New Year Prizes for Y M C A Contests Announced
New Year s Day events at the Y M C A will feature tournaments with prizes for youths. Prizes include a pocket chess set and other small awards for checkers, chess, billiards and bowling. A midnight service follows and transportation is arranged for attendees. Mary A Wyckoff of Newark left a bequest of 14 300 to religious organizations. Alvey family tragedy reports a house fire near Winterset with three dead.
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Ate Association
Uidaasse
Icheéss
Mary A Wyckoff
Newark
Baltimore Doctor Advises Low Cost Skin Cure
A Baltimore doctor recommends a cheap at home regimen for eczema ringworm rashes and other skin troubles. Buy Resinol soap and a jar of ointment for about seventy five cents total and wash with warm water until crusts soften then dry gently and apply thin Reeinol ointment to protect and heal the skin. Free samples and Resinol soap are offered by the manufacturer.
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Bettimore
Baltimore
Long Hill Community Notes and Local Obituaries
Christmas events and visits fill Long Hill with family news. Notable items include baptisms at Grace Episcopal, a Mrs Gnadee Seeley attendance, and Elizabeth Halli’s funeral in Stepney. Residents travel to Bridgeport and Orlando, while Aldo Gilmer takes a job at Locomobile in Bridgeport.
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Gnadee B. ‘Seeley
Santa Claus
Baptist Sunday School
Easton Baptist Church
Victor Senger
Banford & Beach
One Hill
Burr F. Beach
Mary Beach
Cora Beach
Trumbull
Dwight Mallette
Tashua
New York
Frank Marsh
Bridgeport
James Burroughs
Grace Episcopal Church
Harriet Halli
John Partington
Long Hill
F. W. Paten
Stepney Methodist Church
George Clark
Beatrice
Frederick L. Turney
Stephen Burroughs
Wilson N. Hurd
Helen Hurd
Arnold É Hurd
Thomas Northrop
Brench
Sancancer
Orlando
Fils
Blease Frees 44 More Prisoners in Clemency Move
Gov. Cole Blease granted clemency to 44 state prisoners in Columbia. Ten of those freed have life sentences for murder. one life prisoner was pardoned and nine were paroled. The group includes 23 inmates serving homicide terms. The action raises total clemencies to 1,488 over four years.
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Columbia
S.C
Cole Blease
Blease
Christmas Tree Program Tonight At Broad Street Hill
Premier band leads a 6 30 p m Christmas Tree program at Broad Street Hill with spotlight at 6 10 p m. Al Carroll operates colored lights. Leon Britton from Barnum Bailey provides organ. The Indus trial clubs W C A sing Holy Night Peaceful Night. Franz Gruber German Folks song and Immanuel old French melody are featured with band and choir. Noel Noel and We Three Kings selections follow with J H Hopkins. Results From Farmer Ads
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Broad Street Hill
al Carroll
Leon Britton
Barnum & Bailey Circus
America
Franz Gruber
Dean Nigh Immanuel
Noel
J. H. Hopkins
Lumber Schooner Warren Adams Sinks in Gale
The three mast schooner Warren Adams, sailing from Charleston with lumber, wrecked by a Christmas day gale and abandoned December 27 in a sinking condition. Seven crew were rescued by the Norwegian steamer Joseph J. Cuneo off Kingston and brought ashore with only nautical instruments saved. Captain Grace said they had lost hope before the Cuneo appeared. The transfer occurred in a perilous small-boat maneuver.
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New York
Warren Adams
Charleston
S. C
Joseph J. Cuneo
Kingston
Grace
Cuneo
Schwaebischer Maennerchor Christmas Tree Delight
The Schwaebischer Maennerchor on French Street hosted its annual Christmas Tree Celebration with Santa Claus, a Die Abendglocken performance, two hundred multicolor lights, and talks by Rev H G Wiemer Rev Paul Clemen and Rev Hubert Dahme. Children received treats and gifts as the event extended to further festivities with organ and chimes.
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Schwaebischer Maennerchor
French Street
Santa Claug
George Reichert
Maennerchor
John H. Keller
Kindel
H. G. Wiemer
Paul Clemen
St. Paulaus
Hubert Dahme
St. Joseph’s
R. C
Prof
Keller
William Dixon
Messrs. Schietinger
Dobry
Eisenman
Paul Scholz
Fred Hang
Carl Rauscher
Walter Sieling
American copper man wounded in Turkey clash report
British copper property owner London Decawn and American official B T White were wounded during fighting with Turks. White escaped with other foreign officials as 1,500 workers fled when outnumbered. Company plans re occupation as government moves to restore control of the mine.
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London
B. T. White
Tragic Death Of Local Crane Valve Co. Employee Edward Howley
Edward Howley, a Crane Valve Co. plant worker and Boer War veteran born in Lancashire England, dies after being wounded near the French border at Vendesstre while serving in Europe. He leaves a wife and two children in England and is survived by his father Martin Howley, three sisters Mrs. George Barnes and Mrs. Fred Williams both of Bridgeport, Mrs. John Gallagher of Detroit, and a brother Thomas Howley, all of Bridgeport.
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Bridgeport
Edward Howley
Crane Valve Co
George Barnes
Jones Avenue
Eter
Lancashire
Eng
England
America
Vendresse
Hhe
Martin Howley
Musterole Mustard Ointment Promises Quick Relief
A vintage advertisement touts Musterole a clean white mustard oil ointment that relieves headache and cold related pains without stomach or heart risk. It claims fast action for sore throat bronchitis croup stiff neck asthma neuralgia and more with 25c 50c or 2.50 hospital sizes from druggists. The ad warns to avoid imitations and to buy genuine Musterole from the Musterole Company Cleveland Ohio.
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Musterole Company
Cleveland
Ohio
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