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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1925
Page
12
A Christmas cantata program at Baptist Temple featured a sermon by Kemper and a large audience. The event highlighted musical and religious elements, with choir performances and reflections on holiday themes amid a historical temple setting.
A church event drew an unusually large crowd as five penitents and Missio a revival at a Fratery in Minnetonka drew the largest Sunday school attendance recorded yesterday afternoon The program featured Mev Tat Withrow and outlined a call to embrace the Lara work while plans to aid JO Turnikies with food baskets and Christmas provisions were announced The service also included prayers for Santa and a Christmas dinner prayer list and promised new outreach efforts for Christmas morning services
Mayor Walker rejects appointing Colonel William Mitchell as police commissioner. Bloom proposes Mitchell through residence disqualification, while War Department review and President Coolidge delay action. Congressional pressure and party leaders push for an eminent civilian head for the NYPD.
Moscow reports that left wing labor groups in the United States plan a visit of American labor delegates to Russia. Purcell is cited as pushing funds for the trip, with Russian authorities promising official hospitality and access. Officials say the purpose is to bolster Communist ties amid hostile sentiment toward the American Federation of Labor.
Members of Tilawley's Post No. 20 hear a tale of the Lost Battalion from Lieutenant Kobig and Colonel Witte Hosly's era, noting the stubborn endurance of the nine men who survived the critical stand and the demand that the truth be told by those who served.
Mrs Mary Henderson denies a confession attributed to her in a Kanawha County forgery case. She states the purported statement was not authorized and distances herself from W H Milam and Mrs Trouse. She says she has three children to support and claims the confession was false and not made by her. Clendenen Detective Agency officials dispute her claims and note the confession was said to be signed by a notary and witnesses.
An account from Boston on December 20 reports Captain William Than and his twenty two man crew aboard the Algor sailing from Philadelphia to New York. A hurricane wind drove the ship toward danger and a bonfire on deck failed to save them as the vessel sank.
A wide international interest frames the event as delegates from Austria Sweden Norway and other nations engage in labor exchanges with the Soviet state while Mussolini blocks an Italian labor delegation. In America the Third National steddfod, the counterpart to Wales national bardic congress, gathers in the State Armory with entries flooding music literature elocution and art contests and a large list of solo duet and quartet competitors.
Edward F. Keller, a Corn Exchange National Bank watchman, dies of heart failure in a taxi in Philadelphia after reportedly stealing about $40,000 in cash and checks. He had been pardoned in 1934 for manslaughter tied to the Danny McNichol trunk case. The taxi trip ended at Germantown after a hotel pickup, with investigators puzzling over how the money was obtained.
A March 1914 report notes a man sentenced to Eastern State Penitentiary for ten to twenty years, later pardoned after a year. Authorities believed robbery was the motive behind the slaying, tying the crime to criminal intent and potential accomplices.
A shipment worth 1 007 080 274 dollars was taken on the Jong Waya to the Philippines recently. President Jefferson referenced as a fms fur dancer and a good horsaman in the fragmentary text.
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