Royal Welsh Concert Company to perform in Nelsonville
The Royal Welch Concert Company visits Nelsonville for a Christmas program at the Methodist church. Three company members died in the Lusitania sinking. Risca Williams will recount the event. Volunteers are urged to bring a nonmember friend and attend morning and evening services with special music and readings.
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Royal Welch Concert Company
Nelsonville
Royal Welsh Concert Company
Lusitania
Risca Williams
Red Cross Election Held at York Township HQ
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock the Red Cross Headquarters hosts the annual election of an executive board to serve York township for the coming year. All members urged to attend in person.
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Red Cross
York Township
Get Your Red Cross Button at Athens War Chest Event
Athens County War Chest pays Red Cross membership for each fully paid member as of January 1, 1919. Visit Scott’s novelty store on the Square to receive an ecard and button entitling you to Red Cross membership for another year. Boy Scouts will distribute them and collect subscriptions from nonmembers.
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Red Cross
Athens County War Chest
War Chest
Scott’s Novelty Store
Boy Scouts
Apostolic Holiness Church Announces Week Services
Pastor J. C. Brillhart leads a full schedule with Sunday School at 9 36, preaching at 10 30 on First Class Saints, song service at 2 30 and 7 00 pm, evangelistic service at 7 30 on Sanctification as a second definite work of grace. Christmas service set for Wednesday at 7 pm. All are welcome.
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Apostolic Holiness Church
J. C. Brillhart
Why Gazing and The First Service Star Sermons At Bible School
Pastor C. L. Johnson leads Bible school at 9 15 A M Morning worship at 10 30 A M with sermon Why Gazing Evening worship at 7 P M sermon The First Service Star Rally meeting at 6 P M A White Gift Christmas will be observed next Sunday when all bring gifts to the great King Attendees are invited to witness the evening service to enjoy the true Christmas spirit.
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C. L. Johnson
Bible School
Rally Day at Metho dist Episcopal Church
Sunday rallies invite all Methodists to attend Sunday school services and Epworth League events. Members are urged to join both morning and evening gatherings and participate enthusiastically.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Epworth League
Red Cross Delivers Warm Clothing to Czecho-Slovak Soldiers in Siberia
In Vladivostok the American Red Cross ships 75 000 sweaters 250 000 pairs of socks and cloth for 550 000 overcoats to aid Czecho-Slovak troops in Siberia. Within a week two sanitary trains depart for Omsk Cheliabinsk and Irkutsk with 23 cars each and medical staff to open hospitals and treat wounded soldiers.
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Vladivostok
Siberia
American Red Cross
American Red Cross Sanitary
Omsk
Cheliabinsk
Irkutsk
Red Cross
Patterson
Chrapovitsky
Miss Patterson
Brooklyn
Federal court binds man in first fare fraud case
A. T. Hanley of Point Pleasant West Virginia was bound over to the Federal grand jury on a defrauding the government charge for riding without paying fare and war tax from Hobson Ohio to Columbus. This marks the first such case to be tried in Federal courts.
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Columbus, CO
A. T. Hanley
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Hobson
Ohio
Columbus
President Wilson to Return for Final Allied Talks
Paris December 21 President Wilson will return from Britain to Paris December 30 to pursue the final preliminaries of the allied conference. He will have the main points of views from Britain France Italy and some neutrals. The presidential party departs Paris for American headquarters by a special train December 24.
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Paris
Wilson
Milling Orgers Food Rules Cancelled As Expected
The food administration announced the cancellation of all flour milling regulations including price schedules and wheat flour sale restrictions. Officials predicted cheaper flour as mill feeds rose in price and flour fell accordingly. profit margins remain controlled and profiteering rules stay in force. Partial demobilization follows, but butter cheese and storage rules stay through the storage season or peace proclamation.
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Jashington
Food Administration
Grain Corporation
Minneapolis
The
Columbus
Food Department
Croxton
Veteran politician dead in Conneaut today
A veteran political figure dies in Conneaut today. The report notes the earlier work and local impact, with no further details provided in the available text.
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Conneaut
Girl Confesses to Murder of Young Infant in Elimra Case
Mildred Gundermean, 16, told officers she killed Leo Martin, her 1 year old sweetheart, last September for 100 dollars. She said a man from Youngstown, Ohio provided the money to remove Martin so she could have his attentions. She also cited jealousy and revenge. She said she married soldier Donald Stone in Columbus, Ohio, November 12, 1917 and lived with him until January 1918.
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Elmira
N. Y
Mildred Gundermean
Leo Martin
Youngstown
Ohio
Martin
Donald Stone
Columbus
Dr. Joseph H. Twichell Dies at 80 in Hartford
Rev. Dr. Joseph Hopkins Twichell pastor emeritus of Asylum Hill Congregational Church died at age 80 in Hartford. Installed 1865 he was an intimate friend of Samuel Clemens known for accompanying him on a foreign journey chronicled in Innocents Abroad.
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Hartford
Conn
Joseph Hopkins Twichell
Asylum Hill Congregational Church
Twichell
Satifinel Clemens
Mark Twain
Safer spring-calk aims to grip ground on impact
A new spring-calk for athletic footwear promises better grip when the foot presses down and retracts into the sole upon lifting. The device is designed to reduce slipping and improve stability for runners and jumpers.
Ship Contracts Cancelled for Two Mine Sweepers
The navy department ordered cancellation of contracts for two mine sweepers to be built in Baltimore by the Baltimore Drydocks and Shipbuilding Corp. Plans to start work were abandoned. Four others are still under construction with two near completion.
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Baltimore, Md
Baltimore Drydocks and Shipbuilding Corporation
Navy Department
To Teach Americanism Continues in Postwar States
Washington December 20 The women's committees of state councils of national defense will persist after the war to aid the bureau of naturalization in Americanization efforts for foreign born residents. The Labor Department said Michigan and other north central states have already begun this work.
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Washington
State Councils of National Defense
Atreau
Department of Labor
Michigan
North Central
Vatican designs postwar priestly preparation plan
The Vatican faces a spiritual postwar task as thousands of demobilized soldiers who were priests or seminarians must receive brief spiritual preparation before resuming duties. The Consistorial Congregation orders that released priests enter religious institutions for preparation, with distinguished war priests returning swiftly to their charges.
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Rome
Vatican
Consistorial
Charley Tedrow Urges Cattle Aid Plan for Belgium and France
Nelsonville Dec 21 C S Tedrow farm manager for the New York Coal Company proposes shipping young milch cows and heifers from Ohio Michigan and Wisconsin to war torn Belgium and France to provide beef and milk. He offers to handle buying and distribution without pay. Camp Sherman Dec 21 Ten wounded soldiers reached the camp after battles at Chateau Thierry Belleau Wood and the Champagne. Seven are from Ohio two from West Virginia one from Kentucky.
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Nelsonville
C. S. Tedrow
New York Coal Company
Belgium
France
Mr. Tedrow
Flurope
Sherman
Chateau Thiery
Belleau Wood
Champagne
Ohio
West Virginia
Kentucky
Infant Son of local couple dies in Carbondale area
Dec. 21 reports the infant son of Mr. and Mrs Henry Young of near Carbondale died yesterday. Burial was held at Wood Cemetery at 1 p.m. The bereaved parents leave two young sons.
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Young
New Marshfield
Henry Young
Carbondale
Wood Cemetery
Ohio Good Roads Congress Set for January Meet
The second annual Ohio Good Roads Congress will convene in Columbus January 14 16 with Senator W A Alsdorf secretary of the federation announcing the gathering. The Ohio society of civil engineers the county commissioners association and the federation advisory council will also meet to discuss road and auto industry problems and taxation.
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Columbus
Ohio Good Roads Congress
W. A. Alsdorf
Ohio Good Roads Federation
Ohio Society of Civil Engineers
County Commissioners’ Association
Advisory Council
Federation
Senate panel debates cuts to government costs
The senate Democratic steering committee discussed measures to compel department heads to reduce expenditures today. No action was taken but there was general disposition to pursue economies in the readjustment to a peace basis.
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Washington
Senate Democratic Steering Committee
Starving in Vienna as Babies Die in Crisis
London dispatch reports Vienna faces severe famine with shortages of food and textiles. British mission chief in Austria says starving mothers cannot obtain milk for their babies, who are dying by hundreds. Infants lack swaddling clothes and are wrapped in rags or newspapers.
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London
Vienna
Austria
Frost Lincoln Combs Guest of Albert Ogle
Lincoln Combs of Stewart was the Friday guest of Albert Ogle. Centenial school closed Thursday due to several scarlet fever cases. Verna Ogle and daughter June visit with J. O. Arhood and family in Athens R. D. 8. C. S. Ladd spent Wednesday with John Rowland in Coolville. Myrtle Rowell was summoned to Pennsylvania by the death of her sister Nancy Bandberg. Byron Frost visited friends in Athens. Ralph Ladd visited Parkersburg. W. M. Harris and son Wayne of Shade spent days here.
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Charles Vorkes
Columbus
James Crabtree
Will Lowery
Nelsonville
Lowery
Washington
D. Eyener
B. S. Sanders
Ambrose Wede
Sam
Charles Chapman
Norfolk
Ohio
D. J. Chapman
Elizabeth Zellar
Bliss Business College
John Zellar
Hanna Evans
James Sheppard
W. J. Jones
E. J. Cable
Rhea Hoodlett
Burns Coakley
B. T
Charles Bartells
Margaret Spencer
Wendell
W. Va
Joshua Spencer
Lincoln Combs
Stewart
Albert Ogle
Murray Hatch
Athens
Myrtle Rowell
Pennsylvania
Nancy Bandberg
Fritz Ahrendatrs
Byron Frost
Verna Ogle
June
J. O. Arhood
Athens R. D
C. S. Ladd
John Rowland
Coolville
Ralph Ladd
Parkersburg
W. M. Harris
Wayne
Shade
Japan expands cellulose film industry amid nitric acid shortages
Japan accelerates domestic cellulose and nitrocellulose production as all feedstocks except nitric acid are available locally. The move aims to boost the celluloid industry and reduce reliance on imports, reflecting wartime industrial policy.
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Japan
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Hartford, Conn
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Iture
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Charley Tedrow
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