Christmas Began With Gabriel to Mary and Elisabeth
Mary receives Gabriel's message in Nazareth that she will bear Jesus the son of God. Elisabeth conceives John after saluting Mary, and both women proclaim blessings. Elisabeth's child grows, and Mary returns home as prophecy unfolds. Tomorrow: No Room at the Inn.
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Mary
Gabriel
Galilee
Nazareth
Joseph
Jesus
David
Elisabeth
Jacob
Juda
John
Israel
Santa to Visit Smithville by Early Train
Santa Claus arrives in Smithville on Friday December 22 at 5 30 p m aboard the MK T train. The Lions Club sponsors the Santa Claus train to revive a Yuletide tradition with gifts of fruits and candy for local children.
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Smithville
Santa Claus
Mk&t
City Folks Help To Inflate Prices For Farm Land
The Agriculture Department reported rising demand for farm land as buyers from cities seek hedge against inflation amid Korea War fears. Prices rose about 3 percent from July to November and are 5 percent above the March 1920 peak, with Eastern and Midwestern states showing the strongest gains.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Korea
Dreams of electric train for Christmas in hospital
In Altoona a badly burned 11 year old, Tommy Ebbert, dreams of an electric train while most of his family perished in a house fire. His father William Ebbert, 36, lies wounded nearby as authorities report a November 13 blaze near Duncanville that killed his wife, a brother, three sisters, and their grandmother. The boy hopes for credit to buy a train, while his father vows to work to support him.
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Altoona
Mercy Hospital
Tommy Ebbert
William Ebberts
Ebbert
Duncanville
Tommy
Fire destroys Masonic Temple in Wabash. $500,000 loss
A Sunday blaze leveled the four story Masonic Temple in downtown Wabash, causing about 500000 dollars in damage. Several buildings were damaged and power lines cut radio communications. One elderly man, David Garretson, was rescued unconscious from smoke and hospitalized.
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Wabash
Ind
Masonic Temple
Clarance France
Huntington
Marion
Peru
Warsaw
City Hall
David Garretson
Buildie
Taft Faces Senate Foreign Relations Post Question
Washington December 17 Senator Taft of Ohio weighs a possible appointment to the foreign relations committee or a move to the armed services panel. He favors remaining outside to critique Truman policy while Acheson faces Republican criticism and Morse and other rivals loom for the post.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Armed Services Committee
Congress
Senate
GOP
Senate Labor Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Vandenberg
Rmich
Truman
Morse
Vanden
Wiley
Wisconsin
H. Alexander Smith
New Jersey
Kickenlooper
Iowa
Lodge
Massachusetts
Tobey
New Hampshire
Brewster
Maine
Butler
Nebraska
Wherry
Friends
Acheson
Shirley Temple Honeymoon with Charles Black
Shirley Temple, former child star, is on her honeymoon with her second husband Charles Black. The 31-year-old groom from a prominent San Francisco family married in a quiet civil ceremony on Saturday at a Monterey peninsula home and the couple departed for an undisclosed destination, with Hawaii rumored as a possibility.
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del Monte
Calif
Shirley Temple
America
Charles Black
San Francisco
Shirley
Exporr
Monterey Peninsula
Hawaii
Napoleon's Island St Helena Exile Location
St Helena, a South Atlantic island, is famous as Napoleon Bonaparte's place of exile. The remote isle lies in the Atlantic, governed as part of the British Overseas Territory.
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Napoleon's Island
St. Helena
Napoleon
South Atlantic
Hell's Kitchen graduate Charles E. Wilson to head defense mobilization
Charles Edward Wilson, 64, president of General Electric, rises from Hell's Kitchen roots to take over as director of the new Office of Defense Mobilization under President Truman. He has long been a forceful advocate for private enterprise and will command vast power over industry, with a career spanning NRA days to GE leadership and civil rights stance.
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New York
Total War
Charles E. Wilson
General Electric Co
Wilson
Office of Defense Mobilization
Truman
Charles E
Edward
Scarsdale
Charles Edward Wilson
Washington
General Electric
NRA
New Deal
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Accoents
United States
Brooklyn Bridge
East River
Charlie
Hell's Kitchen
Charlie Wilson
Sprague Electric Works
Sprague
Generaledric
Midtown Manhattan
President's Commission On Civil Rights
Ceee Borhood
Elizabeth Maisch
Baptist Church
Bridgeport
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Bradford Print CO
Coloratio Ph
Gage and Finch’ Inc
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Sehrade
Rasan
Torrance Associates
Ioe
Dreams OF Electric Train
BY Mary G.jace Kirsh
AltoOna Tribune
Zale’s
Zale Jewelry Company
Austin
Ingraham Alarm Clock
Perenne
Zale
Senate Foreign Relations
Cash & Carry
G.E
West
Nat'l Bank
Sreetal Gafel
Reed & Barton
Barton Weinde
Reed & Borton
CarleMayer Co. Jewelers — Silversmiths
Joy
Odlowers
Joy Nehring
Joy's Ofowers
West 12Th Street
Austin, Texas
B. C. Davis
Tex Nehring
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