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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1929
Page
8
Sir Knights will meet at the Masonic Hall on Christmas day at 11 a.m. to observe the Christmas service. All Sir Knights in full uniform are requested to attend. Visiting Sir Knights welcome. Services begin promptly at 11 o'clock. be on time. By order of the Eminent Commander D W Swaffar recorder.
Students at Horace Mann training school wrapped up the holiday season with Christmas projects and a puppet show by sixth graders. Seventh and eighth graders staged Ye Olde Tyme Merrie Christmas in the college auditorium. Frugal gifts and a Christmas basket drive for a needy family reflected school spirit.
Santa Is White House Visitor Literature classes showcased Christmas writings and student crafts. Junior High School awards went to Jean Rose for first place in vocational guidance, with several honorable mentions. Everett Coley won the science contest. A hunter in San Francisco lost his left hand when a goose he shot triggered another hunter’s gun.
A wandering group of orphans gathered by the American Red Cross at Anacostia naval air station will watch Santa Claus descend by parachute tomorrow in Washington.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics bulletin traces wage changes over 308 years, noting colonial limits like 2 shillings a day for craftsmen and tobacco payments in Virginia, with board deductions and early liquor pay restrictions. It cites New York bricklayers, Virginia carpenters, and Boston versus New York wages, ending with a parachute jump by W. F. Scott as Santa Claus.
A nearly finished four story brick Bronx apartment house was almost totally destroyed by a fire suspected to be set by building racketeers. Police note eleven uncompleted Bronx houses have burned in the past year amid a grand jury investigation into racketeering angled to extract tribute from builders.
An 83-year-old Philadelphia woman traveling to visit her son, seriously injured in a T. A. T. plane crash in Indianapolis, was moved to a room next to his bed after hospital officials advised rest following the journey and shock.
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