Peaceful Exhibit At Library Sparks World Peace Talk
The library hosts a Peace Table in the reference room with books and pamphlets on peace and how to achieve it. A new book The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life recounts queenly tales and diplomatic life while the Library Travel Club plans a Switzerland trip by stereopticon and a Rockies hike to compare the real views with the so called Switzerland of America.
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Story Hour
Santa Barbara
Library
Switzerland
Rockies
Switzerland of America
Christmas Tea Party at Congregational Church
The Workers' Union of the Congregational church hosts a Christmas tea in place of the regular all day meeting. The ladies meet Friday December 18 at 3 pm with a covered lunch to be served at 6 30 pm. Husbands and brothers are invited. A merry frolic closes the evening and poinsettias and holly are requested to decorate the church for Christmas.
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Workers' Union of
The
Congregational Church
Berlin streets flood with counterfeit Iron Cross tokens
Cardboard imitations of the Iron Cross have sold widely on Berlin streets and were worn by nearly all schoolchildren and many adults. Authorities have decreed that anyone found wearing them will face penalties.
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Berlin
Unemployed Find Work in England
London sees fewer male job seekers but a sharp rise among women with 10 406 registered in four months. District workrooms opened in all boroughs to aid unemployed workers, costing about 500 000 pounds yearly, funded by Queen's Fund and local boards.
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London
Queen’s Fund
Federal probe to open into major charity foundations
The Federal Industrial Relations Commission will investigate the Russell Sage Foundation the Baron de Hirsch Fund Carnegie benevolences Rockefeller charities and the Rockefeller Foundation total about 1100000000 dollars. The inquiry starts January 11 in New York.
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Denver
Fed *Eral Industrial Relations Commission
Russell Sage Foundation
Baron’ de Hirsch Fund
Carnegie
Rockefeller
Rockefeller Foundation
New York
U S Leads in Latin American Trade for 1913
Boston December 16 The United States led 20 Latin American republics in 1913 trade with exports over 325 million dollars and imports around 475 million. John Barrett Pan American Union director general notes the U S surpassed Britain for the first time in exports to Latin America. Germany and France trailed by wide margins.
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United Kingdom
France
Germany
Boston
United States
John Barrett
Pan- American Union
Constable Larrabee Leads Raid On Santa Fe Yards
Constable Larrabee led a raid in the Santa Fe railroad yards yesterday resulting in four Mexican hoboes arrested and brought before Judge Clayson. Each was sentenced to 30 days in county jail for vagrancy after being escorted to Riverside.
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Larrabee
Santa Fe
Clayson
C County
Riverside
German Fleet Bombards Scarborough Hartlepool North Sea
London reports a German fleet burst from fog and bombarded Scarborough Hartlepool and Whiteley amid widespread panic. Hartlepool fortress drove ships away. casualties include a killed woman and damaged buildings. Reports conflict on exact ships sunk or damaged.
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London
Germany
North Sea
Scarborough
Hartlepool
Whiteley
War-Information Bureau
Yorkshire Evening News
Newcastle Chronicle
Admiraltty
Hull
England
S J. Martins
Whitby
Wounded in left hand Southhampton tale of Indian bayonet wounds
A Canadian soldier visiting English hospitals observed forty or fifty East Indians with bandaged left hands. Red Cross staff explained that close combat forces Indians to drop guns and parry with the left hand, ta the bayonet wound, yet they still win their man with the right hand.
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Southampton
England
Red Cross
Servian Forces Enter Belgrade at Head of Army
King Peter Crown Prince Alexander and Prince George lead the victorious Servian army into Belgrade after dispatches from Nish. The Servians report no Austrian troops remain on Servian soil.
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London
Peter
Alexander
George
Belgrade
Nish
Knights of Pythias Elect New Officers
The Knights of Pythias at their annual meeting in Masonic hall elected new officers. Past Grand Chancellor Owen, now Southern California insurers head, attended to boost interest and stay a few days. Officers include W. K. English, J. C. Cc Llewellyn, D. W. Glenn, F. Larrabee, E. Snidecor, Ralph Li. Webster, S. McMillan, Norman Reeves as Trustee.
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W. K. English
J. C
E. Llewellyn
D. W. Glenn
F. Larrabee
K. R
E. D. Howard
General Hugh Scott Ordered to Naco to Mediate Mexican Feud
Brigadier General Hugh Scott, chief of staff of the U S Army, is ordered by the War Department to travel to Naco Arizona to use his influence with leaders of the Mexican factions to stop hostilities. Reported that General Villa leads troops at Torreon against Carranza.
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Washington
Hugh Scott
United States Army
War Department
Naco
Arizona
Villa
Torreon
Carranza
German Official Reports Circulated in Esperanto Links
The Kaiser's press bureau spreads German war reports via the Esperanto league in Switzerland. A document titled Germanaj oficialaj reportej Esperantigitas asks recipients to circulate it among friends and have the text published in local newspapers.
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Havre
Kaiser’s
Switzerland
Esperanto League
Gernanag
Esperantigitas
Cartoonist Alton Packard to entertain Congregational crowd
Thursday night crowd expected at the Congregational church for Alton Packard the noted cartoonist in Federated Brotherhoods concert and lecture course. A New Jersey course manager recalls Packards fall on a slippery stage when his sunset sketch tumbled with easel and all, drawing laughter and a quip about making the sun set naturally.
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Congregational Church
Alton Packard
Federated Brotherhood
Packard
New Jersey
Football players to war battalions at London fronts
London reports plans to send 1100 football players to the front as a battalion of players, amateur and professional, amid recruitment push. A second battalion targets men under the official height standard of 5 feet 3 inches, with special dispensation from Lord Kitchener.
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London
Lord Kitchener
British Fleet Bombards Westende and Belgian Advance
The French war office reports a British fleet bombarded Westende Belgium now a German military base. Belgian forces have seized several farms on the Yser canal’s left bank. French artillery gains noted at multiple points on the front.
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Paris
French War Office
Westende
Belgium
Yser Canal
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