Corona Leads County In Red Cross Drive
Riverside noon report shows Corona leading the county with 1468 memberships including 1424 paid at headquarters and 44 cash equivalents. Prado district sets a record as 62 of 64 seen join, while Team two led by T. C. Stas ranks first and Mr. Ramsey tops individual signups with 85 memberships. A patriotic concert tonight closes the drive.
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Riverside
Corona
Red Cross
Prado
Ira Ashcroft
T. C. Stas
T. C. Jameson
Root
Thompson
Sing
Ramsey
Altho
Frank Johnson
Temescal
Mr. Bonser
Mr. Hardinz
Citrus Belt
J. V. Birti
Ralph Fuerborn
Christmas Service Program At Baptist Church 1917
A Christmas program was held at the Baptist Church on Sunday evening December 23 1917 with a processional prayer choir solos and choruses including Welcome the King While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks Little Town of Bethlehem and Hark the Herald Angels Sing. The program featured Rev Geo H Holt Paul Gleason Cecil Stewart Rubenstein's Canstel Mrs Holt Mrs Snidecor Carol Jameson and Mrs Sib Jey among others with an offering and closing benediction.
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Paul Gleason
Cecil Stewart Om
Rubenstein
Cansel
Holt
Snidecor
Carol Jameson
Welccome
Geo. H. Holt
Shepherds
Sib Jey
Bethlehem
Mra
Sindecor
Mr. Holt
Cecil Stewart
Bert Husted
Mra. Holt
Herald Angels
Mrs Orlin Holcombs Shower For Bride Elect Florence Patterson
Mrs Orlin Holcomb hosted a Riverside announcement party for Florence Patterson and invited guests to a shower on the same day. Laura Mae Holcomb assisted with entertaining as guests from Riverside arrived, including Florence Patterson and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orlin Holcomb
Florence Patterson
Riverside
Holcomb
Laura Mae
Gertrude Clancy
Beatrice Hancock
Estelle Belter
Irene Bennett
Harriet Carter
Marie Chamblin
Edith James
Rita Gould
Hilda Cuttle
Dorothy Kincell
Virginia Dearborn
Margaret Carroll
Mildred Ross
Mesdames le Roy Simms
Morton
Ferris Moulton
Thos. Gore
Raymond Sullivan
Douglas Wilson
Ward Wooldridge
Baily Patterson
L. BE. Ross
West Point cadetship offered in district examination
The Eleventh California district invites applicants for a competitive program to win a West Point cadetship. A preliminary civil service exam will be held February 14, 1918 at multiple post offices, with final government testing in March 1918. Candidates must meet age, citizenship, height, and marital status requirements and submit full personal details to Representative William Kettner.
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California
Military Academy
West Point
Bishop
San Bernardino
Riverside
Santa Ana
el Centro
San Diego
United States Civil Service Commission
United States
Altho
William Kettner
Government to dispatch income tax men to counties
The 1917 income tax returns must be filed between January 1 and March 1, 1918. A government officer will visit each county, with postmasters bankers and newspapers informing residents when and where to find him. The officer will collect returns confirm the income and guide taxpayers through the process.
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Los Angeles
Internal Revenue
Carter
Lookout Miner Recalls Severe Lightning Storm on Kern Peak
Lookout Lester Be Creasy recounts a dramatic encounter during a fierce thunderstorm atop Kern Peak in the Sequoia National Forest. Lightning struck the flagpole six times, sparks showered the cabin, and a ground wire burned as rain and snow both fell signaling peril while reporting fires. Charles Ware and Dudley Judd arrive in Corona from Mare Island on furlough to visit and enjoy a vacation after high marks in Navy printing exams.
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Lester BE. Creasy
Kern Peak
Sierras
Sequoia National Forest
Kern
Charles Ware
Dudley Judd
Iowa
Corona
Mare Island
San Francisco
Uncle Sam’s Navy
Charles
Man Who Lived His Picture Comes to Majestic Next Tuesday
Douglas Fairbanks vows to live a cowboy life once his film career wanes as his latest film Wild and Wooly plays at the Majestic theater next Tuesday. Advance reports praise the athletic star and promise a Western flavored showcase with matinee and night performances during Christmas season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cture
Douglas Fairbanks
Artcraft
Majestic Theater
Great Plains
Douglas
Nation of House Servants Turned to Army Worms War Rhetoric
An op ed by Harvey O'ligeins lambasts Germany under the Hohenzollerns as a nation of army worms led by imperial locusts. It portrays German militarism as a threat to world liberty, urges unconditional surrender of its rulers, and notes U S forces aiding the Allied cause in Europe.
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Harvey O'ligeins
Bismarck
China
United States
Germany
Mullah
Europe
France
Napoleon
Hohenzollern
Earth
America
League of Peace
Conspirators push for cinabar supply in global plot
Balterman leads a board of wealthy directors in a tense plan to obtain cinnabar, the essential ingredient for a powerful explosive. They arrange to recruit Joh Gwyn, trusting his honesty and influence, while confirming Gwyn's secretary and Gwyn himself will join the confidential talks immediately.
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Balterman
Stock Exchange
California
Spain
Joh Gwyn
Gwyn
Nabar
Mayes
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Baptist Church
Chance
Kettner
Qne
Uncle Sam
Forest Service
Lester E. Creasy
Steel Home Banks
Citizens Bank
High Seas
Kodak
Corona, Calif
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