Storm on Pacific Coast causes great damage and rebel attacks
Reports from Mexico describe heavy damage along the Pacific coast as Mexican revolutionaries and federal forces clash. General Dominguez with 600 federals repulsed a rebel assault at Santa Lucrecia near Cuernavaca, with 60 rebels killed and 120 wounded and numerous prisoners taken. Dispatches note Gen Aguero and other leaders moving toward strategic targets as fighting intensifies.
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Mexico City
Yone Dominguez
Santa Lucrecia
Adeielerts Laguenz
Domingues
Laguenz
True Friends Define What a Real Friendship Means
A reflective piece questions the ritual of Christmas cards and argues friendship rests on sincerity. It cites an unnamed definition: a friend is someone you can be yourself with, free from pretense, where loyalty burns like a purifying fire and mutual understanding allows blunt honesty and acceptance.
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Christ
German Christmas Daunting Broadcast Hits Somber Note
Berlin December 25 The German Christmas mood was somber as Chancellor Marx rode to a radio station and delivered a lugubrious political Christmas greeting to thousands of listeners. The address blended retrospection with forecasts, marking government attempts to spread official pronouncements via radio across Germany and neighboring states.
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Byne Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
Marx
Denby Approves Polar Flight Plan Amid Moffett Report
The Navy panel led by Rear Admiral Moffett recommends a summer polar exploration flight using the Shenandoah and Nome Alaska as base. Secretary Denby approves the plan noting the mission aims to map routes and assess trans polar aviation rather than a pole dash.
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Associated Press
Washington
Mavy
Dirigibl Shenandoah
Nome
Alaak
Naval
William A. Moffett
Naval Aviation
Denby
Atien
Europe
Japan
Murderer exhumed body burned at crime scene
The body of John Snow was exhumed from a solitary grave yesterday and a fire set in the house where the victims died. Snow, accused of killing Deputy Frank Jewett’s wife and son and two other women, was shot after the crime. Authorities launch an investigation into the murders described as the work of a madman. Funeral services were held for the three women killed, with burial in Jefferson. The alleged killer’s body was interred on the farm where his wife had lived.
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John Snow
Weston M. Hilton
Snow
Ster
Frank ©. Jewett
Whitefield
Tad
Jefferson
Jewett
Butte Postmen Move Mountains of Holiday Mail
Butte post office staff abandon routine duties at noon to observe a holiday break as mountains of mail flood routes from Big Buttes to Lake Avoca and Meaderville. Postmaster Phil Goodwin remained on duty into the afternoon to monitor the unprecedented holiday rush across the city.
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BUTTE
But Pont
Typ
Big Butts
Lake Avoca
Meaderville
I Bransnatte
Pasea
Mitte
Talena Amar
Chase Exvintman
Ater Peete Eeting
Ine Lutte
Butte Pousti
Mal Ringine
Alia
Impressive Christmas Services Across Butte Churches
Christmas programs unfolded in Butte churches with two music programs reported. Prelude pieces included works by Couperin and Miss Margaret McHale, with offerings featuring Adeste Fideles and portions from Regina Pacis.
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Butte
Ox. Ratrick
Soeur Monsques Couperin
Margaret McHale
Wiegai
Kyrie
Gloria
Rowing
Pacis
Regina Pacis
Navy Chief Says Shortage Hampered Fleet Operations
Admiral R B Coontz said the navy was seriously hampered by insufficient personnel in the last fiscal year. He noted crews were needed for several new light cruisers and submarines, with shore details cut to the minimum. The report warned that undermanned ships forced use of battleships for midshipman training and experimental work, delaying other duties.
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Vess
Washington, D. C
United States
R. BE. Coonts
Portsmouth Way Yard
Colorado Attorney General Fleming Dies in Fort Collins
Attorney General Russell W. Fleming of Colorado died this afternoon in Fort Collins. Death blamed on blood poisoning. He is survived by a wife and a daughter aged 18 visiting brothers in Bainbridge, Georgia, where the Fleming family is prominent.
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Associated
Fort Collins
Col
Russell W. Fleming
Colorado
Dee
Bainbridge, Gas
Fleming
Canadian Tug and Steamer Hit by Pacific Tempest
A fierce 80 mile per hour gale swept across Puget Sound and British Columbia towns injuring and sinking vessels. The Canadian tug Tyee struck Pedder Bay rocks near Victoria while the steamer Dawn sank at her Take Washington dock as lightning and wreckage lashed Gray's Harbor and Seattle. Power failures cut Western Washington communications though restored by day’s end.
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North Pacific Ocean
Washington
British Columbia
Puget Sound
Gray's Harbor
Port Angeles
Strait of Juan de Puca
Tacoma
Seattle
United States
Pedder Bay
Victoria
Dawn
Venizelos Returns Temporarily to Help Form Government
Former Greek premier Eleftherios Venizelos will return to Athens at the invitation of political leaders to guide Greece through the national crisis. He emphasizes the move is temporary and not to form a cabinet, aiming to help settle the nation’s complicated affairs. He will serve as adviser to regulate the situation after mature reflection.
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Associated Press
Athens
Primier Eliotherios Venizelos
Venzeley
Greece
Kentucky gun plays and poisoned booze toll rises
Hazard Kentucky reports Christmas Eve shootings leaving four dead and six injured as a seventh remains in serious condition in a hospital. New York dispatch notes three dead and multiple critical after poisoned Christmas liquor, with over twenty hospitalized and several in serious condition.
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Associated Press
Hazard
New York
Fragmented OCR note hints at police station panic
An incoherent OCR passage mentions a sick man near a police station causing panic and references various names and entities in a damaged text. The readable fragments suggest a chaotic incident or investigation context with unclear details and multiple proper nouns.
French Dirigible Dixmude Reported Missing Near Tunis Coast
Paris reports December twenty six hope remains to save the French airship Dixmude which drifted off the Tunisian coast. Navy communique notes uncertainty of the craft’s position and whether lights sighted Sunday could be from the airship. Toulon torpedo boats stand ready at dawn for a dash to sea if definite location is received.
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Associated Press
Paris
Navy Department
Toulon
France
Crop value rises in Montana despite wheat drop in 1923
The Montana crops for 1923 total 95.358 million dollars, up over 2 million from 1922, despite lower wheat per bushel. Revisions show larger acreages for winter wheat oats barley rye corn and tame hay, with alfalfa seed and sugar beet boosting value. Central and northwest areas fared better. eastern crops declined due to drought and grasshoppers.
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Bozeman
Dee
Montana
George A. Scott
Montana Co-operative Crop Reporting Service
North Central
Christmas at the White House Quiet Despite Guests
The Coolidge White House held a quiet Christmas with the president and Mrs. Coolidge, their two sons John and Galvin, plus two Boston guests. After a small tree and gift exchange, the family attended a Union Christmas service at First Congregational church. A luncheon followed, then Christmas dinner, and later visits to Walter Reed Hospital for disabled service members.
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Washington, D.C
White House
Aivet
Charlie Fatt
Hoosevenin
Prank. W. Broarns
Boston
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