can plunge beneath the water. A process has been invented In Hol land for■ manufacturing a food for swine from fish refuse that does not af fect the flavor of the pork. A rubber wash basin has been invent ed for motorists or tourists that is proof against hot water and can be folded compactly for carrying. Macedonia is rich in coal deposits, many of which appear on the surface of the ground, but they never have been systematically developed. WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE When a makes a mistake he charges twice for lti When a judge makes a mistake, It becomes the law of the land. When a preacher makes a mistake, nobody knows the difference. When a dentist makes a mistake, he can always repair the damage. When an electrician makes a mis take, he blames It on induction—no body knows what that is. When a lawyer makes a mistake, It’s just what he wanted, because he has a chance to try the case all over again. When a carpenter makes a mistake, It’s just what he expected, because chances are ten to one that he never learned his trade anyway. But when a newspaper man makes a mistake: Good night—H. M. P., in New York Sun. SHUT-IN PHILOSOPHY Kindness Is not handing a blipd beggar a nickel and ask ing him for four cents change. Worry is a detour from the right road of thought—a de structive, ruinous, bumpy side path. a The driver of those who are driven to drink ought to have both a hack driver’s and rev enue license.—From the Sing Star-Bulletin. CONCERNING FRIDAY The French call Friday “Vendredl” —Venus’ day. Friday la Frfga’s day—Frlga being the northern Venus. Gladstone, Disraeli and Bismarck were horn on a Friday. / Scandinavians regard Friday as the luckiest day of the week. Our ancestors believed that eggs laid on a Friday would cure colic. “Friday face” still Ungers as a term of reproach for a sour-vlsaged person. TO SEE AND ENJOY THE TWIN CITIES Send for a copy of the unique Picture Map Folder “The Twin Cities Today” Handsomest Booklet of Information About Mineapolis Printed in four colors, on finest paper. Tells how to see and enjoy all the interesting sights in and about Minnesota’s Two Great Cities, in the least possible time, at the least possible expense. Contains much in formation and many pictures as well as ten splendid colored maps of Twin City interest. These ten colored maps show attractively Minnehaha Falls and Park, Como Park and Lake Como, Lake Min netonka, White Bear Lake, the Central Portion of Min neapolis, the Chain of Lakes, Phalen Park and Lake, the University Campus and the Central Portion of St. Paul, while the largest map shows the Twin Cities and surrounding suburbs, a territory 16 miles by 48 miles, with their famous Lakes, Rivers and Parks. The folder is most instructive and entertaining. A copy of this interesting publication will be mailed to any address on receipt of six cents in stamps. A. W. Warnock, General Passenger Agent, Twin City Lines, Minneapolis. BEN MARIENHOFF A For 28 Years at 318 Hennepin Avenue. Tailor to Men IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC WOOLENS AT POPULAR PRICES Your Patronage Desired. Urex 1269 J. & H. Wet Wash Laundry 3753-55-57 Cedar Avenue High Grade Specialists in Wet Wash Dry Wash and family Laundering OUR WORK IS OUR BEST ADVERTISEMENT POPULAR PRICED SHOE REPAIRING. ' SPECIAL SAMPLE SHOES ijift. WE FIX ’EM WHILE YOU WAIT. Men’s Sewed Soles si.oC Ladies’ and Boy’s Nailed Soles 65 SEVEN CORNERS’ SHOE REPAIR SHOP. 1424 Washington Ave. So., Minneapolis. Joseph dahl, pro* fThe Waiters’ and Porters’ Club % GLOVER SHULL, PRES. 311 HENNEPIN AVE. MINNEAPOLIS f CODIC BOYD. SCCV LEE WHEELER. MANAOCH J BELL’S BARBER SHOP CLARENCE W. BELL, Proprietor. BATHS, BARBER SHOP, POLITE BARBERS POOL AND BILLIARD HALL CIGARS, RACE PAPERS, SrfOE SHINING 244 THIRD AVE. SOUTH . .MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Phene Northwestern, Main S6ll. South Side Barber Shop 212 Eleventh Ave. S., Minneapolis EXPERT BARBERS; UP TO THE MINUTE CIGARS, POOL AND BILLIARD TABLES IN CONNECTION RACE PAPERS—SHOES SHINED THOMPSON & CARVER, Props*. | HARRY LEVITON Practical Tailor MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS MADE TO ORDER. Dry Cleaning and Fancy Dyeing of Ladies’ and Gent’s Garments. Phon, N. W. Hyland 2875 1317 No. 6th Ave., Minn.^lj, THE WAY TO MAKE MONEY. If you wish to add to your income, •ou can do so by accepting an agency ■or The Twin City Star. Good com nission to competent agents. Use our spare time in soliciting ads and lubscriptions. Only honest and intel igent agents wanted. CaJl Hyland .205. and St. Paul Published AGENTS WANTED—NOWI Reliable and intelligent agents al ways wanted to solicit business for THE TWIN CITY STAR; also corre spondents in principal cities. A chance to earn a good living. Write The Twin City Star, Minneapolis. Read the Negro Papers. Automatic 61609