Fire damages Jewell Court apartment in Hartford
Fire at Jewell Court on Farmington Avenue Hartford destroyed the five story brick building causing an estimated $200000 loss. About 60 families rendered homeless with more than half returning by midnight as nearly the entire city fire department fought the blaze. The fire started in a dumb waiter from waste paper and interrupted a funeral service in one apartment as a coffin was removed to an undertaker.
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Eisket
Propaganda by Airplane Over Italian Skies
Aviators from Plume Drop Literature into Rome. Fi sani planes have flown over Italy dropping premade propaganda. One pilot reportedly dropped insulting messages during a flight over Parliament and attempted to refuel before returning to Fi sani. Engine trouble forced a landing in San Marino, a tiny enclave within Italy. The San Marino government identified him as a military aviator.
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Italy
Toade Tandinger Violates Theft Boundaries Case
A report outlines a theft boundary violation involving an unnamed man and an aviator. The incident details indicate legal action is pursued by local authorities with no additional identifying information provided.
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Toad
Recalls Rev Dr Edmund T Shanahan From Catholic University
Boston Ded 17 Recall by Cardinal O Connell of Rev Dr Edmund T Shanahan professor of theology at the Catholic University Wash ington to become pastor of Sacred Heart Church Watertown announced Shanahan born Boston graduate of Boston College his sermons loaned by Boston Diocese to the university faculty in 1900 appointed acting rector of the pear cereitys ry later served as instructor at the Ameri Seap College Rome
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Edmand T. Shanahan
Catholic University
Washingston
Sacred Heartchirch
Watertown
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Shanahan
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S University
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Ameri- Seap College
Rome
D'Annunzio Loyalist Rally Amid Christmas Candle Debate
In Flume a crowd roared for D'Annunzio at the second anniversary celebration of Italian victory, as the commander appeared in the theatre box and received waves of flowers. Amid the pageantry, warnings emerged about a dangerous Christmas Eve candle idea backed by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, urging safer lighted alternatives.
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National Board of Five
John H. Stedman
Rochester
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Washington
American Red Cross
Red Cross
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Plenan Tract
Chippendale Treasures At Pennsylvania Museum Exhibit
Rare eighteenth century furniture study reveals a quarto volume on Chippendale by London publisher 1734. The piece, kept under protection of Hugh, Earl of Northumberland, catalogs Chinese and modern English furniture and offers early notes on designers and display patterns.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum
Memorial Hall
Chippendale
London
Hugh
Earl of Northumberland
Sohiergmat Svbintt
Tate
Bile Tim
Chinyfeerie
England
France Faces Severe Cold Wave Across Regions
In Paris and throughout France a sharp cold snap lasts several days with temperatures near freezing. Strasburg reads about 1 degree above zero Fahrenheit, while Belfort, Bordeaux, and Marseille show similarly frigid levels. Several canals in the Midi are frozen and Nice suffers snow damage.
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Paris
France
Strasburg
Belfort
Bordeans
Marseilles
Midi District
Nice
Americans Awarded Polish Medals at Lemberg Aero Drome
Nine members of the Konvinazko air squadron, largely Americans, were decorated with Poland’s highest military honor at the Lemberg aerodrome. General Stanislas Haller presented medals and kissed the aviators, honoring a unit that defended Lemberg during the Bolshevik drive.
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Lemberg
Konvinazko
Poland
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George M. Crawford
Wilmington
Edward Coral
Brooklyn
N. Y
Ligutenent Elliott W. Chase
el Paso
Shrewsbury
Charleston
Carl Clark
Tulsa
Okla
George Weber
Pekin
China
Wladislaw Konopka
Alexander Senkowski
Matson
Morlan G. [Cooper
Jacksonville
Cedric EB. Fountleroy
Chicago
Mitichee
Ark
Edwin Noble
Boston
Tapestries Pawned to Buy Bread in Europe and America
A major tapestry collection, once safeguarded in Viennese palaces, is pledged to raise funds for flour amid wartime scarcity. The plan envisions selective display across Europe and the United States, with exhibitions inside Belvedere and Hofburg spaces. President Miller and Mrs Miller dined at the American embassy in Paris as guests of Ambassador and Mrs Wallace.
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America
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E Belvedere
Perpone
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Mre Wallace
Enraged Man Smashed Paris Jewelry Shop Window
An elderly well dressed Parisian man smashed a window at a Saint Honore jewelry shop with a heavy gold headed cane. He proclaimed the motive as moral distress and vanished as police arrived, leaving behind a price tag reading private one million francs.
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Dee
Parie
Saint Honore
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