Glad Nation Sees Less Fighting This Season
Report notes a calmer Christmas Eve with fewer conflicts as communities celebrate. Local officials cite improved cooperation among groups and a mood of restraint during holiday observances.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1915
Page
1
Report notes a calmer Christmas Eve with fewer conflicts as communities celebrate. Local officials cite improved cooperation among groups and a mood of restraint during holiday observances.
Christmas celebrations spread across New York with lights on community trees and carols while markets and banks distributed bonuses. Salvation Army plans the world’s largest Christmas dinner. baskets and toys aid thousands. Elsewhere in San Francisco immigrants enjoy recitals and a civic center tree as open–air events unfold. At the front, reports from Berlin, Paris, Vienna, and Vienna indicate ongoing but disputed battles on the Austro Hungarian and Balkan fronts with no decisive gains claimed.
In Kansas City and across the Southwest the holiday season opens with caroling and the lighting of municipal trees. Five thousand gifts reach poor children in San Antonio, while Houston, Fort Worth, Beaumont and Corpus Christi stage similar celebrations. Beaumont reports a 500-voice chorus around the tree tonight.
In today’s Standard the page lists items from multiple columns including peace party departures, a Christmas Eve Tess fight, Navy board programs, and an assortment of local briefs. Notable entries mention an Anaconda area update, a restraining order involving Copper company, and детailed holiday programming for Sunday school and soldiers.
London December 24 reports suggest Christmas Day during the great war will differ little from the prior year. Truce talk persists but fighting near Hartmanns-Welerkope continues with limited severity. Persia sees rapid Russian advances toward Tehran with rebels largely in Russian hands.
Pittsburg sees joy as H C Frick promises to pay in full all deposits of the Pittsburg Bank for Savings. The fund, built by school collectors from 41,000 children, totaled about 170000 dollars before the bank closed. Frick acts to safeguard every penny for the young savers.
Navy board in Henry Ford area plans additional ships returning home. Time and date unclear. Mentions Imo Dewey, a ravers area healing program leaves Norway. National party members head to Stockholm.
Washington releases the original Navy General Board report urging faster growth to equal the world’s strongest fleets. It estimates 300 thousand dollars for the first year of new ships and vessels, with a five year program far larger than current administration plans. The document emphasizes expanding yards and personnel and notes the policy aims for naval parity by 1925.
London dispatch reports Henry Ford's departure from Europe ends a controversial effort to fund an expedition. Ford gave a check for 100000 dollars before leaving, then decided headway was impossible as officials shut doors and pacifist attitudes hardened. Departure marks a turning point in the episode chronicled by the Exchange Telegraph.
The paper previews a brimming Sunday issue with stories sketches and illustrations meant to edify and entertain. It highlights Potash and Perlmutter successors Brisky and Zapp a dry Montana debate symposium Chaplin life story and adventures the impact of movies on life and thought and a rich lineup of features news sports and social items.
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